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    Foxit PDF SDK Changelog v7.2

    Foxit PDF SDK Changelog v7.2

    Web

    March 2020

    Added

    • Content editing highlight feature:

      • Allow importing of 3rd party fonts for edit feature 

      • Allow selecting multiple text object at once 

      • Function to copy contents in a document or across documents 

      • Line breaking 

    • Comment list functions added: Allow customers to display all comments whether the corresponding page is loaded or not

      • Display the total comments number when in all comments displaying mode 

      • Search comments 

      • Page markups now support adding a header and footer 

    • PDF optimizer now has file size optimization 

    • PDF Linearization support

      • Support PDF fast web view on Web Viewer 

      • Support to check if a document is linearized 

    • Annotation and stamp

      • Support for formatting free text 

      • Support for setting stamp information when adding a new custom stamp 

      • Support for setting default annotation properties 

      • Support for copy and paste image annotation and stamp 

      • JSON support stamp (image) and attachment 

    • Support to pre-render pages 

    • Support to print the current view 

    • Selected text retrieval 

    • New host control for license 

    • Provided an event for document modification 

    • Added file name in the document properties dialog box 

    • Support flipping pages turning effect (left and right) on mobile UI 

    • Light web viewer JavaScript support 

    • JSON support stamp (image) and attachment 

    Updated

    Fixed

    • CSS warning messages on console in AngularJS 

    • Image fails to paste from clipboard 

    • Right click menu on thumbnails 

    • Typewriter annotation not placing exactly on the selected location 

    • Current file not refreshing when using import FDF function 

    • Form Value disappearing in IE when on blur 

    • Field issue with Ultraform not autospacing 

    • Input not converting to upper case in Ultraform 

    • Unwanted Ultraform printing cropping 

    Windows/Linux/Mac

    March 2020

    Added

    • Support for dynamically adding a header and footer

    • Support for loading a certificate from stream/memory when using the ‘StartSign’ method

    • Support for image rotation at any angle

    • Support for adding an image to an XFA field

    • Methods to get/set a default appearance for widget annotation

    • Support checking whether a rectangle object is adjacent to another in the horizontal or vertical direction

    • Support to get a popup annotation’s parent

    • Rendering quality flag to image compression settings class

    • Qt view demo for Linux C++

    • Sample codes for rendering to DC

    • List of supported JavaScript methods to the developer guide

    • New JavaScript instructions provided in developer guide

    Updated

    • Enhancements to the optimization add-on:

      • Support PDF document ‘Clean Up’ optimization option

      • Remove invalid links

      • Remove invalid bookmarks

      • Use Flate to encodes streams that are not encoded

      • In streams that use LZW encoding, use Flate instead

    • Support ‘Discard Objects’ option for PDF document optimization:

      • Discard all form submission, import and reset actions

      • Flatten form fields

      • Discard all JavaScript actions

      • Discard embedded page thumbnails

      • Discard embedded print settings

      • Discard bookmarks

    • Enhancement to simple demo – new options for PDF ‘Reduce File Size’ optimization

    Fixed

    • Missing color attribute when exporting redacted annotations to XFDF file

    • Enhancements to the XFDF/FDF import functionality – updating annotation data when an identical annotation ID is found in the document

    • PDFPage::GetBox failure on retrieving MediaBox data if the property is inherited from parent object

    • Bug on setValue method for Checkbox fields on specific files

    • Persistent access to redacted annotation on specific files

    • Missing color space on tiff images added to PDF

    Android/iOS

    March 2020

    Added Alt

    • Scanning add-on module 

    • Form fields supported on AcroForm designer at UI-level: RadioButton\ComboBox\ListBox 

    • Support “Save as” and “Reduce File Size” options on file save at UI-Level 

    • Support for dynamically adding a header and footer 

    • Methods to get/set the default appearance for widget annotations 

    • Rendering quality flag to image compression settings class 

    • Provide instructions on ‘How to modify proguard file when minifyEnabled is set to true’ 

    • Support for loading certificates from stream/memory when using ‘StartSign‘ method 

    • Support for all angles of image rotation 

    • Support to add image to an XFA field 

    • Support to check whether a rectangle object is adjacent to another in the horizontal or vertical direction 

    • Support to get a pop-up annotation’s parent

    Updated

    • Enhancements to the optimization add-on:

      • Support PDF document ‘Clean Up’ optimization option 

      • Remove invalid links  

      • Remove invalid bookmarks 

      • Use Flate to encodes streams that are not encoded  

      • In streams that use LZW encoding, use Flate instead 

    • Support ‘Discard Objects’ option for PDF document optimization:

      • Discard all form submission, import and reset actions 

      • Flatten form fields 

      • Discard all JavaScript actions 

      • Discard embedded page thumbnails 

      • Discard embedded print settings 

      • Discard bookmarks  

    • Deprecated UIWebView class migrated to WKWebView 

    • Migrated PDF SDK for Android support library to AndroidX 

    • Xamarin Android/iOS plugin code updated to VS 2019 

    • Foxit PDF SDK for iOS Flutter plugin released 

    • Synchronized update for Xamarin/Cordova/React Native/Kotlin/Flutter 

    • XFDF/FDFimport functionality – Updated annotation data when an identical annotation ID is found in the document 

    Fixed

    • Crash issue while trying to use a recycled bitmap

    • Crash issue related to “onDoubleTap”

    • Slow loading performance on large document issue for iOS

    • Typo errors for iOS

    • Missing color attribute when exporting redacted annotation to XFDF file

    • PDFPage::GetBox failure on retrieving MediaBox data if the property is inherited from parent object

    • Bug on setValue method for Checkbox fields on specific files 

    • Persistent access to redacted annotation content on specific files

      • Missing color space on tiff images added to PDF