What’s New in PDFNet 6.3.0 (October 06, 2014 - Version 6.3.0)
(Note: this release applies only to the server/desktop SDKs and tools. New mobile SDKs were not released.)
- Added “Erase” method for Ink annotations, to erase a rectangular area.
- Added “night mode” to reverse the colors of PDFs during rendering.
- Added method to create images from filters.
- Added ability to pass in a memory buffer of an image, without specifying dimensions, BPC, et cetera.
- Added Font.createCIDTrueTypeFont that accepts index into a True Type Collection.
- PDFNet now available through NuGet.
- Simplified the packaging of .NET SDKs by having PDFNet detect architecture at runtime. Samples are now AnyCPU.
- Added SetDefaultFlateCompressionLevel method.
- Improved error reporting during Office interop conversion.
- PDF2SVG can now use font substitutions specified in config.xml (as in PDF2Image).
- Can now specify DPI and maximum resolution for SVG conversions.
- SetJPGQuality will now work with ToHTML and ToEPUB options.
- Redaction now preserves CMYK images instead of converting to RGB.
- Reduced symbols exported by Linux builds.
- Added support for creating invisible text in place of text inside transparency groups when flattening.
- Improved external XFDF generation during XOD conversion.
- Added option to SetImageSmoothing API for higher-quality resampling at the expense of rendering performance.
- Improved path hinting and thin line adjustment.
- Added Convert.ToTiff method to for easy conversion of PDF documents to mutli-page TIFF documents.
- Added Office interop conversion support for CSV, XLAM, XLTM, and XLSB files.
- Improved appearance of text fields, radio buttons, PolyLine and Polygon annotations.
- Windows Print API takes an optional OCG context, to control which layers are printed.
- Important bug fixes and incremental improvements.
New Types and Methods in PDFNet Core API:
- pdftron.SDF.SecurityHander.IsValid
- pdftron.PDF.PDFViewCtrl.SetColorPostProcessMode
- pdftron.PDF.PDFViewCtrl.GetColorPostProcessMode
- pdftron.PDF.PDFViewCtrl.Update
- pdftron.PDF.PDFView.SetColorPostProcessMode
- pdftron.PDF.PDFView.GetColorPostProcessMode
- pdftron.PDF.PDFView.Update
- pdftron.PDF.Annots.Ink.Erase
- pdftron.PDF.PDFRasterizer.ColorPostProcessMode
- pdftron.PDF.PDFRasterizer.SetColorPostProcessMode
- pdftron.PDF.PDFRasterizer.GetColorPostProcessMode
- pdftron.PDFNet.FlateCompressionLevel
- pdftron.PDFNet.SetDefaultFlateCompressionLevel
- pdftron.PDF.PDFDraw.SetColorPostProcessMode
- pdftron.PDF.Convert.TiffOutputOptions
- pdftron.PDF.Convert.ToTiff
- pdftron.PDF.Convert.SVGOutputOptions.SetFlattenDPI
- pdftron.PDF.Convert.SVGOutputOptions.SetFlattenMaximumImagePixels
Chaged Types and Methods in PDFNet Core API:
- pdftron.PDF.Print.StartPrintJob
- pdftron.PDF.PDFRasterizer.SetImageSmoothing
- pdftron.PDF.PDFDoc.ExtractFlag
- pdftron.PDF.PDFDraw.SetImageSmoothing
- pdftron.PDF.Font.CreateCIDTrueTypeFont
- pdftron.PDF.PDFA.PDFACompliance.ErrorCode