iText 7.0.5 is a scheduled maintenance release for iText 7 Community. We're also updating pdfSweep to 1.1.0, and pdfHTML and pdfInvoice to 1.0.2.
The major new improvements are found in the core and pdfHTML, and there are some nice additions to pdfSweep. Below is a quick overview per product of the fixes and improvements included in the new release.
General
- The add-ons pdfSweep, pdfHTML, and pdfInvoice have been released as Open Source software under the AGPL software license. You can find the repositories here:
- OSGi metadata has been added to all
pom.xmlfiles
iText 7 Core/Community 7.0.5
- Improvements to Table tagging, table borders, and column width logic
- Constant values in Color are moved to the ColorConstants class. The values in Color still exist, but they are deprecated and will be removed in iText 7.1
- PDF/A: we are now more strict on color space enforcement
- Barcodes: support was added for the MSI Plessey and segmented PDF417 barcode types.
pdfHTML 1.0.2
- Windows style environment variables, like
%HOMEDIR%, are now supported inConverterProperties.baseUri - Various CSS properties, such as percent-based height and outline
pdfSweep 1.1.0
- Support creating Redact Annotations
- pdfSweep can now create
PdfCleanUpLocationobjects from a String, including regexes, and determine by itself which areas should be redacted. See the autosweep package or namespace.
The full list of changes can be found in the changelogs.
Compatibility Matrix
| iText 7 Core | 7.0.0 | 7.0.1 | 7.0.2 | 7.0.3 | 7.0.4 | 7.0.5 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| License Key | 2.0.4 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| pdf2Data | 1.0.9 | - | - | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| pdfCalligraph | 1.0.3 | - | - | - | - | Yes | Yes |
| pdfDebug | 1.0.1 | - | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| pdfHTML | 1.0.2 | - | - | - | - | - | Yes |
| pdfInvoice | 1.0.2 | - | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| pdfSweep | 1.1.0 | - | - | - | - | - | Yes |
| pdfXFA | 1.0.1 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |