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    Foxit PDF SDK Changelog v8.0

    Foxit PDF SDK Changelog v8.0

    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