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Datalogics Adobe PDF Library Service Bulletin 2025-OCT-APDFL18-1

Datalogics Adobe PDF Library Service Bulletin 2025-OCT-APDFL18-1

For Windows, WindowsARM, Linux, Linux ARMv8, Mac, Mac ARMv8, and AIX 
Friday, October 17, 2025

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Datalogics APDFL v18.0.5PlusP1u - Now available for download!
This version introduces the following features:
•    Enables PDF documents to be digitally signed using timestamp/RFC3161 signatures.
•    Timestamp signatures are unavailable on Linux 32-bit and AIX 64-bit platforms.

This version contains the following changes:
•    SF47189 – ICU has been updated to version 77.1 to mitigate known vulnerabilities.
•    Updated libexpat to 2.7.3 to mitigate to mitigate known vulnerabilities.
•    Updated fmt library to 11.2.0.
•    Updated libtiff library to 4.7.1.
•    Updated OpenSSL to 3.5.2.
•    With this release, the Maven package version has been increased to 18.54.0.
•    With this release, the NuGet package version has been increased to 18.54.0.

This version resolves the following bugs:
•    SF46748 – Corrects a problem where specifying the Rasterization option, RenderIntent, of AbsoluteColorimetric didn’t work as expected for a PDF Image with a specified RenderIntent of AbsoluteColorimetric.
•    SF46999 – System Font lookup has been improved to be more flexible based on desired Font name.
•    SF47165 – An Image was failing to render because of problematic Indexed Colorspace, this has been improved to still render when possible.
•    SF47167 – Corrects a problem where Flattening a document could result in missing content in some cases.
•    SF47168 – Corrects an issue where conversion to PDF/A of a document could end up making glyphs become displaced. Corrects an issue where conversion to PDF/A of a document could end up making some Images become invisible.
•    SF47175 – Corrects an issue where PDF/A conversions could result in an unexpected color shift for vector content.
•    SF47177 – Corrects a crash that could occur reading in some GIF files.
•    SF47185 – Corrects an issue where importing of Progressive JPEGs would be of poor quality.
•    SF47209 – The PDFOptimizer option PDFOptimizerDoNotConvertDeviceNImages has been added, the default value is false.
•    SF47212 – Corrects an issue where updating Page Content could result in corrupting the value of the LineWidth.

How to upgrade to the NEW version

  1. Connect: sftp://ftp.datalogics.com using an FTP client (port 22) or CLICK HERE to log in using your browser
  2. Use your private username/password that was provided during your evaluation/purchase
    1. Username: <<your user account number>>
    2. Password: <<your user password>>
  3. Issue a change directory to /Products/apdfl/[platform]/APDFLv18.0.5Plus/

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