What's new in Bytescout PDF Renderer SDK 13.4.1 Build 4778
Jul 14, 2023
- Minor fixes and improvements.
New in Bytescout PDF Renderer SDK 13.3.0 Build 4514 (Sep 27, 2022)
- Improved parsing and rendering of PDF documents.
- Other minor fixes and improvements.
New in Bytescout PDF Renderer SDK 13.2.0 Build 4485 (Jun 7, 2022)
- Improved font rendering.
- Improved rendering of matte masks.
- Improved parsing of PDF documents.
- Other minor fixes and improvements.
New in Bytescout PDF Renderer SDK 13.1.0 Build 4386 (Jan 25, 2022)
- Performance improvements.
- Improved parsing and rendering of PDF documents.
- Other minor fixes and improvements.
New in Bytescout PDF Renderer SDK 13.0.0 Build 4253 (Oct 5, 2021)
- Improved rendering of PDF form fields.
- DocumentPrinter: suppressed possible printing progress dialogs.
- Performance improvements.
- Improved parsing and rendering of PDF documents.
- Other minor fixes and improvements.
New in Bytescout PDF Renderer SDK 12.1.0 Build 4136 (May 18, 2021)
- Improved parsing and rendering of PDF documents.
- Other minor fixes and improvements.
New in Bytescout PDF Renderer SDK 12.0.0 Build 4062 (Feb 9, 2021)
- Improved support for external Chinese fonts.
- Improved positioning of rotated PDF objects.
- Now the damaged CCITT and JBIG2 images are skipped from rendering avoiding crashes.
- Improved parsing and rendering of PDF documents.
- Other minor fixes and improvements.
New in Bytescout PDF Renderer SDK 11.3.0 Build 3983 (Oct 26, 2020)
- DocumentPrinter: Added 'SetPaperSize', 'SetDuplex', 'SetPaperSource', 'SetPrinterResolution'
- methods to easy set corresponding printer properties by predefined names.
- Improved rendering of the ZapfDingbats font.
- Improved parsing of PDF documents.
- Other minor fixes and improvements.
New in Bytescout PDF Renderer SDK 11.2.0 Build 3919 (Jun 30, 2020)
- Improved parsing of PDF documents.
- Other minor fixes and improvements.
New in Bytescout PDF Renderer SDK 11.1.0 Build 3845 (Mar 19, 2020)
- DocumentPrinter: fixed issue with fitting page to printable area.
- DocumentPrinter: fixed crash on printer that use standard resolutions (high/medium/low) instead of DPI values.
- Added support for profiles - a quick way to apply multiple settings at once.
- Improved rendering of semitransparent objects.
- Improved parsing of PDF documents.
- Other minor fixes and improvements.
New in Bytescout PDF Renderer SDK 11.0.0 Build 3805 (Feb 12, 2020)
- Added support for new revision of PDF encryption (ISO 32000-2:2017 compliance).
- Added 'LicenseInfo' property providing detailed information about your license.
- Improved rendering of PDF controls.
- Fixed rendering of dynamically visible objects.
- Fixed .NET Core compatibility issue.
- Improved parsing of PDF documents.
- Other minor fixes and improvements.
New in Bytescout PDF Renderer SDK 10.8.0 Build 3732 (Dec 4, 2019)
- Improved handling of Arabic fonts and charsets.
- Improved handling of CJK fonts and charsets.
- Improved parsing of PDF documents.
- Other minor fixes and improvements.
New in Bytescout PDF Renderer SDK 10.6.0 Build 3659 (Oct 2, 2019)
- Improved rendering of PDF documents with not embedded fonts.
- Improved parsing of PDF documents.
- Other minor fixes and improvements
New in Bytescout PDF Renderer SDK 10.5.0 Build 3637 (Sep 3, 2019)
- Added "Night Mode" (see `RenderingOptions.NightMode` property).
- Improved rendering of small fonts with stroke.
- Improved parsing of PDF documents.
- Other minor fixes and improvements.
New in Bytescout PDF Renderer SDK 10.4.0 Build 3600 (Aug 7, 2019)
- Improved parsing of PDF documents.
- Improved rendering of transparent text.
- Other minor fixes and improvements.
