Aspose.Pdf.Kit

Aspose.Pdf.Kit for .Net 3.1.0.0 Released

2008-05-16T08:04:00Z

In this release, we are still focusing on how to better support the interactive features of PDF format. Consequently, the class named PdfAnnotationEditor is introduced to support the feature of migrating comments. Form disposing features are also enhanced and new types of annotations are supported.

The usability for Kit is also improved in this release. Methods for conveniently adding header/footer are introduced. Interfaces of manipulating ComboBox/RadioBox/CheckBox are improved.

Download URL:
http://www.aspose.com/community/files/51/file-format-components/aspose.pdf.kit/default.aspx

Aspose.Pdf.Kit for Java 2.0.0.0 Released

2008-04-10T12:21:00Z

In this release, digital signature is supported. Form feature is improved. CJK font is supported in form filling and text stamping.

The features table at http://www.aspose.com/documentation/file-format-components/aspose.pdf.kit-for-.net-and-java/features.html is updated. As you can see, many features in .Net version is now supported in Java version.

You can download it at
http://www.aspose.com/community/files/51/file-format-components/aspose.pdf.kit/category1198.aspx.

Aspose.Pdf.Kit for .Net 3.0.0.0 Released

2008-03-14T03:18:00Z

In this release, CJK font is supported in Form Field. This is good news for East Asian customers.

In the previous versions, performance is a big problem of Aspose.Pdf.Kit. We have spent lots of time on optimizing the performance and it is better now in this release. However we are still working on performance optimization.

Digital signature and attachment features become more powerful in this release.

Down load URL: http://www.aspose.com/community/files/51/file-format-components/aspose.pdf.kit/default.aspx.

Aspose.Pdf.Kit for .Net 2.7.0.0 Released

2008-01-02T10:28:00Z

Introduction

In this release, new features of bookmarks creating, exchanging and exporting are supported. New methods are added to support printing large pdf files more efficiently. Form features are also improved to support validation, number format converting and MultiLineText.

What's New?

Supports creating bookmarks for all pages and creating nest bookmark.
Supports exchanging bookmarks of XML and extracting bookmarks to HTML.
A new method Form.GetFieldFlag() is added for disposing Form fields more flexibly..
A set of new methods and properties are added in PdfViewer for printing large pdf files more efficiently.
Winform demos are added.

What's Improved?

Validation is implemented when filling text fields.
The converting and representation of Number、Percent、Date and Time is enhanced for AcroForm.
The method of extracting links is improved. Links in footer is supported and the method becomes more stable.
MultiLineText is supported when disposing Form fields.

What's Fixed?

4039 - The coordinates are different with other methods when using AddText.
3996 - Form field appearing after 'Concatenate' method is called.
4105 - Invalid token type encountered when reading pdf.
4138 - PdfFileInfo throws exception.
3935 - Flatten fields error.
2082 - Landscape page is being printed in portrait.

Download URL: http://www.aspose.com/Community/Files/51/aspose.pdf.kit/default.aspx

Aspose.Pdf.Kit for .Net Hotfix v2.6.4.0 Released

2007-10-29T02:31:00Z

What's New?

3698- Multiple-line text field is supported. FieldType.MultiLineText is defined in FieldType.cs, which can be applied in FormEditor.AddField().
3953- Getting properties of signatures is supported in PdfFileSignature. New motheds of getting properties includes: GetSignNames(), IsCoversWholeDocument(), VerifySigned(), GetRevision(), GetReason(), GetLocation(), GetDateTime() and GetToltalRevision().

What's Fixed?

3772- Unwanted fields during concatenating.
3947 - Flattening after AutoFiller.ImportDataTable().
3925 - TextField cropped after flatting all fields .
3900- Stamp position is not correct when using PdfFileStamp to add stamp on some PDF files .
3921 - InvalidCastException is thrown when extracting bookmarks which contain "named destination".

Download URL: http://www.aspose.com/Community/Files/51/aspose.pdf.kit/default.aspx

Aspose.Pdf.Kit for .Net Hotfix v2.6.3.0 Released

2007-10-17T08:19:00Z

What's New?

COMB text field is supported in Form class.
Scaled Image Field: support for fully filling with the new Form.FullyFilled Property.

What's Fixed?

2049- The document printed is not similar to Original PDF.
3802 - pdf head signature is not found.
3830 - PdfViewer dosn't close file .
3855- Concatenating PDF Docs with bookmarks error .
3906 - Convert PDF to TIFF File without loosing any information
3876 - wrong license problem in version 2.6.1.
3832 - Unable to cast object error when Concatenating documents
3905 - Invalid pdf format:pdf head signature is not found

Download URL: http://www.aspose.com/Community/Files/51/aspose.pdf.kit/default.aspx

Aspose.Pdf.Kit for Java 1.9.0.0 Released

2007-10-11T12:45:00Z

Introduction

In this release, some advanced editing features are added into PdfContentditor.

