The Apache PDFBox community is pleased to announce the release of
Apache PDFBox version 1.8.13. The release is available for download at:
http://pdfbox.apache.org/download.cgi
See the full release notes below for details about this release.
Release Notes -- Apache PDFBox -- Version 1.8.13
Introduction
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The Apache PDFBox library is an open source Java tool for working with PDF
documents.
This is an incremental bugfix release based on the earlier 1.8.12 release. It
contains a couple of fixes and small improvements.
For more details on all fixes included in this release, please refer to the
following
issues on the PDFBox issue tracker at
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX.
Bug
[PDFBOX-2420] - DateConverter doesn't handle time zones outside -12 to +12 range
properly
[PDFBOX-2919] - org.apache.fontbox.cff.CFFParser.readEntry sometimes throws
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException
[PDFBOX-3315] - Dates falsely detected as different by preflight
[PDFBOX-3335] - Issue while Merging PDF with Hidden Layers
[PDFBOX-3341] - currentAccessPermission.setReadOnly() not set in
StandardSecurityHandler
[PDFBOX-3355] - PDPageLabels.getLabelsByPageIndices() returns Uppercase letters
for style a
[PDFBOX-3368] - ContainsKey don't work for the Map<String, Object> returned by
PDStructureTreeRoot.getRoleMap
[PDFBOX-3369] - Error expected floating point number actual='0.00-35095424'
[PDFBOX-3409] - TextToPDF drops leading spaces
[PDFBOX-3420] - Can't sign pdf with a particular attachment
[PDFBOX-3446] - Infinite loop while parsing
[PDFBOX-3448] - NullPointerException at
org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.common.COSArrayList.convertFloatCOSArrayToList
[PDFBOX-3450] - ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException at
org.apache.fontbox.cmap.CMapParser.increment
[PDFBOX-3463] - XMPSchemaBasic.getLabel() always returns null
[PDFBOX-3466] - Java 9 warnings
[PDFBOX-3472] - NPE when PDF/A identification metadata does not contain ID
[PDFBOX-3477] - CA and ca values should be clipped
[PDFBOX-3481] - Localization in XRef generation results in unusable PDFs
[PDFBOX-3487] - ClassCastException in COSWriter.write() when saving PDF
[PDFBOX-3491] - NumberFormatException in CFFParser.readRealNumber
[PDFBOX-3500] - Error expected floating point number actual='0.-262'
[PDFBOX-3532] - Java 6 errors
[PDFBOX-3546] - IOException over DataFormatException, "invalid stored block
lengths" on a valid PDF
[PDFBOX-3551] - CLI Decrypt broken, only allows 1 argument
[PDFBOX-3555] - FlateFilter.decode cause native memory leaks
[PDFBOX-3558] - NPE in JBig2Filter if BitsPerComponent is missing
[PDFBOX-3570] - JDK-8054565 Java 8 close contract issue
[PDFBOX-3571] - sRGB Color Space Profile is subject to 3rd party copyright
[PDFBOX-3578] - java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: dash lengths all zero
[PDFBOX-3590] - AccessPermission not applied
[PDFBOX-3594] - Use PDOutlineItem#findDestinationPage() cannot get PDPage,
return was null
[PDFBOX-3609] - ClassCastException in PDCIDFont.readWidths()
Improvement
[PDFBOX-3352] - Calendar values are parsed with unknown timezones
New Feature
[PDFBOX-3410] - TextToPDF needs orientation control
Task
[PDFBOX-3577] - remove mygrid repository in 1.8
Release Contents
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This release consists of a single source archive packaged as a zip file.
The archive can be unpacked with the jar tool from your JDK installation.
See the README.txt file for instructions on how to build this release.
The source archive is accompanied by SHA1 and MD5 checksums and a PGP
signature that you can use to verify the authenticity of your download.
The public key used for the PGP signature can be found at
https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/pdfbox/KEYS.
About Apache PDFBox
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Apache PDFBox is an open source Java library for working with PDF documents.
This project allows creation of new PDF documents, manipulation of existing
documents and the ability to extract content from documents. Apache PDFBox
also includes several command line utilities. Apache PDFBox is published
under the Apache License, Version 2.0.
For more information, visit http://pdfbox.apache.org/
About The Apache Software Foundation
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of its 2,500+ contributors.
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