Foxit PDF SDK Changelog

Web

June 2021

Added

• Form Designer full support (PC platform only)
• High Contrast support
• Read Aloud is available for reading a page’s text using either a built-in browser speech API or third party speech service
• Chinese Traditional Localization support
• Signature properties such as signing reason, date, location now available on context menu of signature fields
• Optimized UIExtension.css size from 5179kb to 1512kb
• Enhanced Acrobat JavaScript API support
• Clipboard copied text now displayed as a text annotation object instead of text object
• The returns of ‘PDF.PDFForm.addControl()’ was changed to object instead of boolean
• New viewer events for monitoring actions before page rendering and document loading.
• New parameter ‘fileOpen.cipher’ was added to viewer open methods to decrypt FileOpen PDFs encrypted with AES algorithm.
• New viewer Class, interface and APIs for Read Aloud module.
• New ‘PDFViewer.addFontMaps()’ for adding custom fonts to the Font list.
• New API ‘ PDFField.setFlags()’ was added to set flags for form fields.
• New parameter ‘autoDownloadAfterSign’ was added to ‘PDFUI.constructor’ to control the download action once the current document is signed with a certificate-based signature.
• A callback ‘getSignedDocument’ was added to ‘PDFUI.constructor’ to allow getting a signed document stream.
• New ‘PDFUI.setDefaultMeasurementRatio()’ for specifying measurement ratio.
• New ‘PDFUI.waitForInitialization()’ for translating localization entries.
• New ‘PDFUI.registerSignaturePropertyHandler()’ for customizing signature properties panel.
• New custom-font project which shows how to map a font and add it to the font list for text editing.
• New custom-measurement project for creating a custom measurement object.
• New integration project for React.js application created using create-react-app.
• New project for pseudo-time progress bar.

Fixed

• Issue where a PDF file with an oversized layout renders incorrectly in FitWidth mode.
• Crash issue on opening PDF files with size larger 150MB on mobile devices.
• A glyph rendering issue on a specific file.
• Annotation count now works correctly on the ‘getAnnotCount()’ method.
• Show/hide form field action responds correctly.
• ‘PDFui.activateAnnotation’ correctly activates and locates annotation on page.
• Change annotation rectangle with cloud style to solid now follows the object’s original geometry
• Issue where exporting Dynamic Stamps as FDF causes an error message in Adobe Reader DC.
• Issue with creation of new instances after destroying current in IE11.
• Issues where customizing thumbnail context-menu causes errors.
• Linearized PDFs created by ‘pdfdoc.getStream()’ now can be opened in other PDF readers.

Windows/Linux/Mac

June 2021

Added

• New Platform support: ARM Linux support
• Add a flag to AddNewSignatuer API to decide whether Foxit PDF SDK should check PDF document’s permission before adding a signature.
• Support page Break setting for HTMLtoPDF feature
• Support create bookmarks for HTMLtoPDF feature
• A new option of whether the rectangle auto adapt the content for callout annotation
• Export Form data to a CSV file
• Form Design Assistant
• Support to disable the highlight of the signature field
• Get/Set RichText, Sort, CommitOnSelChange for Field_Flags
• Get the image resource of annotation
• Set whether to show Text Field Overflow Indicator

Updated

• Enhance Graphic_objects demo(C++) demo
• Enhance compliance simple demo
• Enhance watermark demo
• Enhance page_organization demo
• New option to Enhance zero-width line rendering
• Support to show barcode appearance text field
• Improve performance of API “Watermark.InsertToPage”
• Provide Nupkg for Windows .Net SDK
• Enhance PSI annotation feature
• Enhance the Rendering performance of some XFA doc
• Enhance Text Search feature
• Enhance SubmitForm action

Fixed

• Bug for OCR Java Demo
• Some issue for sign PDF in multi-thread
• Bug related to TXT to PDF conversion

Android/iOS

June 2021

Added

• New event to detect if a certificate-based signature has been applied to a document
• Support scoped storage functionality as per Android 11 requirements
• Area Highlight
• Annotation summary list at User Interface
• Support brush type for pencil annotations
• Dark Mode
• Auto Flip
• Outline editing
• Tool preference setting in Home Tab
• Support to add link annotations in Edit tab
• Custom page color
• Support to redact one or more pages

Updated

• Enhanced search function (Support Outline, Bookmark, Annotation, Redaction search)
• Main demo updated with new user interface

Fixed

• ” /r/n” bug for Multiline XFA forms
• RegisterSecurityCallback issue for Xamarin
• Not possible to autosave files containing digital signatures
• Signer name not displayed in the signature panel
• Rendering issue on continuous view mode
• Keyboard overlapping when filling PDF forms