Release Notes

• Supports merging PDFs with StructureTreeRoot at zero position. (v11.04)
• Added support to merge PDFs having AcroForm entry as an Array instead of a Dictionary. (v11.04)
• Added support to merge PDFs having a NULL entry for annotations. (v11.04)
• Supports adding a Select tag in HtmlArea without any option tags. (v11.03)
• Retrieve human-readable export values of Radio buttons instead of the encoded string. (v11.03)
• Added Support to generate PDFs with PDF/UA compliance. (v11.02)
• Added the ability to set Author to a Note annotation. (v11.02)
• Added the ability to detect if the PDF has dynamic XFA form. (v11.02)
• Added the ability to get the Pixel format of an image from an existing PDF. (v11.02)
• Added the ability to get the information of fonts present in a PDF. (v11.02)
• Added the ability to find whether the fonts present in a PDF are embedded. (v11.02)
• Added support to use WOFF version 2 fonts. (v11.02)
• Allows merging of PDFs having a wrong entry for PrintScaling in ViewerPreferences. (v11.02)
• Can generate or merge linearized PDFs of any size subjective to the platform being used and resources available. (v11.02)
• Added ability to set appearance properties to the overflow table. (v11.01)
• Added support to detect if a PDF is signed. (v11.01)
• Added the ability to check if an existing PDF is protected with a user password. (v11.01)
• Optimized merging of PDF documents. (v11.01)
• Optimized flattenning the form fields of an existing PDF. (v11.01)
• Can generate or merge PDFs of any size subjective to the resources available (v11.01)
• Added support to extract images from a PDF (v11.01)
• Logical structure tags are updated HTML elements (v11.01)
• Page element placement can now be relative to different locations on a page (v11.01)
• Added support to use version 1 WOFF fonts (v11.01)
• Added the ability to retrieve custom properties from an existing PDF (v11.01)
• Combined PageDimentions and ExtendedPageDimensions into AutoPageDimensions for simplified usage (v11.01)
• Added Ability to auto rotate page elements with a page's rotate value (v11.01)
• Added support for true type collection (TTC) fonts (v11.01)
• Added support to Interlaced PNG (v11.01)
• Ability to retrieve text or comments from Note annotation. (v11.01)
• Supports XRef Streams in PDF except for linearized PDFs (v11.01)
• Supports merging PDFs having ASCIIHexEncode encoded content stream (v11.01)
• Preserves hyper links present in the template PDF used in layout engine (v11.01)
• Supports incremental updates with multiple digital signatures (v11.01)
• Added support for right to left text and character shaping for ReportWriter (LayoutEngine) elements (v11.01)
• Enhanced support for modifying the page size of an existing page (v11.01)
• Added font sharing for TrueType and Type0 fonts (v11.01)
• Added a new "Fonts" property to "DocumentOptimization" class to allow sharing fonts. (v11.01)
• Optimized the HtmlArea to better handle deeply nested HTML tags. (v11.01)
• Added inbuilt support for Indic fonts with character-shaping. (v11.01)
• Fixed an issue with getting text using GetOverflowText & GetText of AdvancedTextLineList. (v11.01)
• Fixed an ArgumentNullException caused while accessing the resources from a byte array in LayoutEngine. (v11.01)
• Updated the line splitting logic to work as per GlyphInformation cluster value. (v11.01)
• Added support to merge PDFs with invalid Prev entry (XREF table position in the incremental update). (v11.01)
• Added support to use JSON data as Layout Data. (v11.01)