What's New?

In PdfContentditor, CreateBookmarks() is added for creating bookmarks of all pages with specified color and font setting.
In PdfContentEditor, CreateBookmarksAction() is added for creating bookmark with specified action. The supported action types include "GoToR","Launch","GoTo" and "URI".
In PdfContentditor, annotations such as "Line","Square","Circle","Polygon", "PolyLine" can be exported by ExportAnnotationsXfdf().
In PdfContentditor, delete all the annotations or deleting the annotations of specified type are supported.
In PdfContentditor, DeleteBookMarks() is added which can be used to delete all bookmarks of the pdf document. It is also supported to delete the bookmark according to the specified title.
In PdfContentditor, DeleteAttachments() is added which can be used to delete all the attachments of the documents.

What's Fixed?

Some pdf documents can not be opened afer replacing text.

Download URL: http://www.aspose.com/Community/Files/51/aspose.pdf.kit/category1198.aspx

Aspose.Pdf.Kit for .Net Hotfix v2.6.2.0 Released

2007-10-10T01:28:00Z

What's New?

3599 - FormEditor.AddField() has been promoted to support CropBox. Fields adding to invisible area will be moved to CropBox area automatically. Also a bool value is returned from this function. Refer to this post .
3666 - Form.FillField() for multiple line text fields has been updated. Now it both works for AcroForms or XfaForms, whatever the font type, font size or border style. Refer to this post.
3697 - Form.FillImageField() has been promoted to support Image scaling setting. Currently, "Scale Image Proportionally", "Scale Image to Fit Rectangle" and "Use Original Size" are available for Xfa Image Fields. Refer to this post.

What's Fixed?

3665 - A bug of combobox export value has been fixed for Form.ImportFdf(). In this hotfix, a choice box will be filled either by item labels or by export values defined in fdf. Refer to this post.
3726 - A bug of combobox filling has been fixed.
3746 - Another bug of combobox filling has also been fixed. Whether combobox items list is defined in pdf or not, it can be filled correctly.
3635,3685,3703 - Fixed a series problems for replacing text.Solved the bugs that the pdf document can not be opened or show text afer replacing text,invalid color space problem.
3743 - Fixed the bug that Concatinating throws "Object reference not set to an instance of an object."

Download URL: http://www.aspose.com/Community/Files/51/aspose.pdf.kit/default.aspx

Aspose.Pdf.Kit for .Net Hotfix v2.6.1.0 Released

2007-09-25T07:20:00Z

What's Improved?

3778 - Form.GetField() is upgraded. User can get the value of a multiple choice List Box. All selections are linked as a single string, each one separated by a comma such like "Item1,Item3,Item4". But this feature only works for AcroForm. At the same time, Form.FillField() is also overridden for multiple selection setting. User can fill a multiple selection List Box with several choices. Finally, Form.ExportXml() and Form.ImportXml are also upgraded for multiple choice List Box supporting.
3782 - The demos for .net 2005 has been provided. The new project file is in the same directory of the old project's.

What's Fixed?

3121 - ExtractImage return blank image
3547 - PdfExtractor returns words with spaces and breaks inbetween
3693, 3732 - PDF prints incorrectly
3559 - Exception when Extracting Text
3467 - Uncomplete Installation When Convert From Pdf to Tiff
3777 - Project deployment/installation error

Download URL: http://www.aspose.com/Community/Files/51/aspose.pdf.kit/default.aspx

Aspose.Pdf.Kit for .Net 2.6.0.0 Released

2007-08-29T14:31:00Z

Introduction

In this release, digital signature is supported. A digital signature can be used to authenticate the identity of a user and the document’s contents. It stores information about the signer and the state of the document when it was signed. Form feature is improved in this release.

What's New?

3542 - Digital signature is supported. A new class PdfFileSignature is added. Example can be found here .
3297 - New method FormEditor.AddListItem() is added. User can add an additional item to a ListBox/ComboBox field, either in AcroForm or XfaForm. Also a new method FormEditor.DelListItem() is provided. User can remove an existing item from a ListBox/ ComboBox field, either in AcroForm or XfaForm.

What's Improved?

