Changelog

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Newest Release

2022.2.3 - 31 May 2022

UI

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where some checkbox and radio form fields AP streams would show an incorrect value. (#34341)

Previous Releases

2022.2.2 - 12 May 2022

UI

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue that prevented opacity slider to work properly for image and stamp annotations. (#34193)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where overflowing check calculations for multiline text form fields fail. (#33766)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where form fields were not responding on Firefox and Safari. (#33112)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where programmatically created checkboxes/radio buttons did not work once saved and then reopened. (#33070)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where some documents including scripts would take too long to open. (#32815)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where users were not able to crop document after scroll. (#33932)

Model

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where instance.save() would take very long to resolve if the changes were already saved. (#33635)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where the viewer’s iframe CSP policy would differ in Firefox. (#32900)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where certain form fields weren’t repaired correctly. (#33878)

2022.2.1 - 5 Apr 2022

No web-specific changes in this version.

2022.2.0 - 22 Mar 2022

See the announcement post.

  • Fixed

    Fixes a crash when deserialising image annotations from JSON that references an incompatible existing annotation from the PDF. (Z#28946, #32861)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue that prevented loading a layer with forms imported from Instant JSON when Instant support was disabled. (#32506)

  • Added

    Adds support for validating RSA-PSS digital signatures. (#33006)

  • Changed

    Updates the HarfBuzz library to 3.2.0. (#32690)

  • Changed

    Updates STB to 2.27. (#32326)

UI

  • Added

    Adds support to add, remove or modify annotation toolbar items using PSPDFKit.Configuration#annotationToolbarItems and PSPDFKit.Instance#setAnnotationToolbarItems. (#32876)

  • Added

    Adds support to cut, copy, paste or duplicate annotations using keyboard shortcuts. (#32595)

  • Changed

    Improves ink signature UI resizing by keeping its aspect ratio when resized with any resize handler. (#32954)

  • Changed

    Improves the UI of the focused and active state of highlight annotations. (#32614)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where customized color presets would not be honoured in the color dropdown input. (#31544)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where pointer devices were sometimes wrongly detected as touch devices in the Document Comparison UI. (#33228)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where selectable text would be rotated when the page had been rotated regardless of the current text rotation. (#30027)

  • Fixed

    Fixes screen jumping up when clicking on text highlight button. (#32656)

Model

  • API

    Adds form field serializer and deserializer. (#32806)

  • Added

    Adds a built in UI annotation toolbar button to apply redactions. (#32807)

  • Added

    Adds a visual feedback when an annotation is focused from the annotation sidebar, in read only mode. (#25338)

  • Added

    Adds more detailed logging for signature verification errors during development of custom signing implementations. (Z#28856)

  • Added

    Adds six new variant toolbar buttons for cloudy and dashed rectangle, ellipse and polygon annotations. (#32829)

  • Added

    Adds support to exclude annotations when printing or exporting the document. (#32406)

  • Changed

    Improves Instance.setFormFieldValues() so it can be awaited to ensure form field value synchronization. (#31892)

  • Changed

    Updates Duktape to version 2.7.0. (#33161)

  • Changed

    Updates SQLite3 to version 3.38.0. (#33239)

  • Changed

    Updates XMP toolkit to version 2022.02. (#32824)

  • Changed

    Updates libexpat to 2.4.6. (#33300)

  • Changed

    Updates libtiff to version 4.3.0. (#33050)

  • Fixed

    Fixes a glyph rendering issue when new lines are used in form fields. (#31733)

  • Fixed

    Fixes a problem where some form fields with JavaScript formatting scripts may be incorrectly formatted with thousands separators. (#32596)

  • Fixed

    Fixes a problem where the Sign overlay of unsigned signatures may incorrectly appear in some situations. (#32310)

  • Fixed

    Fixes a rare crash that happened when loading fonts. (#33110)

  • Fixed

    Fixes a stability issue accessing the file system that can happen in rare situations. (#32467)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue for which [annotationPresets.update] listener would not register events for Stamp and Image Annotations. (#32560)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where adding a digital signature may invalidate previous ones because of some spurious rounding-related changes to the page boxes. (#32952)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where an old trailer was loaded in PDFs with hybrid cross-reference tables causing old information to be shown. (#32243)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where custom rendered annotations would not appear customized under some circumstances. (#33123)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where objects were rendered with the wrong color due to non-compliant color values. (#30102)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where read-only signature fields may incorrectly show a “Sign” overlay. (#32310)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where the magnified area would not match the hovered area in the Document Comparison UI when the toolbar was hidden. (#33389)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where the text of the Document Comparison UI user hint dialog would overflow the container. (#33401)

Examples

  • Added

    Adds a catalog example showcasing the usage of PSPDFKit for annotating Construction blueprints. (#33109)

  • Added

    Adds a new Electron example to keep a remote module compatible version available. (#32855)

  • Changed

    Updates the Electron example to be context isolation compatible. (#32855)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where form field value editing with the UI was incorrectly disabled for certain document permissions. (#25332)

2022.1.3 - 4 Mar 2022

UI

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where customized color presets would not be honoured in the color dropdown input. (#31544)

Model

  • Changed

    Updates libexpat to 2.4.6. (#33300)

  • Fixed

    Fixes a problem where some form fields with JavaScript formatting scripts may be incorrectly formatted with thousands separators. (#32596)

2022.1.2 - 8 Feb 2022

Model

  • Changed

    Updates Expat to 2.4.4. (#32841, #32790)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where some documents cannot be uploaded or opened due to media box reading. (#32764)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where the redaction tool may leave some old PDF object references if the page contents are an array of content streams. (#32926)

2022.1.1 - 19 Jan 2022

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where documents uploaded prior to 2022.1.0 wouldn’t load. (#32681)

2022.1.0 - 18 Jan 2022

See the announcement post.

Note: version 2022.1.0 contains a bug that was immediately fixed in the next version, 2022.1.1. Please use version 2022.1.1 instead of 2022.1.0.

UI

  • Fixed

    Fix distorted aspect ratio of stored image signatures on macOS Safari. (#30135)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where choice form field values would show the wrong value set when empty. (#31552)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where the page background would appear blurry on large size pages in low DPI screens. (#31098)

Model

  • API

    Adds new PSPDFKit.Options#MIN_WIDGET_ANNOTATION_SIZE preconfigurable setting. (#29886)

  • API

    Adds new PSPDFKit.ViewState#sidebarWidth property. (#32405)

  • API

    Adds the previous ViewState to the viewState.change event listener payload. (#32187)

  • API

    adds Instance.transformRawToPageSpace() and Instance.transformPageToRawSpace() to convert coordinates between PDF and SDK spaces. (#32283)

  • Added

    Adds PSPDFKit.Configuration#dateTimeString to customize how dates are formatted in the UI. (#31810)

  • Added

    Adds ViewState#canScrollWhileDrawing option to allow to use a pen device to draw ink annotations and also scroll without changing interaction mode on iOS devices. (#31382)

  • Added

    Adds a annotations.transform event that is emitted whenever an annotation is dragged or resized. (#32365)

  • Added

    Adds a new resolvedLayoutMode property to the ViewState. (#30305)

  • Added

    Adds support for annotations’s subject (Subj) property. (#32345)

  • Added

    Adds support for latest Electron versions. (#31732)

  • Added

    Adds support for setting custom breakpoints allowing to control when the toolbar switches to responsive mode. (#29798)

  • Added

    Adds support for setting the minimum resizable dimensions of widget annotations. (#29886)

  • Added

    Adds support for totally or partially customizing the sidebar UI. (#31929)

  • Added

    Adds the ability to keep the current tool active after creating an annotation, with the new keepSelectedTool API. (#30974)

  • Changed

    Improves manual text selection accuracy. (#25275)

  • Changed

    Improves the perceived performance of some document operations. (#31672)

  • Changed

    Improves the performance of image attachments loading and handling. (#30006)

  • Changed

    Improves the security by preventing JavaScript actions from opening URLs by default by means of the new Configuration#onOpenURI setting. (#30433)

  • Changed

    Changes the Document Comparison toolbar button to be hidden by default. (#32353)

  • Removed

    Removes the deprecated PSPDFKit.Configuration#pdf property in favor of PSPDFKit.Configuration#document. (#27387)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where form field values changed with the API would sometimes not be updated in the view. (#30841)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where image annotations from stamp templates would lose the description property. (#32446)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where missing translation reports would be logged in the browser console. (#31911)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where persisting dates or times in forms may be off by one hour in some situations. (#32201)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where setting event.value inside a validation script may not work as expected. (#31286)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where setting treatImportedDocumentAsOnePage to false when specifying an import document operation resulted in the opposite result. (#25310)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where the UTF-8 charset declaration was missing from the viewer document head. (#31867)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where the validation of some certificates didn’t work correctly. (#32094)

  • Fixed

    Fixes importing of Instant Document JSON where image annotations have been moved. (#31945)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where manual document alignment for the document comparison feature would produce incorrect results for rotated pages. (#31681)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue that prevented loading a layer with forms imported from Instant JSON when Instant support was disabled. (#32506)

Examples

  • Added

    Adds a Vue 3 compatible example to the Vue.js example repo. (#32048)

  • Added

    Adds an example showing how to integrate PSPDFKit for Web with a Nuxt.js project. (#32489)

  • Changed

    Updates the Angular example to be compatible with Angular 13. (#32047)

2021.6.2 - 15 Dec 2021

Model

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where annotations weren’t always rendered in the correct z-order. (#31671)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where the appearance stream of unsigned signature fields wasn’t rendered. (#31015)

  • Fixed

    Fixes importing of Instant Document JSON containing image annotations onto a rotated page. (#32021)

  • Fixed

    Fixes importing of Instant Document JSON containing multiple radio buttons of the same label. (#31855)

  • Fixed

    Fixes importing of Instant Document JSON where image annotations have been moved. (#31945)

Core

  • Changed

    Updates the HarfBuzz library to 3.1.0. (#31771)

  • Fixed

    Fixes a memory leak when verifying digital signatures. (#31520)

  • Fixed

    Fixes a memory leak when closing documents with form fields. (#31557)

2021.6.1 - 11 Nov 2021

No web-specific changes in this version.

2021.6.0 - 19 Oct 2021

See the announcement post.

UI

  • Added

    Adds Configuration#onAnnotationResizeStart and Instance#setOnAnnotationResizeStart API that can be used to maintain annotation aspect ratio while resizing. (#30548)

  • Added

    Adds date and time picker to help you fill date, time, or both in the form fields. (#30378)

  • Added

    Adds the Document Comparison feature UI to Standalone mode. (#30383)

  • Added

    Adds the data-original-page-index attribute to the thumbnails of document editor. (#30335)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where Font Size indicator wouldn’t update correctly in Safari. (#30815)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where Ink annotations would get distorted when resizing. (#30753)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where annotations could not be correctly enlarged with the UI when constrained to the page bounds. (#30301)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where form fields would not be displayed if the document did not include annotations and form filling permissions. (#30954)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where stale AP Streams would be incorrectly displayed. (#30636)

Model

  • API

    Adds the Document Comparison feature to Standalone mode. (#30383)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an assertion if the rotation property was removed from an annotation. (#31173)

  • Changed

    Improves TypeScript support by exposing internal types. (#29517)

  • Changed

    Improves rendering non-latin text (like Arabic) when selecting specific fonts. (#30517)

  • Changed

    Reduces memory consumption when PDF objects need compressing. (#31317)

  • Changed

    Reduces memory consumption when encoding JPEG images. (#31205)

  • Removed

    Removes deprecated Instance#createAnnotation, Instance#createBookmark, Instance#createFormField, Instance#saveAnnotations, Instance#saveBookmarks, Instance#saveComments, Instance#saveFormFields, Instance#saveFormFieldValues, Instance#updateAnnotation, Instance#updateBookmark, Instance#updateFormField, Instance#deleteAnnotations, Instance#deletebookmark, Instance#deleteFormField, Instance#ensureAnnotationSaved, Instance#ensureBookmarkSaved, Instance#ensureFormFieldSaved, Instance#hasUnsavedAnnotations, Instance#hasUnsavedBookmarks, Instance#hasUnsavedComments, Instance#hasUnsavedFormFieldValues and Instance#hasUnsavedFormFields APIs - Please read migration guide for more details. (#27386)

  • Changed

    Updated FreeType to version 2.11.0. (#30900)

  • Changed

    Updated libjpeg-turbo to 2.2.1. (#30900)

  • Changed

    Updates HarfBuzz to 3.0.0. (#31113)

  • Changed

    Updates the HarfBuzz library to version 2.9.1. (#30624)

  • Fixed

    Fixes a very occasional crash when parsing stamp annotations that contained images references to invalid indirect objects. (#31093)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue seen where highlighted search results appeared offset when accented characters are present in the document. (#29661)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue the appearance stream of unsigned signature fields wasn’t rendered. (#31015)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where automatically extracting links would fail for multiple links in Standalone mode. (#30903)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where some form fields that contain a time may be incorrectly incremented when the field loses focus. (#30497)

  • Fixed

    Fixes incorrect type signature of textSelection.change event. (#30642)

  • Fixed

    Fixes possible undefined behavior validating digital signature data. (#31179)

2021.5.3 - 16 Sep 2021

No web-specific changes in this version.

2021.5.2 - 27 Aug 2021

Model

  • Fixed

    Fixes the ‘automatic publicpath is not supported in this browser’ error in non-browser environments. (#30723)

2021.5.1 - 9 Aug 2021

Model

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where a digital signature may incorrectly report a certificate validation error. (#30521)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where highlight annotations used the wrong blend mode after importing with Instant JSON. (#30537)

Core

  • Fixed

    Fixes a rare crash that may happen when rendering a PDF. (#29843)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where XFDF annotations like lines without an explicit width attribute were not rendered. In these cases, we now mimic Acrobats behavior and imply a line width of 1 pt. (#30291, Z#25968)

2021.5.0 - 26 Jul 2021

See the announcement post.

UI

  • Added

    Adds Toolbar Button for Document Crop (#29847)

  • Added

    Adds localized accessibility descriptions to some UI elements. (#29810)

  • Added

    Adds public CSS classes for radio and checkbox annotation controls. (#29581)

  • Added

    Adds support for announcing changes in the Bookmarks sidebar to screen readers. (#29017)

  • Added

    Adds support for note annotation’s opacity property. (#29565)

  • Added

    Adds support for rendering widget and shape annotations with a blend mode set. (#29582, #29081)

  • Changed

    Changes the default AP stream rendering mode to true for both Server and Standalone. (#29944)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue that caused incorrectly rendering form widgets on rotated pages. (#28414)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where stamp templates would appear distorted in the stamp picker in IE11. (#29404)

  • Fixed

    Fixes presets not correctly applying to image annotations. (#29136)

  • Fixed

    Fixes thumbnail sidebar occasionally failing to scroll to current page. (#29372)

  • Added

    Adds infos for a11y technologies about the state of a button inside a dropdown. (#29022)

  • Fixed

    Fixes a layout issue in the typed signatures modal in IE11. (#1234)

Model

  • API

    Adds new method to Crop a single page or the whole document as well as listen to CropBox changes (#29847)

  • Added

    Adds support for blend mode in all annotations when using Instant JSON. If blendMode is not specified, it defaults to normal. (#29582)

  • Added

    Adds support for reading embedded files in the PDF. (#30145)

    • Added

      Adds instance.getEmbeddedFiles that can be used to get the information of all the embedded files in the PDF.

    • Added

      Adds the ability to fetch the contents of embedded files using instance.getAttachment.

  • Added

    Adds the enums BlendMode, LineCap and BorderStyle to PSPDFKit namespace. (#29337)

  • Changed

    Improves the provided TypeScript declarations. (#29198)

  • Removed

    Removes unnecessary infos from the storedSignatures.create event image signatures payload. (#29553)

  • Changed

    Updates the HarfBuzz library to 2.8.2. (#30164)

  • Fixed

    Fixes a problem where a PDF table of contents (outline) may link to the wrong page. (#30070)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where a JavaScript error would be triggered by very large resolution screens when using the InkAnnotation. (#29030)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where creating image annotations would fail with some JPEG images. (#29877)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where fonts were not correctly included in the PDF resulting in wrongly rendered free text annotations. (#30115)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where imported form fields could not be updated. (#29533)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where importing a ‘goToRemote’ without a page index would fail. (#29616)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where importing unknown actions using Instant JSON failed. (#29814)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where new bookmarks would point to the wrong page index if the document was scrolled while creating it. (#29750)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where redactions of paths could fail with Coordinate outside allowed range if the path coordinates were very large. (#29791)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where the default values for border and outline colors would not be applied to redaction annotations from the document. (#29519)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where unmounting an instance would trigger a JavaScript error. (#29660)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an error during annotation rendering that would occur in certain circumstances with Instant enabled. (#29345)

  • Added

    Adds accessibility announcements for total number of search results when searching the document through UI (#30191).

