What's new in Gnostice PDFtoolkit VCL 4.0.1.462
Jul 7, 2014
- Enhanced:
- General:
- Support for RAD Studio XE6 Update 1.
- Included link annotation widget in custom annotation widget demo.
- PDFToolkit source has been made compatible with Delphi 5.
- PDF Processing:
- Added new Destination property for link annotations (linking to targets within the same document).
- Added new optional Password parameter for TgtPDFDocument.LoadFromFile and TgtPDFDocument.LoadFromStream methods.
- Added ability to make InteriorColor transparent for circle, square and line annotation classes by setting it to ClNone.
- Fixed:
- General:
- Installation issues with C++Builder in RAD Studio XE2 and XE6.
- Missing .OBJ error with trial builds in C++Builder-only installations.
- PDF Processing:
- TgtPDFDocument.OnPassword event is not called if password provided to LoadFromFile() or LoadFromStream() does not work.
- Invalid bitmap error encountered when rendering PDFs with some DCT images.
- With some documents, existing content is lost when calling TgtPDFDocument.MergeDocs() method.
- TgtPDFDocument.SaveAsText() method does not consider its page range parameter.
- Access violation encountered when merging some PDFs in programs built in some IDEs (2007 and older).
- PDF signatures added by PDFtoolkit are not recognized by Adobe Reader in some cases.
- Access violation encountered when closing an application if it contains multiple viewer instances linked to a single TgtPDFDocument instance.
- Invalid ID exception raised when rendering documents.
- PDF Printing:
- With some documents, a blank page is printed if TgtPDFPrinter.ShowSetupDialog() property is set to false.
New in Gnostice PDFtoolkit VCL 4.0.1.440 (Apr 23, 2014)
- Enhanced:
- Added support for RAD Studio XE6.
- Added more languages options to installer application.
- Fixed:
- General:
- Access violation when splitting certain PDF documents.
- Typo error (affecting the control name) in the watermark source code demo project.
- PDF Processing:
- Access violation occurs when splitting certain PDF documents.
- Control name typo error on Watermark demo project.
- Several form-processing issues.
- Printer component throws exception when no printers are available.
- Access violation occurs when merging PDF documents with JBIG2 images.
- Text extraction error-tolerance issues when ToUnicode entry does not contain any character codes - not falling back to the CID font.
- Form-field encoding errors causes Adobe reader to show "Save" dialog when end-user closes the document.
- Printing merged (but not saved) documents results in empty output.
- Incorrect annotation count is returned after adding new annotations and before saving.
- Document information properties become corrupt if text specified is in Unicode.
- Issues occurring when reading and writing document information properties.
- PDFs with DCT images are corrupt while decrypting.
- PDF Viewing:
- Access violation occurs when loaded a new document is a viewer with standard actions and the previous document has highlighted regions.
- Viewer context menu displays the wrong viewer mode as currently selected.
- Several image-rendering issues with JBIG2 and "Masked Images".
- Digital signatures are not rendered properly in some PDFs.
- Duplicate fields are not rendered in non-interactive mode.
- Temporary file created when rendering PDFs with JBIG2 images is not deleted.
New in Gnostice PDFtoolkit VCL 4.0.1.398 (Jan 25, 2014)
- Enhanced:
- PDF Viewing:
- Support for rendering ColorKey masked images.
- PDF Processing:
- Added new method MovePage(PageToMove: Integer; MoveToPageNumber: Integer) in TgtPDFDocument class.
- Fixed:
- PDF Viewing and printing :
- Page rendered blank when page size rectangle in the document is specified in reverse order, for example, (0, 1200, 800, 0).
- PDF Processing:
- Text extraction operations return junk characters when ToUnicode table is empty, that is, mapping information is absent.
New in Gnostice PDFtoolkit VCL 4.0.1.395 (Jan 10, 2014)
- Enhanced:
- General:
- Removed cbmsvcrt.lib dependency in C++Builder
- PDF Viewing:
- Support for rendering images with image masks
- Reduced memory usage with PDFs containing huge images
- PDF Processing:
- Added new method TgtPDFDocument.SetXMLMetadata(AXMLMetaData: String) to set XML metadata for a document
- Support for modifying push button form field's SubmitURL property
- Support for modifying a form field's ReadOnly property
- Changed:
- PDF Viewing:
- Viewer will not grab focus when it gets activated or loads a document
- PDF Processing:
- Removed JPX image decoder C wrapper due to conflicts in C++Builder - can be enabled for Delphi by modifying source
- Fixed :
- General:
- Installation issues in Delphi 7
- Access violation caused during initialization of PDFtoolkit components if PentaCalc Pro software is installed
- Application start-up error when using PDFtoolkit with some third-party components in C++Builder.