3300 - Form.GetField() is upgraded. User can get the value of a multiple choice List Box. All selections are linked as a single string, each one separated by a comma such like "Item1,Item3,Item4". But this feature only works for AcroForm. At the same time, Form.FillField() is also overridden for multiple selection setting. User can fill a multiple selection List Box with several choices. Finally, Form.ExportXml() and Form.ImportXml are also upgraded for multiple choice List Box supporting.

What's Fixed?

3376 - ExtractBookMarks doesnot run with some Pdf
3558 - Concatenating error for pdf documents contain bookmarks
3629 - Concatenating error for pdf documents contain form fields
3543 - Extracting links error from Pdf contains links in the footer.
3398 - ComboBox Filling and Flattening changes Background Color
3584 - Vertical alignment in XFA text field
3600 - Filling combobox error for Adobe 7 / 8
3574 - Encryption Not Working when license is set
3625 - "can't find CMap file" error when extracting text from PDF
3635 - "Null Reference" error when replacing text in PDF
"out of memory" exception of PdfViewer on the pdfs of 100+ pages

Known Issues

PdfConverter and PdfViewer don't work well for multi-thread application.

Download URL: http://www.aspose.com/Community/Files/51/aspose.pdf.kit/default.aspx

Aspose.Pdf.Kit for .Net Hotfix v2.5.2 Released

2007-07-02T03:48:00Z

What’s New?

In Class PdfPageEditor, users can set value for the property Alignment and VerticalAlignment to set the alignment styles between the original page and result page. Please refer to: http://www.aspose.com/Community/Forums/thread/79669.aspx
In PdfContentditor, CreateBookmarks() is added for creating bookmarks of all pages with specified color,bold,italic.
In PdfContentEditor, CreateBookmarksAction() is added for Create a bookmark with the specified action. The supported action types include “GoToR”, “Launch”, ”GoTo” and ”URI”.
In PdfContentditor, annotations such as "Line", "Square", "Circle", "Polygon" and "PolyLine" can be extracted or exported by ExportAnnotationsXfdf() and ExtractAnnotations().
In PdfContentditor, creating the caret annotation and rubber stamp annotation is supported.
In PdfContentditor, deleting the annotations of specified type is supported.
In Class PdfExtractor, two GetNextPageText methods and HasNextPageText methods are added to support getting each page's text in the PDF file. Please refer to: http://www.aspose.com/Community/Forums/thread/62610.aspx
FormEditor.AddSubmitBtn() has been provided for AcroForm Fields. Users can add a new submit button with specific HTTP/MAIL URL. User can also modify the URL as he will through FormEditor.SetSubmitUrl( ). More details please refer to: http://www.aspose.com/Community/Forums/thread/74214.aspx

What’s Fixed?

Creating temp files while Extracting text. Please refer to: http://www.aspose.com/Community/Forums/thread/79243.aspx
The watermark's position is not correct while using PDF page as watermakr after resizing. Please refer to: http://www.aspose.com/Community/Forums/thread/78538.aspx
PDF file is incorrect after ReplaceText. [PDFKITNET-3158].
Text doesn't get replaced and the quotes are replaced by question marks when replacing text. Please refer to: http://www.aspose.com/Community/Forums/thread/79945.aspx
Extract text error with PDF file that doesn't contain any text. [PDFKITNET-3085].
Unexpected character exception in extracting text. Please refer to: http://www.aspose.com/Community/Forums/thread/77773.aspx
Word brokes when extract text. [PDFKITNET-3143].
Extract text from PDF is broken. Please refer to: http://www.aspose.com/Community/Forums/thread/79450.aspx
Extracting link Error. [PDFKITNET-3176].

Download URL: http://www.aspose.com/Downloads/Aspose.Pdf.Kit/Default.aspx

Aspose.Pdf.Kit for .Net Hotfix 2.5.1.0 Published!

2007-05-21T02:40:00Z

Features added or improved:

1) A new property named Resolution is added in Class PdfConverter which is used to control the resolution during converting PDF to images. If higher resolution is set, the speed of the converting progress will be slower.

2）Font file name with full path is supported in FormattedText(). Please refer to http://www.aspose.com/Community/forums/thread/65067.aspx.

3) Renaming Field is supported for AcroForm under Adobe 6.0 in FormEditor.RenameField().

4) The Online demo of viewing pdfs is added.

Bugs fixed:

1) The StartPage and EndPage methods are of no effect in PdfConverter. Please refer to:

http://www.aspose.com/Community/forums/thread/67380.aspx.

2) The PdfConverter does not retain the page size. Please refer to: http://www.aspose.com/Community/Forums/thread/76939.aspx

3）Extracting annotations bug is fixed. Extracting "FreeText" annotations is also supported. please refer to http://www.aspose.com/Community/Forums/2/77154/ShowThread.aspx.

