| Release Notes -- Apache PDFBox -- Version 1.1.0
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| Introduction
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| PDFBox is an open source Java library for working with PDF documents. |
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| This is an incremental feature release based on the earlier 1.0.0 release. |
| Unlike previous PDFBox releases, this release contains also updated versions |
| of the supporting FontBox and JempBox libraries. The other notable changes |
| in this release include basic support for tagged PDF, various font handling |
| improvements and better handling of CJK character sets. For more details, |
| please refer to the following issues on the PDFBox issue tracker at |
| https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX.
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| New Features
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| [PDFBOX-7] extract information from tagged PDF |
| [PDFBOX-48] Create a tagged PDF |
| [PDFBOX-67] Implement StructTreeRoot/StructTree classes in the PDModel |
| [PDFBOX-636] Add decoded stream length to PDStream |
| [PDFBOX-640] Add getter/setter for alternate field name (TU) to PDField |
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| Improvements
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| [PDFBOX-628] Too many detours in COSDictionary convenience methods |
| [PDFBOX-630] Create PDDictionaryWrapper |
| [PDFBOX-633] Add indexOfObject and removeObject methods with ... |
| [PDFBOX-635] Fallback mechanism for broken CFF fonts |
| [PDFBOX-643] Date conversion errors |
| [PDFBOX-644] Move FontBox and JempBox under the same trunk with PDFBox |
| [PDFBOX-646] Map the form space to user space if the optional form ... |
| [PDFBOX-653] Document the missing command line tools |
| [PDFBOX-654] Extracting CJK text |
| [PDFBOX-655] Default character width should be used if width of a ... |
| [PDFBOX-663] Ensuring non-null FontDescriptor for external TrueType fonts |
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| Bug Fixes
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| [PDFBOX-55] Invalid character while extracting text from a chinese pdf |
| [PDFBOX-116] PNG image page completely garbled |
| [PDFBOX-259] support request chinese-traditional |
| [PDFBOX-420] Japanese Characters are garbled. |
| [PDFBOX-619] Adobe CFF/Type2 font encoding enhancements |
| [PDFBOX-621] XMPSchema.getIntegerProperty does not return existing value |
| [PDFBOX-624] Misplaced text |
| [PDFBOX-632] Invalid page rendering while printing a PDF with an image ... |
| [PDFBOX-634] CFF parsing failure |
| [PDFBOX-637] problem with static code in COSInteger/COSNumber |
| [PDFBOX-645] PDDocumentOutline should not have getParent() |
| [PDFBOX-656] Typo: there is no DecodeParams value. The correct name is ... |
| [PDFBOX-658] Fix typo in FontMapping.properties |
| [PDFBOX-660] Applying FontMatrix scale factors to PDFont drawing operations |
| [PDFBOX-666] Ensure the correct path direction when drawing a rectangle |
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| Release Contents
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| This release consists of a single source archive packaged as a zip file.
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| The archive can be unpacked with the jar tool from your JDK installation.
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| See the README.txt file for instructions on how to build this release.
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| The source archive is accompanied by SHA1 and MD5 checksums and a PGP
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| signature that you can use to verify the authenticity of your download.
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| The public key used for the PGP signature can be found at
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| https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/pdfbox/KEYS.
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| About Apache PDFBox
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| Apache PDFBox is an open source Java library for working with PDF documents.
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| This project allows creation of new PDF documents, manipulation of existing
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| documents and the ability to extract content from documents. Apache PDFBox
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| also includes several command line utilities. Apache PDFBox is published
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| under the Apache License, Version 2.0.
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| For more information, visit http://pdfbox.apache.org/
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