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where assistive technologies on Windows did not announce when an image annotation is deleted. (#29020)

Core

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where the Instant JSON would contain redundant data after removing a form field. (#29671)

2021.4.3 - 14 Jul 2021

UI

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where search result label was displayed on the PDF page. (#29889)

2021.4.2 - 16 Jun 2021

UI

  • Added

    Adds accessibility announcements for new image annotations and annotations deleted with the UI. (#29020)

  • Added

    Adds missing accessibility labels to text annotation alignment UI controls. (#29019)

  • Added

    Adds support for search results announcement by speech readers. (#29018)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue in Chrome where the text selection would show wrong colors. (#29703)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue in which the signature picker list does not scroll on touch devices. (#29294)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where printing would sometimes fail on Chrome Android. (#28658)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where some elements would not show a focus outline when focused. (#29016)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where the UI would become unresponsive after erasing annotations in pages with many or very dense ink annotations. (#29632, #29576)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where the ink and type signature input fields could not be focused. (#29015)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where the old CSS files were cached in some cases even after updating the SDK. (#29535)

Model

  • Changed

    Improves the TypeScript declarations of the public APIs. (#29558)

  • Fixed

    Fixes a potential RCE while using PSPDFKit for Web in an Electron application. Thanks to Luigi Gubello (@evaristegal0is) for reporting the issue. (#29723)

  • Fixed

    Fixes a problem where a document signed with a timestamp may not validate correctly. (#29380)

  • Fixed

    Fixes a problem where an ECDSA signature in IEEE 1363 format may not validate correctly. (#29380)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where OCR would fail if no text is on the page. Now the call returns successfully. (#29527)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where annotations imported during PSPDFKit.load did not import correctly. (#29257)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where checking different radio buttons with the same value was not possible. (#29379, #26454)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where the default signing fonts were not bundled with PSPDFKit. (#29764)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where the image attachment for a imported XFDF stamp annotation couldn’t be found. (#29665)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where widget annotations from the document were not correctly deleted in Standalone deployments. (#29749)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue with OCR where no text is found if the text on the page is relatively large. (#29512)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where it wasn’t possible to set a form field value to an empty string. (#29610)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where assistive technologies did not announce when an image annotation is deleted. (#29020)

2021.4.1 - 26 May 2021

Model

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue that prevented using certain features without a license key. (#29589)

2021.4.0 - 6 May 2021

See the announcement post.

UI

  • Added

    Adds new optional toolbar buttons to undo and redo annotations actions. (#28389)

  • Added

    Added support for customising the document editor toolbar and footer. (#28701)

  • Fixed

    Fixed an issue where old cached CSS file was loaded even after the SDK was updated. (#28963)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue in which text selection does not work correctly on iOS Safari if Configuration.preventTextCopy is set to true. (#28488)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where new Stamp annotations would not be rendered with autoSaveMode disabled in Standalone mode. (#29292)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where zooming in on a page would shrink the background image. (#28344)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where image annotations would flicker when manually resized. (#29093)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where list boxes would not render text when a item is selected if there was no DA field present. (#28536)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an error during annotation rendering that would occur in certain circumstances with Instant enabled. (#29345)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where stamp templates would appear distorted in the stamp picker in IE11. (#29404)

Model

  • API

    adds new methods to undo and redo annotations actions. (#28389)

  • Added

    Adds support for toggling the case sensitiveness of searches, including the search and redact feature. (#28814)

  • Added

    Adds support for opening TIFF image documents. (#28758)

  • Added

    Adds the enums BlendMode, LineCap and BorderStyle to PSPDFKit namespace. (#29337)

  • Changed

    Enables using PSPDFKit in trial mode without a license key. (#28341)

  • Changed

    Enables JavaScript actions by default in Standalone mode. (#28570)

  • Fixed

    Fixes a issue in the text parser where space characters were being omitted from the returned text. (#28886)

  • Fixed

    Fixes a problem where the ‘name’ property of the PDF JS ‘field’ object may not return a correct value when the field is part of a hierarchy. (#27770)

  • Fixed

    Fixes a rendering issue for specific documents that have font resources with widths that are too small to render. (#28103)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue in which the view state couldn’t be updated if ‘download’ JWT permissions were missing. (#28596)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where JavaScript code was not executed correctly. (#29283)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where form fields are not interactive after a document with JavaScript is merged with another document. (#28052)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where new text markup annotations would be created with the wrong default color. (#29308)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where not all data was shown on a small amount of documents containing hybrid cross-reference streams. (#28713, #24258)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where paths could accidentally be filled in, even though only the border should have been painted. (#28699)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where redaction annotations without color set would not be deserialized. (#29276)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where some saved documents contained a xref table with more than one subsection. This may have caused problems if the document was signed multiple times, for example. (#28755)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where the bounding box of automatically generated link annotations wasn’t large enough. (#27608)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where the framework may write unnecessary entries to the PDF trailer dictionary. (#28755)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where widgets and form fields could not be imported from InstantJSON in Standalone mode. (#28892)

  • Changed

    Improves the provided TypeScript declarations. (#29198)

Core

  • Added

    Adds support for specifying blend mode for shape annotations in Instant JSON. (#29081)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where flattened Instant Comments on rotated pages didn’t correctly display text. (#28272)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where setting a stamp annotation template with a PDF attachment didn’t work. (#27396)

  • Changed

    Updates FreeType to 2.10.4.179. (#28676)

  • Changed

    Updates HarfBuzz to 2.8.0. (#28598)

  • Changed

    Updates the Botan library to 2.18.0. (#29123)

2021.3.0 - 31 Mar 2021

See the announcement post.

UI

  • Added

    Adds Electronic Signatures Component to create signatures by drawing, selecting an image file or typing text. (#27337)

  • Added

    Adds new loading UI. (#28203)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where the default page cursor could not be overruled by the pan cursor nor setting it globally. (#28325)

Model

  • Added

    Adds Configuration#electronicSignatures API to adjust the configuration for Electronic Signatures. (#27337)

    • Added

      Adds PSPDFKit.defaultElectronicSignaturesTabs member for the default available tabs for signing.

    • Added

      Adds PSPDFKit.defaultSigningFonts member with the default fonts to offer on the ‘Type’ tab for signing.

    • Added

      Adds Configuration#populateStoredSignatures API to set the list of stored signatures.

    • Added

      Adds Instance#getStoredSignatures and Instance#setStoredSignatures to get/set stored signatures.

    • Added

      Adds storedSignatures.create, storedSignatures.update, storedSignatures.delete and storedSignatures.change events.

  • Fixed

    Fixes a problem where some date/time form fields may be formatted incorrectly or their content may disappear momentarily when they lose focus. (#28056)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue in Safari where some WebP images failed to render. (#28356)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where flattened Instant Comments on rotated pages didn’t correctly display text. (#28272)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where negative values didn’t include thousand separators when being formatted by AFNumber_Format in JavaScript. (#28188)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where text extracted from an image using OCR was not selectable on the macOS Preview.app. (#28329)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where an invalid digital signature may return the same error code more than once. (#27512)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where some digital signatures with indefinite length structures were not validated correctly. (#26983)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where some signatures with timestamps couldn’t be parsed correctly and returned an error. (#28642)

Examples

  • Changed

    Updates Electron dependency in Electron example to version 11.3.0. (#28324)

2021.2.0 - 11 Mar 2021

See the announcement post.

  • Added

    Adds support for PDF generation in Server-backed deployments. (#26791)

UI

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where the thumbnails sidebar would not scroll to the current page thumbnail. (#28066)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where widget annotations were disabled even when the user had fill permission when Collaboration Permissions was enabled. (#28270)

Model

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue when setting form field datetimes that have JavaScript formatting. (#27939)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where formFieldValues.update would be dispatched for initial form field values. (#28224)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where calling instance.getAttachment() for an instantJSON attachment would throw an error. (#28241)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where deleting a note annotation could incorrectly print an error message to the log. (#28240)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where instance.getFormFieldValues() would return an empty object if instance.getFormFields() had not been called before. (#28224)

Examples

  • Added

    Adds an optional ‘mode’ URL query parameter to force using a specific backend when accessing through a link. (#28215)

2021.1.1 - 18 Feb 2021

Model

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where using "all" permission in the JWT would cause authentication failure. (#28213)

2021.1.0 - 16 Feb 2021

See the announcement post.

  • Added

    Adds support for Collaboration Permissions. (#26818)

UI

  • Added

    Adds annotation variant types to the annotation sidebar. (#25279)

  • Added

    Adds export PDF button to toolbar. (#26642)

    • Added

      Adds export-pdf button type to PSPDFKit.defaultToolbarItems.

    • Added

      Adds allowExport to ViewState that controls whether the export button should be enabled.

  • Added

    Adds support for correctly rendering widget annotations content on rotated pages. (#27012)

  • Added

    Adds support for enforcing creator_name set on the JWT. (#27366)

  • Changed

    Improves performance in PSPDFKit.ScrollMode.PER_SPREAD by preloading neighboring pages. (#27574)

  • Changed

    Improves performance when zooming and scrolling in touch and low end devices. (#25302)

  • Added

    Added missing translation for ‘Icon’ and ‘Export’. (#27235)

  • Changed

    Stops displaying annotation notes for link annotations. (#27819)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue when scrolling through a large document using the page down/up keys. (#27526)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where annotation toolbar buttons would not be highlighted when the corresponding interactionMode was modified using the API. (#27277, #26906)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where failing to render an annotation AP stream would prevent rendering other AP streams as well. (#27875)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where form field values changed in instantJSON would not be initially rendered. (#27564)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where image annotations would not be refreshed in the UI after being updated in Standalone mode. (#27410)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where it was possible to erase read-only ink annotations. (#27067)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where navigation via keyboard in document editor and thumbnails sidebar stopped working after scrolling a certain amount. (#26913)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where pages would appear blurry on non HiDPI screens in Server mode in Chrome. (#27129)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where setting PSPDFKit.ViewState#interactionMode did not respect PSPDFKit.ViewState#readOnly setting. (#27443)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where some toolbar icons would not be visible in certain Edge Legacy versions. (#27327)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where switching toolbar items with active responsive group could lead to a crash. (#27375)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where text and note annotations would fail to wrap long words when editing in IE11 and Edge Legacy. (#27223)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where text selection disappeared temporarily while dragging over area without text. (#25324)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where the viewer would flicker when certain annotation toolbars appeared in IE11. (#27241)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where forms could not be filled in on document with fill forms permission but annotations were set to read only. (#25323)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue with incorrectly placed annotation when dragging during zoom level change. (#26609)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where combo boxes (PSPDFKit.FormField.ComboBoxFormField) were cut-off when overflowing the edge of a page. (#25265)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where line breaks and repeating spaces were not displayed in comments. (#27998)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where move page dialog inside document editor could not get focus on iPad with hardware keyboard connected. (#27282)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where the pages would disappear from the viewport when resizing the window in Safari 14.0.3. (#28128)

Model

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where two form fields with the same name could be created in Server-backed deployments. (#27891)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where instance.getComments() did not return correct result if called just after load. (#27359)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where a JavaScript error would be triggered when opening the document. (#25235)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where rendering could fail after removing a widget annotation. (#26857)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where setting interactionMode would override currentItemPreset. (#27289)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where the document JavaScript would not be executed after applying form field values changes from instantJSON. (#27629)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where the signature description was cut off in narrow signature fields. (#27540)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where trying to delete an annotation of unknown type in instantJSON would cause an error. (#27332)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where error message related to missing image documents license could have been thrown when opening corrupted files in standalone. (#27714)

Core

  • Added

    Adds a new document signature integrity status for when the digital signature type that is being validated is not supported. (#25030)

  • Added

    Adds support for parsing multiple certificates inside a single .pem file. (#26396)

  • Added

    Adds support for validating PAdES B digital signatures. (#25153)

  • Changed

    Improves font selection process for bold and italic fonts. (#26719)

  • Changed

    Improves how certificate expiration in digital signatures is handled. (#27047)

  • Changed

    Improves how the endPageIndex works when using PSPDFKit.Instance#search. (#25309)

  • Changed

    Improves simplified and traditional Chinese font selection. (#26674)

  • Changed

    Improves memory usage when loading PDF documents by 15% to 35%, depending on the document. (#27182)

  • Changed

    Improves handling of rootId changes on an existing comment si it throws an error. (#27856)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where certain timestamps would not be preserved because of an incorrect sanitization step. (#27720)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where documents with forms would update values very slowly on Standalone mode. (#22786)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where form calculation was triggered when setting an empty string on a form field that didn’t have a value. (#26345)

  • Fixed

    Fixes a problem where signing a document again after filling a form field may invalidate existing digital signatures. (#25637)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where digital signatures wouldn’t show framework version numbers when inspected using third party software. (#26183)

  • Fixed

    Fixes customData being overwritten in the root annotation of an Instant Comment thread when comments are added. (#27570)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where a new trial activation key couldn’t be used unless the license data was cleared from the database first. (#27298)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where languages with characters outside of the Latin1 range could not be encoded in modal dialogs. (#27379, #27565)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where some DER-encoded signatures may not be validated correctly. (#25757)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where the signature reason, name or location may not appear correctly if they contain non-ASCII characters. (#26671)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where paths overdrew, resulting in incorrect shapes. (#27330)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an assert that was triggered by malformed documents that contained fonts that were not indirect objects. (#26450)

  • Fixed

    Fixes rendering a wrong color if the color was using a ICC color profile and the color was out of bounds. (#26535)

Examples

  • Added

    Adds a text filter to the catalog examples menu. (#27669)

  • Added

    Adds a Collaboration Permissions example to the catalog. (#27513)

  • Changed

    Updates the Wasm Benchmark example: correct capitalization and check if Google Analytics is loaded. (#26527)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue in the Gatsby example where the PSPDFKit instance would fail to initialize sometimes. (#28120)

2020.6.4 - 12 Jan 2021

UI

  • Changed

    Improves ink drawing performance. (#27035)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where document editor move dialog did not handle focus correctly. (#27282)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where thumbnails were not displayed initially after opening the document editor in Chrome. (#26952)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue with the caret position and autoselection of the content of text annotations in Safari. (#4224)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue with the initial selection when using PSPDFKit.instance#setEditingAnnotation. (#4224)

Model

  • Changed

    Decreases amount of signature refreshes to improve performance and network usage. Signatures are now refreshed only when the document is signed and not modified. (#27128)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where annotations not marked for printing were visible when using PrintMode.EXPORT_PDF. (#25926)

2020.6.3 - 27 Nov 2020

No web-specific changes in this version.

2020.6.2 - 19 Nov 2020

UI

  • Changed

    Starts fetching Wasm artifacts earlier. (#26580)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue that was causing note icons buttons to not have hover or active styles. (#26768)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue when scrolling through a large document using the arrow keys. (#26271)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where isEditableAnnotation callback was not used to decide whether the annotation should be editable when the document was read-only. (#25899)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where isEditableComment callback was not used to decide whether comment should be editable when the document was read-only. (#26555)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where annotation hit testing would fail after signing or applying document editor operations when first page was not the current page. (#26490)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where highlight annotations would be rendered opaque when AP stream rendering was enabled on Legacy Edge and IE11. (#26611)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where markup annotations in rotated pages would be rendered with a wrong, non rotated orientation. (#26281)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where previewed redactions overlay text wasn’t visible on small heights. (#25304)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where the add bookmark button was hidden when annotation toolbar was open. (#26226)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where the ink signature dialog would restore focus to the wrong DOM element when closed. (#26579)

  • Fixed

    Fixes conditions where opening a dropdown menu would cause the page to scroll down unexpectedly. (#26102)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where free-form highlights lost opacity after activating eraser when image annotation existed on the page. (#25308)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where invalid comment counts were displayed after changing selection between comment thread roots via setSelectedAnnotation. (#26856)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where leaving combobox dropdown via Escape key could lead to a crash. (#26875)

Model

  • Changed

    Improves performance with path drawing by removing unnecessary path operations. (#25922)

  • Changed

    Improves text search performance for large documents on Server deployments. (#25318)

  • Fixed

    Fixes a crash when a link annotation with an unsupported action was rendered. (#25730)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where border color wasn’t properly read for widget annotations. (#25317)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where ellipse, rectangle and polygon annotations without cloudyBorderIntensity set would lose their original AP stream. (#26568)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where signature AP streams were not correctly rendered when instant was set to false. (#26634)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where text annotations with a callout property would throw an error instead of rendering a fallback appearance. (#26553)

  • Fixed

    Fixes conditions where the ViewState.change wouldn’t always fire. (#25881)

Core

  • Added

    Adds support for finding the correct form field type in non-conforming PDF files. (#26459)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where forms were not repaired before trying to set form values. (#26004)

  • Changed

    Improves rendering performance of documents with lots of image patterns. (#26186)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where partially redacted curved path objects may be misdrawn. (#26698)

2020.6.1 - 27 Oct 2020

Core

  • Fixed

    Fixes CVE-2020-15999 in upstream dependency Freetype. (#26610)

2020.6.0 - 20 Oct 2020

See the announcement post.

