2025.06 Release Notes

Release date: 25th June 2025

Next release: 6th August 2025

Announcements

• New tutorials:
  • Edit and Manipulate PDF files
• New blog posts:
  • Generate PDF Thumbnails
• We have removed some old/unused settings from JPedal Viewer’s default properties. If you have these in your own properties file, you may delete them:
  • DaysLeft
  • AutomaticUpdate
  • CurrentVersion
  • showTiffMessage
  • DebugPrinter
  • TransitionType

Key features at a glance

• PdfManipulator new features:
  • Insert images
  • Insert shapes
  • Embed/attach files
  • Rotate pages
  • Draw transparent text
  • Password-protected document support
• General bug fixes

New Features

• JPED-967 Added the ability to insert images using the PdfManipulator
• JPED-968 Added the ability to insert shapes using the PdfManipulator
• JPED-976 Added the ability to rotate pages using the PdfManipulator
• JPED-979 Added the ability to embed/attach files using the PdfManipulator
• JPED-981 Added support for drawing transparent text using the PdfManipulator
• JPED-989, JPED-990 Added the ability to decrypt and manipulate password-protected document to the PdfManipulator
• CORE-4094 Added more FileAttachment annotation icons to the Viewer

Fixes

• JPED-957 Fixed an issue where files which contained spaces in their path could not be dragged and dropped onto the Viewer
• JPED-971 Fixed an issue where the PdfOptimizer was not updating the second item of the trailer’s ID entry
• JPED-983 Fixed an issue where opening the layers tab could sometimes crash the Viewer
• JPED-984 Fixed an issue where compressed objects could not be found if they were last object in the file
• JPED-986 Improved the handling of cross-reference stream trailers in the PdfManipulator
• JPED-991 Removed old and unused properties from the default properties file
• CORE-4059 Improved the accuracy of very small rotations
• CORE-4087 Fixed an issue where optional content was not appearing due to incorrect parsing of layer names
• CORE-4091, 4096 Fixed an issue where some strings in password-protected files where not decrypted when extracting marked content
• CORE-4093 Fixed an issue where unvalidated color values would cause an exception
• CORE-4095 Fixed an issue where optional content could not be distinguished if there was optional content of the same name on a different page
• CORE-4097 Improved the handling of how stroke widths are calculated
• CORE-4098 Fixed an issue where hex strings containing new lines were not parsed correctly
• CORE-4099 Improved the memory usage of PdfManipulator and PdfOptimizer
• CORE-4106 Improved the stability of the ObjectStore
• CORE-4107 Improved the handling of fonts containing a /ToUnicode entry
• CORE-4108 Improved the handling of malformed CMAP subtables

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