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February 15, 2010 - PDFView4NET 2.4.3 release

PDFView4NET 2.4.3 has been released. For the complete list of features click here. The following features are supported in this version (+ new features/enhancements, — bug fixes):
PDF Rendering:
— 1bpp indexed images with a separation base colorspace are not rendered correctly - fixed
— Some 1bpp images include more data than necessary and they are not decoded correctly - fixed
— 1bpp indexed images with a color mask are not decoded correctly - fixed
PDF Viewer:
+ Added support to handle remote go to actions like local go to actions when the file name is missing.
+ Added support to draw vertical/horizontal line annotations.
+ Added support to display bookmarks with the color defined in the PDF file.
+ Added support for image appearance for link annotations.
— Dropdown list fields do not display all the items in some situations - fixed
— Text is not extracted in some situations - fixed
— Text selection does not work when text contains ligatures - fixed
— When an annotation is drawn on top of a link, the link cannot be clicked - fixed
— Cursor is not placed correctly in multiline textbox fields that are rotated with 270 degrees - fixed
— When loading a document with bookmarks in BookmarkClick event, a random bookmark is selected in the bookmarks view when the new document is loaded - fixed
— An exception is thrown when clicking the thumbnails view background, outside any page area - fixed
— An exception is thrown when a link without action is clicked - fixed

December 15, 2009 - PDFView4NET 2.4.2 release

PDFView4NET 2.4.2 has been released. For the complete list of features click here. The following features are supported in this version (+ new features/enhancements, — bug fixes):
PDF Rendering:
— Some CCITT images are not decoded correctly - fixed
— Some ASCII Hex encoded images are not decoded correctly - fixed
— Pages with zero width/height annotations cannot be converted to image - fixed
— Some image masks with predictor = 2 are not decoded correctly - fixed
— Some JBIG2 images are not decoded correctly - fixed
— Some Symbol characters are not displayed correctly - fixed
— Unescaped but paired paranthesis in strings are not handled correctly - fixed
PDF Viewer:
+ Added SearchText and ConvertToImage methods to PDFPage.
+ Updated text selection to allow starting a selection from a white space outside the text.
— In some situations encrypted files cannot be displayed when PDFPageThumbnailsView control is used together with the PDFPageView control - fixed
— Textbox fields with no appearance throw an exception when they are clicked - fixed
— When extracting text, in some situations, additional spaces are inserted in the text - fixed
— Text selection does not work when text contains ligatures - fixed
— Selection is dropdown lists with autosized font is not displayed correctly - fixed
— Max field length is not enforced when text is pasted into the field - fixed
— When the viewer displays pages in OneColumn mode, if the text is selected on one page and the pages are scrolled, the selection markings are drawn on other pages - fixed
— Widget annotations are not displayed if they are not linked to a form field - fixed
— When /NeedAppearances is true and fields have an appearance, the appearance is not rebuilt - fixed

October 19, 2009 - PDFView4NET 2.4.1 release

PDFView4NET 2.4.1 has been released. For the complete list of features click here. The following features are supported in this version (+ new features/enhancements, — bug fixes):
PDF Rendering:
— Some CCITT images are not decoded correctly - fixed
— Some images are not displayed in the right position - fixed
— Appearance is not built correctly for line and free text annotations when using other culture than US - fixed
— Cross reference streams that use a PNG predictor greater than 10 are not decoded correctly - fixed
— PDF pages with annotations that include only the /D appearance cannot be printed - fixed
— Pages with no MediaBox/CropBox cannot be loaded - fixed
PDF Viewer:
+ Added support for Launch actions
+ PDFPageView.HighlightNextSearchResult and PDFPageView.HighlightPrevSearchResult methods now return the highlighted search result.
+ Added PDFPageView.EnsureSearchResultVisible method to force a highlighted search result to move into visible control area.
+ Added support for Comb fields
— In some situations content of dropdown and listbox fields is not painted correctly - fixed
— FitWidth option does not work correctly when the PDFPageView control is hosted in a WPF application - fixed
— End key throws an exception when pressed in a single line field that is pre-filled with multiline text - fixed
— PDFPageView loses focus when scrollbars are removed because of zooming out - fixed
— Clicking the mouse on a page thumbnail when the thumbnail view control is not linked to a page view control causes an exception - fixed
— Ligatures are not converted correctly to separated characters when text is extracted from a PDF page - fixed
— Thumbnails are not always rendered correctly - fixed
— Search method does not display the highlight in the correct position in some situations - fixed
— In a multiline text field, when selecting a line (not the last one) with Shift-End and pressing Del, an exception is thrown - fixed

