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| | h1. ICEpdf 5.0.0 Release Notes |
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| | *{_}April 5th, 2013{_}* |
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| | h3. Contents |
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| | This document includes the following sections: |
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| | * [About This Release|#about] |
| | * [Notable Changes and Enhancements|#notablechanges] |
| | * [Known Issues|#knownissues] |
| | * [Migration Notes|#migrationnotes] |
| | * [Support|#support] |
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| | h3. About This Release |
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| | ICEpdf v5.0 is a certified production release that introduces important new features such new annotation creation tools, thread safe page access, layers support, improved memory management and a new optimized content parser. This release also includes over 80 bug fixes and enhancements. |
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| | h3. Notable Changes and Enhancements |
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| | * *Rendering Core* |
| | ** Addition of creation, edit, and delete support for highlight, strike out, underline, line, line arrow, link, square, circle, ink, free text and comment annotations. |
| | ** Annotation write support (Pro Version). |
| | ** Support of optional content (layers). |
| | ** Improved image loading performance and masking support. |
| | ** Thread safe Page access. |
| | ** Memory management has been rewritten to take advantage of weak and soft references. |
| | ** New parsing engine which dramatically improves the parsing time of documents and better handles malformed content streams (Pro version). |
| | ** Support for TrueType font hinting (Pro Version). |
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| | * *Viewer Application* |
| | ** Addition of layers utility pane control, allowing the dynamic toggling of layer visibility. |
| | ** New utility panel for editing annotation properties and creation toolbar. |
| | ** Dynamic zoom control allowing zoom control with mouse wheel. |
| | ** Marquee zoom control allowing zoom box selection. |
| | ** New look and feel of Viewer RI. |
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| | * *Example Applications* |
| | ** Updated page example example to use multi-thread page access. |
| | ** Update example to use new memory model that no longer requires a Page to be locked. |
| | ** Updated multipage capture example to improve CCITT T.4 image capture quality. |
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| | For a complete list of all changes in this release, see the related JIRA [Change Log|http://jira.icesoft.org/browse/PDF/fixforversion/10314]. |
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| | h3. Known Issues |
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| | The following section describes the most commonly encountered known issues with this release. For a complete reference of all outstanding issues please refer to the ICEpdf.org JIRA issue tracker. |
| | General |
| | * Batik libraries version 1.7 for SVG export has a known issue which will cause a null pointer when using the class SVGGraphics2D. Please use Batik version 1.6 or earlier (included in this release bundle), [http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/batik/]. |
| | * Depending on which version of the Java Advanced Imaging (JAI) library you are using, the installer program may assume you are installing it on a J2SE JDK installation. If you install the JAI into a J2SE JRE installation, you may need to move the installed files from the /jre subdirectory that the installer creates to the jre directory above. Newer versions of the JAI installer program have fixed this issue. |
| | * Language support for none English languages is limited to the main Viewer controls and is incomplete for the Utility pane or popup dialogs. |
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| | h3. Migration Notes |
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| | h4. 4.x to 5.x Migration Notes |
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| | *API Packaging Changes* |
| | * The memory manager has been updated and it is no longer required to lock a Page object when accessing it through the PageTree API. |
| | * PagePainter object is no long passed into a call to Page.paint() method. If long running Page paint method needs to be interrupted then a call to page.requestInterrupt() should be made. |
| | * The use of Hashtable in the Dictionary class has been replaced with HashMap object. |
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| | *System Properties* |
| | * Image scaling is now off by default and there two new scaling options, more information can be referenced found here, [imaging options|http://www.icesoft.org/wiki/display/PDF/Imaging+Options] |