UI

  • Added

    Adds per annotation AP stream rendering support through PSPDFKit.Configuration#isAPStreamRendered(). (#25297)

  • Added

    Adds support for annotation notes. (#25626)

  • Added

    Adds support for using custom fonts on Standalone deployments. (#25356)

  • Added

    Adds a new configuration option restrictAnnotationToPageBounds that restricts the movement of annotations to the page boundary. (#25240)

  • Added

    Adds missing attachments error reporting when using custom stamp annotation templates. (#25285)

  • Added

    Adds title to container iframe to improve accessibility. (#26034)

  • Changed

    Improves how comment threads are creating when using the keyboard. (#25751)

  • Changed

    Improves how currently selected page is announced to screen readers on thumbnails sidebar. (#26035)

  • Changed

    Improves how focus is moved from open dropdown to next item. (#25788)

  • Changed

    Improves how slider dropdowns are accessed using the keyboard. (#25781)

  • Changed

    Improves how text and note annotations are created using the keyboard. (#25751)

  • Changed

    Improves how toolbar dropdowns are used with the keyboard and announced by assistive technology. (#4752)

  • Changed

    Improves selection of dropdown options using the keyboard while an annotation is selected. (#4793)

  • Changed

    Improve keyboard navigation and screen readers support on annotation toolbar responsive groups. (#26029)

  • Changed

    Improve navigation with left and right keys for multi-column dropdowns. (#25791)

  • Changed

    Prevent an invisible image picker from being announced by assistive technology. (#26227)

  • Changed

    Updated toolbar icons to increase their contrast and fix the fill of some icons. (#25167)

  • Fixed

    Fixes a crash when pressing Escape with focus on the layout config button. (#25789)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue that prevented the user from copying text from an input field with the UI in Firefox. (#25790)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where AP streams of button widget would disappear when focused. (#25145)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where deleting an annotation with the key shortcut would end up scrolling the view up. (#25286)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where dropdown of currently selected item class wasn’t properly set when opened. (#26211)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where initially selected toolbar buttons would not appear highlighted. (#26163)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where text annotation’s AP streams would be invalidated without prior modification of any visual property. (#25543)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where text selection on rotated pages would have the wrong direction. (#25345)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where the inline markup toolbar would appear in a wrong position on rotated pages. (#25345)

  • Fixed

    Fixes flash when opening dropdowns on IE11 and legacy versions of Edge. (#26151)

  • Fixed

    Fixes toolbar item activation while an annotation is selected. (#4793)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue on macOS Safari that prevented use of left and right keys to move annotations. (#26422)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where it was possible to delete a comment thread by pressing Backspace. (#25831)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where pressing Backspace in Firefox and IE11 caused the browser to navigate back in the history. (#26461)

Model

  • Added

    Adds Configuration#customFonts to allow loading an array of custom fonts to use on Standalone deployments. (#25356)

  • Added

    Adds the rotation property to PSPDFKit.PageInfo. (#26152)

  • Added

    Adds flattenAnnotation document editing operation. (#25287)

  • Changed

    Improves the error message shown when requiring the Form Designer component. (#25815)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where the typings for the instance.search API was wrong. (#26038)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where widgets AP streams were not rendered if the form field value was initially set in Standalone mode. (#26295)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where some annotations did not have correct TypeScript declarations. (#25910)

Core

  • Changed

    Improves WebAssembly download and initialization performance by reducing the binary size. (#25893)

  • Changed

    Improves loading performance for documents that have broken internal links (named destinations). (#24398, #26099)

  • Changed

    Enhances the flattening of note annotations by rendering the root comment rather than the note icon. (#22673)

  • Fixed

    Fixes OOM errors when loading large documents. (#25654)

  • Fixed

    Fixes a crash that could happen when creating form fields. (#25806)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where OCR could not be performed on a certain image due to an incorrect render scale. (#26118)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where appearance streams weren’t re-generated when using the processor even though “NeedAppearances” was set in the PDF. (#26123)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where documents with high object numbers were identified as corrupt. (#26062)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where form elements were included in the page rendering which shouldn’t have been. (#25799)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where warning messages were displayed in other readers when flattening a signature form field. (#25923)

  • Fixed

    Fixes duplication of newly created pages in the Document Editor. (#26074)

  • Fixed

    Fixes form field JavaScript actions in the generated documents when merging two or more documents together. (#25603)

  • Fixed

    Fixes the PDF JavaScript function getNthFieldName to return the FQN of the form field. (#26144)

  • Fixed

    Fixes text clipping for form fields exceeding their maxLen due to programmatic changes. (#26340)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue in the Document Editor when adding an item to an imported page. (#25837)

Examples

  • Fixed

    Fixes a runtime JavaScript error in the “Customize annotations” example. (#25855)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where the Form Designer example would fail when AP stream rendering was enabled. (#25546)

  • Fixed

    Fixes the “What’s new” top link in the public Catalog by pointing it to the changelog. (#25655)

2020.5.1 - 10 Sep 2020

No web-specific changes in this version.

2020.5.0 - 10 Sep 2020

See the announcement post.

UI

  • Added

    Adds support for moving pages by dragging them or via a dialog in the Document Editor. (#25178)

  • Changed

    Improves interaction with toolbar responsive groups using the keyboard. (#2513)

  • Changed

    Improves keyboard navigation and screen reader support for annotation toolbars on desktop. (#4775)

  • Changed

    Improves styling of notes popovers to ease opting out from gradient rendering. (#25316)

  • Changed

    Improves how toolbar dropdowns are used with the keyboard and announced by assistive technology. (#4752)

  • Changed

    Updates image request handling on Server deployments to use XHR requests also in Firefox. (#25263)

  • Fixed

    Fixes a race condition where network requests made by an unloaded instance weren’t cancelled. (#25292)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where annotations.create and annotations.update event were not getting called at the right time for ink, shape and note annotations. (#4655)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where clients presence wasn’t updated after unloading an instance. (#25141)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where the font was not correctly auto-resized in multiline widgets in absence of newline character. (#25098)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where the preset wasn’t selected when the Signature Modal was opened by clicking on the Signature Widget Annotation. (#25599)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue with the TypeScript declaration for Configuration#toolbarItems. (#25164)

Model

  • API

    Adds extended API for comments. (#25470)

    • API

      Adds Instance#getComments() to retrieve all comments in the document.

    • API

      Comments can now be created/updated/deleted/saved via the new unified API.

    • API

      Adds events related to comments saving and changes.

  • API

    Adds unified API for creating, updating, deleting and saving objects. (#4837)

    • API

      Adds new methods to Instance to allow performing operations on a batch of changes: create, update, delete, hasUnsavedChanges and ensureChangesSaved. Supports annotations, bookmarks, form fields, form field values and comments.

    • API

      Adds PSPDFKit.generateInstantId for generating unique ID for changes.

    • API

      Deprecates Instance methods for performing modifications and saving changes: create*, update*, delete*, save*, ensure*Saved, hasUnsaved*. Use the new unified API instead.

  • API

    Instance#save and Instance#ensureChangesSaved now report errors when save fails. (#25505)

  • Added

    Adds support to add line cap and line width presets. (#25118)

  • Added

    Adds support to set default color presets for highlights, note and text markup. (#25118)

  • Changed

    Improves error message when document permissions don’t allow form editing. (#25525)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue that prevented setting interaction mode as part of initialViewState. (#25506)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where instant comments weren’t being auto-saved in intelligent mode. (#25331)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where the printed PDF didn’t include annotations if it was done just after loading a PDF. (#25579)

  • Fixed

    Fixes error when opening documents with forms more than once in Edge Legacy. (#25135, #25371)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where Bézier paths were drawn incorrectly when a miter limit was set. (#25758)

Core

  • Added

    Adds support for PEM format PKCS#1 private keys for use with digital signatures. (#24919)

  • Changed

    Improves Processor behavior when license doesn’t include the forms component. (#24604)

  • Changed

    Improves font rendering in forms with Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Thai characters. (#24337)

  • Changed

    Improves the log messages when a license bundle ID check fails. (#25572)

  • Changed

    OCR now uses NEON and AVX intrinsics for better performance. (#24870)

  • Fixed

    Fixes a crash that could happen as a result of a race condition when form fields were repaired and the page was rendered at the same time. (#24885)

  • Fixed

    Fixes a problem where signing a document with existing digital signatures may invalidate them. (#24780)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where appearance streams of form field widgets weren’t preserved correctly. (#25550)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where text form fields weren’t displayed correctly after flattening due to their appearance stream being wrong in the original document. (#24918)

  • Fixed

    Fixes duplicate string occurrences when copy and pasting from documents with duplicate content. (#25108)

  • Fixed

    Fixes issues where pages were not moved correctly when using the document editor API. (#24939)

  • Fixed

    Fixes the saving of small shapes with large line widths. Shapes with these characteristics in documents saved by PSPDFKit will now be visible on any reader. (#25531)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where the digital signature advanced properties contained the signature creator twice. (#25611)

Examples

  • Fixed

    Fixes the ‘What’s new’ top link in the public Catalog by pointing it to the changelog. (#25655)

2020.4.2 - 04 Aug 2020

Model

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where JWT with a payload containing unicode characters got rejected. (#4810)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where documents would not open in Standalone mode in Edge unless disableWebassemblyStreaming was set to true. (#4834)

Core

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where text with word or character spacing was shifted after redaction has been applied. (#C24476)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where objects rendered with the Overlay blend mode didn’t always render correctly. (#C24298)

2020.4.1 - 22 Jul 2020

Model

  • API

    Adds support for regex and pattern search in the Instance#search API. (#4729)

  • API

    Adds support to search in annotations in the Instance#search API. (#4729)

  • API

    Adds isAnnotation and annotationRect in PSPDFKit#SearchResult. (#4729)

  • API

    Adds optional baseUrl parameter to PSPDFKit.I18n.preloadLocalizationData and PSPDFKit.preloadWorker. (#4751)

  • Added

    Adds public CSS classes for ink signature dialog. (#4770)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where values of form fields returned via Instance#getFormFields() was not set. (#3909)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where updating a form field erased its current value. (#4707)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where placeholderSize parameter used when signing the document was ignored in standalone. (#4780)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where some parts of the API had missing or incorrect type definitions. (#4708, #4689)

UI

  • Changed

    Improves semantic description of the markup annotation toolbar. (#4714)

  • Changed

    Improves support of screen readers on browse mode. (#4717)

  • Changed

    Improves how toolbar responsive groups are announced to screen readers. (#4715)

  • Changed

    Improves interaction with comment threads through assistive technology. (#4716)

  • Changed

    Improves accessibility of color pickers. (#4779)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where an annotation would get stuck to the cursor and get dragged after a right click on it. (#4773)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where the Markup Highlighter shifted when the selected text had leading or trailing space. (#4656)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where clicking a comment thread could trigger navigating to the next page. (#4719)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where new image annotations would not update their opacity when modified with the UI. (#4814)

Examples

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where an error would be thrown when loading a custom document. (#4748)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where downloading a PDF from the Catalog would crash on mobile Safari. (#3810)

Core

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where umlauts were displayed wrong in certain documents because the wrong encoding was used when shaping the text. (#C24465)

  • Fixed

    Fixes a very rare crash on certain documents when multiple pages were rendered at the same time. (#C24598, #C24626)

  • Fixed

    Fixes a problem where some certificates with CRL distribution point extensions may not be validated correctly. (#C24660)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where our text parser returned descending characters from the line above the intended search area. (#C24709)

2020.4.0 - 14 Jul 2020

No web-specific changes in this version.

2020.3 - 30 Jun 2020

See the announcement post.

UI

  • Added

    Adds the ability to redact documents by drawing redaction annotations over text or an arbitrary area. (#4536)

  • Added

    Adds new toolbar item types redact-text-highlighter and redact-rectangle to create redaction annotations. These toolbar buttons are disabled by default. (#4585)

  • Added

    Adds detailed error messages in UI when PSPDFKit fails loading. (#4310)

  • Added

    Adds missing accessibility descriptions for certain modals. (#4475)

  • Added

    Adds support for rendering AP stream in signed signature widgets. (#4503)

  • Added

    Adds missing translation for Document Editor toolbar button. (#4577)

  • Removed

    Removes transparent color from foreground color pickers because it resulted in a wrong annotation rendering. (#3785)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where dropdowns won’t close when clicked somewhere else in certain browsers. (#4424)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where modifications performed after a failed digitally signing attempt weren’t persisted. (#4433)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where screen readers would read each page entirely when they were focused. (#4267)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where text could not be entered into form fields under certain conditions. (#4232)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where dropdown items would still be highlighted even when the mouse was not hovering over them. (#4497)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where annotations sidebar count included comments. (#4528)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where the same annotations.press event was emitted twice. (#4512)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where annotations would change their rendering order when the view is rotated on macOS Safari in Standalone mode. (#4158)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where annotations would lose their blend when the view is rotated on some browsers in Standalone mode. (#4298)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where note annotation’s text would be hidden in rotated view on Windows Chrome in Standalone mode. (#4329)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where text annotation’s edited text would be hidden in rotated view on Windows Chrome in Standalone mode. (#4330)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where highlight annotations would lose their opacity in rotated view on some browsers in Standalone mode. (#4496)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where it wasn’t possible to click on the links when other annotations were in the foreground. (#3437)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where the toolbar icons overlapped in certain screen sizes. (#4663)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where dropdowns won’t close when clicked somewhere else in certain browsers. (#4234)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where the submit button of first comment of the thread had the ‘Reply’ label. It has been changed to ‘Comment’. (#4710)

Model

  • API

    Adds Instance#applyRedactions to irreversibly redact the current document. (#4614)

  • API

    Adds Instance#createRedactionsBySearch to allow specifying a search criteria and create redaction annotations by the results. (#4627)

  • API

    Adds PSPDFKit.ViewState#previewRedactionMode to toggle between the marked and redacted appearances of redaction annotations. (#4609)

  • API

    Adds PSPDFKit.SearchType and PSPDFKit.SearchPattern data types. (#4627)

  • API

    Adds PSPDFKit.Annotations.RedactionAnnotation data type. (#4539)

  • API

    Adds REDACT_TEXT_HIGHLIGHTER and REDACT_SHAPE_RECTANGLE interaction modes. (#4540)

  • API

    Adds support for flattening a document before adding a digital signature. (#4194)

  • API

    Fixes an issue where certain events would not be fired after applying document operations. (#4519)

  • API

    Adds Instance#hasUnsavedChanges() to check if there were changes to any of the supported model types - annotations, comments, bookmarks, form fields and form values. (#4534)

  • API

    Adds event document.saveStateChange that is emitted when save state of the document changes, i.e. when result of Instance#hasUnsavedChanges() changes. (#4562)

  • Added

    Adds public CSS classes for stamp dialog buttons. (#4223)

  • Added

    Adds support for setting and rendering widget annotation’s font property. (#4288)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where Instance#hasUnsaved*() returned false when there were changes not yet saved in Server mode. (#4557)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where ensureAnnotationSaved(), ensureBookmarkSaved() and ensureFormFieldSaved() from Instance never resolved under certain conditions. (#4561)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where deleting a form field or a widget annotation would lead to an inconsistent state and subsequent errors. (#4572)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue with the TypeScript declaration on strict mode. (#4671)

Core

  • Changed

    Improves style sheet parsing to recognize font names better. (#C23968)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where text search may not work correctly for certain Asian languages. (#C23125)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where non-latin text wouldn’t render correctly. (#C23287)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where wrong characters were displayed in multi-line form fields. (#C23317)

  • Fixed

    Fixes a problem where searching some documents may not return every text match. (#C23638)

  • Fixed

    Fixes potential document corruption when incremental saving encrypted documents. (#C23689)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where Arabic text was not displayed correctly in exported PDFs. (#C23790)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an endless loop while trying to repair form field. (#C23901, #C24597)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where the read_form_json_objects command may not return all form fields in the document. (#C24014)

  • Fixed

    Fixes a problem where the asset name of a screen annotation may not be decoded correctly in some cases. (#C24269)

  • Fixed

    Fixes a problem where the font name of a free text annotation may not be decoded correctly in some cases. (#C24269)

  • Fixed

    Fixes a dangling pointer upon destruction of PSPDFKit. (#C24387)

  • Fixed

    Fixes a rare case where the framework may exit unexpectedly when working with a PDF document. (#C24599)

Examples

  • Added

    Adds an example showing how to integrate PSPDFKit for Web with an Angular project. (#4608)

  • Changed

    Updates the Vue example with required API changes, and extends it with an Annotation API example. (#4513)

  • Changed

    Updates the Typescript example with required API changes, and extends it with an Annotation API example. (#4515)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue in the Webpack example where loading a document would fail. (#4590)

Documentation

  • Added

    Adds documentation for Instance#getTextSelection(). (#4701)

2020.2.6 - 9 Jun 2020

Model

  • Changed

    Improves quality of fallback font rendering. (#C24136)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where text was rendered incorrectly when the ‘comb’ option was used. (#C24395)

2020.2.5 - 28 May 2020

UI

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where manually drawing ink annotations would fail in IE11. (#4622)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where selecting text on Chrome 83 would include a dark text overlap. (#4631)

Examples

  • Fixed

    Fixes issues when using Form Designer catalog example on IE11 (#4419)

  • Changed

    Renames the Obscure Annotations catalog example to Hide/Reveal Area. (#4605)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue in the catalog where clicking on the active example would remove the document ID from the collaborate dialog. (#4629)

2020.2.4 - 20 May 2020

UI

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where adding an image annotation from a PDF document with the UI would fail in IE11 and Edge. (#4564)

Model

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue with the TypeScript declarations. (#4570)

2020.2.3 - 12 May 2020

UI

  • Added

    Adds a data-annotation-id attribute to the annotations sidebar individual items. (#4499)

  • Changed

    Improves accessibility and UX by removing hard line breaks in rendered text. (#4160)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where the cursor and drawing were not properly aligned if the sidebar was open on load. (#4410)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where toolbar buttons with dropdown arrows would overlap other buttons in certain viewport widths and toolbar configurations. (#4406)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue for Server-backed deployments where printing a document would not respect relevant annotation flags. (#4443)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where the height of the collapsed comment threads were wrong. (#4432)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where stamp annotations with opacity smaller than 1 would lose their original AP stream. (#4493)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where line breaks in text annotations created in other viewers would not be rendered. (#4470)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where annotations.press was called twice when the user clicked on the Signature widget. (#4509)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where the “annotate” icon was not visible on old versions of Edge. (#4315)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where note annotations wouldn’t appear if the icon was not found. (#4492)

Model

  • API

    Adds "applyInstantJson" and "applyXfdf" document operations. (#4426)

Developer Experience (DX)

  • Added

    Added TypeScript declarations for the public API (#4257)

2020.2.2 - 28 Apr 2020

UI

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where the comment threads won’t expand in readOnly mode. (#4422)

Model

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where changes made during offline state were lost after coming back online. (#4383)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue with an internal API using the unsupported Promise.prototype.finally which caused legacy browsers to crash. (#4520)

2020.2.1 - 21 Apr 2020

UI

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where form field values added after deleting an annotation were not exported. (#4466)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue in IE11 where selecting an annotation tool while a comment was focused would crash the app. (#4420)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where some translated strings looked wrong in Korean. (#4476)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue in Standalone where documents were rendered at low resolution and blurry when opened in a mobile device. (#4184)

2020.2.0 - 07 Apr 2020

UI

  • Added

    Adds confirmation dialog when deleting comments. (#4269)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where root markup annotations were visible when instant was set to false in configuration. (#4238)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where multiline text widgets with auto-size font would have its font size too decreased. (#4271)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where confirmation dialogs were sometimes ignoring the “Enter” and “Space” keys. (#4332)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where spreads would render at incorrect widths when pages are inconsistently sized. (#4279)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where the event viewState.change was being emitted even when there was no change in viewState. (#4311)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue that would prevent Link annotations with URIs without protocol to open as expected. (#4363)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where the opacity of widget annotations was not being respected. (#4261)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where renderPageAsArrayBuffer and renderPageAsImageURL didn’t include annotations. (#4377)

  • Fixed

    Fixes PrintMode.DOM out of memory issue in Standalone by capping the max document size when printing. (#4192)

  • Fixed

    Fixes some rare stability issues when filling a form document with JavaScript scripts. (#C23443)

Model

  • API

    Adds Configuration#document and deprecates Configuration#pdf in Standalone. (#4192)

  • API

    Adds "applyInstantJson" and "applyXfdf" document operations. (#4426)

  • API

    Removes deprecated PSPDFKit.I18n#localeData, PSPDFKit.RectangleAnnotation#cloudyBorderInsetRect, and PSPDFKit.EllipseAnnotation#cloudyBorderInsetRect properties. (#4395)

  • Added

    Adds support for loading Image Documents. (#4192)

  • Added

    Adds support for loading Word Documents (Server Only). (#4192)

  • Changed

    Improves performance of documents with PDF JavaScript formatting scripts. (#4294)

  • Changed

    Improves memory usage when digitally signing documents. (#C23299)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where exporting instantJSON from a document with forms would fail after updating a form field. (#4339)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue that caused a crash when rendering certain pages from multiple threads. (#C23209, #C23339)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where the mailDoc and similar JavaScript functions may not parse its arguments correctly. (#C23257)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue flattening form fields correctly when the artbox of the page contains an offset. (#C23385)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where options for a combobox weren’t serialized correctly. (#C23412)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where spacing between extracted words was far too large. (#C23439)

  • Fixed

    Fixes a potential data loss issues upon saving. (#C23485, #C23474)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where, after exporting a document, values of text form fields are only visible when selected (#C23652).