- C++Builder linking error with "DynamicRTL=False" and "Build With Runtime packages=False" settings
- PDF Viewing and printing:
- ColorSpace and TBitmap memory leaks with some PDFs
- Some text missing when rendering some PDFs - caused by improper freeing of font object.
- Randomly occurring blank print output due to invalid initial printer margin settings
- Multi-line text form fields are rendered with only the first line in non-interactive mode
- PDF Processing:
- Modifying a PDF/A document turns it into a non-PDF/A document - now retains existing PDF/A identifier in header
- TgtPDFDocument.GetText() method returns string with every line prefixed with the previous line
- Check mark of a flattened check box form field appears as '4'
- Access violation when rendering some documents
- Access violation when digitally signing some PDF documents in older IDEs (older than 2009)
- "ShortTime" placeholder replaced with "ShortDate" placeholder values
- Page size is not properly set by TgtPDFDocument.InsertBlankPagesAt method
- Multi-line text form fields are exported to image with only the first line
- Encryption corrupts some PDF documents
- Access violation when merging PDF documents containing DCT images
- Merged PDF documents are blank if they contain DCT images
- Encryption corrupts DCT images
- Encryption corrupts document properties in some documents
- Saving a document will corrupt it if a font contains an unexpected newline character
New in Gnostice PDFtoolkit VCL 4.0.1.364 (Oct 8, 2013)
- ENHANCED
- General:
- Added support for RAD Studio XE5
- Reduced size of the installer (around 20MB smaller)
- Added German-language support for the installer
- PDF Viewing:
- Viewer will display a form field with its "default value" property if the the PDF document does not specify a "value" property for the field - mimics Adobe Reader behavior
- FIXED
- PDF Viewing and printing:
- Viewer lets end-user to fill read-only form fields
- Setting TgtPDFViewer.Active to true returns control to program only after rendering first page
- Some shapes are not rendered when their colorspace information is incorrectly specified in the original PDF
- Some text elements with incorrect text matrices are not rendered
- A few memory leaks occur with certain PDF documents
- PDF Processing:
- TgtPDFDocument.InsertBlankPageAt() method does not work with Delphi/C++Builder versions newer than 2009
- Some text elements with incorrect text matrices are not processed
- Access violation occurs when encrypting some PDFs
New in Gnostice PDFtoolkit VCL 4.0.1.341 (Aug 14, 2013)
- ENHANCED
- PDF Processing:
- Added new GetDocumentHash method in TgtPDFDocument component
- Added support for text alignment in form-field flattening methods
- PDF viewer and printer:
- Optimized rendering where document contains multiple copies of the same font and other types of resources
- Increased speed of rendering of PDFs with large CCITT images (at over 5000x5000 pixels)
- Added new property TgtPDFViewer.Caching to specifing how PDF resources are cached by the viewer.
- Added new optional argument Transparent parameter (default is true) to TgtPDFViewer.HighlightRegion method
- Restored tab-key navigation for PDF form fields in VCL forms applications built with RAD Studio XE and older IDEs
- PDF SearchPanel:
- Made PDFSearchPanel to remain unaffected when no document is assigned to the viewer component linked to it
- Added SetEditFocus method to set focus on the search text entry edit box.
