Changes in itext-paulo-127 (2003-12-10)
- PangoArabicShapping was renamed to ArabicLigaturizer.
- added more support for arabic Urdu ligatures and fixed a bug with
lam-alef ligatures.
- added support for screen renditions. Contribution by Galo Gimenez.
- added support for custom encoding with ExtraEncoding and
PdfEncodings.addExtraEncoding().
- new encodings available: "Symbol", "ZapfDingbats" and "Wingdings". This
encodings map the Unicode characters to this fonts, where possible.
- added Chunk.setUnderline() to set underline lines at arbitrary positions.
- added Font.getCalculatedBaseFont() and Font.getCalculatedStyle().
- added the class FontSelector to select fonts based on their Unicode coverage.
- FontFactory catches exceptions when reading directories.
- added AcroFields.getAppearanceStates() to get the names allowed with
radio and checkbox fields.
- added PdfReader.getAcroFields() to get the field info without using PdfStamper.
- added BaseFont.charExists() and BaseFont.setCharAdvance().
- changed DefaultFontMapper to be case insensitive with system font names.
Other system font name aliases were added.
- fixed a problem with resource name colisions when importing PDFs with
shared page resources.
- fixed a problem with adding only fields without appearances.
- added specifific support for patterns in PdfGraphics2D.
- removed the /Colorspace key if the image is a mask.
- another hack to read broken PDFs without a media box.
- fixed a bug with setting the PDF version in PdfStamper.
- symbolic fonts with Identity-H are also mapped in \uf0xx.
- added Table.setDefaultLayout().
- fixed a limit situation in PdfCell.getLines().
- fixed auto font size for single line text fields in TextField.
- added extended support for barcodes 128 with BarcodeEAN128. Contribution by
Emmanuel Hugonnet.
- added direct support for TexturePaint in PdfGraphics2D
- corrected GradientPaint direction and general paint scaling in PdfGraphics2D.
Contribution by Emmanuel Deviller.
- added support for bookmark manipulation in SimpleBookmark. It also has
support for import/export to XML and page shifting and deleting.
- concat_pdf now keeps the bookmarks.
All this at:
http://itextpdf.sourceforge.net
Best Regards,
Paulo Soares