| | * Many system properties have been removed as they are no longer needed or irrelevant. Please review [System Properties|http://www.icesoft.org/wiki/display/PDF/System+Properties] for a complete list of supported system properties. |
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| | *Viewer RI* |
| | * The Viewer RI has been updated to support annotation editing tools, for more information on these see [Working with Annotations | http://www.icesoft.org/wiki/display/PDF/Working+with+Annotations]. |
| | * Layer support has been added to the Viewer RI utility pane, for more information see [User Layers |http://www.icesoft.org/wiki/display/PDF/Changing+Visibility+of+Layered+Content]. |
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| | h4. 3.x to 4.x Migration Notes |
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| | The following changes may affect applications that were originally developed with a previous version of ICEpdf. |
| | ICEpdf Core API |
| | * When extracting text using the org.icepdf.core.pobjects.Page Object the method not longer turns a Vector of Strings. Instead it now returns the data structure org.icepdf.core.pobjects.graphics.text.PageText. See class document and the example _install_dir_/icepdf/examples/extraction/PageTextExtraction.java for correct usage. |
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| | h4. 2.x to 4.x Migration Notes |
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| | The following changes may affect applications that were originally developed with a previous version of ICEpdf. |
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| | *ICEpdf Jar File Changes* |
| | * The ICEpdf jar file names have been updated to better indicate their respective usage. |
| | * Please update your applications to reflect the new jar names. |
| | ** icepdf-core.jar - was icepdf.jar, contains core ICEpdf rendering classes. |
| | ** icepdf-viewer.jar - was ri_pdf.jar, contains viewer reference implementation. |
| | ** icepdf-pro.jar ^\*^ \- Professional font library available under commercial licensing. |
| | ** icepdf-pro-int.jar ^\*^ \- Professional font library CMap files, available under commercial licensing. |
| | ^\*^ Denotes JAR files that are only available in ICEpdf Pro commercial release. |
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| | *API Packaging Changes* |
| | * ICEpdf 4.0 packaging has been updated to match the domain of the new community site [http://www.icepdf.org/]. |
| | * Please update your applications to reflect the new base package name. |
| | ** Former package-name: com.icesoft.\* |
| | ** New package-name: org.icepdf.\* |
| | * The ICEpdf API rendering core is now rooted at org.icepdf.core.*. |
| | * The ICEpdf API viewer reference implementation is now rooted at org.icepdf.ri.*. |
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| | *System Properties* |
| | * ICEpdf system properties have been changed to match the domain name of the community site [http://www.icepdf.org/]. |
| | * Please update your applications use of ICEpdf system properties to reflect the new base package name. |
| | ** Former package-name: com.icesoft.\* |
| | ** New package-name: org.icepdf.\* |
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| | *JDK 1.5\+ Now Required* |
| | * ICEpdf source code has been updated to the JDK 1.5 Java language specification to take advantage of numerous features and improvements to the Java programming language. As a result, ICEpdf v4.0 is not deployable to Java JRE versions older than 1.5. |
| | * Older versions of the Java JDK and JRE have been added to Sun's end of life and are no longer publicly supported. |
| | ** JDK 1.3.1 reached the end of its service life (EOSL), December 11th, 2006. |
| | ** JDK 1.4.2 reached the end of its service life (EOSL), October 11th, 2008. |
| | * For more information on Java Platform Migration please see [http://java.sun.com/j2se/JM_White_Paper_R6A.pdf]. |
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| | *Logging System* |
| | * ICEpdf 4.0 now uses Java logging API for all logging tasks. |
| | * A sample logging.properties file is included in the directory .../install_dir/icepdf/lib/. |
| | * The custom logging properties file can be specified with the following system property: |
| | ** \-Djava.util.logging.config.file=logging.properties |
| | * Further information on java.util.logging can be found at [http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/guide/logging/]. |
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| | h3. Support |
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| | Please visit the [www.icepdf.org|http://www.icepdf.org/] community site for additional information, demos, and resources. |
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| | All questions, comments, or general discussion specific to ICEpdf 4.0 should be made in the [ICEpdf Forum|http://www.icefaces.org/JForum/forums/show/28.page] forum. |
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| | For information on commercial support, professional services, and training, please visit [http://support.icepdf.org]. |
ICEpdf 5.0.0 Release Notes