iText 5

Release iText 5.0.5

iText 5.0.5 is a release for iText 5 Core. 


Changelog:

iText 5.0.5 Core

  • Changes made by Paulo Soares

    • A kind of signature couldn't be verified (reported by Piotr Rojewski on the mailing list on October 21, 2010, including a patch).

    • Support broken PDFs with a direct /Info in the trailer instead of a reference.

    • Added clearSignatureField() method (to clear a signed field).

    • A missing /P prevented signatures from being copied correctly.

    • Filling a xfa form with xml would fail if the dataDescription in the datasets section came before the data itself.

    • Support for transparency in TIFF images with 8 bit per sample.

    • G4 FAX images were incorrectly extracted.

    • DefaultFontMapper refactoring as suggested by Hans Oesterholt (mailing list August 29, 2010).

    • Tagged PDF to XML: Replaced a '_' for a '-' in the invalid characters in name tags to have more in tune with Acrobat.

    • Tagged PDF to XML: Names weren't correctly decoded and an XML encoding charset option was added.

    • Parsing PDF: PDFs generated by Mac OSX have some spaces in the cmaps.

    • Parsing PDF: the difference array was not being correctly considered in text extraction.

    • RichMedia wasn't ported to iTextSharp.

  • Changes made by Mark Storer

    • Added better CSS support for font creation/style in HTMLWorker. Specifically for "font-family" and "text-decoration" (underline & strikethru only).

    • Changed gifImage.readBlock to use the byte-array version of in.read() for improved efficiency.

  • Changes made by Kevin Day

    • Make ExceptionConverter much easier to debug.

  • Changes made by Bruno

    • The leading wasn't set for irregular columns.

    • Language files were not copied to the src.tar.gz