• Fixed an issue with barcode data encoding. (v11.05)
• Fixed an issue with loading PDF document from a byte array. (v11.05)
• Fixed an issue with table border and rendering content. (v11.05)
• Fixed an issue with the placement of data points in DateTimeXAxis. (v11.05)
• Fixed an issue with StrComp function in Designer. (v11.05)
• Fixed an IndexOutOfRangeException that occurs when using a custom font with empty text in Layout Engine. (v11.05)
• Fixed an issue with spacing caused by an empty sub report. (v11.05)
• Fixed a NullReferenceException that occurs when adding a specific HTML text. (v11.05)
• Fixed a PdfParsingException that occurs when merging a specific PDF document. (v11.04)
• Fixed an issue that crashes the application when merging a specific PDF document. (v11.04)
• Fixed an issue with positioning the label using the CreateLabel method of the form fields. (v11.04)
• Fixed a "stream can not be null" exception that occurs when merging a specific PDF repeatedly. (v11.04)
• Fixed an IndexOutOfRangeException that occurs when merging a specific PDF document. (v11.04)
• Fixed an issue with GetText method that returns an incorrect text with a specific PDF document. (v11.04)
• Fixed an issue with extracting text from a specific area of a PDF document. (v11.04)
• Throws meaningful exceptions instead of hanging the application when using a specific PDF document. (v11.04)
• Fixed a CryptographicException that occurs intermittently when signing a PDF document. (v11.04)
• Fixed an issue with selecting a checkbox. (v11.04)
• Fixed an issue that hangs the application when merging a specific PDF document. (v11.04)
• Fixed an IndexOutOfBound exception that occurs when extracting text from a specific PDF document. (v11.04)
• Fixed an issue creating FIPS compliant PDF document. (v11.04)
• Fixed an OutOfMemoryException that occurs when merging a specific PDF document. (v11.04)
• Fixed an "Invalid object number present" error that occurs when merging a specific PDF document. (v11.04)
• Fixed an issue with text extraction that causes missing text. (v11.04)
• Fixed an issue with handling ampersand in a link element in HtmlArea. (v11.04)
• Fixed an issue creating PDF from a specific tiff file. (v11.04)
• Fixed a few rendering issues when creating PDF out of HTML. (v11.04)
• Fixed an "Invalid xref position present" exception that occurs while merging a specific PDF document. (v11.04)
• Fixed an issue with line wrapping in HtmlArea. (v11.04)
• Fixed an issue that causes an error when opening the PDF in Adobe Reader. (v11.04)
• Fixed an issue with spacing between the bullets and text in a List element when using HtmlArea. (v11.04)
• Fixed an issue with text positioning when using a negative value for "text-indent" in list items with HtmlArea. (v11.04)
• Fixed a NullReferenceException that occurs when extracting text from a specific PDF. (v11.04)
• Fixed an ArgumentException that occurs when creating PDF out of a specific Tiff image. (v11.04)
• Fixed an ArgumentOutOfRangeException that occurs when setting height of a Table2 object. (v11.04)
• Fixed an issue with display size of the image added to a PDF. (v11.04)
• Fixed an issue with preserving the properties of an Overflow object in MacroPdf417. (v11.04)
• Fixed an issue with pound sign (#) used as an escape character. (v11.04)
• Fixed an issue with displaying a space character in HtmlArea. (v11.04)
• Fixed an issue of missing content when merging a secured PDF. (v11.04)
• Fixed an issue with splitting when we have multiple sub reports in a page. (v11.04)
• Fixed an issue with merging that causes accessibility test to fail on the output PDF. (v11.04)
• Fixed an issue that causes the Acrobat Reader to throw an error when resaving the PDF using "Save As". (v11.04)
• Fixed an issue with setting the Chart positions dynamically. (v11.04)
• Fixed a NullReferenceException that occurs when merging and optimizing a specific PDF document. (v11.04)
• Fixed an OutOfMemoryException that occurs when using Table2 element. (v11.04)
• Fixed a NullReferenceException that occurs when merging a specific PDF document. (v11.04)
• Fixed an issue with rendering the Tables in Html Area. (v11.04)
• Fixed "Length of the data to decrypt is invalid" error when merging a specific PDF document. (v11.04)
• Fixed an issue with the product licensing watermark. (v11.04)
• Fixed an InvalidCastException caused when merging a specific PDF document. (v11.04)
• Fixed an "Invalid name object present in the PDF" error that occurs when merging a specific pdf document. (v11.04)
• Fixed an issue with rendering a table in the HtmlArea. (v11.03)
• Fixed an issue with unordered list in the HtmlArea. (v11.03)
• Fixed a NullReferenceException that occurs when adding a Table and setting height. (v11.03)
• Fixed an issue with writing About and CreatorTool meta data. (v11.03)
• Fixed an IndexOutOfRangeException that occurs when merging a specific PDF document. (v11.03)
• Fixed an issue with embedding a specified font present in the HTML source. (v11.03)
• Fixed an issue with rendering newline character. (v11.03)
• Fixed a NullReferenceException that occurs when merging a specific PDF. (v11.03)
• Updated error messages that occur when using invalid Web fonts. (v11.03)
• Fixed an IndexOutOfRangeException that occurs while adding a specific Tiff image to PDF. (v11.03)
• Fixed an issue that causes an error when opening a PDF created from a Tiff file in Adobe Reader. (v11.03)
• Fixed an issue that causes missing text in HtmlArea when using a < li > tag. (v11.03)
• Fixed an issue with setting font to the numbering of a list in HtmlArea. (v11.03)
• Fixed an issue with Opacity in ImageWatermark. (v11.03)
• Fixed a NullReferenceException that occurs while filling form fields in a specific PDF. (v11.03)
• Fixed an issue with XYScatterSeries in placing the marker when there is only one value. (v11.03)
• Updated the default font of HtmlArea to LiberationSans-Regular. (v11.03)