September 1, 2009 - PDFView4NET 2.4 release

PDFView4NET 2.4 has been released. For the complete list of features click here. The following features are supported in this version (+ new features/enhancements, — bug fixes):
PDF Rendering:
+ JPEG 2000 support
+ JBIG2 support
— Non-embedded Arial-BoldMT font is not matched correctly against a local machine font - fixed
— PDF files with Document catalog included in an object stream cannot be loaded - fixed
— PDF page cannot be rendered if it includes a form field using a font that cannot be found - fixed
— Some ASCII85 streams are not decoded correctly - fixed
— Encrypted files with non-encrypted metadata cannot be loaded - fixed
— Short strings (less than 16 bytes) are not decrypted when the input file uses AES encryption - fixed
PDF Viewer:
+ PDFThumbnailsView control for displaying page thumbnails
+ Text selection and copy
+ Added GetDestinationNames method to PDFDocument to retrieve the names of the destinations in the PDF file as a list of strings
+ Added MouseWheelScrollDelta property to PDFPageView to control the scroll distance using the mouse wheel.
+ BackgroundImage property is now used in PDFPageView to display a background image under the page

July 29, 2009 - PDFView4NET 2.3.2 release

PDFView4NET 2.3.2 has been released. For the complete list of features click here. The following features are supported in this version (+ new features/enhancements, — bug fixes):
PDF Rendering:
— PDF files that contain nested arrays on multiple levels cannot be loaded - fixed
— Copy operation works like Cut - fixed
— Flate compressed images with 1bpp and decode array [1 0] are not displayed correctly - fixed
— Fonts with incomplete Widths entry are not rendered correctly - fixed
— 1bpp flate compressed images, with PNG Prediction = None are not decoded correctly - fixed
— TJ operator does not display correctly vertical text when there are intercharacter spacing values - fixed
— Text is not positioned correctly in some situations - fixed
— Images with both a soft mask and a stencil mask are not displayed - fixed
— String elements of array objects stored as separated objects are not decrypted correctly - fixed
— Images with stencil masks that have a different size are not displayed correctly - fixed
— Grayscale images (1 color 8bpp) with LZW compression and predictor = 2 are not displayed correctly - fixed
— Flate compressed images with BPC=1 and predictor = 2,3,4 are not decompressed correctly - fixed
— Colors are not correctly rendered when the PDF content has comments - fixed
— Zero height paths are not displayed - fixed
— The PDFPageView control throws an exception when loading a page that has the CropBox/MediaBox defined as indirect objects - fixed
— Encrypted PDF files with encrypt dictionary embedded in the trailer are not displayed correctly - fixed
— Flate compressed images with 2 bits per pixel are not displayed - fixed
PDF Viewer:
+ Added ActivePageBorderColor property to PDFPageView
+ Added PDFPageView.HighlightPrevSearchResult() method
+ Added JumpToDestination method in PDFPageView for jumping programmatically to named destinations
— Removing thelast page in a document when multiple pages are visible, including the removed one, causes an exception - fixed
— Free text annotations can be edited even if they are locked or read only - fixed
— PDFPageView throws an exception when a file is displayed and the form is minimized or the form size is too small - fixed
— Position of text runs is not computed correctly when the page is rotated and multiple Tj operators are chained together - fixed
— Highlight annotation color is not updated correctly if the annotation is resized (increased) after it has been added to the page - fixed
— PDF files with infinite loops in bookmarks tree cannot be loaded - fixed
— In some situations the page number is not displayed correctly in PDFAnnotationsView control for newly added annotations - fixed
— Links and bookmarks no longer work when page display mode is SinglePage - fixed
— Zoom out operation throws an exception when the page becomes smaller that the control area - fixed
— Text cannot be displayed when the font includes an invalid Unicode Cmap - fixed
— In some situations the viewer is not updated correctly when the current page is displayed - fixed
— The bounding rectangle of an ink annotation is not updated when the ink width changes and parts of the ink become invisible when the width grows - fixed
— An exception is thrown when the TAB key is pressed and the current page is not the one that contains the active field and it does not contain any fields - fixed
— EnsurePageVisible method does not scroll to a position within the page, it always scroll to top of the page - fixed

April 28, 2009 - PDFView4NET 2.3.1 release

PDFView4NET 2.3.1 has been released. For the complete list of features click here. The following features are supported in this version (+ new features/enhancements, — bug fixes):
PDF Rendering:
— Images with BPC=4 and predictor 15 are not displayed correctly - fixed
— In some situations TrueType fonts are not decoded correctly - fixed
— Some non embedded fonts not matched correctly to local fonts - fixed
— Fields without /DR key (at field or at form level, so the font cannot be located) are not displayed correctly - fixed
— Soft masked Jpeg images with resolutions other than 96 are not displayed correctly - fixed
— CCITT G4 images with missing /Columns entry are not decoded correctly - fixed
— Pages that use /Multiply blend mode for content are not displayed because the content is considered transparent - fixed
— Encrypted PDF files with version = 1 and revision = 3 cannot be decrypted - fixed
— When displaying text with CidFontType2 fonts, the /DW entry is not considered for characters that do no have a width in /W array - fixed
— Indexed images with chroma masks are not displayed correctly - fixed
— Invalid text matrix cause the page rendering to stop - fixed
PDF Viewer:
+ Added support for page and annotation cloning
+ Added support for drawing unicode text in drop down lists and list boxes
+ Added support for annotation serialization
+ Added ZoomClick work mode
+ Added IncrementalLoad property to PDFDocument to allow full document load in memory
+ Added FieldClick, FieldBeginEdit and FieldEndEdit events
— In some situations, when the viewer is in one column mode, an exception is thrown when loading a document with 1 page after a document with n pages has been loaded before - fixed
— Text selection does not work correctly in multiline textbox fields, Shift-End does not select the last character and selection is not displayed if the field displays only one line of text and it is not the first one - fixed
— When viewer control is used in a WPF application, in single page mode, in some situations the wrong page is displayed - fixed
— FontName property in text run returns the font label instead of actual font name - fixed
— Insert method in Pages collection always adds the new page at the end of collection - fixed
— In some situations an exception is thrown when a textbox field is clicked - fixed
— SearchText does not work when the text contains empty ("") text runs - fixed
— PDF forms with missing fields (fields listed in /AcroForm but not in the PDF file) cannot be loaded - fixed
— Text run position is not computed correctly and text search highlight is not displayed in the right position when the text is included in a form XObject - fixed
— Marquee zoom does not work correctly for rotated pages - fixed - fixed
— Text extraction does not work correctly for some CJK files - fixed