Examples

  • Added

    Adds a link to Codesandbox to all the examples to facilitate playing with the example code. (#4243)

  • Added

    Adds example for Image Documents. (#4192)

2020.1.3 - 10 Mar 2020

UI

  • Changed

    Improves performance when drawing ink annotations. (#3943)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where the network requests for tiles were not cancelled even when that tile was out of viewport. (#4235)

  • Fixed

    Fixes missing PSPDFKit-Comment-Marker-Annotation-Selected class was missing when creating a new comment thread. (#4264)

Model

  • API

    Adds new annotations.willChange event to track when a user starts and ends interacting with an annotation tool or existing annotation. (#3751)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue flattening form fields correctly when the artbox of the page contains an offset. (#C23385)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where spacing between words was far too large. (#C23439)

2020.1.2 – 21 Feb 2020

No web-specific changes in this version.

2020.1.1 – 13 Feb 2020

UI

  • Changed

    Improves performance when drawing ink annotations. (#3943)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where the viewport didn’t center horizontally if the user deleted all the comments/root annotations. (#4181)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where the click on markup comment icon didn’t work if a thread was already selected. (#4190)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue with note annotations creation where the annotation marker would appear on every page upon dropping. (#4189)

Model

  • API

    Adds new PSPDFKit.ScrollMode.DISABLED option to disable changing pages via the UI. (#4172)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue with ahead of time compilation tools breaking when accessing the deprecated PSPDFKit.I18n.localeData API. (#4201)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where text on form fields is occasionally rendered with incorrect rotation on rotated pages. (#C22854)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where some PDF JavaScript calculations may not work correctly. (#C23043)

2020.1 – 31 Jan 2020

See the announcement post.

UI

  • Added

    Adds the ability to add comments to a PDF document through a text highlight or the newly introduced comment marker annotation. (#3615)

  • Added

    Adds support for digitally sign documents and obtain the validation status of digital signatures present on it. (#3614)

  • Added

    Adds support for fitting text annotations to the text by double clicking the right, bottom right, or bottom resize anchors. (#3781)

  • Added

    Adds a small delay before showing a loading indicator. (#3574)

  • Added

    Adds translations for “Marquee Zoom”. (#3669)

  • Added

    Adds support for en-GB locale. (#4080)

  • Changed

    Changes the annotation toolbar icon to better separate it from the document editor icon. (#3804)

  • Changed

    Changes the location of a new note annotation to be at the center of the click. (#3776)

  • Changed

    Changes the note annotation icon in the main toolbar. (#4163)

  • Changed

    Improves UI consistency and readability by increasing the font-size throughout the entire app. (#3438)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where CSS fallbacks for browsers not supporting CSS variables would fail to be applied. (#3734)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where rectangle and ellipse annotations’ cloudy border would be cropped when its strokeWidth was increased using the UI. (#3906, #C22349)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where the sidebar was not closing clicking on an element in fullscreen mode in big screens. (#3861)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where forms were being rendered even when disableForms was set to true. (#3987)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where the subtitle property would be ignored in “Custom” stamp annotation templates. (#3983)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an edge case where a memory leak was produced when a new instance is immediately loaded after unloading a previously one that just started loading. (#4047)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where resizing a text widget annotation with the UI would result in poor UI responsiveness. (#4090)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue in IE11 where nodes appended using annotation’s PSPDFKit.Configuration#customRenderers disappeared. (#3916)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where the UI could initialize when the stylesheets were not yet loaded. (#4009)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where small free text annotations would not be visible. (#3925, #C22514)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where text annotations with callout with a null cap property would not be recognized. (#4156)

  • Fixed

    Fixes annotation render order. (#3039, #3678)

Model

  • API

    Adds Configuration#minDefaultZoomLevel and Configuration#maxDefaultZoomLevel to allow changing the default limits on minimum and maximum zoom levels. (#3696)

  • API

    Adds new PSPDFKit.Geometry.Inset data type. (#3668)

  • API

    Adds Configuration#trustedCAsCallback to specify which certificates to validate digital signatures against. (#3614)

  • API

    Adds Instance#signDocument to digitally sign a document. (#3614)

  • API

    Adds Instance#getSignaturesInfo to retrieve the information of the digital signatures present on the document. (#3614)

  • API

    Adds PSPDFKit.ViewState#showSignatureValidationStatus to determine if and when the digital signatures validation status bar should be displayed. (#3614)

  • API

    Adds PSPDFKit.SignaturesInfo and PSPDFKit.SignatureInfo data types. (#3614)

  • API

    Adds PSPDFKit.ShowSignatureValidationStatusMode, PSPDFKit.DocumentValidationStatusand related digital signatures enums. (#3614)

  • API

    Adds public CSS classes for the digital signatures validation status bar. (#3614)

  • API

    Adds CommentAvatar support to Configuration#customRenderers (#3615)

  • API

    Adds Configuration#isEditableComment and Instance#setIsEditableComment to selectively allow/disable editing certain comments. (#3615)

  • API

    Adds PSPDFKit.ViewState#showComments to toggle rendering comments in the UI. (#3615)

  • API

    Adds PSPDFKit.Comment and PSPDFKit.Annotations.CommentMarkerAnnotation data types. (#3615)

  • API

    Adds Instance#hasUnsavedComments to determine if there are unsaved comments. (#4162)

  • API

    Adds Instance#saveComments to manually save comments in case you have manually set autoSaveMode to something other than PSPDFKit.AutoSaveMode.IMMEDIATE. (#4162)

  • API

    Adds public CSS classes for comments-related UI. (#3615)

  • API

    Replaces rectangle and ellipse annotation’s cloudyBorderInsetRect property with cloudyBorderInset, which uses the new PSPDFKit.Geometry.Inset type. (#3668)

  • API

    Fixes an issue in Standalone mode where PSPDFKit.Instance#getAnnotations() would resolve before widget annotations were available. (#3718)

  • API

    Fixes an issue in Standalone mode where form fields included in PSPDFKit.Configuration#instantJSON were not being created. (#3713)

  • API

    Fixes an issue where calling preloadWorker() on Electron would not match the Electron app ID to the license. (#4019)

  • Added

    Adds Bookmark.toSerializableObject and Bookmark.fromSerializableObject to serialize/deserialize bookmark objects. (#3655)

  • Added

    Adds support for the JavaScript function doc.gotoNamedDest. (#C18957)

  • Added

    Adds support for saving encrypted documents incrementally. (#C22722)

  • Changed

    Improves handling of enqueued modifications to annotations, bookmarks and form fields. (#3626)

  • Changed

    Improves license check error message to provide more information. (#C12904)

  • Changed

    Improves automatic font detection - prefer fonts already in the document when possible. (#C22530)

  • Changed

    Improves complex script text rendering. (#C22573)

  • Changed

    Improves annotation notes exporting for better compatibility with macOS 10.15 Preview’s sidebar. (#C22791)

  • Changed

    Improves logging to the console when opening a document with form fields without a forms license. (#C23119)

  • Changed

    Updates react-intl version, which improves locale data handling by making use of the standard Intl API. (#3671)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where global touch event listeners would not be removed when the instance was unloaded. (#3963)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue in Standalone mode where modifications to widget annotations would not be rendered, printed or exported if its form field had not been modified. (#4077)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where the value returned by viewState.viewportPadding had the horizontal and vertical values switched. (#3934)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue in Standalone mode where sometimes exporting the PDF would error if annotations had been deleted, but not updated nor created. (#4109)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue in Server mode where image and stamp annotations would be removed after applying document operations. (#4098)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where a form field element appearance stream was regenerated accidentally when not needed. (#C21618)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue that caused a blank page after flattening annotations on certain documents. (#C22279)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue with form calculations when one of the form fields contains multiple form elements. (#C22675)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue with encrypted documents not being digitally signed correctly. (#C22722)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where creating a submit form action from JSON without action flags would not work. (#C22784)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue with the file size optimization algorithm not running on save. (#C22809)

  • Fixed

    Fixes characters escaping when exporting to XFDF. (#C22844)

  • Fixed

    Fixes PDF Javascript when scripts are encoded in UTF16. (#C23044)

Examples

  • Added

    Adds a new catalog example to showcase adding comments via the PSPDFKit UI. (#3615)

  • Added

    Adds a new catalog example for the new Digital Signatures feature. (#3343)

  • Added

    Adds an example to show PSPDFKit for Web’s integration with Svelte. (#3732)

  • Added

    Adds an example to show PSPDFKit for Web’s integration with Next.js. (#3727)

  • Added

    Adds new catalog example that demonstrates how to build an annotations inspector. (#3607)

  • Added

    Adds an example to show PSPDFKit for Web’s integration with GatsbyJS. (#3803)

  • Changed

    Updates Form Designer catalog example to demonstrate a potential UI that allows two signers to fill in a contract.

  • Changed

    Updates electron dependency to v7.x in Electron example. (#3992)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue in the catalog app that prevented switching between Server and Standalone modes in IE11. (#3758)

Documentation

  • Changed

    API docs now have a “See also” section with related properties and methods from other namespaces. (#4062)

  • Removed

    Removed wrongly documented event.formField from PSPDFKit.AnnotationsFocusEvent and PSPDFKit.AnnotationsBlurEvent. (#3793)

2019.5.4 – 5 Dec 2019

UI

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where unloading an instance while it hadn’t finished loading lead to a memory leak. (#3866)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where the text of the right page on double page layout got blurry under certain conditions. (#3706)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where clicking on an annotation or the edges of a document in PER_SPREAD scroll mode went to the next or previous page. (#3907)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where typed letters on text form fields would appear very slowly on some browsers. (#3665)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where the UI would initialize if the stylesheets are not loaded yet. (#3739)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue on Firefox and Safari where the pan mode tool would be stuck after clicking on an internal document link. (#3814)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where the Document Outline sidebar would not load when enabled in the initial view state. (#3470)

Model

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where annotations.focus and annotations.blur events would not be dispatched at the intended times. (#3513, #3579)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where annotations.focus and annotations.blur event handler callbacks would receive the annotation object as nativeEvent event property instead of the original event object, only for note annotations. (#3653)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where the interface would break when deleting multiple annotations programmatically. (#3869)

Core

  • Changed

    Improves memory usage while searching document with a lot of annotations. (#C22367)

  • Changed

    Updates Duktape to version 2.5.0. (#C22476)

  • Fixed

    Fixes ISO8601 timezone support in instant json. (#C21148)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where certain high resolution images weren’t rendered. (#C22322)

  • Fixed

    Fixes a crash related to multi-threading and font loading. (#C22387)

2019.5.3 – 5 Nov 2019

UI

  • Fixed

    Fixes drawing with pen devices. (#3629)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where additionalActions on WidgetAnnotations were not working. (#3761)

Model

  • API

    Fixes an issue in Standalone mode where PSPDFKit.Instance#exportXFDF() would throw an error. (#3788)

  • Changed

    Improves the rendering of annotations with dashed borders. (#C10216)

  • Changed

    Increases image size limits. (#C22029)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where text entered in certain form fields was rendered garbled. (#C21700)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where some filled form fields may not show their content correctly. (#C22100)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where form repairs were done too eagerly. (#C20786)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where some properties of a widget annotation were not persisted when the document was saved. (#C21546)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where deleting or moving pages from a PDF did not update the outline. (#C21620, #C22048)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where annotation additional actions may not be deserialized correctly. (#C21983)

Core

  • Changed

    Updates Duktape to version 2.4.0. (#C20954)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue if a TrueType font collection has more than 32 fonts. (#C22148)

2019.5.2 – 16 Oct 2019

UI

  • Added

    Adds pinch to zoom support on Edge, Chrome, and Firefox when using touch screens. (#759)

  • Added

    Adds double tap to zoom support on Edge, Chrome, and Firefox when using touch screens. (#1384)

  • Added

    Adds support for navigating pages by tapping the left and right parts of the background in PER_SPREAD scroll mode. (#3658)

  • Added

    Adds support for rotation to widget annotations. (#3114)

  • Changed

    Improves tiling experience by avoiding temporary blurriness when zooming in and out. (#3654)

  • Changed

    Improves pinch zooming behavior by capping the maximum and minimum zoom levels for pinching. (#3656)

  • Added

    Adds the ability to move annotations by using the arrow keys. (#3611)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where a custom DOM node used as annotation tooltip wouldn’t be positioned correctly under certain cases. (#3657)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue in Safari where the text annotation content would appear cropped once editing was done. (#3637)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue in Chrome where a text annotation could be stuck in dragging mode under certain edge cases. (#3495)

  • Fixed

    Fixes issues that broke dragging annotations or drawing lines when a second finger was used on touch devices. (#3664)

  • Fixed

    Fixes crashes under certain cases when deleting pages from a document. (#3666)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where updating an annotation, form field or bookmark that was being updated would fail and hide the annotation, form field or bookmark in the UI until reload. (#3675)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue in Standalone mode where the bookmarks sidebar would keep showing a spinner instead of loading the bookmarks. (#3710)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where hovering over a note annotation would render the tooltip of a different, currently selected annotation. (#3697)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where selecting text would not emit textSelection.change events when markup annotations were not editable. (#3729)

Model

  • Added

    Adds page filtering to the importDocument operation using importedPageIndexes in the DocumentEditor API. (#C21231, #C21387)

  • Added

    Adds support for printing array structures from JavaScript code inside a PDF. (#C19063)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where widget annotations would not be created and exported correctly. (#3672)

  • Fixed

    Fixes a rendering error where the font ArialMT wasn’t selected correctly. (#C21744)

  • Fixed

    Fixes a rare deadlock when rendering certain documents. (#C21856)

  • Fixed

    Fixes a performance regression when rendering with an ICC based color space. (#C21776)

  • Fixed

    Fixes a regression that caused certain link annotations to not work. (#C21709)

  • Fixed

    Fixes a possible crash when loading annotations failed in certain Instant documents. (#C21617, #Z15606)

  • Fixed

    Fixes a crash when using the processor on certain documents with very deep object hierarchies. (#C21674)

  • Fixed

    Fixes widget annotation rotation property persistence when coming from instant JSON. (#C21552, #C21621)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where documents using certain kind of fonts may cause the app to be terminated unexpectedly. (#C21626)

  • Fixed

    Fixes a rare situation where setting form field flags may cause a deadlock. (#C19942)

  • Fixed

    Fixes some stability issues related to color space management. (#C21529)

  • Fixed

    Fixes a problem where some PDF images may be missing in some documents. (#C21353)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue with transparent strokeColor in Instant JSON. (#C21391)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue when importing XFDF files in specific documents. (#C21271)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where loading a document would fail if it contained JPEG2000 images not specifying a color space. (#C21311)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where images with the lighten blend mode didn’t get rendered correctly. (#C20642)

Core

  • Changed

    Updates HarfBuzz to version 2.6.2. (#C21686)

2019.5.1 – 19 Sep 2019

UI

  • Added

    Adds new toolbar item type marquee-zoom to enable Marquee Zoom mode. This toolbar button is disabled by default. (#3608)

  • Changed

    Improves text field rendering and auto font size calculations. (#3581)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where typing was prevented in very small text widgets. (#3572)

  • Added

    Adds the ability to move annotations by using the arrow keys. (#3611)

  • Changed

    Improve text field rendering and auto font size calculations. (#3581)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where moving rectangle and ellipse annotations was causing annotations in the generated PDF to be rendered incorrectly. (#3593)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where text widgets with the doNotScroll property and a right text align would not accept input on Chrome. (#3601)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where small stamp annotation templates would appear blurry in the stamp template picker dialog. (#3550)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where the Document Editor button would appear in read only mode. (#3604)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where drawing ink signatures on touch devices would be momentarily blocked when starting to draw. (#3618)

Model

  • API

    Adds Instance#jumpAndZoomToRect() to bring a specific rectangle into the viewport and adjust the zoom level so it’s always visible to the best way possible. (#1750)

  • Added

    Adds Configuration#toolbarPlacement to make the toolbar position configurable. (#3609)

  • Changed

    Improves CRUD operations with annotations, form fields, form field values and bookmarks by ensuring changes are persisted when the corresponding API methods resolve. (#3577)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where the deletion callback for annotations, bookmarks, and form fields was fired before the change was internally processed so that the save methods had no effect. (#3582)

2019.5 – 9 Sep 2019

See the announcement post.