New in Bytescout PDF Renderer SDK 10.3.0 Build 3566 (Jul 2, 2019)
- Improved rendering of cropped PDF pages.
- Fixed `OutOfMemoryException` on tiling patterns with very large step or bounding box.
- Fixed rendering of UTF-8 encoded text.
- Improved rendering of Japanese fonts.
- Added property `RenderingOptions.ResolutionOverride` allowing to set custom resolution for output images.
- Other minor fixes and improvements.
New in Bytescout PDF Renderer SDK 10.2.0 Build 3512 (May 29, 2019)
- Improved parsing of PDF documents.
- Improved PDF rendering.
- Other minor fixes and improvements.
New in Bytescout PDF Renderer SDK 10.1.0 Build 3439 (Apr 5, 2019)
- Improved parsing of PDF documents.
- Improved PDF rendering.
- Other minor fixes and improvements.
New in Bytescout PDF Renderer SDK 9.4.0 Build 3398 (Mar 13, 2019)
- Improved handling of embedded PDF fonts.
- Improved PDF rendering.
- Other minor fixes and improvements.
New in Bytescout PDF Renderer SDK 9.3.0 Build 3359 (Feb 5, 2019)
- Added .NET Core compatible assemblies.
- Improved parsing of PDF documents.
- Improved rendering quality.
- Removed C++ runtime dependencies.
- Other minor fixes and improvements.
New in Bytescout PDF Renderer SDK 9.3.0 Build 3358 (Feb 4, 2019)
- Added .NET Core compatible assemblies.
- Improved parsing of PDF documents.
- Improved rendering quality.
- Removed C++ runtime dependencies.
- Other minor fixes and improvements.
New in Bytescout PDF Renderer SDK 9.2.0 Build 3254 (Oct 24, 2018)
- Changed font rendering engine to improve text rendering and to circumvent Windows GDI font processing issues.
- Property `RenderingOptions.PreferSystemFonts` made obsolete due to change of font rendering engine.
- Embedded default fonts to fallback to if a font is missing in Windows.
- Improved support of cropped PDF documents.
- Performance improvements.
- Other minor fixes and improvements.
New in Bytescout PDF Renderer SDK 9.1.0 Build 3163 (Jul 19, 2018)
- Fixed bugs in PDF rendering.
- Other minor fixes and improvements.
New in Bytescout PDF Renderer SDK 9.0.0 Build 3083 (Apr 12, 2018)
- Improved PDF rendering.
- Other minor fixes and improvements.
New in Bytescout PDF Renderer SDK 8.8.0.3015 (Jan 23, 2018)
- Improved support of encrypted PDF documents.
- Improved PDF rendering.
- Other minor fixes and improvements.
New in Bytescout PDF Renderer SDK 8.7.0.2966 (Nov 12, 2017)
- Added `ParsingError` event allowing to handle parsing errors and interrupt or continue the processing.
- Improved rendering of PDF documents.
- Performance improvements.
- Other minor fixes and improvements.
New in Bytescout PDF Renderer SDK 8.6.0.2911 (Aug 6, 2017)
- Added RenderingOptions.OneBitConversionAlgorithm property.
- Conversion to 1-bit and 8-bit images is speeded up.
- Fixed crash on 64-bit CMYK images.
- Other minor fixes and improvements.
New in Bytescout PDF Renderer SDK 8.5.0.2855 (Jun 2, 2017)
- Improved Japanese text rendering.
- Removed obsolete ClientProfile builds.
- Other minor fixes and improvements.
New in Bytescout PDF Renderer SDK 8.4.0.2820 (Jun 2, 2017)
- New event RasterRenderer.ProgressChanged. The event reports the progress in percents and also allows to interrupt the processing;
- Performance improvements;
- Fixed crash when the input document is image and it's loading from stream;
- Other minor fixes and improvements.
New in Bytescout PDF Renderer SDK 8.3.0.2794 (Jun 2, 2017)
- Performance improvements.
- Improved rendering of Type3 fonts.
- VectorRenderer: Added overloads with options to allow user toggle the rendering of vectors, text and images.
- Other minor improvements and bug fixes.
New in Bytescout PDF Renderer SDK 8.2.0.2697 (Feb 10, 2017)
- Improved rendering of special colorspaces.