February 19, 2009 - PDFView4NET 2.3 release

PDFView4NET 2.3 has been released. For the complete list of features click here. The following features are supported in this version (+ new features/enhancements, — bug fixes):
PDF Rendering:
+ Printing multiple page ranges with PDFPrintSettings class
+ Form XObjects are now displayed based on their optional content status, view only and/or print only.
— Some tiff images are not decoded correctly - fixed
— 4bit indexed images with Gray colorspace are not decoded correctly - fixed
— CCITT G4 images that have Columns != Width are not decoded correctly - fixed
— Streams encoded with A85 filter (instead of ASCII85) are not decoded - fixed
— Images with DeviceN colorspace that uses an ICCBased colorspace are not decoded correctly - fixed
— Paths defined by a single line are not filled with correct color - fixed
— 1bpp Indexed images with /DeviceGray colorspace are not displayed correctly - fixed
— Vertically drawn text is not displayed in the right position - fixed
— Separation color with /DeviceGray base colorspace is not displayed correctly - fixed
PDF Viewer:
+ ZoomIn, ZoomOut, ZoomDynamic and ZoomMarquee work modes for viewer control
+ Annotation popup windows
+ Annotation multilevel replies
+ Annotation opacity
+ Highlight form fields on a page
+ Standard and owner draw field tooltips
+ Tooltip property added to PDFField class
+ Added support for SHIFT-TAB keys to navigate backwards in the form fields
+ WYSIWYG drawing for highlight, rectangle, ellipse and ink annotations
+ Added support for moving and resizing annotations with CTRL+arrows and SHIFT+arrows
+ SearchText methods now returns the results of search text operation
+ Added SearchResultHighlightColor property to PDFPageView for setting the highlight color of search results
+ Added VerticalPageSpacing and HorizontalPageSpacing properties to PDFPageView for setting the space between pages in continuous page display modes
+ Added VisibleWidth and VisibleHeight properties to PDFPage class
— Text cannot be extracted from PDF files with resources defined at /Pages level - fixed
— When the Color property of a newly added FreeTextAnnotation is changed in BeforeAnnotationAdd event, an exception is thrown - fixed
— Destinations that use a page number (not in PDF spec) instead of a page reference in GoTo actions are not executed properly - fixed
— Line annotation appearance is not updated when line width changes - fixed
— When text is selected using Shift-End in a text box field and Backspace or Delete keys are pressed, and exception is thrown - fixed
— Text in textbox fields is not aligned according to field align property - fixed
— If a secured document is loaded into a PDFDocument, and then a clear document is loaded, the PDFDocument object still keeps the SecurityManager from the previous document - fixed

January 9, 2009 - PDFView4NET 2.2.1 release

PDFView4NET 2.2.1 has been released. For the complete list of features click here. The following features are supported in this version (+ new features/enhancements, — bug fixes):
PDF Rendering:
— PDF files created with Aspose.Words cannot be loaded - fixed
— Some thin lines are not displayed - fixed
— PDF files with zero length lines (start and end points are the same) cannot be displayed - fixed
PDF Viewer:
+ Added support for highlighting form fields on a page
+ Added WYSIWYG drawing for highlight, rectangle, ellipse and ink annotations
+ Added Tooltip property to PDFField class
+ SearchText methods now returns the results of search text operation
+ Added SearchResultHighlightColor property to PDFPageView for setting the highlight color of search results
+ Added VerticalPageSpacing and HorizontalPageSpacing properties to PDFPageView for setting the space between pages in continuous page display modes
— Document dispose throws an exception in some situations - fixed
— Highlighting of search results does not work when scaling transformations are in place - fixed
— When the attributes of an undisplayed annotation (annotation that is on a page that is not currently displayed) are changed, the annotation becomes invisible - fixed
— PDF files with infinite loops in bookmarks tree cannot be loaded - fixed
— When the document is first loaded and then attached to a viewer, the viewer throws an exception because the search results are not initialized - fixed
— If the searched text is not found and HighlightNextSearchResult method is called, the viewer throws an exception - fixed

