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Changelog PDFRasterizer.NET 3.0


3.0.192.0
July 20, 2022
bugfix
Extracting text from text objects in transparency groups.
3.0.191.0
June 7, 2022
bugfix
rendering of not exactly specified images
3.0.190.0
April 6, 2022
bugfix
Use the transfer function in the soft mask
3.0.189.0
December 23, 2021
bugfix
Rendering a rotated pattern threw an exception
3.0.188.0
September 28, 2021
bugfix
Font rendering problem when DPI is set for the resulting bitmap
3.0.187.0
April 27, 2021
bugfix
Wrong detection of the end of inline images
3.0.186.0
January 14, 2021
bugfix
Method Page.ExtractImages throws an exception when the page contains text.
3.0.185.0
November 25, 2020
bugfix
Compile errors in WPF sample projects
3.0.184.0
February 10, 2020
bugfix
Incorrect TargetFramework of the TallComponents.PDFRasterizer.Wpf nuget package
3.0.183.0
February 10, 2020
feature
New nuget package TallComponents.PDFRasterizer.Wpf for targeting WPF applications.
3.0.182.0
February 4, 2020
bugfix
In specific cases, the color calculation of patterns is incorrect
3.0.181.0
January 22, 2020
bugfix
In specific cases glyphs are rendered using the wrong font
3.0.180.0
October 21, 2019
bugfix
non-WPF TallComponents.PDF.Rasterizer references presentationframework
3.0.179.0
May 6, 2019
bugfix
Images that have a specific soft mask are rendered black
3.0.178.0
April 30, 2019
bugfix
Stackoverflow exception when converting PDF to TIFF
3.0.177.0
March 1, 2019
bugfix
StackOverlowException
3.0.176.0
February 21, 2019
bugfix
A specific Type3 font is rendered incorrectly
3.0.175.0
January 17, 2019
bugfix
Fixed bug related to differences encoding
bugfix
Fixed JBIG2 render bug
3.0.174.0
September 3, 2018
feature
Support TTF hinting
3.0.173.0
August 10, 2018
comment
Updated online help
3.0.172.0
July 13, 2018
bugfix
Fixed an issue causing high memory usage
3.0.171.0
July 5, 2018
bugfix
Added API to detect if the document was repaired
3.0.170.0
June 18, 2018
bugfix
Improved algorithm for recovering PDFs with a broken xref
3.0.169.0
May 22, 2018
bugfix
Fixed a rendering issue related to some non-standard ICC color profiles
3.0.168.0
May 12, 2018
bugfix
Fixed a null reference exception that is thrown when opening a document with incorrect OCG data
3.0.167.0
April 5, 2018
bugfix
Fixed an issue with showing empty rectangles for explicitely not defined CIDs
3.0.166.0
March 9, 2018
bugfix
Fixed a problem when a page is rendered according to its media box only
3.0.165.0
February 6, 2018
bugfix
During progressive rendering return JobStatus.Ready only when rendering is actually done
3.0.164.0
January 30, 2018
bugfix
Made PDFRasterizer more permissive with missing or wrongly typed PDF dictionaries
3.0.163.0
January 17, 2018
bugfix
Fixed font substitution during progressive rendering
3.0.162.0
January 10, 2018
bugfix
Try to rebuild the document in the case of an erroneous startxref pointer
3.0.161.0
December 13, 2017
bugfix
Fixed some performance issues
3.0.159.0
October 27, 2017
bugfix
Fixed a problem rendering shadings
3.0.158.0
September 27, 2017
feature
Optional content membership dictionary is checked now when the visibility of an XObject is evaluated
3.0.157.0
September 5, 2017
bugfix
Default font mapping was extended with better render non-embedded fonts
3.0.156.0
August 25, 2017
bugfix
Fixed some rendering issues of Tensor-Product Patch Meshes
3.0.155.0
July 28, 2017
bugfix
Fixed an issue that caused unwanted border in the rendered image
3.0.154.0
July 20, 2017
bugfix
Fixed a radial shading rendering issue
3.0.153.0
June 6, 2017
bugfix
In 64-bits mode images might show artifacts and blurring
3.0.152.0
May 19, 2017
bugfix
Sometimes pages are tiled
3.0.151.0
April 19, 2017
bugfix
Pdf rasterization causes StackOverflowException
3.0.150.0
April 5, 2017
bugfix
Green text becomes grey when cloning only text shapes on original document
3.0.149.0
March 24, 2017
bugfix
barcode PDF417 is not shown in the tiff
3.0.148.0
March 8, 2017
bugfix
The Support\CMaps folder was missing from the product download
bugfix
In exceptional cases rasterization takes indefinite time
3.0.147.0
February 9, 2017
bugfix
Incorrect rasterization (Header "Burrata")
3.0.146.0
January 30, 2017
bugfix
part of the images is missing when rendering
3.0.145.0
January 26, 2017
bugfix
There were some font artefacts
bugfix
Non italic and header "Burrata"
bugfix
Bold font in png vs normal font in pdf
bugfix
Some text missing in the result
3.0.144.0
January 11, 2017
bugfix
Second page is only white
bugfix
'Page count is zero' error
3.0.143.0
November 30, 2016
bugfix
Certain parts of the pdf image are dropped.