• Fixed an issue with the font size of the numbering in an ordered list. (v11.03)
• Fixed an issue with rendering the bullets of an unordered list. (v11.03)
• Fixed an IndexOutOfRangeException that occurs when creating a PDF using a specific Tiff image. (v11.03)
• Fixed an issue where the application hangs while merging a specific PDF document. (v11.03)
• Fixed an issue that causes the "Stream can not be drawn" error when merging a specific PDF document multiple times. (v11.03)
• Resolved an issue that hangs the application when using border-collapse and column-span to zero in HtmlArea. (v11.03)
• Fixed a NullReferenceException that occurs when calling the GetRequiredHeight method of the HtmlArea. (v11.03)
• Fixed an error (Maximum Integer Value Exceeded) that occurs when merging a specific PDF document. (v11.03)
• Fixed an issue with table cell border placement in HtmlArea (v11.03)
• Throws a meaningful exception when the data does not fit in PDF417 barcode. (v11.03)
• Fixed an issue with line breaks when using some TTF font files. (v11.03)
• Fixed an issue that hangs the application while merging a specific PDF document. (v11.03)
• Fixed an issue with setting the font in the FontSelecting event of the HtmlArea. (v11.03)
• Fixed an issue with GetRequiredHeight method of the HtmlArea that returns a wrong height. (v11.02)
• Fixed an InvalidCastException that occurs when merging a specific PDF. (v11.02)
• Fixed a NullReferenceException that occurs when merging a specific PDF. (v11.02)
• Fixed an issue with merging a specific PDF that hangs the application. (v11.02)
• Fixed an error that occurs when merging a specific PDF document. (v11.02)
• Fixed an issue that creates an incompatible PDF/UA document when merging a PDF/UA compatible PDF multiple times. (v11.02)
• Fixed an issue that creates an incompatible PDF/UA document when a Note annotation is added. (v11.02)
• Fixed an issue with missing text in HtmlArea. (v11.02)
• Fixed a NullReferenceException caused when using font Kerning. (v11.02)
• Fixed a NullReferenceException caused when creating a PDF using HtmlLayout. (v11.02)
• Fixed an issue that causes missing images when using HtmlLayout. (v11.02)
• Fixed an OutOfMemoryException caused when using HtmlLayout. (v11.02)
• Fixed an issue with flattening and setting the rotation to a page. (v11.02)
• Fixed an IndexOutOfRangeException that occurs when using htmlArea. (v11.02)
• Fixed an issue with spacing in extracted text. (v11.02)
• Fixed an issue with Table2 that causes ArgumentOutOfRangeException. (v11.02)
• Fixed an IndexOutOfRangeException that occurs when getting kern values from a TextArea. (v11.02)
• Fixed an IndexOutOfRangeException that occurs when loading fonts. (v11.02)
• Fixed an issue with image extraction that causes a change in backgroud and text colouring in the image. (v11.02)
• Fixed a StackOverflowException that occurs while extracting text from a specific PDF. (v11.02)
• Fixed an issue with creating a PDF from a specific Tiff file. (v11.02)
• Fixed an IndexOutOfRangeException that occurs while optimizing a specific PDF. (v11.02)
• Fixed a NullReferenceException that occurs when calling the GetRequiredHeight method on an unordered list without having any items. (v11.02)
• Fixed an issue that occurs while trying to get the original page number of a form field. (v11.02)
• Fixed an issue in HtmlArea that causes an infinite loop when used with relative size (em) units. (v11.02)
• Fixed an ArgumentException that occurs when extracting text twice. (v11.02)
• Fixed an issue with RowSpan that causes a wrong table layout. (v11.02)
• Fixed a NullReferenceException while getting the visible row count of a table. (v11.02)
• Fixed an issue with getting overflow rows of a table. (v11.02)
• Updated a wrong item value in the DPDF_QrCodeErrorCorrectionLevel enum. (v11.02)
• Fixed multiple issues with HtmlArea caused by some CSS styles, invalid HTML entity, line breaks etc. (v11.01)
• Fixed a "NullReferenceException" exception caused when a resource is not available in HtmlArea. (v11.01)
• Fixed an issue with HtmlArea where the hyperlink is not working when it is placed inside superscript. (v11.01)
• Fixed a few issues with spacing and display of text in HtmlArea. (v11.01)
• Performance improvements related to HtmlArea. (v11.01)
• Fixed an issue with Generator which is giving corrupt PDF output in some specific case. (v11.01)
• Fixed an issue with setting line style for label when used along with a rectangle. (v11.01)
• Fixed an InvalidCastException caused when merging a PDF with an HtmlArea that uses some fonts. (v11.01)
• Fixed multiple issues with merging some specific PDF documents. (v11.01)
• Fixed an issue that caused unrecognized text after merging specific PDF documents. (v11.01)
• Fixed an issue with printing the form field values after merging. (v11.01)
• Fixed a few issues with text extraction. (v11.01)
• Fixed a few issues with form field flattening (v11.01)
• Improved error handling when merging corrupt PDFs. (v11.01)
• Performance improvements related to merging PDFs. (v11.01)
• Fixed an issue with setting the line leading in OrderedList. (v11.01)
• Fixed an issue with failing PDF/A-2b compliance when creating a PDF having a space in the custom property name. (v11.01)
• Fixed a NullReferenceException caused when using HeaderFooterTemplate with document sections. (v11.01)
• Fixed an issue that creates distorted images when converting Tiff to PDF. (v11.01)
• Updated the alignment of multiline X-Axis labels to center by default. (v11.01)
• Fixed an issue with GlobalSettings.UseLegacyPageDimensions property to achieve legacy behaviour when using ImportedPageData with an Angle. (v11.01)
• Fixed an issue with Edifact encoding in the DataMatrix barcode. (v11.01)
• Enable font sharing on demand. (v11.01)
• Fixed an issue with setting the Tag property to true when creating a report with the LayoutEngine (ReportWriter). (v11.01)
• Fixed an issue with StructureElement causing repeated