December 2, 2008 - PDFView4NET 2.2.0 release

PDFView4NET 2.2.0 has been released. For the complete list of features click here. The following features are supported in this version (+ new features/enhancements, — bug fixes):
PDF Rendering:
— Images with Indexed colorspace that uses a DeviceN colorspace as base colorspace, cannot be displayed - fixed
— Inline images cannot be displayed - fixed
— When a DCT encoded image has a softmask with a different size, the image is not displayed - fixed
— Float values with more than 10 decimals are not converted correctly - fixed
— GetPageImagesAsMultipageTiff methods create an invalid TIFF image when the PDF file has only 1 page - fixed
— Images with Indexed colorspace that uses a ICC colorspace as base colorspace, cannot be displayed - fixed
— Some Type1 fonts with custom embedded encodings are not displayed correctly - fixed
— Some Type4 functions (postscript) are not evaluated properly - fixed
— PDF pages that have attributes defined on parent /Pages node are not displayed correctly - fixed
— Non-embedded fonts without post table cannot be rendered - fixed
— Some image masks are not painted correctly - fixed
— Some images with CalRGB colospace are not displayed - fixed
— Copies property in PrinterSettings is ignored if the printed does not support multiple copies - fixed
— PDF files that include annotations smaller than 1pt cannot be displayed - fixed
— Text cannot be extracted from some pages that include inline images - fixed
— Type2 functions without a /Range entry are not computed correctly - fixed
PDF Viewer:
+ Search text and highlight search results in PDFPageView control
+ Annotation tooltips
+ Custom appearances for text and stamp annotations
+ Added support for TAB key in PDF forms
+ Added PageClick and PageDoubleClick events to PDFPageView to notify the user when the page was clicked
— Author for free text annotation is not initialized by default with logged in user - fixed
— Setting the Contents property on a free text annotation does not update its visual appearance in the viewer - fixed
— Annotations reply model does not work unless the reply annotation (a text annotation) does not have these flags: print | hidden| nozoom | norotate - fixed
— When a field value is set from code and the form is not displayed in the viewer, the field appearance is not built - fixed
— Checkbox and radiobutton field values are not stored correctly in the PDF file, changing the Checked status does not sets correctly the field value when the file is saved - fixed
— Zoom and ZoomMode properties cannot be set at design time - fixed
— Clicking on a link annotation with a GoTo action, the PageNumberChanged event is fired twice and the 2nd time the page number is wrong - fixed
— In some situations the border of a link annotation is not displayed - fixed
— Load method does not throw an exception if the document has no pages - fixed
— In some situations, the first page of the loaded PDF file is not displayed - fixed
— Newly created annotations on rotated pages are not displayed correctly - fixed
— PDFPageView control is not refreshed when a loaded PDFDocument is attached to it - fixed
— If a multipage document is displayed in OneColumn view, and the pages do not have the same width, the hittest for form fields and annotations does not work properly - fixed
— If the current page number is larger than the number of pages in a document that is loading, an exception is thrown by the viewer - fixed
— Filling forms from code take a long time when the form has many fields - fixed
— "Visible but not print" and "Hidden but printable" options for form fields are not handled correctly - fixed
— Bookmarks with /XYZ destination and null values for coordinates generate an exception - fixed
— Annotations with empty appearance dictionaries throw an exception - fixed
— Top level bookmarks throw an exception when they are removed - fixed
— Space key was not displayed in textbox editor until another character was typed - fixed

September 9, 2008 - PDFView4NET 2.1.0 release

PDFView4NET 2.1.0 has been released. For the complete list of features click here. The following features are supported in this version (+ new features/enhancements, — bug fixes):
PDF Rendering:
+ Added IconName property to stamp annotations
+ Added support for specifying the DocumentName being displayed in printer queue window when printing a PDF file
— PDF forms with signature fields cannot be loaded - fixed
— Highlight annotations are printed opaque - fixed
— Some 1bit images using flate compression cannot be decoded correctly - fixed
— Bitmap printing ignores the PDFPrintContent flags - fixed
— Resolution is not set (default remains 96) on B/W images - fixed
— When the /Annots array contains direct dictionary objects, the PDF file cannot be printed - fixed
— In some situations the TimesNewRoman font is not rendered correctly - fixed
— In some situations the softmask is not applied correctly to an image - fixed
— Dashed lines with very small dash width are not displayed - fixed
— Some inline images are not decoded correctly - fixed
— Some encrpyted PDF files cannot be open - fixed
— PDF files with custom objects in /Pages hierarchy cannot be loaded - fixed
— Some CCITT encoded images are not decoded correctly when the width of a line in bytes is not multiple of 4 bytes - fixed
PDF Viewer:
+ Added new page display layouts in PDFPageView control: single page, one column, two columns with support for keyboard navigation (up/down/page up/page down/home/end)
+ Added new bookmarks view control
+ Added support for free text annotations (type writer tool)
+ Added support for annotation states in text annotations and in reply to annotation model
+ The PDFDocument now throws an UnsupportedEncryptionException when an unknown encryption is used
+ All exceptions are now serializable
+ Updated hit testing method for annotations to match behavior in Adobe Acrobat
+ Added Close method to PDFDocument to close the underlying PDF file
+ Added AllowFormFill property to PDFPageView to enable/disable the form filling at viewer level
— Characters are not multiplicated when a key is pressed for a longer period of time in a textbox field - fixed
— Default field appearance defined on widget instead of field is ignored - fixed
— PDFLinkAnnotation class does not have a public constructor - fixed
— The PDFAnnotationsView control displays a Page entry for each page that includes annotations, even if those annotations are not listed in the control - fixed
— CreationDate property on newly created annotations returns DateTime.MinDate instead of actual creation time - fixed
— When updating the description of file attachments, the new value is not saved - fixed
— MoveItem method on pages collection does not move the pages properly and the viewer is not refreshed if the displayed page is affected - fixed
— When the interior color of ellipse and rectangle annotations changes, the viewer is not updated - fixed
— Scroll events are not fired in PDFPageView control when scrolling pages using the keyboard - fixed
— After a page has been rendered once, changing its rotation does not trigger page rendering again unless it is the displayed page - fixed
— Readonly fields can be filled interactively by end user - fixed