UI

  • Added

    Adds support for rendering form field’s required flag as new PSPDFKit-Annotation-Widget-Required public CSS class and HTML required attribute for TextFormField, ComboBoxFormField and ListBoxFormField. (#3477)

  • Added

    Adds support for rendering widget annotations’ borderWidth and borderStyle properties. (#3496)

  • Added

    Adds document editor translations for “Move before”, “Move after” and “Document will be merged here”. (#3489)

  • Added

    Adds support for iOS 13. (#3510)

  • Changed

    Improves annotation insertion on rotated pages. (#2853)

  • Changed

    Improves support for iPadOS. (#3436)

  • Changed

    Improves performance on pages with many annotations. (#3465)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where selected annotations would not emit the annotations.press event. (#3431)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue with dropdown menus being cut-off when there is not enough vertical space available. (#3442)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue that prevented creating image annotations with the UI in REST mode. (#3499)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where some keyboard shortcuts would be triggered when used in an external scope. (#3508)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where thumbnail images would not update after applying operations with the thumbnails sidebar open. (#3488)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where an horizontal scrollbar would appear in the ink signature picker dialog. (#3551)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where the password prompt dialog text would use a low contrast color in dark mode. (#3471)

Model

  • API

    Adds methods to add, update and remove form fields and widget annotations in the current document. Requires form designer license feature and Instant or standalone mode. (#3452)

  • API

    Adds PSPDFKit.Instance#setCustomRenderers to change the current custom renderer callbacks and update custom rendered content. (#3491)

  • Added

    Adds support for JavaScript in PDF documents to Standalone and the PSPDFKit.Options.PDF_JAVASCRIPT configuration option to enable the feature (disabled by default). (#3084)

  • Changed

    Strengthens the validation of InstantJSON format in some corner cases. (#C20748)

  • Changed

    Improves transparency support for images and stamps. (#2612, #C20483)

  • Changed

    Improves performance when parsing many links. (#C20786)

  • Changed

    Improves memory usage on complex documents. (#C20970)

  • Changed

    Improves the stability of some PDF form operations. (#C21032)

  • Changed

    Improves font rendering and fixes several edge cases. (#C20930)

  • Changed

    Improves the validation of Instant JSON payloads so that case differences in properties are tolerated. (#C21145)

  • Changed

    Updates Botan to version 2.11.0. (#C20549)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue that caused freeform rotated images and stamps to not display correctly. (#3445)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where transparent images in annotations had a white background. (#C20841)

  • Fixed

    Fixes some stability issues when fonts are loaded from a document. (#C21042)

  • Fixed

    Fixes a possible crash in certain documents due to a null dereference in PDFC::Forms::FormCorePDFBackend::isLinkedInAcroForms. (#C21121)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where standalone Web caused license pings when it shouldn’t have. (#Z15302)

Example

  • Changed

    Improves PWA example with drag and drop, more consistent UI, and a more obvious update flow. (#3430)

2019.4.1 – 2 Aug 2019

Model

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where the absence of the forms feature in the license would not be properly detected on load. (#3433)

2019.4 – 31 Jul 2019

See the announcement post.

UI

  • Added

    Adds the new Document Editor view to allow adding/removing pages, merging documents, and more. (#3062)

  • Added

    Adds support for the cy locale. (#20471)

  • Added

    Adds support for inline SVGs as text for ToolbarItem#icon and ToolItem#icon. (#3299)

  • Added

    Adds PSPDFKit.Configuration#theme and PSPDFKit.Theme enums to configure the theme. (#3300)

  • Changed

    Changes icon theme. (#3123)

  • Changed

    Changes toolbar height from 48px to 44px. (#3123)

  • Changed

    Changes the thumbnail layout and styles. (#3286)

  • Changed

    Improves render quality when using Standalone. (#2951)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where the bookmarks and annotations sidebars wouldn’t show page labels. (#3137)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue that sometimes prevented text selection after a document is loaded, unloaded, and loaded again. (#3269)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where multiple highlight annotations would be created for a single selection. (#3182)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where scrolling prevented text form field changes from being propagated. (#3210)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where scrolling inside note annotations would cause the page to jump in PER_SPREAD scroll mode. (#3312)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where EXIF orientation of JPEG image annotations were not properly applied. (#3318)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where the text selection cursor was visible when the pan mode was enabled. (#3325)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where the viewport would scroll while moving an annotation in PSPDFKit.InteractionMode.PAN mode. (#3215)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where the text of note annotations would be cleared after zooming. (#3183)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where the text of note annotations would sometimes be cleared if the note icon was hovered. (#3365)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue with the password prompt that caused the success animation to not be displayed. (#3355)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where hovering annotations would move the viewport if zoomed out and not scrollable anymore (#3368).

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where a hovered note annotation would keep showing after navigating to a different page with the keyboard. (#3359)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where text annotations without fontSize set would not be rendered. (#3386)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where pressing a non-selectable toolbar item would clear the selected state of an annotation tool. (#3191)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where creating a new note annotation could cause it to be placed at an unexpected point. (#3059)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where extra new lines would be added to a text annotation in Firefox. (#3323)

Model

  • API

    Adds PSPDFKit.Instance#applyOperations() and PSPDFKit.Instance#exportPDFWithOperations() methods to modify the current document or export it with modifications. Requires document editing license feature. (#3062)

  • Added

    Adds a content hash to the WebAssembly and asm.js artifacts so that they can use a long-term caching strategy. (#3255)

  • Added

    Adds support for isBold and isItalic properties in widget annotations. These properties are currently not supported for printing or exporting. (#2940)

  • Added

    Adds support for verticalAlign property in text and button form fields. When printing and exporting, the property is only supported for multiline text widgets. (#2895)

  • Added

    Adds support for setting the default eraser cursor width before load using PSPDFKit.Options.DEFAULT_INK_ERASER_CURSOR_WIDTH. (#3334)

  • Added

    Adds support for vertical alignment in single-line form fields when exporting or printing PDF files. (#C19882)

  • Added

    Adds support for serializing and deserializing border properties of link annotations. (#C20359)

  • Added

    Adds support for preserving the InstantJSON id in the PDF. (#C20572)

  • Changed

    Changes naming scheme of chunked data. This allows for smarter preloading and caching in service worker. (#3071)

  • Changed

    Improves automatic repair of AcroForms on loading documents with a large number of annotations. (#C19947)

  • Changed

    Improves rendering of non ASCII text. (#C20189)

  • Changed

    Improves loading performance for documents with complex outlines. (#C20279)

  • Changed

    Updates libpng to version 1.6.37. (#C19851)

  • Changed

    Updates Expat to version 2.2.6. (#C19868)

  • Changed

    Updates libWebP to 1.0.2. (#C20040)

  • Changed

    Updates Expat to version 2.2.7. (#C20545)

  • Changed

    Updates openjpeg to version 2.3.1. (#C20647)

  • Fixed

    Fixes asynchronous APIs to always reject instead of throwing synchronously. (#2306)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue reading media boxes. (#C20592)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where some documents with dropdown fields may show an arrow when the document is flattened. (#C9539)

  • Fixed

    Fixes very occasional text rendering problems. (#C20155)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an assertion when importing annotations outside the page range using XFDF. (#C20424)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where form fields with calculation order may not be flattened correctly. (#C20434)

Example

  • Added

    Adds new catalog example for the Document Editor. (#3343)

  • Added

    Adds new catalog example that demonstrates the new dark mode. (#3330)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where custom documents did not have the same toolbar items as example documents in the examples catalog. (#3347)

Instant

  • Added

    Adds support for notifying connected clients when the document changed. (#3062)

2019.3.1 – 19 Jun 2019

UI

  • API

    Adds support for receiving annotations.press events from widget annotations. (#2845)

  • API

    Fixes an issue where PSPDFKit.ViewState#readOnly could not be set to false in read-only documents even when PSPDFKit.Options.IGNORE_DOCUMENT_PERMISSIONS was true. (#3245)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where multiline text widget annotations would not be editable because of excessive padding. (#3161)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where the tools for note annotations were rendered in an additional tooltip instead of inside the existing note tooltip. (#3214)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where clicking in an annotation tooltip would deselect the annotation. (#3236)

Model

  • Added

    Adds support for making individual widget annotations read only with PSPDFKit.Configuration.isEditableAnnotation. (#2845)

  • Fixed

    Fixes a merging issue in Instant that caused enqueued changes to resolve incorrectly and generate a server error. (#3225)

2019.3 – 29 May 2019

See the announcement post.

UI

  • Added

    Adds support for streaming search results, resulting in faster initial results. (#3058)

  • Added

    Adds a toolbar for modifying the text-highlighter preset properties while on TEXT_HIGHLIGHTER interaction mode. (#3041)

  • Added

    Adds an eraser tool to remove ink annotations points with the pointer. (#3057)

  • Added

    Adds support for the fr-CA locale. (#3176)

  • API

    Adds PSPDFKit.AnnotationPresets.toSerializableObject and PSPDFKit.AnnotationPresets.fromSerializableObject to convert annotation presets to and from serializable objects. (#3155)

  • API

    Adds PSPDFKit.SearchState#minSearchQueryLength to retrieve the minimum search query length. (#3197)

  • API

    Adds a minimum search query length check to PSPDFKit.Instance#search and PSPDFKit.Instance#startUISearch. (#3197)

  • Changed

    Improves ink annotation creation by splitting new, distant lines into new annotations. (#1462)

  • Changed

    Changes the minimum annotation size for ink and shape annotations from 128 to 16. (#3070)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where new lines would be duplicated in Chrome when editing a text annotation. (#3101)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where the default viewer styles would override the widget annotation styles on focus. (#3151)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where the ink annotation toolbar would not use user-provided line width presets. (#3150)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue with read only note annotations being deletable via keyboard. (#3149)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue with note annotations not being selectable via keyboard when read only. (#3149)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where the pointer cursor would change when hovering some non-editable annotations. (#3157)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue with popover being positioned in the middle of the page even when they fit in around their reference element. (#3160)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue with annotations being immediately deselected after selection. (#3189)

Model

  • Added

    Adds support for passing page start and end indexes to Instance#search(). (#3058)

  • Added

    Adds support for the hidden flag to all the supported annotation types. (#3172)

  • Changed

    Improved automatic repair of AcroForms to support more document errors. (#C19834)

  • Fixed

    Fixes a potential crash when processing large documents under low-memory conditions. (#C19768)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where broken link annotations where sent to the backend. (#C19090)

Example

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where duplicated line annotations were clipped in the tooltips catalog example. (#3140)

2019.2.4 – 13 May 2019

UI

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where image and stamp annotations where rendered behind widget annotations. (#3124)

Model

  • Changed

    Improves error handling when creating, updating, and deleting form fields. (#3111)

  • Changed

    Allow creating annotation with a user-defined createdAt or updatedAt field. (#3110)

  • Changed

    Updates the Botan library version to 2.10.0. (#C19767)

  • Fixed

    Fixes printing and exporting PDF files containing form field values with CJK glyphs and missing font information when using PSPDFKit Server. (#3097, #2974)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where Standalone on IE11 was causing some tiles to not render correctly. (#3117, #3092)

  • Fixed

    Fixes a potential crash when processing large documents under low-memory conditions. (#C19768)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where broken link annotations where sent to the backend. (#C19090)

2019.2.3 – 29 Apr 2019

UI

  • Added

    Adds support for custom page labels in the page indicator. (#3022)

Model

  • Added

    Adds support for creating annotations and form fields with a user-defined ID. (#3087)

  • Changed

    Improves error handling when creating, updating, and deleting annotations and bookmarks. (#3090)

Example

  • Added

    Adds a new Catalog example that adds two special annotations that can be used to obscure the document. (#3023, #3024)

  • Added

    Adds a new Catalog example about keeping ink signatures across page refreshes. (#2834)

2019.2.2 – 25 Apr 2019

UI

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where changing the locale did not update the <body lang> property. (#3069)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where text annotations fontColor could be set to transparent (null). (#2865)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where the strokeDashArray property of an annotation preset would be incorrectly updated. (#3080)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where the thumbnails sidebar didn’t have top and bottom spacing. (#1708)

Model

  • Changed

    Improves server error handling. (#2807)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where XFDF was not being validated correctly. (#3074)

2019.2.1 – 19 Apr 2019

No web-specific changes in this version.

2019.2 – 18 Apr 2019

See the announcement post.

UI

  • API

    Adds Instance#currentAnnotationPreset and Instance#setCurrentAnnotationPreset() to get and set the current active annotation preset. (#2919)

  • API

    Adds Instance#setEditingAnnotation() to select an annotation and enter edit mode. (#2902)

  • API

    Allow to disable the Ink Signature modal dialog by preventing the annotations.onPress event for WidgetAnnotation. (#2930)

  • API

    Renames *.onPress events to *.press. (#2984):

    • API

      Renames annotations.onPress to annotations.press.

    • API

      Renames textLine.onPress to textLine.press.

    • API

      Renames page.onPress to page.press.

  • Added

    Adds PSPDFKit.Options.DISABLE_KEYBOARD_SHORTCUTS to disable the viewer keyboard shortcuts. (#2909)

  • Added

    Adds PSPDFKit.Configuration#customRenderers to allow adding rendering custom content along with annotations. (#2896)

  • Added

    Adds keyboard navigation for annotations for better a11y. (#2963)

  • Added

    Adds figcaption to images and stamp annotations that define a description property (screen readers only). (#2963)

  • Added

    Adds annotations.focus and annotations.blur instance events. (#2982)

  • Added

    Adds an optimization that reduces the number of points an ink annotation creates while drawing. (#2849)

  • Changed

    Improves performance of large documents when using the continuous page view. (#1542)

  • Changed

    Improves shape annotations scaling behavior by keeping its stroke width when resizing. (#3002)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where annotations would move when resized to very small sizes. (#2910)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue when PSPDFKit.load() was interrupted by PSPDFKit.unload() before the promise has resolved. (#2334)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where text widget annotations isFitting property would not be correctly calculated. (#2939)

  • Fixed

    Fixes a race condition when PSPDFKit.load(), PSPDFKit.unload(), and PSPDFKit.load() was called synchronously. (#2947)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue when the same search term was searched twice consecutively. (#2994)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where an error message was logged when placing a new text annotation while having the thumbnail toolbar open on Standalone. (#2952)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where the default minimum stamp annotation size, PSPDFKit.Options.MIN_STAMP_ANNOTATION_SIZE, was so small the stamp text wouldn’t fit. (#2977)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue that caused previously reported minimumZoomLevel and maximumZoomLevel to no longer be valid if the viewport was resized. (#2907)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue that prevented certain annotation tools for a document that does not allow changing but enables commenting. (#2663)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where multi line text widgets did no longer accept text when do not scroll was enabled. (#3036)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where annotations and form fields were not visible in Standalone mode when rotating the document on Chrome Windows. (#3037)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where ink annotations with a blend mode value different than normal would lose the blend mode when selected in a rotated page. (#3053)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where viewState events would be emitted again if an API function in the event listener caused the view state to change. (#3064)

Model

  • API

    Adds Instance#getTextFromRects to extract the text intersecting a list of rects. (#3040)

  • Added

    Adds support for storing custom data on annotations. (#2862)

  • Added

    Adds support for optionally preloading the WASM worker. (#2886)

  • Added

    Adds PSPDFKit.Options.TEXT_ANNOTATION_AUTOFIT_BOUNDING_BOX_ON_EDIT to control whether PSPDFKit should adjust the text annotations’ bounding box to fit the text in the annotation when editing it. (#2894)

  • Added

    Adds FontStyle to Instant JSON widget annotations. (#C18083)

  • Changed

    Improves error handling when additional artifacts cannot be accessed. (#2811)

  • Changed

    Changes accessing instance.connectedClients to log a warning instead of throwing an error if PSPDFKit Instant is not enabled. (#2886)

  • Changed

    Loading PDF actions is now more reliable. (#C18843)

  • Changed

    Update libpng to 1.6.36. (#C18972)

  • Changed

    Update libjpeg-turbo to 2.0.2. (#C18973)

  • Changed

    Update ICU to version 63.1. (#C18974)

  • Changed

    Update zlib to 1.2.11. (#C18975)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where an annotation would be created even if it was invalid. (#2862)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where ink and shape annotations with transparent strokeColor were not being saved nor updated. (#2806)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where strokeDashArray was being serialized and deserialized even when its value was null. (#2924)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where form field values could not be saved when using PSPDFKit.AutoSaveMode.DISABLED. (#2934)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where annotationSelection.change would be emitted again if an API function was called from the annotationSelection.change event listener. (#2904)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where PSPDFKit Server may not identify form fields correctly. (#C18464)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where form field values may not be rendered correctly. (#C18465)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where some JPX images may not render correctly. (#C18648)

