2025.12 Release Notes

Release date: 10th December 2025

Next release: 21st January 2026

Announcements

• New and updated tutorials:
  • The PDF Manipulator has some new features (listed below)
  • The XRef Stream Viewer has been improved
  • Manipulate files from the Viewer
• New blog posts:
  • How to add AI to the JPedal Viewer
  • How to process PDFs with Spring Boot
  • How to interleave merge PDFs
  • How to set the initial view of a PDF
  • How to add a hyperlink to a PDF
  • How to remove hyperlinks from a PDF
  • How to add bookmarks to a PDF

Key features at a glance

• PDF Merger new options
  • Add dividing pages
  • Normalize page dimensions
  • Normalize page rotation
  • Add footer
• New Tools menu in the JPedal Viewer
• PDF Manipulator new features
  • Scale pages to dimensions
  • Crop pages
  • Remove initial view
  • Remove annotations
• JPedal Inspector improvements

New Features

• JPED-1082 Added the ability to scale a page to a specific dimension
• JPED-1083 Added the ability to crop pages
• JPED-1084 Added the ability to remove an initial view from a document
• JPED-1085 Added a new Tools menu to the JPedal Viewer which contains PDF Manipulation feature
• JPED-1089 Added the ability to remove annotations from a document
• JPED-1091 Added the ability to generate a table of contents from the bookmarks in a document
• JPED-1092 The XRef Stream Viewer now displays refs alongside each entry
• JPED-1094 Added new options to the PDF Merger for adding dividing pages, normalizing page dimensions, normalizing page rotation, and adding footers
• JPED-1097 Added the ability to provide an ExtGState object when creating custom AP streams using the PDF Manipulator
• JPED-1104 Added the ability to export images when using the JPedal Inspector

Enhancements

• JPED-900 Improved the handling of unusually structured Type2 CID fonts
• JPED-944 The JPedal Inspector’s Objects Viewer now displays a partial output for broken files rather than crashing
• JPED-1093 Improved the quality and compliance of the structured text to EPUB converter output
• JPED-1095 Changed the PDF Manipulator to prefer using a crop box when present so that the output more accurately reflects the original document
• JPED-1096 Improved the handling of malformed XMP packets in the PDF Manipulator
• CORE-4145 Added the inclusion of a lang tag when converting structured text to HTML output
• CORE-4147 Implemented the PDF-2.0 versions of ColorDodge and ColorBurn blend functions
• CORE-4156 Improved the handling of malformed CCITT runs

Fixes

• JPED-1079 Fixed a bug where the initial view feature would not work on linearized files opened by URL
• JPED-1080 Fixed a bug where opening a local file after having opened a file via a URL would fail
• JPED-1081 Fixed a bug where the initial view feature would override the startView property
• JPED-1086 Fixed a bug where the text selection menu button could not be toggled in continuous and continuous facing modes
• JPED-1087 Fixed a bug where you could not annotate files that were opened by URL
• JPED-1088 Fixed a bug where the viewer would freeze if opening an image via drag and drop
• JPED-1090 Fixed a bug where command line arguments were not always parsed correctly in the PDF Manipulator
• JPED-1098 Fixed a bug where sometimes URLs in the recent files list could not be opened
• JPED-1100 Fixed a bug where the PDF Optimizer would sometimes produce duplicate reference numbers when generating XRef stream files
• JPED-1101 Fixed a bug where text selection in continuous and continuous facing modes would not work on page two onwards
• JPED-1102 Fixed a bug where new annotations on linearized files were not displayed until the page was resized
• CORE-4133 Fixed a bug where inherited page rotation values would not always be correctly applied to XObjects
• CORE-4140 Fixed a bug where a null /Dest was not gracefully handled
• CORE-4142 Fixed a bug where ink annotations would be created with less than three control points
• CORE-4143 Fixed a bug where a null destination was not gracefully handled
• CORE-4148 Fixed a bug where non-separable blend modes were not handling premultiplied alphas
• CORE-4149 Fixed a bug where the hue blend mode produces red output for certain grey values
• CORE-4158 Fixed a bug where the minimum size of a tiling paint was not properly enforced

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