July 7, 2008 - PDFView4NET 2.0.1 release

PDFView4NET 2.0.1 has been released. For the complete list of features click here. The following features are supported in this version (+ new features/enhancements, — bug fixes):
PDF Rendering:
— In some situations the annotations are not printed in the right position - fixed
— In some situations custom encoded text is not printed - fixed
— In some situations border is not displayed for link annotations - fixed
— Some PDF files throw an exception when they are closed - fixed
— Fonts with invalid Differences array are not displayed - fixed
— Dashed lines are not displayed correctly - fixed
— Some CCITT 1D images are not displayed correctly - fixed
— Reversed softmasks are not decoded correctly
— Some ICC based images are not displayed correctly
PDF Viewer:
— AfterAnnotationMove and AfterAnnotationResize events are fired even if the annotation is just clicked - fixed
— In some situations textbox fields display the text in wrong position - fixed
— When a bookmark title has changed, the new title is not saved when the file is saved - fixed
— When a top level bookmark is moved (added) to another bookmark, the hierarchy is broken - fixed
— Some PDF forms with empty fields are not loaded - fixed
— An exception is thrown when the last page is displayed in the viewer control and another page is removed from the document - fixed

June 16, 2008 - PDFView4NET 2.0.0 release

PDFView4NET 2.0.0 has been released. For the complete list of features click here. The following features are supported in this version (+ new features/enhancements, — bug fixes):
Breaking changes:
+ FromPage and ToPage properties in PrinterSettings start now at 1 instead of 0.
+ Image property in text and stamp annotations changed to Appearance (type: PDFAnnotationAppearance)
PDF Rendering:
+ Support for converting PDF pages to B/W TIFF images
— When an encoding dictionary includes hex codes in differences array, the characters are not displayed - fixed
— Some Type 1 fonts with custom encoding are not displayed correctly - fixed
— Images with ImageMask set to true and missing BitPerComponent entry cannot be decoded - fixed
— Annotations with non-standard rectangle (llx, lly, urx, ury) are not rendered correctly in GetPageImage method - fixed
— Images with /CCF filter (short from /CCITTFaxDecode) are not displayed correctly - fixed
— In some situations black squares (.notdef char) are displayed for unprintable characters - fixed
— In some situations images with DeviceN colorspace are not rendered correctly - fixed
— Images with a device colorspace stored as array are not displayed - fixed
PDF Viewer:
+ User interactive form filling
+ Fill forms from code
+ Pushbutton, checkbox, radiobutton, dropdown list and listbox fields
+ Save filled forms
+ Zoom modes: custom, fit width, fit height, fit visible
+ Support for transparent PNG and GIF images in image stamps and text annotations
+ New events PDFPageView.AfterAnnotationMove and PDFPageView.AfterAnnotationResize
— Link action is executed when page viewer is in EditAnnotations mode - fixed
— Annotation visual appearance is not updated when annotation color or icon has changed - fixed
— Annotations are added to the page (but they are hidden) even if the BeforeAnnotationAdd event is canceled - fixed
— Highlight annotations do not update the visual appearance when the color is changed - fixed
— Annotation events on PDFAnnotationsView control are not fired unless the PageView property is set - fixed
— Highlight annotations are not created correctly when regional settings are not eu-US - fixed
— The horizontal line in underline annotations is not displayed - fixed
— Annotations are not moved and resized correctly when the page is rotated - fixed
— An exception is thrown when a top level bookmark is removed - fixed
— Nested arrays that contain indirect references are not saved correctly - fixed

May 06, 2008 - PDFView4NET 2.0.0 Beta 3 release

PDFView4NET 2.0.0 Beta 3 has been released. For the complete list of features click here. The following features are supported in this version (+ new features/enhancements, — bug fixes):
PDF Viewer:
— Editing field is shown shifted to botttom when the form's boxes have negative lower left coordinates - fixed
— Field activation throws an exception if the field's appearance object does not include a /Subtype key - fixed
— In some situations the textbox field value is not displayed - fixed
— Text in textbox fields appears blurry when field is inactive - fixed