  • Fixed

    Fixes issue with printing transparent ink strokes. (#C19102)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue exporting instant shape annotations with transparent stroke colors. (#C19120)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue when setting transparent colors in annotations. (#C19120)

  • Fixed

    Fixes rendering of free text annotations with vertical alignment. (#C19145)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where edited text wasn’t visible after saving the PDF. (#C19146)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue when drawing a path using a pattern with alpha transparency. (#C19148)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue when rendering text with an overlay blend mode. (#C19151)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where link annotations may not work correctly after a document is exported. (#C19222)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where text edited in form fields was incorrectly set in other form fields as well. (#C19236)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where QuadPoints of link annotations were saved to the PDF incorrectly. (#C19427)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where the fillColor property was ignored in Instant JSON for polyline annotations. (#C19443)

  • Fixed

    Fixes a rare issue when parsing outlines. (#C19469)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where malformed widget annotations weren’t correctly attached to the form. (#C19581)

Example

  • Added

    Adds a new Catalog Example that sets up a flipbook (page curl) effect. (#2867)

  • Added

    Adds a new Catalog Example about using different print modes. (#2870)

  • Added

    Adds a new Catalog Example about customizing the PDF search feature. (#2859)

  • Added

    Adds a new Catalog Example showcasing customization of annotation’s rendered content. (#2720)

Instant

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where updates and deletions shortly after creations were not properly propagated. (#2890)

2019.1.4 – 4 Apr 2019

UI

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where text widget annotations height would not be editable when height was too small. (#2903)

Model

  • Added

    Adds support for the cloudy border inset property (RD), transformed to a cloudyBorderInsetRect property in ellipse and rectangle annotations. (#2820)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where instance.createAnnotation would override the provided annotation properties with the current annotation preset properties. (#2931)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where annotations with a cloudy border may not be exported correctly. (#2831)

Instant

  • Added

    Adds support for cloudyBorderInset property (RD) in ellipse and rectangle annotations. (#2820)

2019.1.3 – 27 Mar 2019

UI

  • API

    Adds public CSS classes for annotation resize anchor handlers and outline rect: PSPDFKit-Resize-Anchor, PSPDFKit-Resize-Anchor-{position} and PSPDFKit-Selection-Outline-Rect. (#2888)

  • API

    Adds public CSS classes for customizing tooltips. (#2917)

  • API

    Adds Instance#setEditingAnnotation() to select an annotation and enter edit mode. (#2893)

  • Added

    Adds PSPDFKit.Options.TEXT_ANNOTATION_AUTOFIT_TEXT_ON_EXPORT to control whether PSPDFKit should adjust the font size to fit the text in the annotation bounding box when exporting the annotation. (#2881)

  • Changed

    Improves annotation tooltips position adjustment relative to selected annotations padding. (#2885)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where the instance could not be unloaded after the container node was detached from the DOM. (#2906)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where selected text markup annotations could not be deleted using the Backspace or Delete keys. (#2861)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue with the latest versions of Chrome where wheel events are now passive by default and cause the host web page to be zoomed when pinching. (#2942)

Model

  • Added

    Adds horizontalAlign property to WidgetAnnotation for aligning text horizontally. (#2935)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where form field values could not be saved when using PSPDFKit.AutoSaveMode.DISABLED. (#2934)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where some layers were hidden incorrectly. (#C14439)

Example

  • Added

    Adds download buttons to the PWA and Catalog examples. (#2863)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue with the iOS iPad full screen demo in the magazine catalog example. (#2750)

  • Changed

    Upgrade React example to latest versions. (#2926)

2019.1.2 – 28 Feb 2019

UI

  • Added

    Adds SELECTION_OUTLINE_PADDING and RESIZE_ANCHOR_RADIUS callbacks and SELECTION_STROKE_WIDTH to the configurable PSPDFKit.Options object. (#2793)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where ToolItem in annotation tooltip would break the viewer due to a runtime error. (#2833)

  • Fixed

    Fixes PrintMode.EXPORT_PDF in Safari by not opening the PDF to print in a new window. (#2835)

Model

  • Changed

    Do not check for installed Acrobat when trying to print in EXPORT_PDF print mode on IE11. (#2826)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where PSPDFKit.FormFields#SignatureFormField was not exposed despite being in the public documentation. (#2823)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue with the random number generator for Standalone on IE11 and Edge. (#2802)

2019.1.1 – 14 Feb 2019

UI

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where image and stamp annotations were rendered in front of widget annotations. (#2776)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where the sidebar was having the incorrect height. (#2775)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue that prevent bookmarks from properly being saved when using AutoSaveMode.INTELLIGENT. (#2778)

Model

  • Changed

    Improves support for large documents when using PSPDFKit for Web Standalone. (#2792)

2019.1 – 7 Feb 2019

See the announcement post.

UI

  • API

    Adds ViewState#sidebarPlacement to control the direction of the sidebar. (#2691)

  • API

    Adds transformation APIs to transform between PDF page space and the client space. (#2546)

  • API

    Adds an API to calculate a fitting bounding box for text annotations. (#2679)

  • API

    Adds setEditableAnnotationTypes and isEditableAnnotation to granularly define permissions for annotations. (#1756)

  • Added

    Adds a cloudy border tool to polygon, rectangle and ellipse annotation toolbars. (#2528)

  • Added

    Adds pinch zoom support on desktop devices with trackpad, or mouse on Chrome, Firefox and Safari. (#1263)

  • Added

    Adds swipe support for per spread view on desktop devices with touch on Chrome, Firefox and Safari. (#2765)

  • Changed

    Improves ink annotation creation on the UI by splitting the annotation if its properties change. (#2683)

  • Changed

    Changes the default font families of the viewer to include more system fonts. (#2710)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where PSPDFKit.defaultStampAnnotationTemplates would need to be copied in order to modify it. (#2725)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where text form fields font auto sizing feature was not accounting for field padding. (#2685)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where checkbox fields checkmarks would overflow the field’s bounds. (#2689)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue by changing the default text highlighter and highlighter tool to match text selection highlight creation. (#2694)

  • Fixed

    Fixes a bug when initializing a sidebar with the initialViewState API. (#2216)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where the dragging of the sidebar was delayed and could cause the dragging to continue although the pointer was released. (#2686)

  • Fixed

    Fixes the default padding of annotation tooltip items. (#2709)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue with note annotations permissions when annotationAndForms is set as document permission. (#2663)

  • Fixed

    Fixes layout config drop down menu would not close when click outside. (#2708)

Model

  • Added

    Adds a cloudy border intensity field to polygon, rectangle and ellipse annotation models. (#2528)

  • Added

    Adds annotations models default values to PSPDFKit.defaultAnnotationPresets. (#2718)

  • Added

    Adds PSPDFKit.Options.IGNORE_DOCUMENT_PERMISSIONS to ignore the document permissions and enable all the features. (#2470)

  • Added

    Adds support for cloudy borders in shape annotations and free text annotations via Instant JSON. (#C18547)

  • Changed

    Improves initial text parsing performance. (#C18534)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where creating an ink signature in combination with an event handler could trigger an error. (#2695)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where form field’s doNotSpellCheck was mistyped as doNotSpellcheck. (#2729)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where instances of the core PDF engine deamon failed to close. (#C18551)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue with importing/exporting color values which could lead to unnecessary appearance stream regeneration in the core engine. (#C18428)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where some image annotations may be rendered incorrectly. (#C18731)

Example

  • Added

    Adds a new Catalog Example showcasing drag and drop and other advanced customization options. (#2679)

2018.7.1 – 15 Jan 2019

UI

  • API

    Adds public CSS classes for annotation toolbars toolboxes. (#2392)

  • Added

    Adds persistence of properties to ink signatures. (#2479)

  • Added

    Adds locked aspect ratio resize by keeping Shift pressed while resizing an annotation with the UI. (#2531)

  • Added

    Adds automatic font size calculation for combo box widgets. (#2644)

  • Added

    Adds configurable ink signatures save mode. (#2593)

  • Added

    Adds PSPDFKit-Icon-<IconType> public CSS classes to style individual icons. (#2664)

  • Added

    Adds 4pt, 6pt, 8pt, and 200pt to the list of possible font sizes for text annotations. (#C18485)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue in Edge where the annotation toolbar layout would break when changing the font size. (#2225)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where rotating the page could eventually trigger a JavaScript TypeError. (#2622)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where markup annotations changes were not being persisted in the annotation preset. (#2621)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where the blend modes toolbox button would show the wrong title and aria-label, or no title nor aria-label. (#2614)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where ink signatures were created at the current page index instead of the related signature form field. (#2642)

  • Fixed

    Fixes wrong computed document height when opening a sidebar. (#2652)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where the minimumZoomLevel and maximumZoomLevel where wrong on landscape documents. (#2661)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue with custom ToolbarItem where the selected property was ignored. (#2662)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where the selected item was not shown in the list of font sizes for text annotations. (#2672)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue when inferring the baseUrl threw errors when importing PSPDFKit. (#2666)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where some overflown text fields would not adjust the font size. (#2677)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue while highlighting where the current highlight annotation would disappear if clicked. (#2675)

Model

  • API

    Expose WidgetAnnotation interface. (#2640)

  • Added

    Adds automatic fallback to non-streaming WASM compilation when the wasm file mime-type is not set to application/wasm. (#2624)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue with license code verification on Electron. (#2668)

  • Fixed

    Fixes a problem importing/exporting color values. This could lead to unnecessary appearance stream regeneration. (#C18428)

Example

  • Changed

    Upgrades the Electron example app to use Electron 4.0. (#2668)

2018.7 – 18 Dec 2018

See the announcement post.

UI

  • API

    Adds public CSS class for active Dropdown Buttons. (#2466)

  • API

    Adds missing public CSS classes for shape Toolbar Buttons. (#2532)

  • API

    Adds public CSS class for Text Highlighter Buttons. (#2532)

  • API

    Adds ToolbarItem#node to render custom DOM nodes in the main toolbar. (#2520)

  • API

    Adds Configuration#annotationTooltipCallback to configure a tooltip with tools for each annotation type. (#2540)

  • API

    Adds ViewState#enableAnnotationToolbar to enable or disable the annotation toolbar on select. (#2540)

  • Added

    Adds optional smooth line rendering for ink annotations and ink signatures. (#1588)

  • Added

    Adds new stroke color icon to avoid confusion for non closed shapes (ink, lines, polylines). (#2508)

  • Added

    Adds a text highlighter tool. (#2468)

  • Added

    Adds support for deleting selected annotations with Backspace and Delete keys. (#1405)

  • Changed

    Improves contrast of annotation toolbar icons. (#2508)

  • Fixed

    Fixes the mixup between the border color and the fill color icons. (#2508)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where the last point of an ink annotation line being created was lost when releasing the pointer. (#2518)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where stamps UI would break when editing text. (#2445)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where some standard stamp annotations were being rendered as Custom. (#2467)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where stamp annotations were rendered rotated when viewing rotated documents. (#2486)

  • Fixed

    Fixes bookmarks sidebar translations to be more accessible and self explanatory. (#2478)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue in Firefox 60+ where the first text line of newly created note annotations would be deleted when pressing space. (#2482)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue with SidebarMode.BOOKMARKS not being activatable via public API. (#2500)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where note annotations content new lines were not being rendered. (#2487)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where annotations could be deleted even though read only mode is enabled. (#2505)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where certain annotation toolbar items did not share the same height. (#2508)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where annotations hit test area was too wide. (#2127)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where setting className and icon for the layout-config got ignored. (#2536)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where the annotation toolbar for note annotations was shown when in read only mode. (#2461)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where text selection using the touch mode in Edge was not properly working. (#2407)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where annotations with the noView flag set were selectable, and were being rendered if selected. (#2476)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where stamp annotations added to rotated PDF pages were not rendered correctly. (#2521)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue in IE11 where rendered squiggle annotations would spill out of its bounding box when zoomed. (#2553)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where the styleSheets array passed to PSPDFKit.load() was cleared after the first use. (#2561)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where the wrong onPress handler for multiple items in a dropdown group was triggered. (#2565)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where rendered squiggle annotations would shrink when the viewport was zoomed out. (#2555)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where startUISearch() did not emit the same events as a user-driven UI search. (#2573)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where the loading indicator for stamp and image annotations would be incorrectly positioned in IE11. (#2594)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where the stamp picker would have an excessive height in iOS devices. (#2597)

Model

  • API

    Adds PSPDFKit.Options to modify default configurations. (#2171)

  • Added

    Adds a new rotation property to TextAnnotation, ImageAnnotation, and StampAnnotation. (#2521)

  • Added

    Adds ToolItem interface which ToolbarItem now extends. (#2540)

  • Changed

    Improves automatic font size calculation for text widgets. (#C18095)

  • Changed

    Improves handling of malformed documents when parsing the extended graphics state. (#C18057)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where custom stamps were not being correctly validated. (#2477)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where our previous change to force asm.js on Safari 11 was not working on some versions of Safari. (#2498)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where the Parent object was not checked when putting widgets into form fields. (#C17796)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where attachments provided via InstantJSON were not created upon initialization. (#2530)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue when importing an annotation from XFDF when the bounding box is too large. (#C17901)

  • Fixed

    Fixes issues when importing annotations on rotated pages using InstantJSON. (#C17814)

  • Fixed

    Fixes some visualization issues with markup annotations, specially on rotated pages. (#C17889, #C18002, #C18024)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where squiggly annotations may not be created correctly on rotated pages. (#C17950)

  • Fixed

    Fixes text parsing issue noticed on a very limited number of documents. (#C18032)

2018.6.1 – 16 Nov 2018

UI

  • Fixed

    Fixes broken PDF text parsing in Firefox, Edge, and IE 11. (#2473)

2018.6 – 13 Nov 2018

See the announcement post.

UI

  • API

    Adds viewStateFromOpenParameters() to apply open parameters to a ViewState. (#1161)

  • API

    Adds Configuration#disableOpenParameters to disable PDF Open Parameters support. (#1161)

  • API

    Adds Configuration#renderPageCallback to draw arbitrary objects onto the page layer. (#1281)

  • API

    Adds Instance#getSelectedRectsPerPage() to get a list of all selected text rects in PDF page coordinates. (#2252)

  • API

    Adds a new toolbar item sidebar-bookmarks. (#2388)

  • API

    Adds public CSS class PSPDFKit-Stamp-Annotation for stamp annotations. (#2332)

  • API

    Adds public CSS class PSPDFKit-Toolbar-Button-Stamp-Annotation to the new stamp toolbar button. (#2432)

  • API

    Adds public CSS class PSPDFKit-Toolbar-Button-Icon for toolbar button icons. (#2435)

  • API

    Adds a new update events for ink signatures: inkSignatures.update. It will fire whenever a signature is either created, updated, or deleted. (#2363)

  • Added

    Adds support for stamp annotations. (#2332)

  • Added

    Adds support for viewing and creating bookmarks. (#2278)

  • Added

    Adds support for comb of characters text input fields. (#2111)

  • Added

    Adds translations for colors, highlighter and pen. (#2311)

  • Added

    Adds support for preventing text from being copied. (#2274)

  • Added

    Adds support for some PDF Open Parameters. (#1161)

  • Changed

    Improves accessibility of modal dialogs. (#2291)

  • Changed

    Improves the word breaking behavior for text annotations. (#2261)

  • Changed

    Increases the maximum resolution of render page APIs. (#2419)

  • Removed

    Removes smooth scrolling in toolbar due to a known iOS Safari issue. (#2427)

  • Fixed

    Fixes a bug where an initial page index was not properly applied. (#2317)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue with PSPDFKit.I18n.messages exposing messages as ES6 modules. (#2295)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where keyboard page navigation would not work in IE 11. (#2299)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where a dropdown group with a single item would still show as a dropdown group. (#2284)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where it was not possible to opt-out an item from a dropdown group. (#2283)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where the pager toolbar item would disappear on MSEdge. (#2320)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue when creating text markup annotations spanning across multiple pages. (#2337)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where some entries of a combo box input where not properly rendered. (#2322)

  • Fixed

    Fixes crashes when using the DOM print mode on mobile devices and IE 11 by disabling high resolution printing. (#1882, #2089)

  • Fixed

    Fixes a double update issue when changing attributes of text annotations. (#2261)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where a not supported font would not be shown as selected. (#2261)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where empty pages where appended on some browsers when using DOM printing. (#1521)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where image annotation rendering was sometimes failing when using a standalone deployment. (#2390)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where annotations with a NoView flag set were not printed. (#2350)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where text selection was not properly cleared when the pan tool was enabled. (#2391)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where toolbar items with data URL icons appear shifted to the left. (#2273)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where image annotations had the opacity applied twice. (#2436)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where annotations with strokeWidth equal to 0 and no fill color would be rendered. (#2454)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue in IE11 and Edge where opacity settings would not be applied to image annotations. (#2409)

Model

  • API

    Changed annotation APIs to not throw synchronously but reject with an Error instead. (#2305)

  • API

    Adds Configuration#overrideMemoryLimit to allow overriding the default memory limit for PSPDFKit for Web Standalone. (#1743)

  • API

    Adds Bookmark and instance methods for managing bookmarks. (#2388)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where the background of ink annotations was not printed. (#2041)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where annotations with strokeWidth equal to 0 would have it set to 5 (#2454)

Core

  • API

    Adds Annotations.StampAnnotation for stamp annotations. (#2332)

  • Changed

    Forces asm.js on Safari 11. (#2361)

  • Fixed

    Fixes form flattening with no fonts available leads to exported PDFs with empty fields. (#C17538)

Example

  • Added

    Adds Typescript example. (#2394)

  • Changed

    Updates PSPDFKit for Electron example to Electron 3. (#2098)

  • Fixed

    Fixes a layout issue in the PWA example. (#2351)

Instant

  • Added

    Adds support for stamp annotations Instant. (#2332)

  • Added

    Adds support for stamp annotations to Instant JSON. (#2332)

  • Added

    Adds support for bookmarks Instant. (#2278)

  • Added

    Adds support for bookmarks to Instant JSON. (#2278)

Documentation

  • Added

    Adds search to our API documentation. (#2294)

  • Removed

    Removes new to construct Immutable.List types. (#2300)

2018.5.2 – 16 Nov 2018

UI

  • Fixed

    Fixes broken PDF text parsing in Firefox, Edge, and IE 11. (#2473)

2018.5.1 – 10 Sep 2018

UI

  • Added

    Adds public CSS class PSPDFKit-Image-Annotation for image annotations. (#2264)

  • Changed

    Improves usability for invalid image annotations. (#2266)

  • Fixed

    Fixes a bug that allowed the use of PDFs for image annotations via the toolbar button. (#2262)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where the loading indicator for image annotations was shown in a wrong position. (#2260)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue in Safari where blend modes were not applied to ink annotations while drawing them or changing their blend mode. (#2251)

Model

  • Changed

    Improves error messages for invalid image attachments. (#2259)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where some PDF pages could not be inserted as attachments for images. (#C16729)

2018.5 – 5 Sep 2018

See the announcement post.