- Improved rendering of special image masks.
- Other minor improvements and bug fixes.
New in Bytescout PDF Renderer SDK 5.00.1627 (Jan 30, 2015)
- pdf to image rendering improved
- damaged PDF files support improved
- improved TrueType fonts rendering
- fixes incorrect positions of text in some cases
- lot of minor improvements and fixes
New in Bytescout PDF Renderer SDK 4.00.1487 (Jun 3, 2014)
- PDF to image rendering improved
- multhithreading performance improved
- licensing updated: now Licensing is per developer only
- improved fonts support
- improved text rendering
- improved pdf support
- minor bug-fixes
New in Bytescout PDF Renderer SDK 3.30.1240 (Dec 11, 2013)
- pdf to image improved support for PDF files formatted using old pdf format specifications
- image flipping issue appearing in some PDF files fixed
- issue with text rendering in PDF files fixed
- minor bug-fixes
New in Bytescout PDF Renderer SDK 3.20.1209 (Dec 11, 2013)
- minor optimization
- text rendering improved
- improved speed in "HighSpeed" rendering mode
- minor bug-fixes
New in Bytescout PDF Renderer SDK 3.20.1179 (Oct 23, 2013)
- pdf to image conversion improved
- demo utility: the issue with automatic scrolling up to top when selecting a region fixed
- improved support of PDF files with rotated objects and pages
- improved support for inline images
- improved support for damaged PDF files
- minor improvements and bug-fixes
New in Bytescout PDF Renderer SDK 3.20.1100 (Oct 23, 2013)
- improved text rendering
- improved pdf to image support
- minor bug-fixes
New in Bytescout PDF Renderer SDK 3.20.1093 (Oct 23, 2013)
- pdf to image functionality improved
- x64 installer improvements
- minor fixes for error messages
- PDFDocument.Dispose() now not disposing the source stream with PDF if this stream was supplied by the user (so user should dispose it)
- improved PDF format support
- minor bug-fixes
New in Bytescout PDF Renderer SDK 3.20.1076 (Jul 15, 2013)
- improved PDF To HTML conversion
- improved PDF files support
- minor bug-fixes
New in Bytescout PDF Renderer SDK 3.10.1052 (Jul 1, 2013)
- improved pdf to image functionality
- improved images support in PDF files
- clipping of images using extraction area coordinates improved
- speed improvements
- issues with shifted text coordinates on some Windows XP installations fixed
- improved fonts support
- improved support for various PDF files
New in Bytescout PDF Renderer SDK 3.10.903 (May 16, 2013)
- improved pdf to image functionality
- improved PDF reading support
- documentation updated
- minor bug-fixes
New in Bytescout PDF Renderer SDK 3.00.864 (Apr 13, 2013)
- improved PDF support
- improved fonts rendering handling
- new properties to control speed and quality of rendering: TextSmoothingMode, VectorSmoothingMode, ImageInterpolationMode
- minor bug-fixes
New in Bytescout PDF Renderer SDK 3.00.827 (Mar 14, 2013)
- demo utility PDF Viewer reworked and updated for better UI experience
- minor improvements and fixes in PDF support
- improved PDF stability while working with PDF files with high density vector graphics inside
- improved support for indexed color pallettes
- improved embedded fonts rendering
- better support for Unicode fonts
- new .Version property to read exact version of the dll
- minor updates and improvements
New in Bytescout PDF Renderer SDK 2.50.708 (Dec 13, 2012)
- PDF to image speed increased
- Windows 8 support improved
- PDF images and colors support improved
- ActiveX support and installation improved and now provides single batches to run on Windows x86/x64 for Windows XP to 8 Pro
- minor bug-fixes and improvements
New in Bytescout PDF Renderer SDK 2.40.650 (Nov 2, 2012)
- PDF to TIFF functionality improved
- improved support for Unicode text extraction
- improved support for PDF/A pdf files
- issues with white stripes appearing on multiple images combined fixed
- data extraction internal optimizations
- improved support for 8 bit images inside PDF
- vector drawings improved to provide better support for multiple small objects
- Color representation in images with indexed colors fixed
