PDFNet 6.3.0 Release

[Aaron Gravesdale]

What's New in PDFNet 6.3.0 (October 06, 2014 - Version 6.3.0)

(Note: this release applies only to the server/desktop SDKs and tools.  New mobile SDKs were not released.)

• Added "Erase" method for Ink annotations, to erase a rectangular area.
• Added "night mode" to reverse the colors of PDFs during rendering.
• Added method to create images from filters.
• Added ability to pass in a memory buffer of an image, without specifying dimensions, BPC, et cetera.
• Added Font.createCIDTrueTypeFont that accepts index into a True Type Collection.
• PDFNet now available through NuGet.
• Simplified the packaging of .NET SDKs by having PDFNet detect architecture at runtime. Samples are now AnyCPU.
• Added SetDefaultFlateCompressionLevel method.
• Improved error reporting during Office interop conversion.
• PDF2SVG can now use font substitutions specified in config.xml (as in PDF2Image).
• Can now specify DPI and maximum resolution for SVG conversions.
• SetJPGQuality will now work with ToHTML and ToEPUB options.
• Redaction now preserves CMYK images instead of converting to RGB.
• Reduced symbols exported by Linux builds.
• Added support for creating invisible text in place of text inside transparency groups when flattening.
• Improved external XFDF generation during XOD conversion.
• Added option to SetImageSmoothing API for higher-quality resampling at the expense of rendering performance.
• Improved path hinting and thin line adjustment.
• Added Convert.ToTiff method to for easy conversion of PDF documents to mutli-page TIFF documents.
• Added Office interop conversion support for CSV, XLAM, XLTM, and XLSB files.
• Improved appearance of text fields, radio buttons, PolyLine and Polygon annotations.
• Windows Print API takes an optional OCG context, to control which layers are printed.
• Important bug fixes and incremental improvements.

New Types and Methods in PDFNet Core API:

• pdftron.SDF.SecurityHander.IsValid
• pdftron.PDF.PDFViewCtrl.SetColorPostProcessMode
• pdftron.PDF.PDFViewCtrl.GetColorPostProcessMode
• pdftron.PDF.PDFViewCtrl.Update
• pdftron.PDF.PDFView.SetColorPostProcessMode
• pdftron.PDF.PDFView.GetColorPostProcessMode
• pdftron.PDF.PDFView.Update
• pdftron.PDF.Annots.Ink.Erase
• pdftron.PDF.PDFRasterizer.ColorPostProcessMode
• pdftron.PDF.PDFRasterizer.SetColorPostProcessMode
• pdftron.PDF.PDFRasterizer.GetColorPostProcessMode
• pdftron.PDFNet.FlateCompressionLevel
• pdftron.PDFNet.SetDefaultFlateCompressionLevel
• pdftron.PDF.PDFDraw.SetColorPostProcessMode
• pdftron.PDF.Convert.TiffOutputOptions
• pdftron.PDF.Convert.ToTiff
• pdftron.PDF.Convert.SVGOutputOptions.SetFlattenDPI
• pdftron.PDF.Convert.SVGOutputOptions.SetFlattenMaximumImagePixels

Chaged Types and Methods in PDFNet Core API:

• pdftron.PDF.Print.StartPrintJob
• pdftron.PDF.PDFRasterizer.SetImageSmoothing
• pdftron.PDF.PDFDoc.ExtractFlag
• pdftron.PDF.PDFDraw.SetImageSmoothing
• pdftron.PDF.Font.CreateCIDTrueTypeFont
• pdftron.PDF.PDFA.PDFACompliance.ErrorCode