UI

  • API

    Adds new methods to control annotation presets: Instance#annotationPresets, Instance#setAnnotationPresets, and PSPDFKit#defaultAnnotationPresets. (#2077)

  • API

    Adds Configuration#annotationPresets and the annotationPresets.update event to make it possible to persist annotation presets. (#2077)

  • API

    Adds ToolbarItem#preset to create annotations with different presets. (#2077)

  • API

    Adds Configuration#enableServiceWorkerSupport to not bypass service workers when loading stylesheets. (#1963)

  • API

    Removes InteractionMode.LAYOUT_CONFIGURATION. (#1653)

  • Added

    Adds support for image annotations. (#1202)

  • Added

    Adds the document outline sidebar. (#2137)

  • Added

    Adds the document annotations sidebar. (#2145)

  • Added

    Adds new highlighter and arrow tool. (#2129)

  • Added

    Adds support for vertical alignment of text annotations. (#1608)

  • Added

    Adds persistence to user changes in the annotation toolbars by modifying its associated preset. (#2077)

  • Added

    Adds public CSS classes for each button in the layout configuration option. (#2146)

  • Added

    Adds .PSPDFKit-Text-Markup-Annotation-selected to match selected text markup annotations. (#2109)

  • Changed

    Improves performance of zooming and scrolling. (#2083)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where all squiggle annotations would inherit the same color of the last one created. (#2077)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where styles were not applied to widgets. (#1831)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where line caps were not being hidden in short lines. (#2147)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where some shape annotations were printed cropped. (#2149)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where relative URLs in CSS did not resolve correctly. (#1963)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where grouped toolbar buttons could not be disabled. (#2123)

  • Fixed

    Fixes overflowing toolbar items are not visible. Now the toolbar can scroll horizontally. (#2189)

Model

  • API

    Adds Annotations.ImageAnnotation for image annotations. (#1202)

  • API

    Adds OutlineElement and Instance#getDocumentOutline to expose the document outline. (#2137)

  • API

    Adds Instance#createAttachment and Instance#getAttachment to create attachments that can be used for image annotations. (#2152)

  • API

    Adds Annotations.InkAnnotation#isSignature to indicate when an ink annotation was created as signature. (#2112)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where form fields imported via XFDF where not showing up Instant JSON. (#C16463)

Example

  • Added

    Adds PWA (progressive web app) example. (#1996)

  • Added

    Adds Vue.js example. (#2072)

  • Changed

    Updates dependencies of Webpack example. (#2099)

Instant

  • Added

    Adds support for image annotations and attachments to Instant. (#1202)

  • Added

    Adds support for image annotations and attachments to Instant JSON. (#1202)

2018.4.3 – 16 Nov 2018

UI

  • Fixed

    Fixes broken PDF text parsing in Firefox, Edge, and IE 11. (#2473)

2018.4.2 – 24 Aug 2018

Model

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue with XFDF on rotated pages. (#2158)

2018.4.1 – 31 Jul 2018

UI

  • Added

    Adds option to specify the number of password retries. (#2067)

  • Added

    Adds PSPDFKit-Annotation-Widget-read-only as public CSS class. (#1646)

  • Changed

    Improves text selection behavior when there is padding between the individual text lines. (#2090)

  • Changed

    Changes PSPDFKit.unload() to be idempotent if a DOM element is passed without PSPDFKit for Web being mounted. (#2076)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where pinching zoomed the whole viewport. (#2070)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where locale does not attempt to fallback. (#2078)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue with clipping annotations to the page. (#2075)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where the viewport was too large when zoomed in. (#2086)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where the text was not updated when changing the locale. (#2031)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue with custom CSS on Firefox. (#2104)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue with a missing translation. (#2092)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue with unnecessary custom overlay items re-rendering. (#2107)

Core

  • Changed

    Improves setup experience by adding better error messages. (#2085)

2018.4 – 12 Jul 2018

See the announcement post.

UI

  • Added

    Adds support for blend modes on Ink and Markup Annotations. (#1878)

  • Added

    Adds support for shape annotations: line, rectangle, ellipse, polyline and polygon. (#1203)

  • Added

    Adds public CSS classes for the Layout Config toolbar item and dropdown for easy styling. (#2064)

  • Changed

    Improves style of disabled buttons. (#1920)

  • Changed

    Changes the order of PSPDFKit.defaultToolbarItems. (#2039)

  • Fixed

    Fixes a rendering issue that resulted into blurry pages at certain zoom levels. (#1824)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue with IE 11 when editing text annotations. (#1958)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue with IE 11 where pasted text got duplicated. (#1850)

  • Fixed

    Fixes a bug where annotations where immediately draggable when using the setSelectedAnnotation API method. (#1969)

  • Fixed

    Fixes a regression where form fields were read-only when the document permissions didn’t permit modification. (#1976)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where setting the ViewState threw an Error when in read-only mode. (#1952)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where forms were not enabled when document permissions didn’t permit modifying annotations and forms. (#1999)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue when changing the properties of an ink annotation before drawing the first line when Instant is disabled. (#2004)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where annotation toolbars and some toolbar buttons included undefined as class name. (#2013)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue with long text overflowing in the layout configuration dropdown. (#2023)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where the delete icon in the annotation toolbar was visible although the annotation was not created yet. (#2043)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where the text-align icon was not correct. (#2042)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue with forms not rendering in standalone when rotating pages. (#2057)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue which prevented scrolling modals on mobile. (#2046)

Model

  • API

    Removes deprecated Instance#renderCover. (#1431)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where the default Annotation#name was sometimes out of sync with Annotation#id. (#1980)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where annotation changes made via the API where not automatically saved to the server when Instant is disabled. (#2005)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where invalid annotations crash the application. (#2004)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where the Instant Document JSON returned a permanent but no changing PDF ID. (#1847)

Example

  • Fixed

    Fixes a bug in the Rails example, where restarting the example container did not work. (#1971)

Instant

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where the annotation payload for Instant was including unnecessary information. (#1980)

2018.3.3 – 16 Nov 2018

UI

  • Fixed

    Fixes broken PDF text parsing in Firefox, Edge, and IE 11. (#2473)

2018.3.2 – 20 Jun 2018

UI

  • Fixed

    Fixes a regression where readOnly form fields where not properly disabled. (#1921)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue with selection grippers not working on Windows touch devices. (#1925)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue with contextual menus overlap the text markup annotation popover on some touch devices. (#1925)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where creating an ink annotation with a background color caused the page content to disappear. (#1916)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue with stylesheets not being cached by a user defined service worker. (#1928)

Model

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue with the newly introduced isFitting property for text annotations. (#C15597)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where search did not work in IE 11 when using standalone. (#1883)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue with all the custom overlay items for a page being removed in bulk. (#1942)

2018.3.1 – 4 Jun 2018

UI

  • API

    Adds Configuration#disableIndexedDBCaching to force disable caching of the WASM module when IndexedDB is supported. (#1905)

  • API

    Adds Configuration#disableWebAssemblyStreaming to force disable WebAssembly streaming instantiation. (#1907)

  • API

    Adds Configuration#standaloneInstancesPoolSize to configure the number of disposed instances to keep in memory for fast reuse. (#1908)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where forms were not rendered as read only when the server’s write permission was not set. (#1870)

Model

  • Fixed

    Fixes a crash when setting the interactionMode and enabling readOnly mode at the same time. (#1901)

Instant

  • Added

    Adds annotation note to Instant JSON. (#C15404)

2018.3 – 31 May 2018

See the announcement post.

UI

  • API

    Adds PSPDFKit.Annotations.toSerializableObject and PSPDFKit.Annotations.fromSerializableObject to convert annotations to and from serializable objects which adhere to the InstantJSON format. (#1704)

  • Added

    Adds support for touch events on desktop browsers. (#1459)

  • Added

    Adds support for ink signatures. (#1704)

    • API

      Adds Instance#getInkSignatures to retrieve the list of ink signatures.

    • API

      Adds Instance#setInkSignatures to set or update the list of ink signatures.

    • API

      Adds Configuration#populateInkSignatures to load the initial list of ink signatures.

  • Added

    Adds public CSS classes to Link Annotations for easy styling. (#1860)

  • Changed

    Improves the file size of the required style sheet. (#1795)

  • Changed

    Improves rendering performance when resizing the sidebar and when switching between page modes. (#1859)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an with responsive toolbar groups including items from other groups. (#1784)

  • Fixed

    Fixes responsive behavior of the text annotation toolbar. (#1800)

  • Fixed

    Fixes a regression when copying text on IE 11. (#1454)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where multi line text widgets that have an automatic text size had a font size that was too big. (#1844)

  • Fixed

    Fixes opacity of Text Annotations in editable mode. (#1799)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where opacity was being doubled on editing mode text annotations. (#1799)

Model

  • Added

    Adds a new annotation event: annotations.load that is triggered whenever annotations are loaded from the underlying data source. This was previously firing annotations.create. (#1690)

  • Added

    Adds support for fontSize property on widget annotations. (#1747)

  • Added

    Adds Annotation#name to all annotation records. This will default to the annotation identifier to mimic the behavior of our other platforms. (#C14856)

  • Added

    Adds support for dynamic code loading to reduce bundle size. (#1755)

  • Added

    Adds new instance events for ink signatures: inkSignatures.create, inkSignatures.update, inkSignatures.delete. (#1704)

  • Added

    Adds support for password protected PDFs. (#1632)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where the loading of the initial annotations would not cause an event to be triggered when using Instant. (#1690)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue with the ViewState API which allowed to change InteractionMode when the document was in read only mode. (#1838)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where the text of a TextAnnotation in the generated PDF was cut off. (#1275)

  • Fixed

    Fixes a race condition when trying to use Instange#getAnnotations for a page that is loading its annotations. (#1871)

Instant

  • Added

    Adds annotation name to Instant JSON. Also renamed pspdfkit/file name to filename to prevent collisions. (#C14856)

  • Added

    Adds isFitting to text annotations in Instant JSON. This property is used to correctly display the annotation in environments where the annotation’s font is not available. (#977)

Example

  • Added

    Adds support for simple layer authentication to the Node.js example app. (#1817)

  • Changed

    Improves experience for Windows users for all example applications. (#1857)

  • Changed

    Update React and Webpack example apps to work with the new pspdfkit-lib asset directory. (#1826)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue with the wrong mime types in the React example app. (#1825)

2018.2.2 – 16 Nov 2018

UI

  • Fixed

    Fixes broken PDF text parsing in Firefox, Edge, and IE 11. (#2473)

2018.2.1 – 2 May 2018

UI

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue with responsive toolbar groups including items from other groups. (#1784)

  • Fixed

    Fixes missing translation in search UI. (#1791)

Model

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where forms where not properly loaded when starting in read only mode. (#1794)

2018.2 – 28 Mar 2018

See the announcement post.

UI

  • API

    Adds Configuration#disableTextSelection to disable text selection and Configuration#disableHighQualityPrinting to disable high quality printing. (#1424)

  • API

    Adds Instance#getTextSelection() and a new event textSelection.change to access the text selection state. (#1724)

  • API

    Adds page.onPress and textLine.onPress events to control clicks in the document. (#1724)

  • API

    Adds Instance#jumpToRect() to make sure a specific rect (in PDF page coordinates) is brought into the viewport. (#1750)

  • API

    Adds ability to create and add custom overlay items to the document. (#1709)

    • API

      Adds Instance#setCustomOverlayItem() to create and update a custom overlay item.

    • API

      Adds Instance#removeCustomOverlayItem() to remove a custom overlay item.

    • API

      Adds PSPDFKit.CustomOverlayItem - a record to create custom overlay items.

  • API

    Adds I18n (internationalization) support. (#1732)

    • API

      Adds PSPDFKit.I18n to access and modify internationalization data. (#1732)

    • API

      Adds Instance#locale and Instance#setLocale to manage the application locale. (#1732)

  • API

    Adds support for customizing the search behavior. (#1739)

    • API

      Adds Instance#searchState, Instance#setSearchState(), and PSPDFKit.SearchState to control the state of the search UI.

    • API

      Adds Instance#startUISearch() as a shortcut to show the search box, type in a search term, and start the default search behavior.

    • API

      Adds new search events: search.stateChange will be fired whenever PSPDFKit.SearchState updates, search.termChange will be fired whenever the user changes the search term.

  • API

    Adds Instance#getSelectedAnnotation(), Instance#setSelectedAnnotation(), and the event annotationSelection.change to interact with the currently selected annotation. (#1562)

  • Added

    Adds PSPDFKit for Electron. (#1758)

  • Added

    Adds I18n (internationalization) support. (#1732)

  • Added

    Adds a customizable confirm dialog instead of using confirm(). (#1670)

  • Added

    Adds support for iOS 11.3. (#1746)

  • Changed

    Improves rendering performance on low resolution and mobile devices. (#1727)

  • Changed

    Changes the breakpoint for showing note annotation contents in full screen. (#1783)

  • Fixed

    Fixes ToolbarItems with not unique IDs render multiple times on resize. (#1728)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue with an invalid cursor for the pan tool on Internet Explorer 11. (#1777)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where the wrong toolbar items where shown quickly after closing the native print dialog. (#1734)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue with the layout of slider inputs on Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer 11. (#1775)

  • Fixed

    Fixes a rendering issue when using standalone deployments and rotated pages on WebKit. (#1778)

Model

  • Added

    Adds support for parsing GoToEmbeddedAction, GoToRemoteAction, HideAction, JavaScriptAction, LaunchAction, and NamedAction. (#1736)

  • Added

    Adds Instance#setAnnotationCreatorName() to set the annotation creator name and Annotation#creatorName , Annotation#createdAt, and Annotation#updatedAt to an annotation. (#1714)

  • Added

    Adds Instance#search() to find occurrences of a text string in the raw PDF. (#1739)

  • Added

    Adds PSPDFKit.SearchResult to describe a search result. (#1739)

  • Added

    Adds Instance#renderPageAsArrayBuffer to render a page as an ArrayBuffer. (#1431)

  • Added

    Adds Instance#renderPageAsImageURL to render a page and get a URL to it. (#1431)

  • Added

    Adds Instance#getMarkupAnnotationText to extract the text from markup annotations. (#1705)

  • Added

    Adds validation for annotations created and/or updated via public API. (#1731)

  • Changed

    Improves Instance#getAnnotations to throw an error, when called with invalid arguments. (#1781)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue in our WASM regression detection for iOS 11.2.6. (#1745)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue with exportXFDF not preserving the document state. (#1768)

  • Removed

    Deprecates Instance#renderCover. (#1431)

Example

  • Added

    Adds the new PSPDFKit for Electron example. (#1758)

Instant

  • Added

    Adds createdAt, updatedAt and creatorName to Instant JSON. (#C14443)

2018.1.5 – 16 Nov 2018

  • Fixed

    Fixes broken PDF text parsing in Firefox, Edge, and IE 11. (#2473)

2018.1.4 – 15 Mar 2018

No web-specific changes in this version.

2018.1.3 – 8 Mar 2018

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where the wrong toolbar items where shown quickly after closing the native print dialog. (#1734)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue in our WASM regression detection for iOS 11.2.6. (#1745)

2018.1.2 – 28 Feb 2018

  • Added

    Adds support for automatically extracting links from text. (#C13944)

  • Changed

    Significantly reduces the memory usage for Standalone deployments. (#1453)

  • Fixed

    Fixes clients presence connections failures that were not handled. (#1723)

2018.1.1 – 14 Feb 2018

  • Fixed

    Fixes sidebar button not selected when the sidebar is open. (#1712)

2018.1 – 8 Feb 2018

See the announcement post.

  • API

    Adds support for rotating pages in the current view. (#1621)

    • API

      Adds ViewState#pagesRotation to set the currently applied rotation.

    • API

      Adds ViewState#rotateLeft() and ViewState#rotateRight() to rotate the current view by 90° clockwise or counterclockwise.