- Made search panel to automatically set focus to search text entry edit box when the control is activated
- Added support for initiating search operation by pressing Enter key
- FIXED
- General:
- Compilation issues in RAD Studio XE3
- PDF Processing:
- Multi-line form field values get truncated when merging documents
- Range check error when extracting text from some documents
- TgtPDFImageElement.IsJPEG property always returns false
- Access violation occurs when creating button form field with submit action
- Document merging sometimes creates corrupt documents
- Invalid root object exception raised incorrectly
- PDF Viewing and Printing:
- Search panel causes access violation when its linked viewer component unloads a document
- Range check error occurs when viewer zoom is set below 1
- German 'ß' and some other characters (encoded as 2-byte CID character codes) are displayed incorrectly
- Some non-Latin text elements not rendered properly
- Printer component retains old bin names when printer device is changed
- Viewer randomly does not detect "page down" or "page up" key presses
- SearchPanel does not find instances of search text where it is placed at the end of a line (when used with "whole word" option)
- Printer component causes access violation when it tries to enumerate capabilities of a Remote Desktop printer
- Printer causes "abstract" error when encountering a page with empty content stream
- Text not rendered properly when encoding specified by the document is not present in a font
- Form field values are not rendered if InteractiveForms property is set to false
- Viewer freezes when loading documents that have empty font-mapping "ToUnicode" stream
- Changing printer component's AdvancedPrinterSettings.Color does not work
- Various access violations, excessive memory usage, memory leaks and other issues encountered with viewer and printer components in relation to font processing, text extraction, etc., - with some issues only affecting applications built in RAD Studio XE2 and newer IDEs
New in Gnostice PDFtoolkit VCL 4.0.1.293 (May 9, 2013)
- Enhanced:
- General:
- Added support for RAD Studio XE4
- Fixed:
- PDF Processing:
- Scrambled output when rendering some documents with JBIG2 images
- Text extraction issues caused by Truetype fonts with 'Differences' entry
- Memory leak in TgtPDViewerPref affecting loading and saving PDFs
New in Gnostice PDFtoolkit VCL 4.0.1.283 (Apr 26, 2013)
- Fixed:
- PDF Processing:
- Various memory and access violation that occurs when performing page operations on some PDF documents
- "Index out of bound" error occurs when calling TgtPDFEngine.TextOut with HTML tags.
- PDF Viewing/Printing:
- Application freezes when rendering PDFs with certain CID fonts
- "Invalid Integer" exception occurs while rendering some PDFs
- Viewer hangs in IDEs older than 2010 when TgtPDFViewer.BackgroundRendering is set to true
New in Gnostice PDFtoolkit VCL 4.0.1.271 (Mar 9, 2013)
- Enhanced:
- PDF Viewing and Printing - Added support for rendering JPX images
- Fixed:
- General:
- Setup bundles LIB and OBJ files for C++Builder-only environments
- Annotation demo throws "Undeclared identifier SquareInteriorColor" error
- PDF Processing:
- Memory leaks in page-processing operations
- Merge and insert page operations produce blank output with some documents
- Error decoding images when (color depth) BitsPerComponent is missing or -1
- PDF Viewing:
- Access violation when Viewer component is freed after setting Viewer.Active to false
- Lines with width 0 are not rendered (unlike Adobe Reader)
- High CPU usage by background rendering thread
- Filling checkboxes does not work with some documents
- Initial incorrect positioning of form fields when page initially loads in the viewer
New in Gnostice PDFtoolkit VCL 4.0.1.129 (Mar 22, 2012)
- Fixed:
- PDF Rendering:
- All known rendering memory leaks
- PDF Processing:
- Access violations in C++Builder when merging certain PDF documents
New in Gnostice PDFtoolkit VCL 4.0.1.122 (Mar 22, 2012)
- Enhanced:
- General:
- Added support for RAD Studio XE2 Update 3
- PDF Processing:
- New overloads for methods in TgtPDFDocument class: SaveAsText() and ExtractText()
- Improved text extraction with better word/line detection and removal of extra spaces and lines
- Added support for extracting text content of Form XObjects
- PDF Viewing:
- Support for custom checkbox symbols (cross, circle, star, check) in interactive form filling
- Fixed:
- General:
- RAD Studio XE2 error "Unit gtViewerWidget was compiled with a different version of Vcl.Graphics.dSkyBlue"
- PDF Rendering:
