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

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

For Windows, WindowsARM, Linux, Linux ARMv8, Mac, Mac ARMv8, and AIX 
Thursday, September 11, 2025

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Datalogics APDFL v18.0.5PlusP1t - Now available for download!
This version introduces the following features:
•    Added Linux32 to the release platforms.
•    SF47043 – An overload of the GetOutputPreviewImage() method of the Page class has been added to the .NET and Java interfaces.
•    SF47075 – The following methods have been added to the DLI interface:

•    dlpdfcontentstartmarkedcontent()
•    dlpdfcontentstartmarkedcontentpropertylist()
•    dlpdfcontentendmarkedcontent()

This version contains the following changes:
•    APDFL.SharedLibs NuGet package version has been increased to 1.0.3.
•    Replaced libgd with giflib 5.2.2 on DLI.
•    Forms Extension: dependency on Apple Rendezvous was removed, mitigating several CVEs: CVE-2007-2386, CVE-2008-3630, CVE-2007-3744, CVE-2016-4739, and others.
•    SF47064 – The recently introduced dependencies OpenSSL & Crypto are now statically linked to the PDF Library and are no longer distributed to prevent conflicts.
•    opencv has been updated to v4.12.0 to mitigate CVE-2025-53644 for .NET and Java.
•    With this release, the Maven package version has been increased to 18.53.0.
•    With this release, the NuGet package version has been increased to 18.53.0.

This version resolves the following bugs:
•    SF47049 – Corrects an issue where a Shared Text Field across multiple pages would display repeated content when Flattening a XFA document in some cases. Corrects an issue where the Font size of some text could be incorrect when Flattening a XFA document in some cases.
•    SF47060 – Improves support for opening documents with arbitrary data occurring before the %PDF header.
•    SF47077 – Corrects a performance issue for Color Conversion of Indexed images.
•    SF47080 – Corrects a problem where the WordFinder would incorrectly handle surrogate pairs in unicode.
•    SF47083 - This corrects an issue where a Shared Text Field across multiple pages would display repeated content when Flattening a XFA document in some cases.
•    SF47112 – Corrects an exception that could be raised inserting a Page into a Document with an invalid /PageLabels number tree.
•    SF47114 - Corrects an exception that could be raised when both Optimizer options DiscardAnnotations and DiscardComments were enabled.
•    SF47115 – Corrects an issue in the PDFOptimizer where an Image was converted to an Indexed colorspace when unnecessary and caused a downstream issue when the same image was re-used as the SMask of another Image.
•    SF47124 – Corrects a problem creating a SeparationColorSpace from an Ink based on a DeviceN space in some cases.
•    SF47142 – Improves the PDFOptimizer to be more resilient when dealing with documents with problematic SoftMask Transparency Groups.
•    SF47144 – Importing of Indexed color PNG images in PDFL has been improved.
•    SF47152 – Corrects a Stack Overflow that could occur saving a PDF document that had objects that suffered from cyclic references.

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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