Year 2014 Docotic.Pdf notices

Updated on December 31, 2014

This page contains all Docotic.Pdf release notices for year 2014.

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Improved PDF rasterizer and content extractor

November 14, 2014

We released Docotic.Pdf 4.4 on our site and on our NuGet channels.

The newest release of the library brings improvements to rasterizer, content extractor and parser parts.

The version 4.4 is more robust in parsing of semi-broken PDFs created by some buggy generators. In this version, we fixed some of our own bugs related to the parsing of fonts, content streams, forms, and functions. As the result, Docotic.Pdf 4.4 draws and extracts text more precisely. It also processes colors of images, text and graphics better than before.

With the new version, it's possible to access log messages emitted by the library. The library now uses log4net for logging. Place an XML configuration file next to the library if you want to access these messages.

There are other improvements and bug fixes.

Docotic.Pdf for .NET 4, bug fixes and other improvements

September 2, 2014

We have released Docotic.Pdf 4.3.

Starting from this release, the library ships in two versions. One version is for NET 4 and later frameworks and the other one for .NET 2 and later frameworks. So, now you can benefit from the version built for .NET 4 while you can still use the library in projects targeting older .NET frameworks.

Docotic.Pdf 4.3 brings support for Type 3 fonts. This version also contains a number of other improvements related to fonts.

The library now can stroke and fill paths with patterns. This is a relatively rare feature of PDF format, but it really shows when you try to draw document with patterns and there is no support for drawing them.

The new version adds support for PDF functions, separation color spaces and spot colors. We also fixed some issues in color processing.

We also improved extraction of text and images. These are some areas we improve in almost every version of the library. This is release is not an exception.

There are other improvements and bug fixes.

A whole lot of bug fixes in Docotic.Pdf 4.2

June 19, 2014

New version of Docotic.Pdf library is out.

Docotic.Pdf 4.2 is mostly a "bug fixes and improvements" release. Nevertheless, it brings some new features, too.

The new version adds the ability to embed previously non-embedded fonts and vice versa. Have a look at the PdfFont.Embed and PdfFont.Unembed methods.

For those who are willing to produce the smallest PDFs possible, there is the new ability to remove structure information from documents. We added the PdfDocument.RemoveStructureInformation method and the PdfSaveOptions.RemoveUnusedObjects property for you.

Form filling become more capable in this version. Library can rotate controls. You can specify font size equal to zero for text and combo boxes (to cause their font size to be auto adjusted). In addition, the new version can import appearance streams while importing FDF files.

The new version does a better job in recompressing and scaling of images. Version 4.2 also draws documents better. Especially in high resolutions.

There are other improvements and a lot of bug fixes. Too much to talk about them here. Read about all new features and improvements in Docotic.Pdf 4.2 in the Version History document. There is information about one breaking change related to fonts.

Improvements and new features in Docotic.Pdf 4.1

January 14, 2014

We have released a new version of Docotic.Pdf library.

Docotic.Pdf 4.1 fixes some bugs related to the opening of existing documents (including encrypted ones). The new version also brings a number of improvements in drawing of PDF documents as well as in the extraction of images.

This version adds new PdfDrawOptions.TileWidth and PdfDrawOptions.TileHeight properties which can be used to control how much memory is used while drawing.

Drawing of PDF documents using tiles can be slower than regular drawing, but it allows you to draw very big documents in high resolution without consuming obscene amounts of memory. Were are expecting some speed optimizations in tiled drawing in upcoming releases of the library.

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