Bytescout.PDF 3.1.0.535

• .NETCoreApp 2.0

  • Microsoft.Windows.Compatibility (>= 2.0.0)

ByteScout PDF SDK provides the rich and easy-to-use API to create PDF documents with text, images, drawings or modify existing PDF documents.

Compatibility: .NET Framework 2.0 or later; .NET Core 2.0 or later.
Works with: .NET, ASP.NET, ActiveX, Visual Basic 6, Classic ASP, VSBScript and others.

Features:

- Full set of methods and properties to create or modify PDF documents;
- PNG, JPEG, TIFF, JBIG2, CCITT Fax images and compression modes supported;
- Font embedding (Type1, TrueType) including Unicode support;
- Security options (document permissions) and 40 bit, 128 bit and 256 AES encryption support;
- Support for changing security settings of existing PDF documents (you can also remove the protection);
- Ability to handle produced PDF document in memory without need for temporary files and provide on-the-fly generation directly into memory stream (requires additional Web License);
- Ability to split, merge, extract pages from PDF document and append to another document using pages manager class;

History of changes:

3.1.0.535 (October 4, 2021)
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+ Improved merging of PDF documents with fillable forms. New method 'Document.MergeDocuments()' and property 'Document.RenameMatchingFieldsDuringMerge' allow to control linking of form fields during the merge.
= Improved flattening.
= Fixed filling of comboboxes with compound items (label-value pairs).
= Improved parsing of PDF documents.
- Other minor fixes and improvements.

3.0.0.482 (May 18, 2021)
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+ Added 'AltName' property to form fields. It contains fixed identifier ('Name') of the form fields where the ID missing, duplicated or, contains invalid characters. You can use the 'AltName' to retrieve the field from 'Document.Annotations' collection in the same way as the original 'Name'.
+ Added properties 'ListBox.SelectedIndices' and 'ListBox.SelectedItems' allowing to selected multiple items in 'ListBox' form field.
= Improved editable and not-editable 'ComboBox' fields appearance.
- Fixed selected items appearance in the 'ListBox' form fields.
- Fixed value assignment in the 'RadioButton' form fields.
- Fixed invisible values in form fields in some cases.
- Fixed digital signature appearance.
- Fixed profiles parsing on platforms with non-english locale.
= Improved parsing of PDF documents.
- Other minor fixes and improvements.

2.4.0.455 (February 8, 2021)
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+ Added the 'Page.SetCropBox()' method for setting the page crop box.
+ Added support for profiles.
- Fixed loss of transparency when adding 32-bit images.
- Fixed registration issue in Bytescout.PDF.Converters.
- Bytescout.PDF.Converters: Fixed crash on 'DocxToHtmlConverter' disposing.
- Exception classes that are derived from 'PDFException' were internal by mistake. Fixed now.
= Improved parsing of PDF documents.
- Other minor fixes and improvements.

2.3.0.437 (October 26, 2020)
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= Improved appearance of checkboxes with vector appearance.
= Added 'Document.Metadata' property allowing to get XMP metadata.
= Improved .NET Core compatibility.
= Improved support for 1-bit images.
- Fixed behavior of the link annotations pointing to rotated pages.
- Fixed thread safety issue.
- Fixed initialization of 'PDF.Image' from bitmap with embedded ICC profile.
= Improved parsing of PDF documents.
- Other minor fixes and improvements.

2.2.0.417 (July 1, 2020)
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- Fixed losing of original image PixelFormat when creating new PDF.Image().
= Improved support of 1-bit-per-pixel images.
= Suppressed exceptions on loading bad images from malformed/damaged PDF documents.
= Improved parsing of PDF documents.
- Other minor fixes and improvements.

2.1.0.395 (March 19, 2020)
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- Fixed file locking issue.
= Improved .NET Core compatibility.
= Improved parsing of PDF documents.
- Other minor fixes and improvements.

2.0.0.384 (February 11, 2020)
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+ Added support for new revision of PDF encryption (ISO 32000-2:2017 compliance).
+ Added 'LicenseInfo' property providing detailed information about your license.
+ Document.DocumentInformation: added new properties 'CreationDateISO', 'ModificationDateISO', 'CustomProperties'.
- Fixed parsing of dates in document information.
- Fixed .NET Core compatibility issue.
= Improved parsing of PDF documents.
- Other minor fixes and improvements.

1.9.9.348 (December 4, 2019)
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= Improved parsing of PDF documents.
- Other minor fixes and improvements.

1.9.8.341 (November 1, 2019)
= Improved compatibility with partially trusted environments.
= Improved parsing of PDF documents.
- Other minor fixes and improvements.

1.9.7.330 (October 1, 2019)
= Improved parsing of PDF documents.
- Other minor fixes and improvements.

1.9.6.326 (September 2, 2019)
= Improved parsing of PDF documents.
- Other minor fixes and improvements.

1.9.5.320 (August 6, 2019)
= Improved parsing of PDF documents.
- Other minor fixes and improvements.

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