- Type2 fonts support improved
- Improved support for embedded fonts in PDF produced by Ghostscript engine
- CCIT images compression compression related issues fixed
- LZW compressed PDF support improved
- improved support for shading objects
- improved PDF fonts support
- improved support for PDF with 4 bit images
New in Bytescout PDF Renderer SDK 2.30.594 (Sep 24, 2012)
- PDF to image conversion improved
- improved PDF to TIFF conversion functionality
- minor examples updates for project files
- memory and speed optimizations
- PDF Viewer demo utility: improved PDF To Image options dialog
- images support in PDF improved
- malformed PDF support improved
- inverted colors with in some PDF files were fixed
- reference to RotateFlipType fixed by implemention Bytescout.RotateFlipType enum instead
New in Bytescout PDF Renderer SDK 2.30.568 (Jun 25, 2012)
- PDF to image multithreading support improved
- Hanging issue on some PDF fixed
- Minor fixes and improvements
New in Bytescout PDF Renderer SDK 2.20.539 (Jun 1, 2012)
- improved PDF to image conversion stability
- demo utility improved
- important security fixes
New in Bytescout PDF Renderer SDK 2.20.525 (Apr 18, 2012)
- improved speed (up to x2 faster on some documents)
- improved and reworked PDF Viewer utility
- minor bug-fixes
New in Bytescout PDF Renderer SDK 2.20.458 (Feb 11, 2012)
- improved support for PDF files produced by Adobe Acrobat
- PDF Viewer: CSV, XML and Text extractor forms updated to show .PreserveFormattingOnTextExtraction option
- minor fixes in .NET 4.0 assemblies
- new /Visual Basic/PDF To BMP using streams/ sample
- improved support for PDF with forms objects
- .SetExtractionArea() added to define area on a page to work with in PDF Renderer SKD
- improved fonts rendering in PDF files
- fixing issue with indexed colorspaces in PDF
- improved PDF format support
New in Bytescout PDF Renderer SDK 2.20.415 (Dec 29, 2011)
- rendering: improved fonts support
- text extraction with formatting improved
- new source code sample to show how to save extracted text to a stream
- performance optimized and pdf processing speed improved
- improved support for PDF format
- PDF Viewer now provides ability to turn on/off text formatting support on extraction
- minor bug-fixes
New in Bytescout PDF Renderer SDK 2.10.356 (Nov 16, 2011)
- NEW: now can render PDF to TIFF format with new .RenderPageRangeToMultipageTIFFFile() and .RenderPageRangeToMultipageTIFFStream() methods
- fixing properties to read dimensions of PDF pages: GetPageRect_Left, GetPageRect_Top, GetPageRect_Width, GetPageRect_Height
- improved support for use from VB6 and classic ASP
- improved support for different PDF files
- improved processing speed
New in Bytescout PDF Renderer SDK 2.10.276 (Sep 13, 2011)
- improved output image quality
- improved support of Unicode text rendering
- improved support of embedded fonts
- improved support of damaged PDF files (not hanging on damaged files anymore)
- new navigation toolbar in PDFViewer
New in Bytescout PDF Renderer SDK 2.00.232 (Sep 13, 2011)
- PDF to image conversion rendering speed improved (x7 times on some files with vector graphics)
- improved support for various PDF files
- minor bug-fixes and improvements
New in Bytescout PDF Renderer SDK 2.00.184 (Jun 10, 2011)
- PDF to image conversion rendering up to x10 times faster now!
- minor bug-fixes and improvements
New in Bytescout PDF Renderer SDK 1.10.161 (Jun 10, 2011)
- improved support for single paged PDF documents produced by Acrobat Distiller software
- clipping issues were fixed
- fixed hanging on some broken PDF documents
- improved text rendering support
- password protected PDF documents support improved
- minor bug-fixes
New in Bytescout PDF Renderer SDK 1.10.150 (Jun 10, 2011)
- minor bug-fixes
- improved PDF files support
- improved stability
New in Bytescout PDF Renderer SDK 1.10.144 (Jun 10, 2011)
- improved PNG output quality (now 600 dpi resolution by default)
- password protected PDF files support (check the .Password property)
- updated documentation
- updated samples and demo GUI (PDF Viewer)
- minor bug-fixes