3.0.142.0
October 14, 2016
bugfix
In particular cases the resulting image is cut
3.0.141.0
October 12, 2016
bugfix
In some cases a tiling pattern with a huge translation offset rendered wrongly.
3.0.140.0
September 23, 2016
bugfix
Wrong rasterization of Vertical fonts
3.0.139.0
August 17, 2016
bugfix
Text is not rendered
3.0.138.0
July 22, 2016
bugfix
In some cases a background color pattern is mirrored
3.0.137.0
July 19, 2016
bugfix
Corrupt font reference does not show in the summary of the Page.Draw method
3.0.136.0
July 1, 2016
bugfix
Error log now contains the root cause (WPF version)
bugfix
Image is splitted by black lines
3.0.135.0
June 24, 2016
bugfix
Error log now contains the root cause
bugfix
Fixed an image rendering issue that caused images to be splitted into two
bugfix
Fixed rendering link annotations with border
bugfix
Fixed a font issue that caused some characters rendered as rectangles
bugfix
Fixed a bug that softmask backgrounds were rendered with wrong color
3.0.134.0
June 9, 2016
bugfix
Fix a rendering issue related to SoftMasks
bugfix
Fix handling OpenType fonts without a standard CMap subtable
3.0.133.0
May 30, 2016
bugfix
In specific cases a rectangle is cut in half diagonally
3.0.132.0
May 26, 2016
bugfix
Fix a JPEG decoding issue
bugfix
Improve broken compressed stream detection algorithm
3.0.131.0
April 7, 2016
bugfix
Better detection of broken compressed streams
3.0.130.0
March 10, 2016
bugfix
Improved rendering of TrueType font.
bugfix
Improved rendering of Type1 font.
bugfix
Improved rendering of CCITT images.
3.0.128.0
January 27, 2016
bugfix
Improved font substitution mechanism
3.0.127.0
January 10, 2016
bugfix
In specific cases text is not rendered.
bugfix
Glyphs of substitution font are rendered distorted
3.0.126.0
October 23, 2015
bugfix
Handle non-standard Font encodings
3.0.125.0
September 23, 2015
bugfix
Document contains not all the pages.
3.0.124.0
August 12, 2015
bugfix
In some cases a page rasterized partially
3.0.123.0
July 22, 2015
bugfix
Increase performance of WPF rendering
3.0.122.0
June 30, 2015
bugfix
Exception whle decoding a JBIG
3.0.121.0
June 3, 2015
bugfix
Fix Lab encoding resulting in black and white images
bugfix
Fix 4 bit TIFF predicate algorithm resulting in missing images
bugfix
The engine is more lenient now with OpenType fonts without an SFNT header resulting in missing charachters
3.0.120.0
May 13, 2015
bugfix
Filling an empty path leads to wrong resuls
bugfix
Reduced memory consumption when PDF contains many fonts.
3.0.119.0
April 17, 2015
bugfix
Some images are not rendered.
bugfix
Crash when rasterize corrupted OpenType font.
3.0.118.0
March 11, 2015
bugfix
In specific cases where a page contains a TIFF only, the output is blank.
3.0.117.0
February 16, 2015
bugfix
Better matching of the installed italic or bold truetype fonts
bugfix
Not all images were rendered
3.0.116.0
January 20, 2015
bugfix
StackOveflowException gets thrown for some PDF files
3.0.115.0
January 6, 2015
bugfix
Some images were not rendered.
3.0.114.0
December 10, 2014
bugfix
Some images are not rendered.
3.0.113.0
November 25, 2014
bugfix
Some pages couldn't be rasterized entirely.
