Release iText 7.0.3

With 7.0.3 we're bringing you another maintenance release for iText 7 Community. We've also updated pdfSweep to 1.0.2, pdfXFA to 1.0.1 and the license key library to 2.0.4.

As these are maintenance releases, there are no major new features. Hereby, a quick overview per product of the fixes and improvements included in the new release.

iText 7 Core/Community 7.0.3

• Improvements for smart mode (= reusing identical resources) and copying pages with form fields.

• Added ECDSA algorithm OIDs.

• Table layout improvements.

• Fixed XXE vulnerability.

• Various improvements for layout algorithms.

pdfSweep 1.0.2

• Maintenance release.

pdfXFA 1.0.1

• Clean up of the API.

• Updated dependencies for hyphenation and Asian fonts.

License Key Library 2.0.4

• More user friendly error handling.

• Fixed XXE vulnerability.
  
  

iText 7.0.3 Core

BUG

• DEVSIX-1228: Copy in Smart Mode: Documents with many pages take up huge memory space

• DEVSIX-1232: text alignment justified is not applied correctly for Tamil

• DEVSIX-1273: XXE vulnerability in PdfReader when parsing XFA

• DEVSIX-1304: Javadocs jars are empty

• DEVSIX-1305: Javascript in Javadocs

• DEVSIX-1094: PdfSweep mangles the .pdf

• DEVSIX-1145: Html2Pdf and Layout: Review Html2Pdf css media print test with Float property

• DEVSIX-1154: Incorrect table border is drawn when colspans are set

• DEVSIX-1185: When height of column renderer is too small text does not proceed to next area

• DEVSIX-1190: Layout: exception on second layout of tables when empty row has been removed

• DEVSIX-1198: pdfXfa: review failed test in .Net version

• DEVSIX-1204: PdfImageXObject.GetImageBytes() goes into eternal loop (.NET only)

• DEVSIX-1208: PdfSimpleFont.decodeIntoGlyphLine cannot handle Type3 font

• DEVSIX-1234: Auto-sizing of fonts not done in PdfSignatureAppearance

• DEVSIX-1235: better colorspace support

• DEVSIX-1244: Unnamed fields put at incorrect place in hierarchy

• DEVSIX-1249: Layouting tables results in exception with immediateFlush=false

• DEVSIX-1280: Tabs are only applied to one inline element following the tab

• DEVSIX-1102: Merging a document with outlines triggers a PdfException

• DEVSIX-1103: Merging a document with outlines created in Adobe DC drops the outlines

• DEVSIX-1106: Investigate: column widths not respected when adding image/barcode

• DEVSIX-1118: Ignore /Differences entries that come out over 255 in extraction

• DEVSIX-1126: Html2Pdf: Some images not correctly retrieved from href

• DEVSIX-1167: pdfSweep does not sweep at the correct location

• DEVSIX-1173: Signature Appearance not added when page has a pre-existing anots array that is indirectly referenced.

• DEVSIX-1197: Initial nbsp gets ignored

• DEVSIX-1202: License Key: Version number w/ 4 digits

• DEVSIX-1203: License Key: Version Instantiation w/ exception being rethrown in catch clause

• DEVSIX-1229: pdfHTML: Tagged Pdf, <a> tags not tagged as Link

• DEVSIX-1231: Text Alignment using pdf2html : content is not justified

• DEVSIX-1233: Deferred Signing: Nullpointer exception when signing deferred in append mode

• DEVSIX-1237: PdfTextExtractor: allow GraphicsState as PdfStream ?

• DEVSIX-1259: Typography: Tamil cluster not recognized as such

• DEVSIX-1261: pdfXfa: Incorrect Flattening of XFA which contains Chinese content

• DEVSIX-1262: Layout: FixedPosition y-position lost for large tables

• DEVSIX-414: Word spacing doesn't work for composite fonts

Improvement

• DEVSIX-1171: FontProvider refactoring

• DEVSIX-1188: Layout: allow overriding accessible attributes

• DEVSIX-917: Html2Pdf: conversion of lists to Pdf/A

• DEVSIX-1008: Html2Pdf: support page-break css properties

• DEVSIX-1048: Html2Pdf: support counters

• DEVSIX-1057: TableRenderer refactoring: review borders handling

• DEVSIX-1141: Limit lookback buffer of autosweep strategy

• DEVSIX-1199: Set initial ID

• DEVSIX-1205: pdfXfa: Change licensekey dependency to regular branch. Add tests.

• DEVSIX-1223: Margin collapse shouldn't be applied if float property is present

• DEVSIX-1250: Process tables with big footers / headers

• DEVSIX-1251: pdfXfa: Use iText7 versions of hyph and font-asian libraries

• DEVSIX-1252: TableWidth documentation

• DEVSIX-1254: Floating functionality overlaps float elements when they do not fit in available area

• DEVSIX-925: Html2Pdf: better support for white-space css property

• DEVSIX-1044: Fix attached list of Javadoc warnings

• DEVSIX-1061: Extend table correctly if HEIGHT/MIN_HEIGHT is applied

• DEVSIX-1093: Review AffineTransform class

• DEVSIX-1107: Refactor large table's borders processing in the context of current border changes

• DEVSIX-1108: Layout: Float elements inside tables

• DEVSIX-1117: Merge border_refactoring into develop and update all outdated cmps

• DEVSIX-1121: Provide constructor with File parameter for PdfWriter and PdfReader

• DEVSIX-1125: Investigate who "wins" in collapsing (table/cell/footer/header border) and make changes

• DEVSIX-1153: Git pull requests

• DEVSIX-1210: Implement MIN/MAX height for Images

• DEVSIX-1218: Copy font-information from form

• DEVSIX-1221: Tables: fix background for collapsed borders drawing

• DEVSIX-1241: Paragraphs with rotation in tables: incorrect width calculation

• DEVSIX-1253: Do not write StructParents for pages if it is not necessary

• DEVSIX-1260: CompareTool: number tree comparison

• DEVSIX-1276: Inconsistent table layout()

• DEVSIX-1060: Process alignment and splitting tricky case

• DEVSIX-1286: Support specifying security provider in LtvVerification and LtvVerifier

New feature

• DEVSIX-1096: Implement support for /E (expansion text)

• DEVSIX-1182: Implement new requirements for the PDF 2.0 dig sigs support

• DEVSIX-1186: Font resizing inside of Acroforms

• DEVSIX-1246: Investigate ECDSA

Task

• Layout: Float elements investigation

• Html2Pdf: Investigate <form> and related tags

• Html2Pdf: support CSS property @font-face

• Max width for tables in case nested table

• Initial implementation of new PDF 2.0 tag set

• Investigate differences PDF 1.7 and 2.0

• .NET port of pdfXfa

• PDF 2.0: Review AES-256 encryption

• PDF 2.0: Review dig sig

• PDF 2.0 and digital signatures: create tests set

• PDF 2.0: AES 256 sample with form fields

• PDF 2.0: Dig sig incremental update sample

• Release iText 7 Core for .NET Standard 1.6

• Core: location extraction strategy

• Add PdfBoolean.valueOf(boolean)

• Smart mode: fix serialization and improve caching

• Add trial "carte blanche" mechanism

• Use iText 5 cert to detect if license key is an iText 5 license

• Stable FontRegisterProvider for tests

• README.md for .NET port