  • API

    Adds a new toolbar item sidebar-thumbnails. (#1614)

  • API

    Adds ViewState#sidebarMode to control the sidebar. (#1614)

  • Added

    Adds support for rotating pages. (#1621)

  • Added

    Adds support for importing and exporting XFDF. (#1651)

  • Added

    Adds support for exporting Instant JSON on server setups. (#1662)

  • Added

    Adds support for grouped checkbox form fields. (#1689)

  • Added

    Adds WASM streaming initialization and caching for supported browsers. (#1644)

  • Added

    Adds more runtime type checks to the ViewState API. (#1655)

  • Added

    Adds sidebar for page thumbnails previews. (#1614)

  • Added

    Adds keyboard shortcuts to change page using the left and right arrow keys. (#1666)

  • Added

    Adds support for the NoView flag for all supported annotations. (#1683)

  • Fixed

    Fixes a WASM regression on iOS 11.2.2 and 11.2.5 by disabling WASM support on these particular versions. (#1650)

  • Fixed

    Fixes a bug where opening the layout-config menu will hide new ink drawings. (#1652)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where unchecked checkboxes were not properly exported. (#1673)

  • Fixed

    Fixes a bug where pages were briefly rendered in the browser while printing. (#1678)

  • Fixed

    Fixes keyboard shortcuts work in combination with shift key. (#1696)

2017.9.4 – 24 Jan 2018

No web-specific changes in this version.

2017.9.3 – 17 Jan 2018

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue when opening a PDF using the RESTProvider and a license without forms. (#1612)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue when deleting an annotation using the RESTProvider. (#1635)

  • Fixed

    Fixes a bug preventing client presences to be updated. (#1618)

  • Fixed

    Fixes full screen keyboard shortcut instead open search. (#1609)

  • Fixed

    Fixes incorrect text lines in some documents. (#C13148)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an assertion when a non-specified named action was deserialized via Instant JSON. (#C13804)

  • Fixed

    Fixes PrintMode.EXPORT_PDF not working in Edge and IE 11 for Standalone deployments. (#1640)

2017.9.2 – 20 Dec 2017

  • Fixed

    Fixes permission compatibility with server. (#1601)

  • Fixed

    Fixes setFormFieldValue sending malformed payload to the server. (#1599)

2017.9.1 – 15 Dec 2017

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where trial licenses did not have the form license flag set. (#C13553)

2017.9 – 14 Dec 2017

See the announcement post.

  • API

    Adds support for programmatic form filling. (#936)

    • API

      Adds Instance#getFormFields() to access form fields.

    • API

      Adds Instance#getFormFieldsValues() and Instance#setFormFieldsValues() to easily access the current form field values.

    • API

      Adds WidgetAnnotation to the annotation API. This annotation can never be modified and is used to render form fields.

    • API

      Adds SubmitFormAction and ResetFormAction. The submit action will also fire forms.willSubmit and forms.didSubmit, respectively.

  • API

    Adds a new toolbar item type, responsive-group. This can be used to create groups of toolbar items for smaller screens. (#1412)

  • Added

    Adds support for interactive forms. (#936)

  • Added

    Adds support for filling forms via Instant. (#936)

  • Added

    Adds a responsive mode to the toolbar. Annotation tools are now by default grouped under an “Annotate” option on small screens. (#1412)

  • Added

    Adds headless mode to run PSPDFKit for Web without a user interface. (#1534)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an error in Instant when two clients edit text annotations simultaneously. (#1522)

  • Fixed

    Fixes flickering of the note annotation popover when a note annotation is selected. (#1363)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where default colors for highlight annotations were not rendered properly. (#C12938)

2017.8.1 – 6 Dec 2017

No web-specific changes in this version.

2017.8 – 22 Nov 2017

  • Changed

    Changes annotation IDs from numerical to client-side generated string IDs. (#1303)

  • Fixed

    Fixes a bug that prevented text selection starting from non-text nodes. (#1492)

  • Fixed

    Fixes impossible to deselect text. (#1492)

  • Fixed

    Fixes canceled text lines requests in standalone resolve anyway. (#1506)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue with Instant on documents without the edit-annotations permission. (#1451)

2017.7.1 – 15 Nov 2017

  • Changed

    Improved memory management for standalone deployments. (#1453)

  • Fixed

    Fixes getBaseUrl removes part of the url in IE. (#1456)

  • Fixed

    Fixes copied text includes new lines in Firefox and IE. (#1463)

2017.7 – 25 Oct 2017

See the announcement post.

  • API

    Adds PSPDFKit.unload to terminate running and loading instances in favor of the now deprecated Instance#destroy. (#1389)

  • API

    Adds new CSS classes to select annotations. (#1414)

  • API

    Adds new CSS class to select text. (#1406)

  • API

    Adds option to specify a pageIndex to the Instance#renderCover standalone API. (#1404)

  • API

    Adds option to disable WebAssembly when using standalone deployments. (#1416)

  • API

    Adds new contentWindow and contentDocument getters to the Instance to quickly access the content of the PSPDFKit viewer. (#1439)

  • API

    Adds API for printing and introduces printing modes. (#1319)

  • API

    Fixes the casing in CSS class names of specific note annotation icons to be more consistent. (#1414)

  • Added

    Adds new printing mode DOM. This method will render all pages of the PDF document in advance before it sends the results to the printer. (#1319)

  • Added

    Adds a new icon set for all toolbar items. (#1413)

  • Added

    Adds pinching for touch devices in PER_SPREAD scroll mode. (#1315)

  • Changed

    Improved support for Apple Pencil. (#1415)

  • Changed

    Improved WebAssembly/asm.js loading time of subsequent initializations. (#1390)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where an Instant sync conflict was causing an invalid state. (#1347)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue with the transition of note annotation popovers. (#1388)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue that sometimes prevented the text caret to be drawn in IE 11 and Edge. (#1395)

  • Fixed

    Fixes the position of the initial text caret on Safari. (#1396)

  • Fixed

    Fixes a rendering issue that resulted into a blurry pages when using standalone deployments. (#1261)

  • Fixed

    Fixes the spacing of color picker items in responsive mode. (#1414)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue that emitted the wrong payload with the annotations.delete event. (#1423)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue that caused a crash when the page index of an annotation was out of bounds. (#1397)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue that prevent toolbar items from being disabled via the API. (#1432)

2017.6.1 – 2 Oct 2017

  • Added

    Adds support for Internet Explorer 11 when using standalone deployments. (#C11782)

  • Changed

    Improves read-only mode for note annotations. (#1360)

  • Changed

    Improves error messages when invalid JWT token is supplied. (#1379)

  • Changed

    Changes the default breakpoint for the layout-config toolbar item. (#1364)

2017.6 – 18 Sept 2017

See the announcement post.

  • API

    ViewState#pageSpacing is now used for the spacing between pages in LayoutMode.DOUBLE. For the previous behavior, please use ViewState#spreadSpacing instead.

  • API

    Deprecates ViewState#viewMode and adds ViewState#layoutMode and ViewState#scrollMode. (#1272)

  • API

    Renames ZoomMode.PAGE_FIT and ZoomMode.PAGE_WIDTH to ZoomMode.FIT_TO_VIEWPORT and ZoomMode.FIT_TO_WIDTH. (#1277)

  • API

    Adds ViewState#keepFirstSpreadAsSinglePage to start with a single page in LayoutMode.DOUBLE. (#737)

  • API

    Adds Instance#textLinesForPageIndex to extract text content of a page. (#1302)

  • Added

    Adds double page mode for both scroll modes. (#737)

  • Added

    Adds support for zooming and scrolling in PER_SPREAD scroll mode. (#1285)

  • Added

    Adds pagination by using the mouse scroll wheel in PER_SPREAD scroll mode. (#1285)

  • Added

    Adds support for Note annotations. (#1235)

  • Changed

    Improves error messages for some APIs. (#1304)

  • Changed

    Improves performance when opening a big PDF with many annotations. (#1304)

  • Changed

    Improves user experience while rendering pages. (#1301)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where annotations imported via Instant JSON could no longer be updated or deleted. (#1312)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where the zoom level was not properly recalculated, when the viewport dimensions changed. (#1310)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue with printing still working after being disabled via API. (#1324)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where an error was logged when refreshing the browser. (#1329)

  • Fixed

    Fixes errors that ocurred when the root element was removed from the DOM, before the viewer finished loading. (#1328)

  • Fixed

    Fixes a race condition that could occur when syncing annotations. (#1343)

2017.5.4 – 31 Aug 2017

No web-specific changes in this version.

2017.5.3 – 17 Aug 2017

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue with Chrome that prevented the document from rendering in certain environments. (#1293)

2017.5.2 – 9 Aug 2017

  • Changed

    Improves backoff behavior of Instant endpoint when an error occurs. (#1249)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where zooming in or out when text is selected caused a wrong popover position. (#1269)

  • Fixed

    Fixes Safari/IE 11 not including request headers for tiles request. (#1283)

  • Fixed

    Fixes exportPDF flattens by default converting annotations to non-editable content. We made it configurable. (#1276)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where a floating point font size for a text annotation causes two options with the same value in the dropdown list. (#1284)

2017.5.1 – 24 Jul 2017

  • Changed

    Improves standalone rendering speed. (#1243)

  • Changed

    Improves error logging in some cases. (#1251)

  • Fixed

    Fixes the default save mode when using standalone deployments. (#1257)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue with Edge when using standalone deployments. (#1250)

2017.5 – 20 Jul 2017

See the announcement post.

  • API

    Adds Configuration#pdf to load a PDF for client side rendering via an URI or an ArrayBuffer. (#966)

  • API

    Adds ability to create, read, update, and delete annotations as well as an API to observe annotation changes. (#937)

  • API

    Adds event before and after the annotations are saved. (#1150)

  • API

    Expose annotation interfaces (Annotation, HighlightAnnotation, InkAnnotation, LinkAnnotation, SquiggleAnnotation, StrikeOutAnnotation, TextAnnotation, MarkupAnnotation UnderlineAnnotation, UnknownAnnotation). (#1049)

  • API

    Exposes new primitives types (Immutable.List, Geometry.Point, Geometry.DrawingPoint, Geometry.Rect, Geometry.Size and Color). (#1031)

  • API

    Exposes PDF action types (Actions.GoToAction, Actions.URIAction). (#1037)

  • API

    Supports different save modes and adds ability to save annotations manually. (#964)

  • API

    Renames viewstatechanged, currentpageindexchanged, zoomchanged and connectedclientschanged events. (#1151)

  • API

    Adds Instance#hasUnsavedAnnotations to find out if unsaved annotations are present. (#1152)

  • API

    Adds Instance#exportPDF to access the raw PDF binary data as ArrayBuffer. (#1163)

  • API

    Adds Instance#exportInstantJSON and Configuration#instantJSON to serialize and deserialize the document state including all annotations using Instant JSON when no server is present. (#1158)

  • API

    Adds Instance#renderCover to render the first page as a thumbnail for client side rendering. (#1178)

  • API

    Allow to override onPress handlers for annotations. (#1175)

  • API

    Allow to overwrite the inferred base url for the Server in case the JavaScript is loaded from a different host. (#1185)

  • Added

    Adds support for client side rendering using WebAssembly (wasm) or asm.js. Please visit our guides for more information. (#966)

  • Added

    Adds support for bundling PSPDFKit for Web using an npm package. (#1098)

  • Changed

    Improves pinching performance on mobile devices. (#1085)

  • Changed

    Improves performance of tile rendering. (#1125)

  • Fixed

    Fixes zoom buttons should only be hidden for touch devices. (#1077)

  • Fixed

    Fixes error in the Custom Toolbar when mediaQueries is set to undefined. (#1080)

  • Fixed

    Fixes cleanup of event listeners when drawing ink annotations. (#1061)

  • Fixed

    Fixes a bug that caused Safari on iOS to trigger the default zoom behavior on double tap. (#859)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue with babel-polyfill. (#1108)

  • Fixed

    Fixes issue when quickly jumping through search results. (#1078)

  • Fixed

    Fixes prevent text annotation to increase page size when created at the edge. (#1130)

  • Fixed

    Fixes sliders’ thumb position for Edge. (#1136)

  • Fixed

    Fixes sliders’ vertical alignment in IE 11. (#1136)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where the initial viewport size was wrong. (#1240)

  • Fixed

    Fixes link annotations not clickable when in read-only mode. (#1242)

2017.4 – 16 May 2017

See the announcement post.

  • API

    Adds ability to customize and add new items to the main toolbar. (#1048)

  • API

    Adds new option interactionMode to ViewState to enable ink, text, search and pan mode. (#1003)

  • API

    Adds version to PSPDFKit to get the current version of PSPDFKit for Web. (#1047)

  • Added

    Adds support for interacting with all annotation types (ink, text, highlight, squiggle, underline, strike-through, and link) on mobile devices. (#906)

  • Added

    Adds a special annotation toolbar that appears when text is selected to allow the creation of markup annotations on mobile devices. (#1060)

  • Added

    Adds pan tool to allow users to navigate on a desktop browser using mouse dragging. (#887)

  • Changed

    Improves the scrolling performance in Chrome browsers when an ink annotation is inside the viewport. (#616)

  • Changed

    Improves tiling by avoiding unnecessary calculations. (#1000)

  • Changed

    Improves ink annotation creation on different pages. (#985)

  • Changed

    Improves logging and descriptiveness of messages for errors in HTTP APIs. (#S1078, #S1110)

  • Fixed

    Fixes issues with empty text annotations. (#821)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue with text annotations that get dragged while they’re changed. (#980)

  • Fixed

    Fixes a bug that prevented the focus of the text annotation after clicking on it. (#1013)

  • Fixed

    Fixes a bug that caused a wrong initial text selection within a text annotation. (#929)

  • Fixed

    Fixes a bug that caused an exception when destroying the PSPDFKit for Web instance on IE 11. (#1034)

  • Fixed

    Fixes the centering of the content inside the viewport. (#998)

  • Fixed

    Fixes a bug where delete annotation can delete pdf assets. (#S1117)

2017.3.2 – 19 Apr 2017

  • Added

    Adds CSS class for unsupported annotations and hides them by default. (#991)

  • Fixed

    Fixes a bug where the user_id of the user performing a change was not always persisted. (#S1083)

2017.3.1 – 12 Apr 2017

  • Added

    Adds a new license information page to the dashboard. (#S1074)

  • Added

    Adds cmd+g and cmd+shift+g keyboard shortcuts to jump to the next/previous search result (macOS only). (#961)

  • Changed

    load() will now throw if the container element has children. (#957)

  • Fixed

    Fixes buggy behavior in Firefox where the user needs to press backspace twice to start to delete from the end of a text annotation. (#974)

  • Fixed

    Fixes a bug in Firefox where a NO-BREAK SPACE was inserted after the first line break. (#976)

  • Fixed

    Fixes a bug when switching annotation modes. (#818)

2017.3 – 29 Mar 2017

See the announcement post.

  • API

    Adds option to enable read only mode. (#886)

  • API

    Adds option to hide annotations. (#886)

  • API

    Custom style sheets must now be set through the JavaScript API. (#630)

  • API

    Adds option to hide the print icon to ViewState. (#845)

  • API

    Adds many new public CSS classes. (#733)

  • API

    Adds documentation for load(). (#839)

  • Added

    Adds support for printing documents. (#845)

  • Added

    Adds new AUTO zoom mode for a better default experience. (#741)

  • Added

    Adds support for flattening annotations into the PDF before it is downloaded. (#S1026)

  • Added

    Adds support for permissions to selectively enable/disable viewing and editing features. These replace the old access control based on the access and user_id fields. (#S1031)

  • Changed

    Prevents CSS conflicts by encapsulating the viewer. (#630)

  • Changed

    Enforces document_id to be type of string in the JWT. (#824)

  • Changed

    Updates the format of the JWT used for authentication. (#S1031, #S1043)

  • Removed

    Removes border of link annotations. (#882)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an error for Chrome >= 56 that was caused by Chrome making event handlers passive per default. (#792)

  • Fixed

    Fixes z-index ordering for some annotations to prioritize newer ones. (#746)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue that prevented dragging annotations in IE 11. (#870)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue with editing a text annotation after reloading. (#852)

2017.2 – 17 Feb 2017

See the announcement post.

  • API

    The server will now always return and expect string document IDs. (#808)

  • Added

    Adds HTTP API for working with annotations.

  • Added

    Adds a debug mode to track down issues during development. (#760)

  • Added

    Adds shortcuts to zoom in, out and back to page-fit.

  • Changed

    Shows toolbar when starting to create an ink or text annotation. (#801)

  • Changed

    Improves read-only mode. (#761)

  • Changed

    Improves the contrast of resize anchors. (#751)

  • Changed

    Improves the Dashboard experience.

  • Changed

    Search now also appears via CMD-G on macOS. (#758)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue that sends an invalid search request. (#756)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue where parts of the annotation toolbar disappeared. (#647)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue with hidden toolbar buttons. (#794)

2017.1 – 25 Jan 2017

See the announcement post.

  • Added

    Adds search. (#722)

  • Added

    Adds custom dropdown to preview fonts. (#413)

  • Changed

    Optimizes ink annotations. (#590)

2016.3 – 21 Dec 2016

See the announcement post.

  • Added

    Adds a dashboard for easy control over the server.

  • Changed

    Shows a font’s name in the dropdown even if the font is not available. (#665)

2016.2.1 – 12 Dec 2016

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue with external events. (#699)

2016.2 – 8 Dec 2016

  • Added

    Adds support for Internet Explorer 11. (#676)

  • Removed

    Removes white space after the last page on Firefox for Android. (#651, #652)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue with text annotation clipping on Edge. (#644)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue with PDF documents that have fractional page dimensions. (#660)

  • Fixed

    Fixes an issue with the AnnotationToolbar position. (#661)

2016.1 – 1 Dec 2016

See the announcement post.

  • Changed

    First public release.