- "Unable to SetFocus" error when parent form of viewer component is hidden
- Clipped images in document are rendered without clipping by viewer component and TgtPDFDocument.RenderToDC() method
- Pages with negative height values cause "Division By Zero" error
- PDF Processing:
- Memory leak when calling TgtPDFDocument.InsertPagesFrom() method multiple times
- Page range parsing issues with TgtPDFDocument.InsertPagesFrom() method
- Incorrect encryption when document has PDF objects with ID tags
New in Gnostice PDFtoolkit VCL 4.0.1.97 (Mar 22, 2012)
- Enhanced:
- PDF Processing:
- Improved text extraction from PDF pages
- PDF Viewing:
- Improved accuracy of "hand tool" and other viewer interaction modes
- Fixed:
- PDF Viewing:
- Freezing when page is zoomed using Ctrl+Mousewheel
- Access violation when loading certain PDF files
- Several memory leaks - optimized memory usage
- Issues affecting popup menu on image widgets
- Issues with PopupMenu property of viewer in C++Builder XE and XE2
- Access violation when opening PDF documents with Type 3 fonts
- Issues with Open standard action
- Rotated form fields do not appear in correct position
- PDF Printing:
- Lines rendered with incorrect width
- Form fields with empty values rendered all black
- PDF Processing:
- Memory leaks in TIFF processing logic
- Extra text "_page1" appended to file name when exporting PDF pages to a multi-page TIFF image
- Several range-check errors
- Text overlap issues with Textout method and TgtTextwatermark class
- Document information properties get corrupted after encryption
New in Gnostice PDFtoolkit VCL 4.0.1.89 (Nov 11, 2011)
- Enhanced:
- New demo demonstrating how to interactively add an annotation and display it in the viewer using a custom annotation widget
- New demo demonstrating how to read all form field properties from a PDF document
- New property Opacity in TgtPDFAnnotation class
- New properties SelectedRegionColor and HighlightRegionColor to specify default color for selected and highlighted regions on the viewer
- New methods ScrollDown, ScrollLeft, ScrollRight and ScrollUp to programmatically scroll displayed content
- New method GetOriginalRect to obtain actual location and dimensions of a selected page region after correcting for rotation and zoom changes set by the end-user
- New method SaveToFile saves the displayed document to specified file and loads it into the viewer
- Added keyboard support for page navigation
- Support for printing the displayed document (along with form field values entered by the end-user) without having to save the document first
- Automatic creation of the appearance stream whenever form field value is updated
- Improved Highlight tool operation
- Fixed:
- Image export demo throws LoadAfterSave property error
- Horizontal scrolling is disabled when Hand tool is used
- Zoom-mode cursor resets while holding down Ctrl key
- Radio buttons are not positioned correctly
- Image processing creates stray files on hard drive
- Temporary files created by image export to multi-page TIFF are not deleted
New in Gnostice PDFtoolkit VCL 4.0.0.77 (Nov 11, 2011)
- Enhanced
- General
- Support for RAD Studio XE2 (both 32-bit and 64-bit Windows)
- Support for C++Builder 2007 to XE2
- Updated demos
- Interactive form filling
- Context menu options to change viewer interaction modes and save current page as BMP, JPEG, EMF or TIFF images
- Automatic reloading of document after changes are saved
- Extendable widgets for page elements
- Base class for annotation widgets added for future built-in or user-defined annotation rendering
- Default page context menu can be replaced with custom popup menu
- User interaction modes - Hand, Select, Zoom, Snapshot, Highlight
- Built-in widgets for form fields and image elements
- Event to track mouse activity on form fields
- Context menu options for selected image element - Copy image and Save image
- New GetScrollPosFromPageIndex function for getting maximum scroll bar position that can be set for specified page
- OnMarqueeSelect event handler has a new parameter for page number
- Zoom-in and zoom-out operations automatically skip to standard page zoom levels if it is within range
- API to register custom widgets for form fields, text, and image elements
- Faster rendering of embedded fonts
- Added several standard actions (TAction) for PDF viewer component - File Open, File Save As, Print Document, Zoom Actual Size, Zoom Fit Width, Zoom Fit Page, First , Prior, Next, Last, Zoom in, Zoom out, Rotate clockwise, Rotate Anti-Clockwise, Select Mode, Hand Mode, Zoom Mode, Snapshot Mode, Highlight Mode - build a PDF viewer application without writing any code