  tags under when used with RepeatColumnHeaderCount in Table2. (v11.01)

• Fixed an issue with tagging overflow header cells when text is used in the cell. (v11.01)
• Fixed a NullReferenceException caused when setting appearance properties to overflow table. (v11.01)
• Updated to have all the overflow tables under one table tag. (v11.01)
• Performance improvements with Table2. (v11.01)

v11 is compatible with v10. However, it contains some depreciated classes, methods and properties. All code written against v10 will compile with v11 but there may be some compiler warnings due to depreciated items that may need to be resolved. Here is a list of the depreciated items in v11 and suggested resolution:

• Updated the default font of HtmlArea to LiberationSans-Regular. (v11.03)
• TextWatermark and Image watermark now takes the alpha values for opacity from 0 to 1 instead of 0 to 100. (v11.03)
• ReportWriter objects are obsolete - Use LayoutEngine instead. (v11.01)
• DPLX files are obsolete - Use DLEX files instead. (v11.01)
• GetReportPartById method of DocumentLayout is obsolete - Use GetElementById method instead. (v11.01)

• Removed dependency on VC++ redistributables. (v10.01)
• Added native libraries to support character shaping and HtmlArea, and it throws an exception if native libraries are not deployed along with the product DLL when these features are used. (v10.01)
• New ReportWriter Layout Engine. (v10.00)
• HTML Layout. (v10.00)
• PageNumberingLabel with padding zeros (v10.00)
• Added support for Disk buffering (v10.00)
• HTML Area (HTML v4.0 & CSS v2.1) (v10.00)
• Image ICC profiles embedded in PDF (v10.00)
• Character shaping (v10.00)
• Create Package PDFs (v10.00)
• Actions for form fields, document and page (v10.00)
• PDF stamping/watermarking page element (v10.00)
• Template to add header and footer (v10.00)
• HTML Layout (v10.00)
• Australia Post (v10.00)
• Aztec (v10.00)
• Code 11 (v10.00)
• Code 93 & Extended Code 93 (v10.00)
• Deutsche Post Identcode (v10.00)
• Deutsche Post Leitcode (v10.00)
• EAN 14/GTIN-14 (v10.00)
• GS1 Databar (RSS) (v10.00)
• IATA 2 of 5 (v10.00)
• ISBN (v10.00)
• ISBN Supplement 2 (v10.00)
• ISBN Supplement 5 (v10.00)
• ISMN (v10.00)
• ISMN Supplement 2 (v10.00)
• ISMN Supplement 5 (v10.00)
• ISSN (v10.00)
• ISSN Supplement 2 (v10.00)
• ISSN Supplement 5 (v10.00)
• ITF 14 (v10.00)
• KIX (Dutch KIX, Royal TNT Post Kix) (v10.00)
• Singapore Post (v10.00)
• Support for FNC1 character input in Code 128 (v10.00)
• Support extended character set in Code 39 (v10.00)
• Support for FNC1 character input in Code 128 (v10.00)
• XFA static form filling (v10.00)
• Read and update XMP metadata (v10.00)
• Extract files from PDF with attachments (v10.00)
• Supports merging PDF documents with page references that do not exist in the PDF. (v10.00)
• PDFs with up to 4KB of junk data after the %%EOF can now be read. (v10.00)
• Added the ability to retrieve all available items in a list box or choice acro form field. (v10.00)
• Optimizations were made to processing logical structure information to improve efficiency. (v10.00)
• Text extraction is optimized to improve efficiency. (v10.00)
• Added support for simple merging of Portfolio PDFs. (v10.00)
• Significant updates to the ReportWriter examples and help documentation. (v10.00)

