The Apache PDFBox community is pleased to announce the release of
Apache PDFBox version 2.0.36 The release is available for download at:
https://pdfbox.apache.org/download.html
See the full release notes below for details about this release.
Release Notes -- Apache PDFBox -- Version 2.0.36
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 2.0.35
release. It contains
a couple of fixes and small improvements.
For more details on these changes and all the other fixes and improvements
included in this release, please refer to the following issues on the
PDFBox issue tracker at https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX.
Release Contents
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Bug
[PDFBOX-2378] - XMPBox removes namespaces on serialization
[PDFBOX-3882] - False negative on PDFA-1b validation : missing field type
[PDFBOX-5049] - PlainText.Paragraph.getLines extremely slow on long lines
[PDFBOX-5288] - Valid PDF/A 1B is rejected
[PDFBOX-6041] - Potential StackOverflows in BaseParser
[PDFBOX-6080] - Unknown code in Huffman RLE stream
[PDFBOX-6082] - IllegalArgumentException: Can't add attribute to
0-length text
[PDFBOX-6085] - TTFSubsetter.buildGlyfTable() modifies glyphIds while
iterating over its entries possibly causing
ConcurrentModificationException to be thrown
[PDFBOX-6086] - IndexOutOfBoundsException in
Type1CharStringParser.processCallSubr()
[PDFBOX-6088] - Exception "No type defined for
{http://www.aiim.org/pdfa/ns/id/}rev"; when trying to determine version
of PDF/A-4 document
[PDFBOX-6090] - allow new PDF/A-4 conformance levels
[PDFBOX-6091] - pdfbox-app-X.X.X-sources.jar on maven central are empty
(and javadoc jar is missing)
[PDFBOX-6092] - Cmd line docs
[PDFBOX-6095] - IllegalArgumentException: Multiplying two matrices
produces illegal values in PDFStreamEngine.processAnnotation()
[PDFBOX-6099] - XmpParsingException: Schema is not set in this document
: http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/sType/ResourceEvent#
[PDFBOX-6101] - NullPointerException in FontMapperImpl.getFontMatches()
[PDFBOX-6104] - border style in FDFAnnotation is not initialized if
width is 0
[PDFBOX-6105] - German umlauts are not rendered
[PDFBOX-6106] - Invalid type in Schema not detected when in XML attributes
[PDFBOX-6107] - Serializing produces date "1-01-01T00:00:00+01:00"
[PDFBOX-6109] - Seconds of date "D:2015-02-03T10:11:12" returned as 0
[PDFBOX-6110] - Confusing naming of "DerivedFrom" property getter in
XMPMediaManagementSchema
[PDFBOX-6111] - ClassCastException in XMPMediaManagementSchema.getHistory()
[PDFBOX-6115] - IllegalArgumentException: Input buffer too short in
StandardSecurityHandler.computeRC4key()
[PDFBOX-6118] - IllegalArgumentException: Width (0) and height (0)
cannot be <= 0 when printing landscape rotated with RASTERIZE_DPI_AUTO
[PDFBOX-6119] - DateConverter fails on valid date
[PDFBOX-6121] - ClassCastException: class
org.apache.xmpbox.type.TextType cannot be cast to class
org.apache.xmpbox.type.ArrayProperty in
DublinCoreSchema.getCreatorsProperty()
[PDFBOX-6122] - tiff:YCbCrSubSampling and tiff:YCbCrPositioning have
wrong cardinality
[PDFBOX-6125] - ClassCastException: class org.apache.xmpbox.type.FlashType
[PDFBOX-6126] - Cannot find a definition for the namespace
http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#, property: rdf:Description
[PDFBOX-6128] - XmpParsingException: Schema is not set in this document
: http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/sType/ResourceEvent#, property: stEvt:action
[PDFBOX-6129] - XmpParsingException: Missing pdfaSchema:property in type
definition in lenient mode
[PDFBOX-6131] - XmpParsingException: Unknown property value type : Open
Choice of Integer
[PDFBOX-6133] - XmpParsingException: Property 'CountryCode' not defined
in http://www.epo.org/patent-bibliographic-data/1.0/
[PDFBOX-6134] - date "0-00-00T00:00:00-04:00" read as
"0002-11-30T00:00:00-40:00"
[PDFBOX-6135] - XmpParsingException: Type 'stRef:documentName' not
defined in http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/sType/ResourceRef# in lenient mode
[PDFBOX-6136] - Invalid PDF/A namespace definition, prefix: xmlns,
namespace: http://www.aiim.org/pdfa/ns/extension/
[PDFBOX-6138] - XmpParsingException: Schema is not set in this document
: http://www.aiim.org/pdfa/ns/extension/, property: pdfaExtension:schemas
[PDFBOX-6141] - NegativeArraySizeException in PredictorOutputStream()
[PDFBOX-6143] - NullpointerException in PDAcroForm.getField(Line 485)
[PDFBOX-6146] - OutOfMemoryError when trying to extract text from pdf
[PDFBOX-6153] - Outlines circular reference vulnerability
[PDFBOX-6165] - Rendered text missing
[PDFBOX-6171] - Inverted images due to enlarged decode array
[PDFBOX-6172] - PDF displays garbled characters in Adobe Reader but
renders correctly in web browsers
[PDFBOX-6173] - NullPointerException while merging PDFs with output intents
Improvement
[PDFBOX-5292] - Valid XMP Extension Schema rejected
[PDFBOX-6084] - Remove dead code from PDFMarkedContentExtractor
[PDFBOX-6096] - Include test file in test class
[PDFBOX-6108] - Get and Add PageTextSchema
[PDFBOX-6113] - Remove / deprecate TypeMapping.getAssociatedSchemaObject()
[PDFBOX-6123] - Support Seq / Bag mixup in lenient mode
[PDFBOX-6130] - Parse xmp files in lenient mode that have no processing
instructions
[PDFBOX-6137] - deprecate getPDFIdentificationSchema() in favor of
getPDFAIdentificationSchema()
[PDFBOX-6164] - Support TIFF-files with FillOrder=2 conversion to PDF
Task
[PDFBOX-6089] - Remove / deprecate unused parts of PDIndexed
[PDFBOX-6139] - modernize rat exclusions
[PDFBOX-6174] - Run regression tests for 2.0.36
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 a SHA512 checksum 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://www.apache.org/dist/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 https://pdfbox.apache.org/
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