May 06, 2008 - PDFView4NET 1.0.5 release

PDFView4NET 1.0.5 has been released. For the complete list of features click here. The following features are supported in this version (+ new features/enhancements, — bug fixes):
PDF Rendering:
— CCITT encoded stencil masks are not applied correctly - fixed
— Char spacing is not applied correctly in some situations - fixed
— Indexed 4bit images are not displayed - fixed
— In some situations, PDF files that use object stream compression cannot be loaded - fixed
— Some PDF files with CJK fonts are not displayed correctly - fixed
— File attachments with Unicode file names cannot be saved in Acrobat/Reader 8 - fixed
— Annotation's image is not updated on screen if the image is changed from code - fixed
— Encrypted PDF files that use object streams cannot be displayed - fixed
— Strings stored in encrypted object streams are damaged when they are decrypted - fixed
— In some situations paths that include rectangles are not filled correctly - fixed
— Images with Separation colorspace are not displayed - fixed
— PDF files with incomplete catalog dictionary are not loaded - fixed
— Paths that are drawn with pens that use a dash pattern with 0 length elements generate an exception - fixed
— CalRGB colors are not displayed correctly in some situations - fixed
PDF Viewer:
— Documents with delayed load file attachments are not saved correctly - fixed
— Text annotations with custom images display standard note icon when they are clicked in Acrobat/Reader 7 - fixed
— Page removal from a document does not work - fixed
— Stream objects are not saved correctly when their size is 0 - fixed

March 28, 2008 - PDFView4NET 2.0.0 Beta 2 release

PDFView4NET 2.0.0 Beta 2 has been released. For the complete list of features click here. The following features are supported in this version (+ new features/enhancements, — bug fixes):
PDF Viewer:
+ Added MaxLength support for textbox fields
— Content of multiline text boxes is not scrolled correctly on vertical - fixed
— Enter character is displayed as rectangle - fixed
— Comboboxes/listboxes crash when the number of items is smaller than max number of visible items - fixed
— Textboxes retain focus when clicking outside the control - fixed

March 28, 2008 - PDFView4NET 1.0.4 release

PDFView4NET 1.0.4 has been released. For the complete list of features click here. The following features are supported in this version (+ new features/enhancements, — bug fixes):
PDF Rendering:
— DCT compressed softmasks are not applied correctly - fixed
— Stencil masks are not applied correctly - fixed
— Font encoding is not properly determined for font objects with Encoding dictionaries - fixed
— Inline images with custom colorspace are not displayed - fixed
— PDF files with Type0 fonts that include entire font dictionary in /DescendantFonts key are not displayed properly - fixed
— Borderless link annotations are rendered with border in PDFRender4NET - fixed
— Zero width/height rectangles are not displayed when they are stroked with non-zero pen - fixed
— In some situations TIF images are not displayed because the underlying stream has been closed - fixed
— Text is not displayed in some PDF files that use object compression - fixed
— 1x1 images are not scaled as block and dithering appears - fixed
— TrueType CourierNew font is not rendered correctly when the font is not embedded - fixed
— Files that include complete annotation dictionaries in /Annots arrat cannot be loaded - fixed
— PDF forms that include fields without default appearance cannot be loaded - fixed
— Forms with empty fields that use a font that is not used elsewhere in the file cannot be displayed - fixed
— Images encoded with predictor #2 are not decoded correctly - fixed
PDF Viewer:
+ Added Execute method on bookmarks for explicit execution of bookmark's action or destination
+ Added SetCustomKey method to PDFDocumentInformation class - fixed
+ Added support for displaying images in text and stamp annotations
+ Added delayed load option for file attachments
— Disposal of some PDF documents throw an exception - fixed
— Mouse cursor is not restored in PDFPageView control when changing from EditAnnotation to Pan&Scan mode - fixed
— New bookmarks added to a document are not saved when the document is saved - fixed

February 25, 2008 - PDFView4NET 1.0.3 release

PDFView4NET 1.0.3 has been released. For the complete list of features click here. The following features are supported in this version (+ new features/enhancements, — bug fixes):
PDF Rendering:
+ Added support for CCITT T4 1D decoding
+ Added support for RunLengthDecode filter
— Pages with resources specified in parent objects are not rendered correctly - fixed
— Some ASCII85 encoded streams are not decoded correctly - fixed
— Incorrectly escaped paranthesis in strings cause the page rendering to hang - fixed
— Stroked text is not rendered correctly in some situations - fixed
— Embedded JPEG images with a soft mask are not displayed correctly - fixed
— Initial colorspace in page content was considered to be DeviceRGB instead of DeviceGray - fixed
— Files with invalid CFF data cannot be displayed - fixed
— Indexed 1bpp images are not decoded correctly - fixed
PDF Viewer:
+ Added PageNumberChanged event to PDFPageView control
— Documents with links that use named destinations cannot be loaded - fixed
— Link annotations with /Dest key do not work - fixed
— Bookmarks with named destinations do not work - fixed
— Clearing the attachments collection from PDFDocument does not remove the attachments from the actual PDF file - fixed
— Invalid annotations appearance is created when regional settings on local computer are not en-US - fixed
— PDF files with invisible signatures cannot be loaded - fixed
— Ink annotation points are not set correctly from code - fixed
— In some situations the page size is not updated properly in PDFPageView control - fixed