• Fixed an issue with adding HtmlArea overflow text when using along with GetRequiredHeight method. (v10.02)
• Fixed an issue with generating PDF from Tiff that causes the reader to show an error message "Insufficient data for an image". (v10.02)
• Fixed an exception with Aztec and Datamatrix barcodes when used in .NET Core. (v10.02)
• Fixed an issue with displaying some characters in HtmlArea using default encoding. (v10.02)
• Fixed an issue with text extraction that returns some unreadable text in a specific PDF file. (v10.02)
• Fixed an exception "FormatException(Header checksum illegal)" caused when extracting text from a specific PDF. (v10.02)
• Fixed an exception "PdfParsingException (Invalid PDF Object Type)" caused when merging a specific PDF. (v10.02)
• Fixed an issue with displaying HTML entities in HtmlArea with its parent's style. (v10.02)
• Fixed a spacing issue when extracting text from an existing PDF. (v10.02)
• Fixed an issue with rendering the inline styles in HTMLArea. (v10.02)
• Fixed an issue with superscript text display and position in HtmlArea. (v10.02)
• Fixed an IndexOutOfBoudsException when merging a specific PDF document. (v10.02)
• Fixed an issue with images being split when HtmlArea overflow is used. (v10.02)
• Fixed an issue with page breaks in HtmlArea. (v10.02)
• Fixed an issue with text getting cut caused by the letter-spacing style in HtmlArea. (v10.02)
• Fixed a NullReferenceException caused when creating PDF with a specific Tiff image. (v10.02)
• Fixed an issue with failing Accessibility check for "Tagged Annotations" after merging a specific PDF. (v10.01)
• Fixed an issue with merging some PDFs which causes reader to display an error message. (v10.01)
• Fixed an issue with retrieving the attachments from a PDF. (v10.01)
• Fixed an issue with adding HtmlArea overflow text. (v10.01)
• Fixed an issue with setting line-height from CSS using HtmlArea page element. (v10.01)
• Fixed an issue with HtmlLayout which causes reader to display an error message. (v10.01)
• Fixed an issue with the HtmlArea page element where the parent level styles are not working correctly. (v10.01)
• Fixed an issue with displaying the HTML Entities using the HtmlArea page element. (v10.01)
• Fixed an issue with embedding font files in PDF. (v10.01)
• Fixed an issue with TextWatermark not being displayed consistently when different page sizes or layouts are involved. (v10.01)
• Fixed an issue with getting subreport level totals using Sum() function along with GroupBy option. (v10.01)
• Fixed a NullReferenceException caused when using multiple RecordBox report elements with events in the footer. (v10.01)
• Fixed an IndexOutOfRangeException while merging a specific PDF (v10.00)

v10 is compatible with v8. However, it contains some changes in classes, methods and properties. All code written against v8 will compile with v10. Here is a list of changes in v10:

• MacroPdf417.FileId property - Use MacroPdf417.SetFileID method. (v10.00)
• RightsManagementSchema.Certificate property reads or writes a string. (v10.00)
• RightsManagementSchema.WebStatement property reads or writes a string. (v10.00)
• Report.PdfPage property - Use Report.Template instead. (v10.00)

