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    Version 10.1

    Foxit PDF SDK Changelog v10.1

    Foxit PDF SDK Changelog v10.1

    Windows/Mac/Linux

    December 20, 2024

    New Features and Enhancements:

    PDF3D

    • Support for retrieve and preset 3D views.

    • Support for default view reset.
      New APIs:

      • GetPresetViewList()

      • ApplyPresetView()

      • ResetDefaultView()

    Compliance

    • Introduced preflight functionality supporting PDF/E and PDF/X standards.
      New Classes:

      • Preflight

      • PDFXCompliance

      • PDFECompliance

    Page Analyzer

    • Detect scanned pages.
      New API:

      • PDFPage::IsScanned()

    OCR

    • Enhanced OCR configuration options, including image-based text extraction mode, skew correction, image denoising, and CPU core usage mode.
      New Class:

      • foxit::addon::ocr::OCRConfig
        Updated API:

      • Initialize(...is_shared_cpu_cores_mode)

    Annotation

    • Support for executing JavaScript-based sub-actions in link annotations.

    • Added separate transparency settings for border and fill colors.

    • Added the ability to retrieve annotations by unique IDs.
      Updated API:

      • ExecuteJavaScriptAction(JavaScriptAction)

      New APIs:

      • SetBorderOpacity(), GetBorderOpacity()

      • SetFillOpacity(), GetFillOpacity()

      • GetAnnotsByIdArray()

    Images

    • Retrieve image orientation.

    • Image object creation from Type3 text object.

    • Clone 1bpp bitmap from the page image object.
      New API:

      • GetOrientation()

      • ImageObject::CreateFromType3TextObject()

      • ImageObject::CloneBitmap (PDFPage,Graphics_Objects)

    Fonts

    • Improved font mapping with an overloaded callback for font family names
      New API:

      • FontMapperCallback::MapFont()

    Rendering

    • Render PDF to PDF print devices on Linux.

    • Support for rendering PDF pages to 1bpp bitmap.
      New API:

      • Renderer(PrintDeviceSettingData& print_param,dest_pdf_path)

    Search

    • TextSearch supports regular expressions.
      Updated API:

      • TextSearch::SetPattern(key_words,is_regex_search)

    Text

    • Calculate the required PDF Rect size for strings in RichTextStyle before adding text.

    • RichTextCtyle allows negative values for char_stpace and word_stpace in.
      New API:

      • PDFPage::CalculateNewRectForText()

      Updated API:

      • Page::AddText RichTextStyle

    Watermark

    • Added tiled watermark behavior flags, including printing/display settings.
      Updated API:

      • TiledWatermarkSettings(flags)

    PrintManager

    • Enhanced margin handling for print jobs.
      New APIs:

      • SetJobPrintUnitType(), GetJobPrintUnitType()

      • SetJobLeftMargin(), GetJobLeftMargin()

      • SetJobRightMargin(), GetJobRightMargin()

      • SetJobTopMargin(), GetJobTopMargin()

      • SetJobBottomMargin, GetJobBottomMargin()

    DWG2PDF

    • Track conversion progress and control output logs.

    • Support for color conversion policies.
      New Class:

      • DWG2PDFProgressCallback
        Updated API:

      • DWG2PDFSettingData::is_output_progress

      • DWG2PDFSettingData::progress_callback

      • DWG2PDFSettingData::color_policy

    Libre Office2pdf

    • Support for multi-threaded conversion via binary engine on Linux.
      Updated APIs:

      • Convert::From[Word][Excel][PowerPoint](...fx_binary_engine_path, LibreOffice_User_Profile)

    Foxit PDF2Office

    • Support for library initialization using a binary program for improved conversion flexibility.

    • Introduced more conversion options such as insert page breaks, remove trailing spaces, and output images.

    • Support for restricted PDF files conversion.
      Updated APIs:

      • PDF2Office::Initialize(library_path,fx_binary_program_path)

      • PDF2WordSettingData(...enable_generate_page_rendered_break)

      • PDF2OfficeSettingData (...enable_trailing_space,include_images,)

      New Class and API:

      • ConvertCheckCallback

      • SetConvertCheckCallback(convert_check_callback)

    Foxit Office2PDF

    • Officially integrated Foxit Office2PDF as an add-on.

    • Support for outline conversion in Word2PDF.

    • Introduced wordbook conversion options in Excel2PDF.

    • New Class:

      • Word2PDFConfig

      • Excel2PDFConfi

    API Performance Improvements

    • Significantly improved the Optimizer’s performance for documents with a large number of paths.

    • Greatly enhanced the efficiency of importing files with AcroForms using StartImportPagesFromFilePath.

    Deprecated Features

    • Deprecated ImageObject::CloneBitmap (Graphics_Objects) API.

    Bug Fixes

    Table-related

    • Fixed an issue where merging cells with AddTableToPage() caused errors.

    • Resolved a problem where the fill color did not cover the entire cell when inserting tables using insertTablePagesToDocument.

