Q3 is upon us, and so is the release of iText 7 Core 7.2.3! The big news this time round is naturally the official release of our reference implementation of iText 7 for Android, though there’s plenty more that’s new in Core. We have a fix relating to XMP metadata in PDF/A documents, improved support for SVG image dimensions using exponent notation, and revised the way PDF streams with indirect references are flushed.
Plus, we have the usual round of bugfixes and miscellaneous improvements as always.
Let’s talk about Android first though. By using iText 7.2 as a base, we’ve done some legwork to eliminate the main sticking points for incompatibility between Java and Android, and to showcase this we’ve developed a reference implementation. This includes some UI components to build an app which demonstrates the currently available functionality.
This SDK depends on forked versions of PdfiumAndroid and the AndroidPdfViewer project developed by @barteksc, and requires API version 27 or above.
A pull request inspired us to make some improvements to the way PDF streams with indirect references are flushed. Thank you @LingMan!
In other news for Core, we’ve made some more SVG improvements by adding support for exponent notation using the capital E to specify image dimensions. We’ve prepared a code example to demonstrate this which you can find linked below.
There’s also a nice change for our AGPL users. If a license file is not provided for Core, it assumes AGPL usage and so occasionally a message is printed to stdout as a reminder. However, if you’re happy that you’re in compliance with the AGPL requirements then seeing this message might become a little annoying after a while. If this is the case, you’ll be pleased to learn that you can disable it, see the example linked below to learn more.
Improvements
- Android Support
- Save XMP metadata in canonical format for PDF/A documents
- Implement Pdf Type 2 function (Exponential Interpolation) Functions
- Implement Pdf Type 3 (Stitching) Functions
- Indirect ref in PdfStream issues: implement the first solution mentioned during the refinement
- Update several 3rd party dependencies to their most recent version
Bugs
- SVG: support exponent notation for numbers with capital E
- Fix NPE on CopyPagesTo
- Issue with flushing PDF stream with indirect reference in /Filter
- Fix infinite loop when reading a PdfDocument
- Fix the NPE which is thrown when table cell content is clipped