Oxygen PDF Chemistry Releases
Released: Mar 18, 2026
Updates in V28.1
Features
Core
- Character-Level Fallback Fonts - For DITA to PDF publishing, you can now use the new enable.character.level.font.fallback parameter to enable character-level font fallbacks so that mixed-language content (for example, Latin and non-Latin) is rendered correctly in the same document.
- Scale Image Maps - For image maps that are larger than the page size, Chemistry now scales the image and its clickable areas to fit within the page so you can see and use the entire image map in the...
Released: Feb 3, 2026
Updates in V28.0 Build ID: 2026013010
Features
- Oxygen PDF Chemistry: Improved the line break algorithm, especially for non-Latin punctuation marks (such as ideographic characters).
Fixes
- Oxygen PDF Chemistry: Fixed an issue where resetting a background image using "background-image: none;" caused an "image not found" error.
Released: Dec 17, 2025
Updates in V28.0 Build ID: 2025121623
Fixes
- Oxygen PDF Chemistry: Fixed exception appearing when processing footnotes in rotated table cells.
- Oxygen PDF Chemistry: Fixed Matterhorn 11-001 "Note without ID" issue, improving overall PDF/UA-1 accessibility in PDF outputs.
Released: Nov 26, 2025
Updates in V28.0
Features
Core
- Compress PDF Output - The new -compress-pdf parameter can be used to reduce the size of the PDF output file for easier storage and sharing.
- Merge Multiple PDFs - It is now possible to merge multiple PDFs together. Depending on where you want the additional PDFs to be inserted, you can use the new -insert-after or -insert-before parameters to provide a semicolon-separated list of PDF files to be merged with the currently generated PDF.
- Generate Separate Files from Fragments of a PDF...
Released: Apr 15, 2025
Updates in V27.1 Build ID: 2025041503
Fixes
- Lists: Fixed an issue where styling properties (such as 'font-size') were not properly applied to markers in lists with list-style-position: inside.
Released: Mar 24, 2025
Updates in V27.1
Features
Core
- Control Logging - It is now possible to control the Chemistry console logging by using a custom logback.xml configuration file along with the new -log-file parameter. This is helpful if you want to hide the INFO messages or write the logs into a separate file.
Released: Dec 16, 2024
Updates in V27.0 Build ID: 2024121223
Fixes
- Removed the extra table caption and header from the page footer when tables are displayed on multiple pages.
Released: Nov 27, 2024
Updates in V27.0
Features
Core
- Support for PDF Signing - It is now possible to sign your PDFs using a keystore file and some related parameters.
Released: Apr 24, 2024
Updates in V26.1 Build ID: 2024041900
Fixes
- Chemistry / PDF: Fixed a NullPointerException error when rendering inline elements with margins.
Released: Mar 25, 2024
Updates in V26.1
Features
Core
- Basic Float Support - Oxygen PDF Chemistry now has basic support for floating images. This makes it possible to wrap text around an embedded image.
- Incorrect Letters in Width/Height Values for Images are Automatically Fixed - For CSS-based PDF transformations, if an image has values for the width or height that contains uppercase letters (which causes the image to be missing in the output), the incorrect value is now automatically fixed and a warning message is displayed so that...