Document Solutions for PDF .NET Releases

Released: Apr 13, 2020

Updates in 3.1.0.511

Features

  • AcroForm.Fields collection now uses case-sensitive search (PDFs exist that have fields with names differing only by case).
  • GcPdfDocument.SaveAsTiff() method: added optional parameter that allows to specify TIFF frame settings (such as compression).

Fixes

  • Errors when loading certain PDFs.
  • Incorrect rendering of some PDFs.
  • An embedded font specified for a form field not used in edit mode.
  • Incorrect PDF generated when using ExportFormDataToXFDF() and then ImportFormDataFromXFDF() methods...

Released: Mar 18, 2020

Updates in 3.1

Features

  • Apply Redaction - You can now perform complete redaction by marking and removing sensitive, confidential content from PDF documents.
  • Support for TrueType Hinting Instructions - Enhanced support for rendering specific CJK characters when converting PDF to images. Special true type features (hinting) are used to re-use glyph parts for drawing CJK characters when converting PDF to images.
  • Fetch Signature Properties - Extract signature information from digitally signed PDF document and use...

Released: Jan 17, 2020

Updates in 3.0.0.420

Features

  • All dlls included in the package are now digitally signed.

Fixes

  • Text is reversed when added to a specific PDF.
  • Loading PDFs that have circular bookmark references fails.

Released: Jan 7, 2020

Updates in 3.0.0.419

Features

  • Added new Boolean properties on StandardSecurityHandlerRev3: CopyContent and CopyContentAccessibility. These should be used instead of CopyContentPermissions, which is now marked as obsolete.
  • Added new property FileSpecification.UnicodeFile. Allows to specify the "UF" entry in File Specification dictionary separately from the "F" entry (previously, the File property used to set both "F" and "UF" entries). This improves compatibility with Adobe Reader.

Fixes

  • Additional fixes related to...

Released: Dec 13, 2019

Updates in 3.0.0.418

Fixes

  • When saving PDF as image with a high resolution, font size may become too small.
  • Page.GetTextMap() incorrectly returns null for some PDFs.
  • Incorrect rendering of some PDFs that use non-embedded fonts.
  • An unhandled exception is thrown on loading and then twice saving certain PDFs.

Released: Oct 30, 2019

Updates in 3

Features

  • GrapeCity Documents for HTML - You can now convert HTML content to PDF using GrapeCity Documents for HTML (a utility package for GcPdf and GcImaging). It is a platform independent package that allows you to convert HTML content to PDF documents or images (PNG or JPEG). Key Features:
    • Multi-platform package to render HTML content on Windows, macOS or Linux
    • Renders HTML content from a page/URI source or HTML string to PDF
    • Supports:
      • Images
      • Hyperlinks
      • CSS
      • JavaScript
      • HTML5
      • Page breaks
      • SVG...

Released: Sep 30, 2019

Updates in 2.2.0.316

Features

  • If GcPdfDocument.ConformanceLevel is not None (i.e. the document is PDF/A conformant), then fonts will be embeded even if GcPdfDocument.FontEmbedMode/StandardFontEmbedMode is NotEmbed.
  • Added Boolean property MergeDocumentOptions.CopyNamedDestinations which gets or sets a value indicating whether to copy GcPdfDocument.NamedDestinations. This property is false by default, while in previous versions named destinations were always copied.
  • When a document is loaded, GcPdfDocument...

Released: Sep 5, 2019

Updates in 2.2.0.315

Fixes

  • Text outside of the document cannot be selected.
  • Next page button does not scroll to the page if part of it is already visible.
  • The icon button in navigation panel don't fully display in edge browser.
  • (iOS) Document content disappears when changing zoom.
  • When a form is posted, incorrect values are sent for some radio buttons.

Released: Aug 23, 2019

Updates in 2.2.0.315

Fixes

  • GcPdfDocument.MergeWithDocument(...) method fails in certain scenarios.
  • PDF date time values are written to PDF without time zone specifier.
  • Some PDF/A files become invalid after resaving using GcPdfDocument.Load() / GcPdfDocument.Save().
  • Improved rendering of non-solid lines.
  • When a form is posted, incorrect names are sent for combo and list boxes.

Released: Aug 6, 2019

Updates in 2.2.0.314

Updates in 2.2.0.314

  • Fixed:
    • Some PDF files with Type3 fonts render incorrectly when saving them as images. (DOC-1378)
    • Method Page.GetTextMap(float, float) ignores passed parameters and always uses the default dpi (72). (DOC-1345)
    • CheckBoxField.Widget.TextFormat.FontSize is ignored when rendering a field's appearance stream. (DOC-1338)
    • Widgets of RadioButtonField are rendered incorrectly. (DOC-1322)
    • Alpha channel of SaveAsImageOptions.BackColor is ignored. (DOC-1240)
    • PDF/A standard limits the max...