    Page Operations and Importing

    • Fixed an issue where splitting pages with StartImportPages() resulted in scrambled content.

    • Resolved a data import failure caused by incorrect XML file format detection when using ImportFromXML().

    • Fixed a bug where form data remained after removing AcroForm pages with RemovePage().

    • Addressed an issue where inserting new PDF pages failed due to inconsistent handling of CropBox.

    Text Processing

    • Fixed an issue where extracting text with Chinese characters using GetPageText() resulted in errors.

    • Resolved text extraction order issues with GetPageText() by optimizing the text extraction algorithm.

    • Fixed display errors when adding Arabic text using AddText().

    • Corrected the RTL display order issue when setting Arabic text with SetText().

    Form Handling

    • Fixed an issue where PDFPage::Flatten() failed to flatten static XFA form field data.

    • Resolved an issue where dynamic XFA form fields did not retain their state correctly when flattened to PDF.

    • Fixed a problem where dynamic XFA documents could not be loaded after triggering certain callback events.

    • Addressed an issue where insufficient integer precision led to incorrect form field calculations.

    Search Functionality

    • Fixed an issue where incorrect search results were returned due to the wrong calculation of search keyword order.

    • Resolved an exception issue when calling ReplaceNext().

    Rendering and Display

    • Fixed an issue where dashed lines were displayed incorrectly in prepress previews by properly handling fill and stroke colors.

    • Resolved prepress preview anomalies caused by separating annotation and page rendering.

    • Optimized rendering to fix display issues with background images in paths with soft mask pattern fills.

    • Fixed an issue where images inserted via AddImage() were mirrored due to missing rotation handling.

    • Corrected the problem where graphics object became invisible after calling SetMatrix() due to ignored clipping paths.

    Crash Fixes

    • Fixed a crash when opening PDF files containing 3D elements.

    • Resolved a crash caused by batch conversion of PDF to PostScript using the Renderer class.

    • Fixed a crash on Linux when creating new PDFDoc objects due to concurrent access.

    Annotations and Watermarks

    • Fixed an issue where annotations in PDF files with missing destination (Dest) information could not retrieve annotation actions correctly.

    • Fixed a problem where watermarks were not written to extracted pages after calling StartExtractPages().

    Printing-related

    • [Demo] Fixed an issue in the pdfprint demo where printing PDFs with soft masks in the background caused memory issues.

    • [PrintManager] Corrected the “Unknown” status display when using the demo print function by adjusting GetJobStatus().

    • [PrintManager] Fixed an issue where print tasks were waiting or unable to complete due to the printer failing to call the GetJob() function.

    Optimizer and Performance

    • Fixed data loss during optimization due to incorrect font stream handling.

    • Resolved garbled text issues during DWG to PDF conversion by supplementing missing font resources, to esnure font integrity.

    • Adjusted CMYK image handling to fix color inconsistencies caused by forced conversion to RGB in TIFF images.

    • Resolved content loss during TIFF to PDF conversion by improving TIFF data writing.

    • Fixed data loss and exceptions in the verification results by improving the LTVVerifier::Verify() logic.

    • Fixed table recognition error by enhancing the layout recognition engine.

    PDF Conversion SDK 2.1

    December 20, 2024

    PDF2Office

    New Features

    • Library Initialization: Added support for initializing the conversion library using a binary program, offering improved flexibility in PDF-to-Office conversions.

    • Additional Conversion Options:

      • Ability to remove trailing spaces from the output and include images during conversion.

      • New option for PDF2Word to control the insertion of page breaks during conversion.

      • Added settings for Excel wordbooks in PDF2Excel.

    • Restricted PDF File Support: Now supports conversion of restricted PDF files

    • Updated APIs:

      • PDF2Office::Initialize(library_path, fx_binary_program_path)

      • PDF2WordSettingData(...enable_generate_page_rendered_break)

      • PDF2ExcelSettingData(...wordbook_settings)

      • PDF2OfficeSettingData(...enable_trailing_space, include_images)

    New Classes & APIs:

    • ConvertCheckCallback

    • SetConvertCheckCallback(convert_check_callback)

    Enhancements

    • PDF2Word: Enhanced table, formula and highlighted text recognition accuracy.

    • PDF2Excel: Improved cell border and background recognition fidelity.

    • PDF2PPT: Enhanced content integrity preservation for converted text and paths.

    • Optimization: Improved processing efficiency for files with complex path structures.

    • Stability: Enhanced overall program stability to prevent memory leaks.

    Office2PDF

    New Features

    • Word to PDF Conversion: Added support for outline conversion in Word2PDF.

    • Excel to PDF Conversion: Introduced wordbook conversion options in Excel2PDF.

    • New Class:

      • Word2PDFConfig

      • Excel2PDFConfig

    Enhancements

    • Complex Layout Support: Supports a wide range of complex layouts, including vertical text.

    • Complex Elements Support: Accurately preserves gradients, multi-column alignment, and 3D elements.

    • Memory Optimization: Optimizes large file conversion for improved stability and efficiency.