What's New in ICEpdf 4.0
ICEpdf v4.0 is a certified production release that introduces important new features such as PDF document editing and saving, text selection and clipboard functions, and search result highlighting. Here is a complete list of notable improvements and enhancements included in this release:
Rendering Core
- Document Editing - ICEpdf now supports document editing and saving for Link Annotation edits.
- Text Selection - Support for text selection and clipboard functions is introduced in this release.
- Search Result Highlighting - Search results are now highlighted in the pages that they occur in.
- Support for JBIG2 image compression.
- Improved text extraction and text searching accuracy.
- Improvements to CMYK alternate colour space parsing.
- Improvements to OS font substitution logic to better match document specified fonts to available system fonts.
- Reduced memory consumption and significantly improved rendering performance.
- Improved performance of multi-page view page initialization.
- Text layout and clipping fixes for xform content streams.
- Fixed long standing image issue where some images showed red and blue color switching.
- Fixed CMAP parser bug which prevent page contents from rendering correctly.
- Page initialization and page painter threads are now daemons to ensure property JVM exiting.
- Fixed a rare condition where shared resources could be cleared in a low memory environment.
- Bouncy Castle jars are no longer required for Adobe Standard Encryption support.
Viewer Application
- New multi-page text selection tool and system clipboard copying.
- Search results utility pane now shows search results contextually.
- Search results are now shown in a highlighted state in the document page view.
- New Link Annotation tool for creating new annotations.
- New Select Tool for selecting existing document annotations.
- New ability to view / edit / delete link annotations and attributes using the ICEpdf Viewer RI utility pane.
- Preliminary language support: Danish, Dutch, Finish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish & Swedish.
- New Mac OSX UI compatibility improvements (keyboard shortcuts, App menu support, etc.).
- RI toolbar now wraps as necessary when the parent frame is resized. Fit-To-Width view type no longer displays scrollbars.
- Refined Viewer RI focus management to resolve several focus management issues.
Example Applications
- New Automated Annotation Creation Example Uses the Search API to find text matches.
- Text matches are converted to annotations with predefined GoTo, Launch or URI actions.
- New Search API Example Shows how to configure a multiple term search.
- Opens the viewer RI with search results highlighted.
- New multi-page fax TIFF capture example.
- New Ant build script for Applet example.
Documentation
- The ICEpdf Developer's Guide is now available online:
- Includes an in-depth discussion of the ICEpdf architecture and key concepts.
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Discussion of common ICEpdf use-cases and relevant reference and examples.
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Reference materials related to APIs, configuration and examples.
