Datalogics Adobe PDF Library Service Bulletin 2024-AUG-APDFL18-1
For Windows, Linux, Linux ARMv8, Mac, Mac ARMv8, Solaris SPARC and AIX
Thursday, August 15, 2024
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Datalogics APDFL v18.0.5PlusP1a - Now available for download!
This version introduces the following features:
• Updates APDFL sources to 18.0.5.
• Updates open source International Components for Unicode (ICU) library to version 74.2.
• Updates the qr-code-generator library to version 1.8.0.
• With this release, the Nuget package version has been increased to 18.39.0.
• With this release, the Maven package version has been increased to 18.39.0.
This version resolves the following bugs:
• SF#46119 – Corrects an issue where customer specified paper source was not being honored when printing.
• SF#46231 – Adds a constructor for the Container class to support specifying a property list dictionary in the .NET and Java interfaces.
• SF#46270 – Corrects an issue with dlpdfimagecreatefrompdf() where it wouldn’t correctly create a Flate compressed image using the DLI interface.
• SF#46347 – Corrects an issue with Color Conversion for a Soft Mask with a Backdrop color specified in some cases.
• SF#46381 – Corrects a crash that could occur rendering large page documents at very high DPIs where the total size exceeds 4GB.
• SF#46400 – Updates the giflib library to version 5.2.2.
• SF#46408 – Corrects an issue where the formatting of a numeric field could be lost when Flattening a XFA document using Forms Extension. This also corrects an issue where the combs of a field could be lost when Flattening a XFA document using Forms Extension.
• SF#46409 – Corrects an issue where the formatting of a numeric field could be lost when Flattening a XFA document using Forms Extension.
• SF#46424 – Corrects a crash that could occur for an unsupported color profile is used for the OutputIntent when available on the OS.
• SF#46430 – Improves the opening of corrupted PDF documents.
• SF#46435 – Adds the BBox property to the Font class of the .NET and Java interfaces.
• SF#46444 – Corrects a problem with converting to PDF/A part 2 or later could result in duplicated Optional Content entries being shown in PDF viewers.
• SF#46445 – Corrects an issue with the GetImageSeparations() method of the Page class (of the .NET and Java interfaces) where the last pixel of the separations could be incorrect.
• SF#46446 – Corrects a problem where Color Converting a document with a 1 bpc data could corrupt the image data in some cases. This also improves the Optimizer to be more resilient when encountering an improperly encoded image to not raise an exception.
• SF#46447 – Corrects an issue where rendering of some documents with Transparency could have the wrong colors.
• SF#46455 – Corrects a crash that could occur saving an image as PNG when a problematic ICC colorspace is encountered using the .NET or Java interfaces.
• SF#46459 – Corrects an issue where PDSElementGetKidWithMCInfo() could return information about the wrong Marked Content sequence.
• SF#46481 - Improves rendering to not error out on certain Font errors.
• SF#46483 – Improves rendering to not raise an exception when encountering an improper ExtGState in some cases.
How to upgrade to the NEW version
- Connect: sftp://ftp.datalogics.com using an FTP client (port 22) or CLICK HERE to log in using your browser
- Use your private username/password that was provided during your evaluation/purchase
- Username: <<your user account number>>
- Password: <<your user password>>
- Issue a change directory to /Products/apdfl/[platform]/APDFLv18.0.5Plus/
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