Latest release

4.0.21.0
released 5/2/2013

Version history

  • Version 4.0.21.0, released May 2, 2013
    • Added support for accessing FileAttachment annotations.
  • Version 4.0.20.0, released April 25, 2013
    • TextShape.MeasuredWidth may return an incorrect value for type 1 fonts.
  • Version 4.0.19.0, released April 9, 2013
    • Returned fonts widths are sporadically wrong for some CID fonts.
    • Font.CreatePaths throws an exception for some font types.
    • 4.0.18.0 introduced an issue with Reader enabled documents.
  • Version 4.0.18.0, released March 13, 2013
    • Add certificate retrieval for type "2.16.840.1.101.3.4.2.1WITHRSA".
    • Added the Azure license type.
  • Version 4.0.17.0, released February 27, 2013
    • Added support for signing documents without breaking Adobe Reader enablement.
    • Writing an encrypted document may produce a corrupt document.
    • Page.CreateShapes() may produce incorrect characters for certain multibyte encodings.
  • Version 4.0.16.0, released January 31, 2013
    • Added support for files larger than 8GB.
    • Added a redaction sample that processes images in an existing pdf file.
    • Some files load very slowly. This typically happens if files have many layers.
  • Version 4.0.15.0, released January 16, 2013
    • Updating a field in an Adobe Reader enabled document that allows field editing will no longer invalidate the enablement if the AppendUpdate writing mode is used.
    • Documents larger than 2GB throw an exception.
    • In rare cases, special characters like currency symbols and bullets are not shown correctly in flattened documents.
  • Version 4.0.14.0, released January 7, 2013
    • Added FreeText.Orientation and Stamp.Orientation properties. These allow creation of rotated markup annotations (multiples of 90 degrees).
    • Added FreeText.InteriorColor, FreeText.TextColor and FreeText.FontSize.
    • Added Square.InteriorColor.
    • Added Font.DecorationLineWidth.
    • FreeText.BorderColor does not control the border color but the interior color.
    • Default values of an XFA document disappear after flattening.
  • Version 4.0.12.0, released October 24, 2012
    • Some flattened fields do not contain an up-to-date value. This issue was caused by the XFA speed improvement in release 4.0.11.0. This change has therefore been reverted.
  • Version 4.0.11.0, released September 26, 2012
    • Speed of processing has been improved for XFA documents with many fields.
    • Added support for the "mark as read-only" action when signing a document. As a result, Adobe Acrobat/Reader no longer complains about the document being changed after signing.
    • The Adobe print dialog complains about some documents generated by PDFKit.
  • Version 4.0.10.0, released September 11, 2012
    • Opening documents with inline images may cause exceptions when the image data itself contains an end-of-image marker.
    • Adobe Reader may report an error for documents that have been produced with an unlicensed version of PDFKit.Net.
  • Version 4.0.9.0, released July 26, 2012
    • Added support an additonal identifier for the "SHA-1withRSA" algorithm.
    • Extracting images leads to incorrect results when done simultaneously in multiple threads.
    • Null reference while importing SVG.
    • Multiline text shapes with a width that is smaller than the width of a single character lead to high memory use.
  • Version 4.0.8.0, released June 12, 2012
    • Createshapes works around an issue with fonts that specify incorrect unicode information.
    • CreateShapes looses color information in stencil masks.
  • Version 4.0.7.0, released June 11, 2012
    • CreateShapes does not respect certain scenarios that involve text as clipping paths.
    • An index out of range exception gets thrown for some Destinations (links).
  • Version 4.0.6.0, released May 31, 2012
    • the IccBasedColor and IccColorSpace types have been introduced. This allows specifying a color based on an Icc color profile.
    • Named destinations (in bookmarks) with unicode characters in their name may not be accessible.
  • Version 4.0.5.0, released May 8, 2012
    • The MetafileShape has been re-introduced.
    • Changing the position of a markup annotation may invalidate its appearance.
    • The width of a TextShape may be wrong.
  • Version 4.0.4.0, released March 22, 2012
    • Page.CreateShapes more often delivers text strings in a single TextShape, leading to smaller output.
    • ImageShapes with transparency sometimes get saved with an upside down transparency mask. This issue was introduced in release 4.0.3.0.
    • Page.CreateShapes delivers incorrect graphics when text is used as a clipping path.
  • Version 4.0.3.0, released March 15, 2012
    • Page.CreateShapes may return graphics at a shifted position.
    • Page.CreateShapes may lead to a corrupt document if the original page contains inline images.
    • Page.CreateShapes may not create correct gradient colors.
    • Page.CreateShapes may not produce correct text output for fonts that contain a ToUnicode map.
  • Version 4.0.2.1, released November 28, 2011
  • Version 4.0.2.0 [BETA], released November 17, 2011
  • Version 4.0.1.0 [BETA], released November 14, 2011
  • Version 4.0.0.1 [BETA], released September 29, 2011