• New property MaximumLabelWidth is added for AxisLabelList class that allows the user to specify a maximum label width beyond which the label text would wrap. (v8.0.4)
• New property PixelsPerXDimension is added for all barcode classes that allow the user to adjust the resolution of the barcodes. (v8.0.3)
• Two new properties (Relation and MimeType) are added to EmbeddedFile class. (v8.0.2)
• Two new properties (VisibleStartRow, VisibleStartColumn) are added to Table2 class. (v8.0.1)
• Support for MSI (Modified Plessey) barcode. (v8.0.0)
• RM4SCC (Royal Mail) barcode. (v8.0.0)
• Custom document properties. (v8.0.0)
• PDF/A-2 support. (v8.0.0)
• PDF/A-3 support. (v8.0.0)
• Document optimization - share image data. (v8.0.0)
• Strikethrough text for TextArea and Label. (v8.0.0)
• Enhanced font rendering - ability to display font outlines for TextAreas, Labels and Lists. (v8.0.0)
• Ability to create PDF without OpenAction entry. (v8.0.0)
• Overall performance improvements. (v8.0.0)
• Document encryption verification. (v8.0.0)
• Improved form flattening - flatten individual form fields. (v8.0.0)
• Remove form fields. (v8.0.0)
• Document optimization - removes duplicate image data. (v8.0.0)
• Enhanced font rendering - ability to display font outlines for RecordBox, RecordArea and LayoutTextArea. (v8.0.0)
• Document optimization - share image data. (v8.0.0)

• IndexOutOfRangeException while adding Japanese fonts is resolved. (v8.0.4 Build 33908)
• Fixed an issue where adding AttributeObject to Table2 is removing all tags. (v8.0.4 Build 33908)
• Cell2 padding issue resolved that causes the text to add incorrectly in the cell. (v8.0.4 Build 33908)
• Text wrapping of x and y-axis labels of IndexedBarSeries can be specified by setting MaximumLabelWidth property. (v8.0.4 Build 33908)
• PdfParsingException while merging specific PDFs is fixed. (v8.0.4 Build 33908)
• XMLExceptions while merging specific PDFs is fixed. (v8.0.4 Build 33908)
• NullReferenceException while merging specific PDFs is fixed. (v8.0.4 Build 33908)
• Fixed an issue where adding a new page element to an existing tagged PDF is not tagging the new page element automatically. (v8.0.4 Build 33908)
• Text alignment issue in TextField after filling is resolved. (v8.0.4 Build 33908)
• Fixed an issue where filling certain form fields is displaying + sign in the form field when the PDF is viewed. (v8.0.4 Build 33908)
• Fixed an issue with IndexedLineSeries and DateTimeLineSeries. (v8.0.3 Build 32781)
• Resolved an InvalidCastException while adding FormattedTextArea through group to cell of Table. (v8.0.3 Build 32781)
• XmlException while merging PDF is resolved. (v8.0.3 Build 32781)
• Fixed a NullReferenceException while merging and setting RootFormField merge option. (v8.0.3 Build 32781)
• NullReferenceException while merging the PDF is resolved. (v8.0.3 Build 32781)
• An issue with adding ImportedPageArea to the cell through AreaGroup is fixed. (v8.0.3 Build 32781)
• Fixed an issue with row height and column width of Table2 class. (v8.0.2 Build 32445)
• Resolved a text alignment issue for barcodes (Rm4scc and IntelligentMailBarCode). (v8.0.2 Build 32445)
• Fixed an issue where the PDF is not created correctly from specific TIFF files. (v8.0.2 Build 32445)
• In a pie chart, label will not be displayed for values of zero. (v8.0.2 Build 32445)
• Fixed an issue where minus symbol is not rendered correctly. (v8.0.2 Build 32445)
• ArgumentOutOfRangeException while adding an empty table is fixed. (v8.0.2 Build 32445)
• IndexOutOfRangeException while adding numbers as string to the combo box is resolved. (v8.0.2 Build 32445)
• Fixed an issue with PDF/A-3 embedded files. (v8.0.2 Build 32445)
• Fixed an issue with extracting text from specific PDFs. (v8.0.2 Build 32445)
• FormatException while adding file attachments to a PDF is fixed. (v8.0.2 Build 32445)
• NullReferenceException while merging specific PDF is resolved. (v8.0.2 Build 32445)
• Output PDF rendering issue in FireFox browser is fixed. (v8.0.1 Build 32039)
• Text alignment issue for Rm4scc and Intelligent Mail barcodes is resolved. (v8.0.1 Build 32039)
• IndexOutofRange exception while converting a TIFF to PDF is fixed. (v8.0.1 Build 32039)
• Resolved an issue where FormattedTextArea is rendering incorrect text. (v8.0.1 Build 32039)
• Fixed a couple of Table2 bugs. (v8.0.1 Build 32039)
• Several text extraction issues are fixed. (v8.0.1 Build 32039)
• Invalid cast exception while merging certain PDFs is resolved. (v8.0.1 Build 32039)
• IndexOutofRange exception when importing pages for a specific PDF is fixed. (v8.0.1 Build 32039)
• NullReferenceException while calling getTargetPageNumber() for certain PDFs has been fixed. (v8.0.1 Build 32039)
• IndexOutofRange exception while merging PDFs is resolved. (v8.0.1 Build 32039)
• Fixed an issue where the last two rows of overflow table are missing. (v8.0.1 Build 31262)
• Issue with adding text with MICR.TTF font has been resolved. (v8.0.1 Build 31262)
• File size of the DynamicPDF dll increased significantly due to additional resources being embedded. (v8.0.1 Build 31262)
• Resolved an issue with wrapping text after hyphen symbol in FormattedTextArea. (v8.0.1 Build 31262)
• Error while setting multiselect ListBox Read-only has been fixed. (v8.0.1 Build 31262)
• Optimized form flattening logic to resolve a memory issue. (v8.0.1 Build 31262)
• Fixed an issue where null reference exception is thrown while extracting text for certain pdfs. (v8.0.1 Build 31262)
• StackOverflowException while merging corrupt PDFs is fixed. (v8.0.1 Build 31262)
• Several TIFF to PDF conversion issues are fixed. (v8.0.1 Build 30513)
• Couple of PDF generation issues that are causing errors when the resulting PDF is viewed/printed in Adobe Reader are resolved. (v8.0.1 Build 30513)
• Resolved several PDF merging issues that are specific to certain PDFs. (v8.0.1 Build 30513)
• Fixed an issue with structure element dictionary. (v8.0.0 Build 28273)
• Initial release. (v8.0.0 Build 27776)
• Updated the Help Documentation. (v8.0.0 Build 27776)

