Feb 27, 2007 - Service Release 1.6.0.6 Available

• An minor enhancement in the GoToR Action.
• Further improvements in ImportFromUrl method.

Dec 20, 2006 - Build 9526 Released

• Further improvements in ImportFromUrl method.

Dec 14, 2006 - Service Release 1.6.0.5 Available

• The Pdf.OpenUrl method is deprecated, replaced by a more versatile Doc.ImportFromUrl method which allows HTML to be drawn on existing, as well as new, PDF documents. The deprecated OpenUrl method only allowed the creation of new documents. Note that ImportFromUrl is a PdfDocument method while OpenUrl was a PdfManager method.
• A new chapter, 13. PDF to HTML Conversion, has been added to the user manual describing the ImportFromUrl method.
• ImportFromUrl supports a debug mode. When debug=true is added to the parameter list, the method returns a log of non-fatal errors which occurred during the HTML to PDF conversion process, such as invalid image URLs, unknown fonts, etc.
• The Annot.SetFieldValue method's support for combo boxes in Acrobat 7 has been improved.

Dec 06, 2006 - Service Release 1.6.0.4 Available

• Enhancements in the new PNG and GIF processing modules.
• Further improvements in OpenUrl method.

Nov 30, 2006 - Service Release 1.6.0.3 Available

• Full GIF transparency support added (previous versions displayed certain transparent GIFs incorrectly.)
• Further improvements in OpenUrl method.

Nov 21, 2006 - Service Release 1.6.0.2 Available

• Full PNG image format support added, including Alpha Channel and simple transparency.
• Further improvements in OpenUrl method.

Sep 06, 2006 - Version 1.6 Released

• The new version contains an interim public-testing implementation of the PdfManager.OpenUrl method which converts HTML pages to PDF. This method provides a much wider HTML support than the existing PdfCanvas.DrawText method. Most major HTML constructs are now supported, including tables, lists, images, cascading style sheets (CSS), etc.

  WARNING: The OpenUrl method is currently a work in progress. and not entirely stable yet. Not all HTML tags and CSS properties are currently supported. Use this method at your own risk!

  We are anxious to bring this much-anticipated feature to completion as fast as possible, and we need your feedback and bug reports. Please check this site for new updates often.

• GIF transparency support has been added. For more information, see Section 5.2.3 - GIF Transparency Support.
• Tiling pattern support has been added. For more information, see Section 5.3.2 - Tiling Patterns.
• Multiple bugs have been fixed in document stitching, form fill-in, tables, font handling and other areas.

Jan 30, 2006 - Version 1.5.0.4 (Service Release) Available

• A bug in DrawText has been fixed which caused characters to be cut off in certain circumstances.
• A bug in the image drawing functionality has been fixed which occasionally caused existing images to be overwritten by calling DrawImage.
• A bug in the text extraction functionality has been fixed which caused occasional truncation of extracted text.

Jan 10, 2006 - Version 1.5.0.3 (Service Release) Available

• A bug has been fixed which caused AspPDF to occasionally throw the exception Reading from file failed. The error message is: The handle is invalid..

Oct 25, 2005 - Version 1.5.0.2 (Service Release) Available

• A bug has been fixed which caused Acrobat 5.0 to generate "Error 107" when attempting to modify documents assembled via the Document Stitching functionality.
• A bug has been fixed which would crash the component when appending certain kinds of PDF documents.
• The AppendDocument method has been enhanced to allow the stitching of forms generated by Adobe Acrobat/Designer 7.0 without losing field values.

Sep 01, 2005 - Version 1.5.0.1 (Service Release) Available

• With the release of Acrobat 7.0 and Designer 7.0, Adobe has introduced a new standard, the XML Forms Architecture (XFA), which describes PDF forms using XML and departs from its own legacy PDF form specifications. We are currently working to add XFA support to AspPDF.

  Meanwhile, to address partial incompatibility with forms created by Adobe Designer 7.0, we have added a new method, PdfForm.RemoveXFA, which removes the XFA information from such PDF forms, thus making them compatible with AspPDF and viewable across all versions of Acrobat. You should call this method every time you open a PDF form created by Acrobat/Designer 7.0 until an XFA-compatible version of AspPDF is released.

• A new chapter, 11a - Existing Form Fill-in, has been added to the AspPDF user manual which, among other things, addresses Acrobat 7.0 compatibility issues and provides a new form fill-in code sample.

Jun 28, 2005 - Version 1.5 Released

• The method PdfPage.ResetCoordinates has been added to simplify drawing text and graphics on existing PDF documents. The new method is described in Section 9.3.5 - Coordinate Reset of the User Manual.
• The method PdfFont.GetParagraphHeight has been added to determine the vertical extent of a text paragraph at run-time.
• A number of bugs have been fixed in the PdfCell.AddText method which caused text cut-off and displacement under certain circumstances.
• Minor fixes and enhancements have been made.

Nov 29, 2004 - Version 1.4.0.3 (Service Release) Available

• A bug in SetFieldValue has been fixed related to radio buttons.
• Other minor form-field related bugs have been fixed.