January 22nd, 2008 - PDFView4NET 1.0.2 release

PDFView4NET 1.0.2 has been released. For the complete list of features click here. The following features are supported in this version (+ new features/enhancements, — bug fixes):
PDF Rendering:
+ Attribute "AllowPartiallyTrustedCallers" applied to PDFRender4NET assembly
— Color masks are not processed correctly - fixed
— Some Type1 fonts are not decoded correctly - fixed
— Pages with inline images that include /IM key are not rendered - fixed
— Printed page content is shifted to the right and down when None scaling option was used - fixed
— Tiff images with custom indexed colorspace are not displayed correctly - fixed
PDF Viewer:
+ Support for Remote GoTo actions
+ IRawPDFData interface to support raw PDF data extraction from annotations, actions, pages, bookmarks and document
+ Support for PDFRectangle for annotations
+ Support for converting screen points <-> PDF points in PDFPageView control
+ Support for text markup (highlight, underline, stirkeout, squiggly) annotations
— Link actions are not loaded - fixed
— PDFPageView displays garbage lines when scrolling the page up/down - fixed

November 26th, 2007 - PDFView4NET 1.0.1 release

PDFView4NET 1.0.1 has been released. For the complete list of features click here. The following features are supported in this version (+ new features/enhancements, — bug fixes):
PDF Rendering:
— Unprintable chars in range 0 - 31 are displayed as empty squares - fixed
— Some Type1 fonts are not decoded correctly - fixed
— Hidden and NoView flags are not handled in PDF rendering library - fixed
— Arial Black font is not substituted correctly when the font is not embedded - fixed
— Flex operations are not handled correctly in Type1 font - fixed
— Flate encoded grayscale images are not decoded correctly - fixed
— Separation colorspaces with ICC alternate colorspace are not rendered correctly - fixed
— CITT images with byte aligned data are not displayed - fixed
— Text that uses a font with negative size is not displayed - fixed
PDF Viewer:
— PDF file is not released when the PDFDocument is disposed - fixed
— When PDFPageView.MouseDown event is handled in user code and the handling code displays a modal dialog box, the page remains blocked in pan mode after the dialog is closed - fixed

November 2nd, 2007 - PDFView4NET 1.0 release

PDFView4NET 1.0 has been released. For the complete list of features click here.

October 11th, 2007 - PDFView4NET 0.9.5 beta preview release

PDFView4NET 0.9.5 beta preview has been released. For the complete list of future features click here. The following features are supported in this beta (+ enhancements, — bug fixes):
PDF Rendering:
+ Support for transparent colors.
— JPEG images with Lab and CalRGB colorspace are not rendered correctly - fixed
PDF Viewer:
+ Support for rotating pages with 90, 180 and 270 degrees.

September 20th, 2007 - PDFView4NET 0.9.0 beta preview release

PDFView4NET 0.9.0 beta preview has been released. For the complete list of future features click here. The following features are supported in this beta (+ enhancements, — bug fixes):
PDF Rendering:
+ Before and After print events to print your content on the PDF file without modifying the source file.
— Some Unicode TrueType fonts are not displayed correctly - fixed
— Some Type1 fonts are not displayed correctly - fixed
PDF Viewer:
+ New annotations:
   Rectangle
   Ellipse
   Line
   Ink
+ Locked, ReadOnly, Hidden and NoView flags for annotations.

September 10th, 2007 - PDFView4NET 0.8.15 beta preview release

PDFView4NET 0.8.15 beta preview has been released. For the complete list of future features click here. The following features are supported in this beta (+ enhancements, — bug fixes):
PDF Rendering:
— Checkbox fields are not displayed correctly on some computers - fixed
PDF Viewer:
+ Added support for FitWidth and FitHeight display modes.

September 3rd, 2007 - PDFView4NET 0.8.14 beta preview release

PDFView4NET 0.8.14 beta preview has been released. For the complete list of future features click here. The following features are supported in this beta (+ enhancements, — bug fixes):
PDF Rendering:
— Some Type1 fonts are not decoded correctly - fixed
— Stencil mask images are not displayed correctly - fixed

August 17th, 2007 - PDFView4NET 0.8.12 beta preview release

PDFView4NET 0.8.12 beta preview has been released. For the complete list of future features click here. The following features are supported in this beta (+ enhancements, — bug fixes):
PDF Viewer:
+ Basic support for text box fields

August 10th, 2007 - PDFView4NET 0.8.11 beta preview release

PDFView4NET 0.8.11 beta preview has been released. For the complete list of future features click here. The following features are supported in this beta (+ enhancements, — bug fixes):
PDF Rendering:
+ Support for OpenType fonts
+ Support for proportional scaling at print time
+ Images with ICC colorspace
— PDF files created with Crystal Reports cannot be rendered and printed - fixed
PDF Viewer:
+ Support for check boxes and radio buttons
+ Support for document printing

August 3rd, 2007 - PDFView4NET 0.8.10 beta preview release

PDFView4NET 0.8.10 beta preview has been released. For the complete list of future features click here. The following features are supported in this beta (+ enhancements, — bug fixes):
PDF Rendering:
— Some TrueType fonts are not decoded correctly - fixed
— Documents are not printed correctly when paper orientation is Landscape - fixed
— PrinterSettings class renamed to PDFPrintSettings - fixed
— Lab to RGB conversion is not correct - fixed
PDF Viewer:
+ Support for text extraction, both extraction of simple text and extraction of text runs is supported.