4) Two enumerations are renamed: FieldFlag to PropertyFlag; AppearanceFlag to AnnotationFlag. The old names does not accord with the MS naming rules.

Aspose.Pdf.Kit for .Net 2.5.0.0 Published!

2007-05-16T03:55:00Z

Features added or improved:
1)    The image quality of PdfConverter is improved. New GetNextImage methods are added in PdfConverter to set the result image's format, resolution and quality. Please refer to: http://www.aspose.com/Community/Forums/thread/74884.aspx and http://www.aspose.com/Community/Forums/thread/71462.aspx
2)    In PdfContentEditor.cs, ExtractBookMarks() is added. It can be used to extract the child item of the specified bookmark.
3)    In PdfContentEditor.cs, DeleteBookMarks() is added. It can be used to delete all the bookmarks of the pdf document or the bookmark according to the specified title.
4)    In PdfContentEditor.cs, DeleteAnnotations() is added. It can be used to delete all the annotations of the pdf document or the annotation according the specified annotation type.
5)    In PdfContentEditor.cs, DeleteAttachments() is added. It can be used to delete all the attachments of the documents.
6)    Form.FillField() is promoted to support None-binding field. Now user can fill both normal field and none-binding field freely. Please refer to: http://www.aspose.com/Community/Forums/thread/75520.aspx.
7)   AppearanceFlag.FLAG_VISIBLE_BUT_NOT_PRINT and AppearanceFlag.FLAG_HIDDEN_BUT_PRINT both in AcroForm and XfaForm are provided for pushButton fields. User can endow his fields more flexibility. Please refer to: http://www.aspose.com/Community/Forums/thread/74093.aspx
8)    FieldFlag.READ_ONLY and FieldFlag.REQUIRED flag settings for XFA field are now feasible. Please refer to: http://www.aspose.com/Community/Forums/thread/71795.aspx

Bugs fixed:
1)    SplitToPages throwing an exception. Please refer to: http://www.aspose.com/Community/Forums/ShowThread.aspx?PostID=76217
2)    PdfConverter's DoConvert() method broken. Please refer to: http://www.aspose.com/Community/Forums/ShowThread.aspx?PostID=75949
3)    PdfConverter exporting to JPEG is all black. Please refer to: http://www.aspose.com/Community/forums/thread/68878.aspx
4)    The bug of Form.FillImageField() in Adobe 6 has been fixed. Please refer to: http://www.aspose.com/Community/Forums/thread/75168.aspx

Aspose.Pdf.Kit for .Net Hotfix 2.4.2.0 Released!

2007-05-09T12:52:00Z

In this hotfix:

1) The performance of PdfConverter.DoConvert() is greatly improved. On average, the new dll is 5 times faster than the previous version for the DoConvert() method.

2) Fixed the bug of extracting double text of pdf. Please refer to the thread: http://www.aspose.com/Community/Forums/ShowThread.aspx?PostID=75204

Aspose.Pdf.Kit for Java Release 1.8.0.0 Published!

2007-05-09T11:14:00Z

Features added or improved:

1. Filling XFA fields in PDF templates created by Adobe 7 and 8 is fully supported without losing any action or script information.

1) User can fill XFA fields in PDF templates by Adobe 7 and 8 without losing any action or scripts.

2) Form.allFlatten() and Form.partialFlatten() are both enabled for XFA forms.

3) Form.FillImageField() can be applied to Image Field to support image pasting in both Adobe 7 and 8.

4) Support for XFA in FormEditor.SetSubmitUrl() is provided.

5) Form.exportXml()/Form.importXml() have been upgraded for XFA supporting. Data in PDF documents by Adobe Designer 7 & 8 can be fully exported to a leveled XML file.

2. Editing the content of PDF file is improved:

1) Extracting bookmark information is provided by Class PdfContentEditor. You can extract bookmark information such as title, level, destination page number or action destination.

2) Bookmark’s title has been modified according to specified title by Class PdfContentEditor.

3) Creating Polygon, PolyLine and curve is provided by Class PdfContentEditor. You can draw polygon in existing pdf documents.

4) Extracting the information of all links in the pdf document is provided by Class PdfContentEditor, you can extract the link information such as source page number，destination page number，link action type，destination file name，destination page View Type，link visibility，link color，link rectangle，link URI.

Bugs fixed:

1) Reading PDF files error when the startref tag at the end of PDF file. Please refer to: http://www.aspose.com/Community/forums/thread/66822.aspx

2) Some operations such as makeNUp and changePageSize cause 'a file was broken' error when setting license. Please refer to: http://www.aspose.com/Community/forums/thread/72235.aspx