Version 2.1 - April 28, 2008
Enhancements:

- Introduced support for rendering ordinary and flattened form fields in PDF viewer component. [Professional]

- Introduced overloaded saveAsImage() method in PdfDocument class to save the images with specified compression quality and size.[Professional]

- Introduced memoryReader() method in PdfReader class to load PDF documents from a byte array. [All editions except Create]

- Introduced setFont() and getFont() methods in PdfDocument and PdfPage classes to get and set default font that will be used by PdfDocument objects to render text elements [Professional, Standard, Create, and Free*]

- Introduced overloaded addAction method in PdfDocument class to add document-level go-to action [Professional, Standard, and Free*]

- Introduced method removeBookmarkRoot() in PdfDocument to delete the bookmark tree (removes all bookmarks) [Professional, Standard, Bookmark, and Free*]

- Introduced overloaded addCell() methods in PdfTable class [Professional and Free*]

- Updated documentation [All editions].

 

Fixes:

- Inability to compress documents in reading mode [All editions except Create]

- Minor issues with flattenFormFields() methods [Professional, Free*, and Forms]

- Failure of setAutoAdjustTextHeight(true) method [Professional, Free*, and Forms]

- Problems related to creating/modify radio buttons [Professional, Free*, and Forms]

- d.getPageCount() method threw NullPointerException instead of returning value 0 (zero) if no pages were added to the document [All editions]

* - Free edition was introduced on 26 August 2008.

 

Version 2.0 - February 15, 2008
Enhancements:

- Introduced PDF viewer component [Professional]

- Introduced PDF printer component [Professional]

- Support for embedding fonts in an existing PDF. (Previously, font embedding was supported only in creation mode.) [Professional]

- New overloaded method in PdfDocument and PdfPage classes for adding text watermarks inside a specified rectangle [Professional, Standard & Stamp]

- New method in PdfFormField class for specifying Unicode/Non-Unicode names for form fields [Professional & Forms]

 

Fixes:

- Adding annotations to a rotated page. [Professional, Standard & Forms]

- Inability to read PDF dictionary comments containing numbers. [Bookmark, Forms, Stamp & Merge n Split]

- Several fixes for addWatermarkText() and addWatermarkImage() methods [Professional, Standard & Stamp]

 

Version 1.42 - March 26, 2007
Enhancements:

- Method setFont introduced in class PdfPage to set default font for pages. [Professional, Standard & Create]

- New methods introduced to read document information. [All editions]

- New overloaded addTable method for specifying a PdfFont instance as parameter. [Professional]

- New overloaded addActionFormSubmit methods introduced in class PdfFormField for submitting filled AcroForms. [Professional & Forms]

 

Fixes:

- Inability to use custom placeholders with methods addHeaderText and addFooterText [Professional, Standard, Create]

- Inability to use custom placeholders with method addWatermarkText [Professional, Standard & Stamp]

- Transparency settings for text, shapes and images set for PdfDocument objects not ignored by PdfPage objects [Professional, Standard & Create]

- Run-time error generated in reading mode when addWatermarkText method is called with underlay property set to true [Professional, Standard & Stamp]

- Inability to show icon for predefined stamp annotations such as that for "Confidential" [Professional & Stamp]

- Calling Split(1) fails to generate last single-page document [Professional, Standard & Merge n Split]

 

Version 1.41 - January 12, 2007
[Standard]

- Support for splitting PDF file based on numbers of pages and page range.

- Reading of actions for link annotation introduced.

 

Version 1.4 - December 15, 2006
[Professional]

- Support for adding embedded document-level file attachments.

- Support for retrieving embedded document-level file attachments.

[Standard]

- Support for printing output PDF file (with Acrobat Reader) when it is created.

- New overloaded drawImage method for specifying FileImageInputStream as parameter.

 

Version 1.3 - November 22, 2006
[Professional]

- Support for page stitching (side by side, one above other, or with specified offsets).

- Support for changing existing page dimensions.

[Standard]

- Support for rendering transparent text, images, and shapes.

- Support for LZW compressed streams.

- Support for representing shapes, images and text in CMYK color.

- Support for localization of exception messages.

- Problem with merging in creation mode is resolved.

 

Version 1.2 - October 13, 2006
[Professional]

- Importing field values from FDF (Forms Data Format) introduced.

- Editing of PDF forms with XFA data (Acrobat 6 forms) introduced.

- Flattening of form fields at document and page levels introduced.

- Deletion of form fields at page level introduced.

- Watermark annotation creation and editing introduced.

- Support to delete and/or flatten individual form field introduced.

[Standard]

- Additional named actions for printing, searching, finding and opening documents intoduced.

- Interface PdfBookmarkMergeHandler for providing bookmarks merging options intoduced.

- Interface PdfFormFieldRenameHandler for renaming form fields while merging documents introduced.

- Options to include annotations, form fields and bookmarks while merging documents introduced.

- Methods to merge documents, append, insert and extract pages enhanced to handle form fields & annotations.

 

Version 1.1 - September 15, 2006
[Professional]

- Exporting fields to FDF (Forms Data Format) introduced.

- Class com.gnostice.pdfone.PDFOne introduced for component (PDFOne.jar) activation.

- Editing of form fields thoroughly enhanced for quality and speed.

- Editing of form fields by type and by name at document level and page level introduced.

- Editing of form field hierarchies with widget nodes on different pages is supported.

- Deletion of form fields at document level and page level introduced.

- Cloning of form fields introduced.

- Default appearance stream creation for all form fields introduced.

[Standard]

- Additional auto text tags for author, file name, absolute file name and file path introduced.

- Support for custom (user defined) auto text tags introduced.

- Event handling interfaces made simpler.

 

Version 1.04 - August 16, 2006
[Professional]

- Creation of form field hierarchy with heterogeneous field types at document and page level introduced.

- Editing of hierarchical form fields with heterogeneous fields at page level introduced.

[Standard]

- Variable placeholders (auto text tags) for page number, page count and date introduced.

- Documentation enhanced.

 

Version 1.03 - July 28, 2006
[Professional]

- Creation of hierarchical form fields at document and page level introduced.

- Editing of hierarchical form fields at page level introduced.

- Reading of annotations at document level introduced.

- Reading of selective annotation types at document and page level introduced.

- Minor bug fixes for PdfAppearanceStream class.

- Reading of annotations optimized.

[Standard]

- Document reading speed optimized.

- Documentation enhanced.

 

Version 1.02 - June 05, 2006
[Professional]

- Appearance streams for annotations and form fields.

- Sample codes for all important features.

[Standard]

- Sample codes for all important features.

 

Version 1.01 - May 15, 2006
[Standard]

- Bug fix for PdfFont, PdfObject and PdfPage cloning.

- Minor bug fixes for Bookmarks, Shapes and writeText method.

- Documentation enhanced.

 

Version 1.0 - April 13, 2006
- PDFOne Java v1.0 Released.

 
Version 1.0 - March 3, 2006
- PDFOne Java v1.0 Announced.