- Added resource for Hand, Select, Zoom, Snapshot and Highlight viewer mode cursors
- More options to retrieve bookmarks (as Strings, TreeNodes)
- API to export PDF to image files
- Customizable image properties (JPEG quality, Pixel format, Smoothing, Monochrome, etc)
- Event to customize name, prefix of image to be exported. Also accepts parameter to skip current page or break the entire operation
- Ability to save changes to loaded document
- New and improved form processing APIs
- API to copy page content to Windows Clipboard
- Document merge operations also merges bookmarks
- OnBookmarkMerge event to customize the default behaviour of bookmark merging
- HTML submit method for AcroForms changed to POST
- New optional argument AutoReload in SaveToFile and SaveChanges methods to keep the updated document remain loaded in memory
- Fixed:
- Scaling problems occur when document is printed
- Invalid bitmap error occurs when rendering some documents
- Access violation are encountered when rendering masked images
- Viewer freezes when opening PDFs created using Amyuni Converter
- Generic error occurs when document contains no cropbox entry
- Rounded bullets appear as square bullets
- TgtPDFDocument object does not fire OnBeginRead and OnEndRead events correctly
- Inability to set value for radio/checkbox form fields
- Angled watermarks do not appear at center
- Inability to set values for form fields that have the same name
- Invalid pointer error occurs when calling ExtractPagesTo method with some documents
- Crashes occurs when saving certain encrypted documents
- Images are misplaced after merging
New in Gnostice PDFtoolkit VCL 3.4.8.240 (Nov 11, 2011)
- Enhanced:
- Added support for rendering rotated text
- Added support for performing page operations, digital signing, and encryption on documents with JPX and JBIG2 images
- Fixed:
- Memory leak experienced if RenderToDC method is called repeatedly
- Incorrect coordinates in TgtFormField.FieldRect property for form fields that have same name
- "Out of memory" error when saving PDFs with JPX images
- "Font family not found" error when rendering documents that have fonts that are neither embedded in the document nor installed on the client computer. (All such fonts will henceforth be substituted with Arial.)
New in Gnostice PDFtoolkit VCL 3.4.8.235 (Nov 11, 2011)
- Enhanced:
- Highly improved PDF text extraction
- Fixed:
- Access violation when merging certain types of PDF documents
- "EC is not valid integer" error when processing some types of form fields (special characters in properties)
New in Gnostice PDFtoolkit VCL 3.4.8.233 (Nov 11, 2011)
- Enhanced:
- Support for rendering JBIG2 images with color map (Color Inversion)
- Support for rendering of CID fonts with embedded CMAP
- Optimized output PDF size after page-level operations
- Fixed:
- Fixed rendering of CJK CID fonts
- JBIG2Decode.hpp 'PCardinal Not found' error in C++Builder 2007
- Access violation when flattening form fields
- Access violation when digitally signing PDFs
- "$ - EConvertError" when saving or rendering PDF documents with special characters
- TgtPDBookmark.GetChild(AIndex: Integer) does not return bookmark specified by index
- Issue with missing/corrupt signature details when digitally signing PDFs
- Issues when retrieving values with special characters from form fields
- Memory leaks with text search and page-related functions
- Access violation when performing page operations with documents containing empty annotation entries
- IsLoaded property incorrectly returns true when document load operation failed due to wrong password
- Invalid pointer operation error on application close
New in Gnostice PDFtoolkit VCL 3.4.8.228 (Nov 11, 2011)
- Enhanced:
- New PDF viewer component demo for interactively inserting watermarks on PDF pages
- Support for rendering PDF with JBIG2 images
- Fixed:
- Ambiguity between PDFtoolkit and eDocEngine enumeration constants
- Access violation issues encountered during merging and page operations
- All known memory leaks
- Incorrect setting of Indy component properties (for EmailAfterSave)
- "List index out of bounds" error during page-level operations
New in Gnostice PDFtoolkit VCL 3.4.7.207 (Oct 30, 2010)
- This release fixes issues related to positioning of watermarks; SaveToFile method being inadvertently identified as deprecated by Code Insight; and using special characters when creating PDF name objects.
New in Gnostice PDFtoolkit VCL 3.4.6.0 (Jan 29, 2010)
- Enhanced
- PDF Content Creation
- Text outs in Unicode.
- Optimized text outs.
- PDF Processing
- Optimized font substitution.