3.0.112.0
November 12, 2014
feature
JBig2 decoder tryes to decode corrupted images
3.0.111.0
October 21, 2014
bugfix
In some cases the characters were indexed wrong, so a '1' was displayed as a 'N', '2' as a 'O', '3' as a 'P', and so on
bugfix
The euro symbol was sometimes missing
bugfix
Fixed the jagged right side of some images
feature
Better handling of a missing mediabox definition in a PDF document
3.0.110.0
September 15, 2014
bugfix
Corrected handling of JPEG images that contained 2 color channels
bugfix
Improved image decoding
3.0.109.0
August 5, 2014
bugfix
Reduced memory usage while processing images
feature
Improved shading of images
3.0.108.0
June 19, 2014
bugfix
A PDF that has a single Page as its root (instead of a Page tree with a single leaf Page) causes a null reference exception. Although it actually violates the specification, this is now tolerated.
feature
PDFRasterizer.NET is now available as a NuGet package. From the Package Manager Console run: Install-Package TallComponents.PDFRasterizer
feature
A new ConvertToXPS_small sample has been added that shows how to create XPS output with JPEG compressed images, instead of the standard PNG compressed images. This can reduce the XPS output size considerably.
3.0.107.0
April 7, 2014
bugfix
Some graphics may be drawn that should be ignored.
bugfix
Certain characters may be missing.
3.0.106.0
March 20, 2014
bugfix
Shadings with multiple color functions are not rendered.
3.0.105.0
January 22, 2014
bugfix
Backgrounds are missing on Windows 7. This issue is caused by a GDI issue on newer windows systems.
feature
Improved support for corrupt documents.
3.0.104.0
January 9, 2014
bugfix
The Document(Stream) constructor closes the input stream. This issue was introduced in release 3.0.103.1.
3.0.103.1
December 24, 2013
bugfix
Some JPEG2000 images do not render.
bugfix
Color gradients are not extended correctly. This issue typically causes gradients to appears at incorrect places.
bugfix
Documents with an incorrect color specification throw an exception when rendering asynchronously via DrawJob.
3.0.102.0
December 2, 2013
bugfix
Some graphics are missing.
bugfix
Background is too dark. This problem occurs only on 64-bit systems due to a bug in GDI/.Net.
3.0.101.0
November 19, 2013
feature
Improved support for documents with corrupt (partially lacking) font information.
bugfix
Some text gets rendered incorrectly.
3.0.100.0
November 4, 2013
bugfix
Image masks get a gray background.
bugfix
The WorkAroundClosePathBug setting causes incorrect output.
3.0.99.0
October 22, 2013
feature
Improved the ability to deal with corrupt documents that incorrectly specify text positions.
bugfix
Graphics that use the darken blend mode are rendered too light.
bugfix
CieLab colors are off.
3.0.98.0
October 2, 2013
bugfix
Some 16-bit images do not get rendered.
bugfix
Some page content may be missing for pages that contain inline images.
bugfix
Progressive rendering may render patterns incorrectly.
bugfix
Zero length lines are not rendered (should be rendered as dots).
bugfix
GDI does not print narrow images. This issue may present itself as missing gradients, as images with width=1 or height=1 are sometimes used to implement these.
bugfix
Some gradients are not rendered properly.
bugfix
Some DCT images do not get rendered.
feature
The windows domain license can now also be activated for new dns style domain names, next to the old NetBIOS domain names.
3.0.97.0
September 19, 2013
bugfix
1 bit per pixel images with a tiff predictor do not render.
bugfix
Bitmaps with an indexed color space may render too light.
bugfix
Some tiff images render black.
bugfix
ExtractImages may fail to deliver certain images.
bugfix
RenderSettings.TextSettings.RenderText influences rendering text in annotations. This however is inconsistent with text extraction behavior. Rendering of annotations should be controlled via the AnnotationSettings.
bugfix
Images that are rendered as a masked tiling pattern may be rendered incorrectly in certain situations.
3.0.96.0
September 2, 2013
bugfix
some ccitt images do not get rendered correctly.
feature
Improved support for opening corrupt documents.
feature
Improved support for rendering text that depends on corrupt font information.
feature
Extend the built-in font substitution map to support some alternative names for Arial.
bugfix
Some lines are rendered too fat.
3.0.95.0
August 1, 2013
bugfix
Some images erroneously become transparent.
bugfix
Some embedded fonts do not get rendered.
