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Newest Release
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)
Previous Releases
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
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
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
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
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
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
2018.5.2 – 16 Nov 2018
UI
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
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
2018.4.3 – 16 Nov 2018
UI
2018.4.2 – 24 Aug 2018
Model
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
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
Instant
2018.3.3 – 16 Nov 2018
UI
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
Instant
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
2018.2.1 – 2 May 2018
UI
Model
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 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
Instant
2018.1.5 – 16 Nov 2018
2018.1.4 – 15 Mar 2018
No web-specific changes in this version.
2018.1.3 – 8 Mar 2018
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
2018.1 – 8 Feb 2018
See the announcement post.
API
Adds support for rotating pages in the current view. (#1621)
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
2017.9.1 – 15 Dec 2017
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
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
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.
2016.3 – 21 Dec 2016
See the announcement post.
2016.2.1 – 12 Dec 2016
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.