- New SavetoStreamA method, a non-Unicode ANSI alternative for ExtractText method - to support old IDEs
- Resolved
- PDF Processing
- Access violaton in CCITTFaxDecode
- PDF Viewing
- "Font Family Not Found" error for some documents with Type1 non-embedded fonts - Substituted with nearest alternatives available in the system
- Improper or blank output for some documents with Type1 non-embedded fonts
- Incorrect rendering of documents with embedded TrueType fonts with MacRoman and Custom encoding
- PDF Forms Processing
- Form fields without appearance stream did not render properly
New in Gnostice PDFtoolkit VCL 3.4.5.0 (Dec 23, 2009)
- Gnostice is pleased to announce the release of Version 3.4.5 of PDFtoolkit VCL. PDFtoolkit is our VCL component suite to edit, enhance, secure, merge, split, view, print, digitally sign PDF and AcroForms documents.
- In this minor release, we have made a few enhancements to adding digital signatures and fixed a few issues related to C++Builder.
New in Gnostice PDFtoolkit VCL 3.4.4.0 (Nov 21, 2009)
- Gnostice is pleased to announce the release of v3.4.4. In this maintenance update, we have fixed several issues reported by customers. A major change in this version is related to the TgPDFDocument.GetPageElements method. The TgtPDFTextElement instances returned by this method now provide the x-y coordinates as specified in the PDF document.
New in Gnostice PDFtoolkit VCL 3.4.0.0 (Sep 26, 2009)
- In this update, we have focused on rendering optimizations, enhanced functionality for digital signing and several fixes. The rendering enhancements are mostly under-the-hood but are very appreciable when viewing and printing PDF documents.
New in Gnostice PDFtoolkit VCL 3.3.0.0 (Sep 4, 2009)
- Enhancements
- PDF Document Processing
- Add digital signatures
- Support for Delphi 2010
- PDF Viewing [ProPlus edition only]
- Optimized image rendering performance - in terms of speed
- Resolved in v3.3
- Overall
- C++Builder 2009 - Link error
- Delphi 2009 - Building and installing PDFtoolkit VCL from source
- Custom icon for host application could not be added
- PDF Document Processing
- GetPageElements returns wrong coordinates of page elements
- Page extraction causes invalid pointer error
- PDF Viewing [ProPlus edition only]
- Access violation affecting some PDF documents
- PDF Printing [ProPlus edition only]
- Host application freezes for a short time (approximately one minute)
New in Gnostice PDFtoolkit VCL 3.1.0.87 (May 6, 2009)
- New PDF processing engine
- Big improvements in speed, scalability, robustness
- Support for new font types, image formats, colorspaces
- Multi-page PDF viewer
New in Gnostice PDFtoolkit VCL 3.0.0.72 (Feb 25, 2009)
- Enhanced: Robust, completely re-designed, extensible core engine, which will be continuously enhanced
- Added: Support for all versions of PDF
- Enhanced: Optimized memory use
- Added: Support for Type 1 with full and subset embedding
- Added: Support for Standard Type 1 fonts (14 standard Type 1 fonts are supported without requiring font embedding)
- Added: Support for subset embedded fonts
- Added: Support for CID fonts (Will be substituted when font used is not embedded and not found on system)
- Added: Multipage viewer (Multiple and continuous page display)
- Added: New viewer events to track changes in current page, zoom, etc.
- Added: Facility to get selected region or a point on the viewer (useful while adding watermarks, stamps, etc)
- Added: Viewer can zoom pages up to 3200%
- Enhanced: Fault-tolerant loading by viewer (Small PDF errors will not halt rendering)
- Fixed: Issues related to text extraction solved
- Enhanced: Clean formatted extraction of text from pages
- Fixed: Issues related to GDI+ solved for C++ Builder
- Enhanced: Fast, accurate vector printing of PDF files(Printer component)
- Enhanced: Support for automatic rotation and centering of pages in printer component
- Enhanced: Bin selection in printer component
New in Gnostice PDFtoolkit VCL 2.50 (Jun 19, 2007)
- Support for individual character spacing (ProPlus Edition)
- Enhanced rendering of PDF elements in viewer (ProPlus Edition)
- Support for custom appearance streams for form fields (ProPlus Edition)
- Support for extracting/saving attachments (Professional & ProPlus Editions)
- Support for latest zlib compression/decompression technique (Professional & ProPlus Editions)
- Support for exporting forms data in FDF format (Professional & ProPlus Editions)