3.0.94.0
July 10, 2013
bugfix
cmsy7 & cmsy10 fonts may render incorrectly.
bugfix
Patterns may have wrong orientation
bugfix
Some images are not rendered on 32-bit operating system.
3.0.93.0
June 28, 2013
bugfix
Non-symbolic truetype fonts that do not specify an encoding may be rendered incorrectly.
bugfix
PDFRasterizer hangs while rendering particular fonts (rare).
bugfix
Certain hungarian accented characters are not rendered.
3.0.92.0
June 11, 2013
feature
Improved the ability to read corrupt documents.
bugfix
Some images are rendered at a low resolution.
bugfix
Kerning is wrong for some system fonts if a document does not specify the character widths itself (the previous update already addressed this issue, but not sufficiently).
feature
Improved the (approximated) rendering of blend modes.
3.0.91.0
May 23, 2013
bugfix
Image fields are not rendered if they are improperly classified in the file as either embedded or as reference.
bugfix
The ConvertToTiff method does not take into account the smoothingmode in CurveRenderSettings. This may lead to decreased quality, in particular for color output.
bugfix
System fonts may get rendered at the wrong location if the document does not specify the widths of the characters.
feature
Improved the approximation of the Color blend mode.
3.0.90.0
April 11, 2013
feature
Added the ability to repair documents with missing field information.
3.0.89.1
April 5, 2013
feature
Improved support for rendering corrupt document that fail to specify the length of stream objects.
3.0.89.0
April 4, 2013
bugfix
In some boundary cases with a zero dash length the generated dash pattern is not the same as Adobe's.
bugfix
Rendering hangs, due to a GDI issue.
3.0.88.0
March 14, 2013
bugfix
Rendering multiple documents concurrently may lead to artefacts in images.
bugfix
Some opentype fonts are not rendered.
feature
Added the Azure license type.
3.0.87.0
February 27, 2013
feature
Improved support for (corrupt) files that specify invalid data lengths.
bugfix
numeric fields in an XFA document may show too many decimals.
3.0.86.0
February 7, 2013
bugfix
Added a workaround for a GDI+ issue that causes high-res images to print blank.
bugfix
Graphics that contain empty paths may not be rendered.
bugfix
Some field content does not get rendered in XFA documents.
3.0.85.0
January 31, 2013
bugfix
Some files load very slowly. This typically happens if files have many layers.
3.0.84.2
December 13, 2012
feature
Improved the support for documents with incorrect font information.
3.0.84.1
December 12, 2012
bugfix
Link borders may not get rendered.
feature
Improved support for PDF documents with problematic embedded ICC profiles.
3.0.83.1
December 7, 2012
bugfix
The 3.0.83.0 PDFRasterizer.NET assembly is not signed.
3.0.83.0
December 3, 2012
bugfix
WPF ONLY: hairlines are not rendered correctly, due to the fact that WPF has no concept of a hairline.
bugfix
Type 2 CID fonts that lack a CIDToGIDMap entry may not be rendered correctly.
bugfix
Some graphics disappear because of an issue in graphics path construction.
3.0.82.1
November 8, 2012
bugfix
Some graphics (text and lines) are missing.
3.0.81.0
October 15, 2012
bugfix
Some pages are rendered blank. This issue was introduced in version 3.0.78.0.
bugfix
Some patterns are skewed due to an issue in GDI+.
bugfix
Grayscale images that specify an RGB color profile do not get rendered and they cannot be converted to WPF.
3.0.80.0
September 27, 2012
bugfix
Artefacts may appear on a rendered page. This issue was related to blend modes.
bugfix
Images may get shifted one pixel.
3.0.79.0
August 9, 2012
bugfix
Some image masks are not handled properly.
bugfix
Some text is missing.
bugfix
In rare cases, colors may get rendered inaccurately. This issue was introduced in release 3.0.78.0.
3.0.78.0
July 26, 2012
bugfix
Some gradients are not rendered correctly.
feature
Improved support for handling corrupt fonts. Symptom: text is rendered as giberish.
feature
The rendering speed has been improved for Icc profiles.
bugfix
Some graphics are invisible or rendered at the wrong position.
bugfix
Page.SingleImageOnly throws a cast exception.
3.0.77.0
June 20, 2012
feature
Improved support for corrupt JPEG images (symptom: these image were rendered blank).
feature
Improved support for corrupt font information in PDF documents (symptom: some text was not rendered).
bugfix
Some transparent graphics are rendered opaque.