v8 is compatible with v7. However, it contains some depreciated classes, methods and properties. All code written against v7 will compile with v8 but there may be some compiler warnings due to depreciated items that may need to be resolved. Here is a list of the depreciated items in v8 and suggested resolution:

• FormFlatteningOptions class - Use FormOutput enum instead. (v8.0.0)
• Document.FormFlattening property - Use Document.Form.Output property instead. (v8.0.0)
• Document.DrawToWebCache method (WebCache functionality) is depreciated and will not be supported in future versions. (v8.0.0)
• DPDF_FormFieldFlags enum, PdfFormField.Flags property and FormField.Flags property have been depreciated - Use relevant flag name properties present on the PdfFormField class. (v8.0.0)
• DPDF_SignatureFieldFlatteningOptions - Use DPDF_FormFieldOutput enum instead. (v8.0.0)
• DPDF_CellAlign - Use DPDF_TextAlign enum instead. (v8.0.0)
• DPDF_CellVAlign - Use DPDF_VAlign enum instead. (v8.0.0)
• Font.CanLoadSystemFont method - Use Font.LoadSystemFont instead. (v8.0.0)

• FileID property of MacroPDF417 class supports an integer array of base 900 numbers. (v7.0.3)
• Support for reading default values of form fields. (v7.0.2)
• AddImportedPageArea and AddImportedPageData method signatures are modified to take PdfDocument object as parameter. (v7.0.1)
• Support for AES 128 and 256 bit encrypted PDFs. (v7.0.0)
• Support for RC4 128 bit encrypted PDFs with Crypt filter. (v7.0.0)
• Support for QR Code (2D-barcode). (v7.0.0)
• Improved pie chart data label placement. (v7.0.0)
• Improved barcode creation (reduced PDF file size). (v7.0.0)
• Document and page level text extraction. (v7.0.0)
• Improved form flattening - flatten all form fields on the document with single line of code. (v7.0.0)
• Improved support for decrypting secured PDFs - decrypt PDFs encrypted with encryption filters. (v7.0.0)

• Fixed a bug in PDF encryption. (v7.0.4 Build 27594)
• Updated the Help Documentation. (v7.0.4 Build 27594)
• Fixed an installer error caused when there is no .NET Framework 2.0 installed. (v7.0.3 Build 27433)
• Updated the Help Documentation. (v7.0.3 Build 24500)
• See New Features for a complete list of new features. (v7.0.3 Build 24500)
• Updated the Help Documentation. (v7.0.2 Build 23660)
• See New Features for a complete list of new features. (v7.0.2 Build 23660)
• Support for .NET Frameworks 4.0 and 4.5 (v7.0.1 Build 22974)
• Fixed an issue with the creation of PDF/A-1a compliant document. (v7.0.1 Build 22788)
• Resolved PDF/A compliance failure caused due to special characters in meta data. (v7.0.1 Build 22788)
• Fixed the issue of AES-256 revision-6 (v7.0.1 Build 22788)
• Resolved an issue with preserving PDF/A compliance while simple merging. (v7.0.1 Build 22788)
• Initial product release. (v7.0.0 Build 21693)
• Updated the Help Documentation. (v7.0.0 Build 21693)

v7 is compatible with v6. However, it contains some depreciated classes, methods and properties. All code written against v6 will compile with v7 but there may be some compiler warnings due to depreciated items that may need to be resolved. Here is a list of the depreciated items in v7 and suggested resolution:

