Released: May 18, 2010

Updates in this release

Updates in 8.0.1

Changes in the PDFlib product family:

• Automatic script and position (right/left) detection for bidi text
• Process certain JPEG-compressed TIFF images which previously have been rejected
• Better color handling for JPEG images with Exif data
• More workarounds for damaged PDF and font input files
• Improved treatment of Unicode CMaps for better handling of OpenType
• Features in Japanese fonts and smaller PDF output
• Various improvements specific to platforms and language bindings
• Optimized file size and loading time of shared libraries
• Enhanced build system
• General bug fixes

Changes in the PDFlib Block plugin:

• Support for the new automatic script and position detection
• Improvements for the Japanese user interface (Windows only)
• Re-introduced keyboard shortcuts
• XML configuration file to control aspects of the user interface
• Improved PDF form-field-to-Block conversion
• Several minor bug fixes