Foxit PDF SDK Changelog

Web

March 2021

Added

• Portfolio Support for viewing and downloading
• Snap functionality to measurement tools, Line, Arrow, Polyline, Polygon, and Cloud
• First/Last page for page navigation
• Functionality to add bookmark while viewing a PDF
• Functionality to drag and rotate a stamp
• SendToBack and BringToFront to have the particular graphic object to draw on top or underneath of other page objects
• Fields side-panel for displaying and managing form fields
• Highlight Fields
• Form field types for creating/editing: Push-button, CheckBox, Radio, ComboBox, ListBox, Image, Run Form Recognition, and Form Assistant
• ‘Options’ properties tab for form CheckBox, Radio, and ListBox which can be used to set Button type and Export value
• “.\examples\PDFViewCtrl\create-annot” was updated to include code samples for creating Ink, Note, and FreeText
• “.\examples\UIExtension\collaboration” was added to present how to collaborate on annotations, page manipulation, document sharing, and user annotation permissions
• CodeSandBox Demo
• Support multiple page manipulation
• Support snap measurements to PDF shape objects’ points and paths
• Functionality to read and write document/page dictionaries
• Support to get logical page labels
• The method was added to set the position of the particular page object
• The method was added to set the width of the eraser
• Support circle and square area measurements
• Support to create the same type of form fields continuously
• Method to manage the form properties dialog box visibility when a form field was created
• Method to manage the form field rectangle focus visibility when the form fields have been selected
• An option was added to the PDFViewer constructor to show/hide form file tooltip
• The method was added to set tooltips for all form fields
• Support Acrobat JS functions importAnFDF and exportAsFDF to import/export form data
• Support Acrobat JS strokeColor to set the appearance of annotation and form field to transparent
• Action callback interface for custom implementation with Acrobat JavaScript.
• Annotation mouse events mouseEnter and mouseLeave
• Bookmark select event to watch the users’ bookmark selection
• The tapPage, doubleTapPage, and pressPage methods include an e parameter on event object of hammer.js
• The rightClickAnnotation adds an e parameter for mouse event
• The PDFDoc.sign() adds a new parameter ‘image’ for setting signature appearance

Updated

• Optimized the loading time for files with 5000+ annotations
• Enhanced SDK functionality so that users can build their viewer’s UI without using the UIExtension project
• StateHandler classes for splitting select text & annotation into two tools: Select Text and Select Annotation
• Enhanced SDK to support file:// protocol which is useful for native apps like Electron, HBuilderX packaged apps, ect.
• Disabled the pop-ups for static XFA Forms by ignoring the XFA version check
• Updated the annotation events for listening in to form widgets edits

Fixed

• Touch screen issue on pages in PDFViewCtrl basic viewer mobile
• Area measurement value update fails after modifying size corrected
• ComboBox unresponsive to mouse click on specific files issue
• xref table parsing not working on specific FDF files data import operation issue fixed
• Signature validation working correctly on OpenPDFByHttpRangeRequest
• An issue on newly added PDF signatures displayed incorrectly on a particular use case scenario
• setEnableJS issue on executing document open operation when the method is set to false
• An issue where annotations fail to export “custom entries” to XFDF
• Measurement annotation no longer truncated when being created on a re-sized page
• Bookmark page numbers correctly updated when inserting a new page
• Enhanced performance on toolbar items switch which caused lag
• Empty JavaScript actions on a file no longer causing issues on opening PDF documents
• Issues with “formValueChanged” method in specific documents were fully repaired
• Rotated stamp annotations no longer cause issues on XFDF annotation data export
• Hiding annotations on un-rendered pages completely supported
• Cross-site scripting security issue

Windows/Linux/Mac

March 2021

Added

• Support HTML2PDF on Linux
• Txt to PDF conversion
• Insert page(s) as the table of contents to the front of the current PDF document
• Annotation Summary
• Portfolio Support
• Get the color value of the specific component of a separation space
• API to set DPI limit for image compressing feature
• PrintManager：Choose paper source by PDF page size (For Windows C++ Only)
• API to set the count of graphics objects to be rendered in one step during the progressive rendering process
• API to set whether to use down-sampling for jpx image when rending a page
• BrowserFile callback API to foxit::ActionCallback
• Support to get/set text formatting data for markup annotations
• API to construct annotation by annotation dictionary only
• API to set/get form control alignment
• API to NormalizePage
• API to get the specific point of a path
• Support to set/Get “Field is used for file selection” and “Check Spelling” for text field flag
• Support get/set measure properties for circle and square annotation
• New Portfolio Demo
• Set the flag print by default so the annotation inserted by the demo will be print by default
• PDF layer demo adds the sample of insert objects from another PDF to a specific layer
• Add the screen annotation sample for the annotation demo

Updated

• Adjust the logical relationship of rendering annotation and form
• Abandon Ltvverifier mode ETSI

Fixed

• A GC release issue for Java
• Issue related to “RMSSecurityCallback” method
• Whitespace missing in annotation rich text content if appearance is reset
• Error when opening the special doc flattened by Foxit SDK with Adobe
• Access Violation exception issue of add free-text annotation using the font from a file
• A Crash issue of PDF2PDFA for a special file
• CreationDate is missing within annotation added using Javascript
• Issue related to Print Manager (Windows C++ Only)

Android/iOS

March 2021

Updated

• Enhance the performance of documents containing static XFA forms

Fixed

• Annotation count incorrect for specific files
• Rendering issue of specific form fields when zooming
• Form filling issue in some special case
• Issue related to opening RMS encrypted files