• MacroPdf417.FileId property - Use MacroPdf417.SetFileID method. (v7.0.3)
• Page. AddImportedPageArea and Page.AddImportedPageData will take PdfDocument object as parameter instead of file path. (v7.0.1)
• StandardSecurity class - Use RC440Security instead. (v7.0.0)
• HighSecurity class - Use RC4128Security instead. (v7.0.0)
• RightsManagementSchema.Marked property – Use RightsManagementSchema.Marked2 instead. (v7.0.0)
• AddTable method (available on several different classes) – Use AddTable2 instead. (v7.0.0)

• Added support for the Data Matrix Barcode. (v6.0.0)
• New Table Object now has Individual Cell Formatting (including individual top, bottom, left and right cell border formatting). (v6.0.0)
• Tagged PDF Structure. (v6.0.0)
• Full PDF-A support (PDF/A-1a and PDF/A-1b). (v6.0.0)
• Charting - additional options for data label placement. (v6.0.0)
• Charting - additional options for legend placement. (v6.0.0)
• Appearance Streams for Form Fields (for any reader that does not correctly create them). (v6.0.0)
• Ability to read form field font information. (v6.0.0)
• Alternate Text for Images. (v6.0.0)
• New ReportWriter with Report Designer. (v6.0.0)
• Updated help documentation. (v6.0.0)

• Resolved an issue with setting MergeOptions to nothing. (v6.0.4 Build 21322)
• Issue with setting Tag property of the MergeDocument object to Nothing is resolved. (v6.0.4 Build 21322)
• Resolved an exception caused by calling GetValuePositionDataLabel method (v6.0.4 Build 21322)
• Fixed an issue where certain PDFs were causing an error while importing. (v6.0.4 Build 19726)
• Resolved the issue where the Tag property is returning null value. (v6.0.4 Build 19726)
• Resolved an issue where the PDF file handle is not released after it is successfully saved to disk. (v6.0.4 Build 19726)
• Issue with setting the legend label text is resolved. (v6.0.4 Build 19726)
• Fixed an issue where an incorrect text width is returned after enabling kerning. (v6.0.4 Build 19726)
• Initial product release. (v6.0.0 Build 17276)
• Updated the Help Documentation. (v6.0.0 Build 17276)

v6 is compatible with v5. However, it contains some depreciated classes, methods and properties. All code written against v5 will compile with v6 but there may be some compiler warnings due to depreciated items that may need to be resolved. Here is a list of the depreciated items in v6 and suggested resolution:

• XAxis.LabelLocation property – Use LabelPosition instead. (v6.0.0)
• XAxis.TitleLocation property – Use TitlePosition instead. (v6.0.0)
• XAxisList.DefaultNumericXAxis - Use DefaultNumericAxis property instead. (v6.0.0)
• XAxisList.DefaultIndexedXAxis - Use DefaultIndexedAxis property instead. (v6.0.0)
• XAxisList.DefaultDateTimeXAxis - Use DefaultDateTimeAxis property instead. (v6.0.0)
• XAxisList.DefaultPercentageXAxis - Use DefaultPercentageAxis property instead. (v6.0.0)
• YAxis.LabelLocation property – Use LabelPosition instead. (v6.0.0)
• YAxis.TitleLocation property – Use TitlePosition instead. (v6.0.0)
• YAxisList.DefaultNumericYAxis - Use DefaultNumericAxis property instead. (v6.0.0)
• YAxisList.DefaultIndexedYAxis - Use DefaultIndexedAxis property instead. (v6.0.0)
• YAxisList.DefaultDateTimeYAxis - Use DefaultDateTimeAxis property instead. (v6.0.0)
• YAxisList.DefaultPercentageYAxis - Use DefaultPercentageAxis property instead. (v6.0.0)
• Marker.GetAstrisk() - Use the GetAsterisk instead. (v6.0.0)
• Stacked100PercentSeriesElement.DataLabelFormat - Use the PercentageFormat instead. (v6.0.0)
• TextArea.GetKerningValue() - Use GetKerningValues() instead. (v6.0.0)
• TrueTypeFont Class - Use the OpenType class instead. (v6.0.0)