Released: Jun 28, 2024

Updates in V24.6

Features

• PDF v2.0: Added metadata setters.
• PDF to ODS: Added support for identifying vertical alignments.
• Implement Paragraph Replacement in an existing PDF.
• Added the ability to set TextAbsorber areas in which text must not be extracted.
• Normalized list of old enums based on int values into Java standard enums in public API.
• You can now make ease evaluation mode restrictions.

Fixes

• Aspose.Pdf for Java 24.4 : "Unable to decode certificate" when sign .pdf with ExternalSignature.
• HTML to PDF...

Released: May 30, 2024

Updates in V24.5

Features

• Added a new Form Editor plugin.
• Added the ability to merge all layers inside a PDF into one.
• Added the ability to flatten a layered PDF file.
• Added the ability to extract PDF layer elements and create a new PDF.
• Added the ability to lock a PDF layer.
• Added the ability to get information about borders when working with TableAbsorber.
• PDF to DOCX: Added support for identifying vertical alignments.
• PDF to Excel: Added support for identifying vertical alignments.
• You can now remove layers...

Released: May 1, 2024

Updates in V24.4

Features

• Added new Form Exporter, PDF Generator, PDF to DOC and XLS, Form Flattener, Image Extractor, Merger Plugins, and Optimizer Plugins.

Fixes

• PDF to Excel: Conversion is taking a lot of time.
• Extra column appeared when using TableAbsorber.
• PDF to DOCX - Some text moved down on the first page.
• An extra row appears when using TableAbsorber.
• Multiple columns are not being recognized in PDF document.
• PDF resizing problem since 23.11.
• Text extraction from a PDF document using Aspose.PDF results...

Released: Mar 29, 2024

Updates in V24.3

Features

• Added the ability to convert tables to the PDF to Markdown converter.
• Added the ability to search through a list of phrases in a 'TextFragmentAbsorber'.
• Added support for word breaks in 'TextStamp'.
• Upgraded Bouncy Castle FIPS Java API.

Fixes

• PDF to PDFA - API is taking a lot of time during conversion.
• No TextFragment Even If The Regex is Correct.
• Aspose.Pdf 23.10: Converting EPS to JPG throws exception.
• TextReplaceOptions.ReplaceAdjustment.IsFormFillingMode overlaps text...

Released: Mar 1, 2024

Updates in V24.2

Features

• Added support for OFD to PDF conversion.

Fixes

• Unable to set 'StateModel' for annotations.
• Watermark does not apply to XFA PDF file.
• Discrepancies when rendering text rotated by 90 degrees.
• PDF to JPEG - new engine degrades image quality.
• PDF to DOCX
  • Incorrect paragraph marks inside table cells.
  • Tables have been merged incorrectly.
  • Layout issues occur when opening document.
  • Background missing in some cells.
  • Corrupted content in the PDF document.
  • Text split over two lines.
• PDF to XLSX...

Released: Jan 31, 2024

Updates in V24.1

Features

• Added InterruptMonitor support for Java.
• Added the ability to convert PDF to Markdown.

Fixes

• API is taking long time while subsetting the fonts.
• PDF to JPG - Specified argument was out of the range of valid values.
• PDF to PDF/A: Title mismatch.
• PDF to PDF/A: Misplaced text.
• PDF to PDFA: Exception "Cannot access a disposed object" is thrown.
• Signed PDF cannot be converted to PDF/A.
• API is unable to detect tables in PDF.
• Cells are merged when using TableAbsorber.
• Problem extracting tables...

Released: Dec 28, 2023

Updates in V23.12

Features

• Added the ability to extract and remove text on the basis of subtype/form.
• Improved positioning of single page documents side by side.

Fixes

• Redact Annotations dropping characters.
• isCertified method is always returning false.
• PDF Conversion to image is empty.
• Utilizing flatteningAnnotations raises ArrayIndexOutOfBound exception.
• resizeContentsWithNormalization raises "Wrong format of page's content".
• Regression: java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space.
• Font not applied when Arabic...

Released: Nov 30, 2023

Updates in V23.11

Features

• Added the ability to remove hidden text from a PDF file.
• Added Java SE 21 support.
• Added Oracle JDK 21 support.
• Added Tom EE 9 support (Jakarta APIs).

Fixes

• PDF to ODS: reducing file size.
• OCR fails with not supported image type.
• OptimizationOptions.setRemoveUnusedStreams(true) causes NullPointerException.
• PDF to DOCX - lines are missing in tables.
• SVG to PDF - opacity attribute is ignored in output PDF.
• The spacing between sentences and paragraphs is slightly narrower after flattening...

Released: Oct 31, 2023

Updates in V23.10

Features

• Added the ability to remove tags from tagged PDFs.
• Added APIs to measure character height.
• Added a new flatten transparency feature.

Fixes

• Line Annotation is not shown in Google Chrome Browser.
• Class com.aspose.pdf.exceptions.FontNotFoundException: Font 宋体 was not found.
• Signing secured PDF document produced Document is altered or corrupted.
• Missing some characters after text search/replace in PDF.
• RedactionAnnotation is added two times for rotated page.
• PDF to image conversion produces...

Released: Sep 29, 2023

Updates in V23.9

Features

• You can now remove child annotations from fillable fields.

Fixes

• Adding image with ImageFilterType.Flate does not preserve transparency.
• Adding TextStamp memory consumption.
• Attaching signed file to PDF/A-2A removes signature from the attachment.
• Image resolution is changed after PDF to PDF_A_1B conversion.
• Conversion of PDF to PDF_A_2A generate output with black background.
• PDF to PDFA2b: Converting PDF, generated from PPTX using Aspose.Slides, to PDFA2b fails the compliance (Linux...