Changelog

Newest Release

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)

Previous Releases

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)

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)

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.

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