2025.08 Release Notes

Release date: 6th August 2025

Next release: 17th September 2025

JDEL-700 Added support for viewing AVIF image files in the JPedal Viewer. You must have a copy of JDeli to use this feature
JPED-893 Added the ability to merge PDF files
JPED-993 Added support for inserting rotated text with the PdfManipulator
JPED-1000, JPED-1017 Added a cross-reference stream viewer to the JPedal Inspector
JPED-1007 Added the ability to load images in the JPedal Viewer from byte[] or InputStream
JPED-1010 Added the ability to use the SCROLL command the JPedal Viewer before it was visible
JPED-1014 Added Japanese translations to the JPedal Viewer
JPED-1016 Added Chinese translations to the JPedal Viewer
JPED-1018 Added support for decoding strings in the JPedal Inspector
JPED-1021, JPED-1026 Added annotation support to the PdfManipulator

JPED-985 Reduced the size of some files created by the PdfManipulator
JPED-992 Improved the XRef stream handling for the PdfManipulator and PdfOptimizer
JPED-994 Improved the string decryption in the PdfManipulator and PdfOptimizer
JPED-1011 Improved the accuracy of the syntax highlighting in the Objects Viewer
JPED-1015 Improved the JPedal Viewers support for other languages
JPED-1022 Added a document paragraph estimator for extracting text
JPED-1029 Added extractEmbeddedFiles, extractText, extractStructuredText, and manipulate commands to JPedal’s command line
CORE-4109 Improved the handling of some Type3 fonts
CORE-4113 Moved the LogWriter properties into a sub folder so it does not clutter up the jar
CORE-4114 Improved the rendering of FreeText annotations in the JPedal Viewer

JPED-996 Fixed an issue where the PdfOptimizer would crash if you tried to close while no file was opened
JPED-998 Fixed an issue where the PdfOptimizer would lose inherited resource dictionaries
JPED-1005 Fixed an issue where extracting structured text as HTML was not always accurate to the PDF
JPED-1013 Fixed an issue where the JPedal Viewer would remove all AWTEventListeners instead of just the ones it created
JPED-1024 Fixed an issue where the contents of text annotations would become corrupted after resizing the annotation
JPED-1027 Fixed an issue where FreeText annotations were incorrectly created by the JPedal Viewer
CORE-4074 Fixed an issue where some files using shading did not have the correct color
CORE-4081 Fixed an issue where some shading patterns were not correctly rendered
CORE-4105 Fixed an issue where some fonts containing # would not display correctly
CORE-4110 Fixed a bug where arrays containing null could not be read correctly

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