Nov 11, 2004 - Version 1.4.0.2 (Service Release) Available

• Several minor issues related to text form fields have been fixed.

Oct 27, 2004 - Version 1.4.0.1 (Service Release) Available

• TrueType Font-related bugs have been fixed to make AspPDF-generated documents work better with "preflight" packages such as PitStop, and also with Acrobat's TouchUp Text Tool. This service release also addresses printing problems on MAC OS.

Sep 23, 2004 - Version 1.4 Released

• Document stitching functionality has been enhanced to allow multiple interactive forms to be merged correctly.
• The method PdfAnnot.SetFieldValue has been enhanced to handle non-ASCII characters.
• Support for outlines has been extended to existing documents. Previous versions could only add outlines to new documents.
• Minor bugs have been fixed.

Aug 13, 2004 - Version 1.3.0.3 (Service Release) Available

• A bug in BMP format processing module causing certain BMP images to be displayed incorrectly fixed.
• PdfAnnot.FieldName property changed from read-only to read/write. This enables you to specify a text box title for text annotations.
• PdfAnnot.FieldAlternateName property added to return or specify an alternate name for a field, and also to specify a "short description" value for link annotations.
• A minor bug in the PdfDocument.Sign method fixed.

Jul 14, 2004 - Version 1.3.0.2 (Service Release) Available

• PdfAnnot.Flags property added to control an existing annotation's various flags such as Hidden, Invisible, Print, etc.
• All form field creation methods enhanced to account for page rotation.
• Angle parameter added to DrawBarcode method.
• A few minor bugs fixed.

Jun 24, 2004 - Version 1.3.0.1 (Service Release) Available

• Minor bugs fixed in HTML parsing, digital signature verification, table rendering and the SetViewerPrefs method.

Jun 10, 2004 - Version 1.3 Released

• A new Close method added to the PdfDocument object enabling an application to explicitly close an opened PDF file to avoid share-related errors.
• CMYK color space support added. New methods SetColorCMYK and SetFillColorCMYK were added to the PdfCanvas object. Also, additional CMYK-related parameters were added to the methods SetParams and DrawText.
• Minor TIFF-related enhancements made.

May 19, 2004 - Version 1.2.0.1 (Service Release) Available

• Page extraction functionality made subject to PDF permission settings.
• Minor bugs fixed.

Apr 27, 2004 - Version 1.2 Released

• Page extraction functionality added via the method PdfDocument.ExtractPages.
• Text extraction functionality (PdfPage.ExtractText method) enhanced. Space parameter eliminated.
• DrawText method optimized, HTML rendering significantly accelerated.

Apr 08, 2004 - Version 1.1.0.2 (Service Release) Available

• Support for justified text (alignment on both the left and right sides of a paragraph) added via the HTML tag <DIV ALIGN="JUSTIFY">.
• Minor bugs fixed.

Apr 02, 2004 - Version 1.1 Released

• Tagged Image File Format (TIFF) support added.
  • Supported color spaces: Bilevel, Grayscale, Indexed, RGB, CMYK, L*a*b.
  • Supported compression types: No compression, PackBits, LZW, CCITT Group 3 Modified Huffman, Group 3 Fax, Group 4 Fax.
  • Support for single-page and multi-page TIFFs. A new Index parameter is added to the PdfDocument.OpenImage method to support multi-page TIFFs.
• New properties ResolutionX and ResolutionY added to the PdfImage object returning DPI resolution of JPEG and TIFF images.
• Several minor bugs fixed.

Mar 10, 2004 - Version 1.0.0.4 (Service Release) Available

• The Annot.SetFieldValue method enhanced to recognize pre-selected text font color for a form field.
• A bug causing form field text to be invisible under certain conditions fixed.
• The Doc.Sign method enhanced to optionally mark digital signatures as "Adobe.PPKMS" (standard Windows security handler) instead of "VeriSign.PPKVS" (VeriSign plug-in).

Feb 27, 2004 - Version 1.0.0.3 (Service Release) Available

• A bug causing the error "Access is denied" when using the Doc.Fonts collection fixed.
• Several other font-related bugs fixed.

Feb 19, 2004 - Version 1.0.0.2 (Service Release) Available

• A bug causing the error "The system cannot find the file specified" when working with fonts on Windows 2003 fixed.
• The property PdfAnnot.FieldOnValue added.
• The property PdfAnnot.FieldFlags made read/write (was read-only).

Feb 16, 2004 - Version 1.0.0.1 (Service Release) Available

• Form.FindField method enhanced to accept multi-level field names with dots, such as "Address.City".
• Several font-related bugs fixed.

Feb 02, 2004 - AspPDF 1.0 Released

Version 1.0 is officially released. Download it here.

Jan 09, 2004 - AspPDF Beta 1 Released

Persits Software announces the release of AspPDF Beta 1.

Nov 15, 2003 - AspPDF Pre-Beta Released

Due to an overwhelming interest towards AspPDF from our clients, we decided to let all interested parties test-drive our new product even before the offical beta release date. The component is already extremely robust and feature-rich, although new features are still being added, and bugs fixed.

For the current list of features, see Chapter 1 of the User Manual.