July 27th, 2007 - PDFView4NET 0.8.9 beta preview release

PDFView4NET 0.8.9 beta preview has been released. For the complete list of future features click here. The following features are supported in this beta (+ enhancements, — bug fixes):
PDF Rendering:
+ CalRGB, CalGray and Lab colorspaces.
— Encoding is not built correctly for some Type1 fonts - fixed

July 20th, 2007 - PDFView4NET 0.8.8 beta preview release

PDFView4NET 0.8.8 beta preview has been released. For the complete list of future features click here. The following features are supported in this beta (+ enhancements, — bug fixes):
PDF Rendering:
+ Inline images.
+ Image masks.
+ Alpha channel masks (soft masks).
— Unicode CMap is not decoded correctly for some fonts - fixed

July 17th, 2007 - PDFView4NET 0.8.7 beta preview release

PDFView4NET 0.8.7 beta preview has been released. For the complete list of future features click here. The following features are supported in this beta (+ enhancements, — bug fixes):
PDF Rendering:
+ DeviceN and Pattern colorspaces.
+ PrintContent options for printing page content and/or annotations and/or form fields.
+ PaperSource and PaperSize properties added to PrinterSettings class.
+ Chroma key transparency for images.
+ CIDFontType0 fonts.
— Some CIDFontType2 fonts are not displayed correctly - fixed
PDF Viewer:
— An exception is thrown when the document's bookmarks collection is cleared - fixed

July 13th, 2007 - PDFView4NET 0.8.6 beta preview release

PDFView4NET 0.8.6 beta preview has been released. For the complete list of future features click here. The following features are supported in this beta (+ enhancements, — bug fixes):
PDF Rendering:
+ Separation colorspaces.
+ Runtime execution of PDF functions.
— Some CCITT images are not decoded correctly - fixed
PDF Viewer:
— An exception is thrown when an annotation is deleted from PDFAnnotationsView control - fixed
— PDF file is still locked after the PDFDocument object has been disposed - fixed

July 10th, 2007 - PDFView4NET 0.8.5 beta preview release

PDFView4NET 0.8.5 beta preview has been released. For the complete list of future features click here. The following features are supported in this beta (+ enhancements, — bug fixes):
PDF Rendering:
+ PDF printing with support for N-up printing and page scaling
— Annotations are not rendered correctly on rotated pages - fixed
— Encoding is not created correctly for some CFF fonts - fixed
PDF Viewer:
— Selection of annotations on rotated pages does not work correctly - fixed

July 6th, 2007 - PDFView4NET 0.8.4 beta preview release

PDFView4NET 0.8.4 beta preview has been released. For the complete list of future features click here. The following features are supported in this beta:
PDF Rendering features:
» Support for Type1 fonts
» Improved PDF rendering for PDF graphics

June 29th, 2007 - PDFView4NET 0.8.3 beta preview release

PDFView4NET 0.8.3 beta preview has been released. For the complete list of future features click here. The following features are supported in this beta:
PDF Rendering features:
» Improved PDF rendering for TrueType fonts

June 21st, 2007 - PDFView4NET 0.8.2 beta preview release

PDFView4NET 0.8.2 beta preview has been released. For the complete list of future features click here. The following features are supported in this beta:
PDF Rendering features:
» Improved PDF rendering
» Indexed and ICC colorspaces
» ICC images

June 15th, 2007 - PDFView4NET 0.8.1 beta preview release

PDFView4NET 0.8.1 beta preview has been released. For the complete list of future features click here. The following features are supported in this beta:
PDF Rendering features:
» Improved PDF rendering
» CCITT and Indexed images
» Silent printing of PDF files

June 7th, 2007 - PDFView4NET 0.8 beta preview release

PDFView4NET 0.8 beta preview has been released. For the complete list of future features click here. The following features are supported in this beta:
PDF Rendering features:
» DeviceRGB, DeviceCMYK and DeviceGray colorspaces
» All drawing primitives
» Base 14 PDF fonts
» True type fonts, ANSI and Unicode
» CFF fonts
» Raw and DCTDecode images
» Rendering of annotations with built in appearance.
» Rendering of text, stamp and file annotations with no built in appearance.
» Convert PDF files to images
» Render PDF pages to System.Drawing.Graphics
» Print PDF files
PDF Viewer features:
» All above rendering features
» Zoom, pan & scan
» Document navigation, first page, previous page, next page, last page
» Text, stamp and file annotations - add, edit, remove
» Basic bookmarks support with direct page destinations
» File attachments - view, add, edit, remove

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