Released: Nov 20, 2024

Updates in V24.11

Features

• Added the ability to automatically update page numbers in the header or footer of a PDF when inserting new pages.
• Enabled RGB to CMYK and CMYK to RGB conversions using a custom ICC profile.
• Added the ability to specify a hashing algorithm when creating digital signatures.
• Added support for signing documents using the SHA256 hashing algorithm.
• You can now set the hashing algorithm for external signatures.
• Added support for 192-bit ECDSA private keys for PKCS7Detached signatures.
• Added support for parsing CMap subtable to replace incorrect ToUnicode tables during HTML export.
• Enabled compression without quality loss for 2 BPP and 4 BPP images.

Fixes

• Cannot correctly check permissions on the PDF file.
• PDF to PDF/A-3b: the output is not compliant due to widths error.
• Cannot open 256bit AES encoded PDF due to unhandled exception.
• Method VerifySigned returns an unexpected result.
• Unable to open PDF file which encrypted with Adobe Acrobat using Encryption Level:256-bit AES.
• Document signature fails to validate.
• Unable to set timestamp: "Error parsing timestamp server token" thrown.
• File optimization options do not effectively reduce PDF file size.
• TextFragmentAbsorber problem - Not able to find particular text occurrence.
• Splitting a PDF changes Form Fields.
• Letter spacing CSS processed incorrectly.
• OTF fonts don't make a subset in some cases.
• System.NullReferenceException when converts from HTML to PDF.
• PDF Convert leaks memory.
• Error with Aspose PDF when converting PDF to DOCX.
• TextBoxField height affects font size.
• TextSegments ignore TextState formatting and keep their parent TextFragment styling.
• Aspose.Pdf.PrintController: the content drawn on the page no longer fits.
• PdfPageEditor throws an exception on saving a document.
• Exception "Permissions check failed" when opening a password-protected document.
• Text is always underlined on the page if auto-wrapped.
• Garbled text during PDF to image rendering.
• Exception converting to PDF/A.
• Inconsistent coordinate handling in image and text insertion.
• PDF to PDF/A-3u - Key not found error occurred.
• Concurrency error during document conversion.
• Japanese Characters Garbled When Converting PDF to JPG on Amazon Linux 2023.
• Content moved to the bottom of the PDF after untagging the table in 508-compliant PDF.
• LaTex to PDF - output is not correct.
• XPS to PDF: Additional characters are added for specific font.
• PdfPageStamp misplace stamp in output PDF.
• Regression: Redacting data from PDF multiplies and shifts the redaction box.
• Problem opening encrypted document.
• PdfBookmarkEditor.ExtractBookmark is never completed for certain documents.
• PDF to XLSX: System.InvalidCastException on Alpine Linux.
• "Wrong object format" in PDF to PDF/A-1b conversion.
• An exception is thrown while getting property TtfFont.Metrics.
• Exception thrown when converting to PDF/A in Evaluation mode.
• Concurrency bug in constructor Aspose.PDF TextBuilder.
• PDF conversion to PDF/А not pass in Evaluation mode.
• ArgumentException: "Document context is null for license" thrown when stamping PDF in Evaluation mode.
• Aspose.Pdf.InvalidPasswordException is thrown while loading PDF encrypted by 256-bit AES.
• Digital signature problem using CSP without SHA1 support.
• PDF to Image: background is changed to black.
• PDF to PNG: the gray background color is changed to black.
• Aspose.PDF.Drawing slower than Aspose.PDF in converting images to PDF.
• System.NullReferenceException when exporting certain PDFs to APS.