Foxit PDF SDK Changelog

Web

November 2020

Added

• Undo/redo annotation’s all actions with one caller
• Programmatically set screen annotation image
• Programmatically go to and activate a specified annotation
• Expose annotation dictionary to enable users to store custom data to the annotation
• Enable/disable tooltip on mouse hover on annotation
• Event for listening in annotation’s position change
• Classes were added to better work with widget annotations and control form field data
• Form data format support CSV and TXT
• Enable/disable form field automatic calculation right after users input
• Programmatically show print dialog box
• Expose a new event to get the generated signature bitmap
• Zoom mode Fit Visible was added to the web viewer’s UI
• Sort comments by options such as page, type, author, date, status, check status was added to the web viewer’s UI
• Filter comments by status and author was added to the web viewer’s UI
• Import/export form data: CSV and text through Forms on web viewer’s UI
• Form field properties editing:
  • Sets tooltip
  • Sets flags: Visible, Hidden, Visible but unprintable, Hidden but printable
  • Sets direction: Right-to-Left and Left-to-Right
  • Set text filed: Text Rotation, Font Size/Color and Type (14 standard font types)
  • Set actions after placing a signature by adding a new Singed tab
• Copy, Cut and Paste the current form field feature through Forms on web viewer’s UI
• Shortcut keys for form fields was added to the web viewer’s UI
• Arrow keys Up/Left/Down/Right for navigating radio button in a group
• Enter key to activate/deactivate the current form field

Updated

• Updated even doubleTapPage event to pass mouse click information
  • Original event: pdfViewer.eventEmitter.on( ViewerEvents.doubleTapPage, () =>{ } )
  • New event: pdfViewer.eventEmitter.on( ViewerEvents.doubleTapPage, (e) =>{ } )
• When a module e.g. Redaction is not licensed, its related API is not permitted to call, and related UI features at UI level are hidden
• Updated the parameter of PDFViewer.setPencilDrawingTimeout to accept ‘0` value
• Updated setFormHighlightColor to highlight required fields.
  • Original API: setFormHighlightColor (color)
  • New API: setFormHighlightColor (color, required color)

Fixed

• Customized stamp icon became stretched in the stamp list
• Event did not trigger when calling tapAnnotation, doubleTapAnnotation, rightclickAnnotion or pressAnnotation
• The content of the textbox was truncated after turning up border width
• TAB not working for components outside the viewer container
• Signature appearance was displayed incorrectly on a particular file
• Some form fields could not be recognized correctly on a particular file
• Viewer UI flickered when incorrect password was entered
• Failed to add callout annotation on a particular file
• Watermark displayed incorrectly when rendering multiple times

Windows/Linux/Mac

November 2020

Added

• Layout recognize add-on support for all platforms of GSDK
• Support to set the texts label of the signature field
• Provide API to support MoveObject
• HTML to PDF feature support to load cookies straight from memory (Not supported for Mac)
• Support for embedded font to create header/footer
• Support Rich text for freetext annotation
• Provide API to set whether to use Bezier to generate ink annotation’s appearance

Updated

• Improved compare demo
• Enhanced the subset of the embedded font for all kinds of font types
• Check the input JS of adding an annotation and normalize the rect info

Fixed

• UniqueID missing from annotation added via JavaScript issue
• Issue that special PDF file prints garbled or non-bold to the Snagit printer
• Crash issue while parsing a page that used a font mapper
• Throw errors with error parameter during import of special XFDF file
• Issue that incorrect characters appear after content is generated for certain files
• Flatten issue for XFA file
• Crash issue of inserting pages with AES256 encryption
• Bug that the signature call back will not trigger in some special case

Android/iOS

November 2020

Added

• Toolbar buttons visibility toggle in Cordova
• New AddLanguage method function in Xamarin Android
• Support to create popup annotation when a markup annotation is created
• Support undo/redo step by step for pencil tool
• Add onDocModified event for RDK at UI level
• New autosave flag for signatures
• Page turning touch screen gesture supported at UI level (Android)
• New API to set page flipping mode (Android)
• Set method for text label on signature form field
• Provide API to support MoveObject
• Embedded fonts supported on Header/Footer creation
• Support rich text for freetext annotations
• Method to enable/disable Bezier curve when setting ink (pencil) annotation’s appearance
• New demos: image2pdf, watermark, search, graphics objects

Updated

• Enhanced the annotation demo

Fixed

• Adding annotations in multi tab mode issue
• XFA Form filling related issues
• Background color missing when objects are selected
• Form filling issues related to Japanese text