2025.09 Release Notes

Release date: 17th September 2025

Next release: 29th October 2025

Announcements

• We have tested JPedal on Java 25 and found no issues
• We have created an article about Security Considerations when working with JPedal
• New and updated tutorials:
  • Adding additional languages to the JPedal Viewer
  • Customize the JPedal Viewer’s UI
  • How to use the PDF Manipulator from the command line
  • The PDF Manipulator has some new features (listed below)
• New blog posts:
  • How to add annotations to a PDF file

Key features at a glance

• PDF Manipulator new features
  • Copy page
  • N-up
  • Sanitize files
  • More robust handling of broken files
  • Up to 25% faster throughput
• Extract structured text as Markdown

New Features

• JPED-988 Added support for reading files with broken XRef tables to the PDF Manipulator and PDF Optimizer
• JPED-1002 Added a copy page feature to the PDF Manipulator
• JPED-1004 Added the ability for the PDF Manipulator to reuse fonts, graphics states, and XObjects to reduce file sizes
• JPED-1036 Added support for decoding hex strings in the JPedal Inspector
• JPED-1040 Added support for reading files which arbitrary bytes preceding the PDF file header to the PDF Manipulator and PDF Optimizer
• JPED-1041 Added the ability to detect and remove JavaScript (ECMAScript) from PDF files
• JPED-1042 Improved the resource bundle handling
• JPED-1043 Added the ability to remove attachments and embedded files from PDF files
• JPED-1044 Added support for searching in the command window in the JPedal Inspector
• JPED-1045 Added the ability to remove document information and XMP metadata from PDF files
• JPED-1048 Added the ability to extract structured text as Markdown format
• JPED-1050 Added the ability to N-up pages
• JPED-1053 Added the ability for the PDF Manipulator to chain actions from the command line to reduce the number of disk writes
• JPED-1054 Added the ability to create new (blank) documents from the command line

Fixes

• JPED-959, JPED-1061 Fixed two bugs that prevented opening linearized files by URL
• JPED-1033, JPED-1051 Fixed a bug which prevented ConvertPagesToHiResImages, ExtractImages, and ExtractClippedImages from working with directories
• JPED-1034 Fixed a bug where null /DecodeParams were not correctly handled
• JPED-1037 Added missing classes from the PDF Manipulator to the Javadoc
• JPED-1038 Fixed ExtractImages producing blank/empty images or partial image content positioned incorrectly
• JPED-1046, JPED-1049 Fixed a bug where files with null passwords were not decrypted properly
• JPED-1055 Fixed a bug where password input fields were not obscured in the JPedal Viewer
• JPED-1058 Fixed an infinite loop in the Swing events thread in the JPedal Viewer
• JPED-1059 Reduced the memory consumption of the PDF Manipulator and PDF Optimizer
• JPED-1060 Reduced the runtime of the PDF Manipulator for successive actions
• CORE-4100 Fixed a bug where unusually escaped glyphs were not rendered correctly
• CORE-4111 Fixed a bug where escaped characters in two byte text data was not rendered correctly
• CORE-4117 Fixed a rare bug where direct dictionaries with a single key would not be decoded correctly
• CORE-4120 Improved the performance of directory traversing
• CORE-4124 Fixed a bug where decoding Flate streams could cause an infinite loop

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