3.0.76.0
May 9, 2012
feature
Improved support for slightly corrupt JBig2 images.
bugfix
The HighQuality color transformation mode is not taken into account when drawing soft masks.
3.0.75.0
April 11, 2012
comment
The default color transformation mode has been changed to HighQuality.
bugfix
Some lines are not rendered.
bugfix
WPF conversion only: clipping paths that consist of empty rectangles are ignored. This issue was introduced in 3.0.58.0.
3.0.74.0
March 28, 2012
bugfix
The ColorMatrix does not behave as expected.
bugfix
Clipping paths that consist of empty rectangles are ignored. This issue was introduced in 3.0.58.0.
bugfix
Pages that contain many images with an indexed color space are slow to render.
bugfix
page.ExtractImages() throws an InvalidCastException. This problem was introduced in 3.0.73.0.
bugfix
CMYK colors are slightly too dark when using the default color transformation mode.
bugfix
Fonts that lack a ".notdef" definition are not rendered.
3.0.73.0
March 14, 2012
feature
Added the property WorkAroundImageTransparencyPrintSize to the GdiRenderSettings. Setting this value may substantially decrease print output size, but for some documents this may result in artefacts in the output.
feature
Improved support for documents with an invalid OpenActions specification.
feature
Improved support for documents with an invalid CMap table specification.
bugfix
Large pages with soft masks require large amounts of memory.
feature
The ColorRenderSettings have been extended with a ColorMatrix property that allows controlling the rendered colors.
3.0.72.2
February 7, 2012
bugfix
Some fonts have artefacts.
bugfix
Licenses are not working for the client profile assembly.
3.0.72.1
February 1, 2012
bugfix
gradients with sharp transitions are not rendered correctly (Fix for WPF only).
bugfix
WPF ONLY: diacritical marks do not render correctly.
bugfix
WPF ONLY: Generated XPS is corrupt.
3.0.72.0
January 10, 2012
bugfix
Some fonts do not render.
bugfix
Some images have incorrect colors.
3.0.71.0
November 30, 2011
bugfix
Soft masks may be computed incorrectly if Blending modes are used on the same page.
bugfix
Grayscale images with an image mask may not be rendered.
bugfix
Grayscale JPEG images may not be rendered.
bugfix
Some glyphs may be missing from complex OpenType fonts.
3.0.70.0
November 24, 2011
bugfix
Images that consist of a pattern drawn through an image mask do not show up.
bugfix
User-defined clipping does not work correctly for rotated pages.
bugfix
Tiling patterns get placed at an incorrect offset in rare situations.
3.0.69.0
October 12, 2011
bugfix
user defined clipping areas are not respected.
bugfix
wpf conversion shows text that should be invisible.
3.0.68.0
September 21, 2011
breaking
Support for .Net 1.1 has been dropped.
feature
Improved support for handing improper font definitions.
3.0.67.0
September 12, 2011
feature
Added default font substitution entries for MSMincho.
feature
Improved suppport for corrupt files.
bugfix
The WPF conversion does not allow transparent backgrounds.
3.0.66.0
July 7, 2011
bugfix
WPF conversion does not apply ColorTransformationMode.HighQuality when this is specified in RenderSettings.ColorSettings.TransformationMode. This results in grayscale graphics.
feature
Improved support for corrupt TrueType fonts.
bugfix
TrueType fonts may not get rendered correctly if they do not use a WinAnsi encoding.
3.0.65.0
July 1, 2011
bugfix
Improved reconstructing corrupt documents.
3.0.64.0
June 27, 2011
bugfix
Some soft masks are not taken into account.
3.0.63.0
May 26, 2011
bugfix
Some invisible text is displayed (in progressive mode).
bugfix
The ColorBurn and the Darken blend modes may not be not rendered correctly.
3.0.62.0
May 19, 2011
bugfix
Some invisible text is displayed.
bugfix
Patterns with big steps cause an incorrect render result.
3.0.61.0
April 29, 2011
bugfix
"Multiply" blend modes may lead to graphical artefacts.
bugfix
Non-breaking spaces that have glyphs defined for them are not ignored.
bugfix
The HighQuality color TransformationMode setting leads to very slow rendering.
bugfix
Improved reconstructing corrupt documents.
3.0.60.0
April 8, 2011
bugfix
Reconstructing corrupt fields has been improved.
bugfix
ConvertToTiff increases memory in the task manager more than necessary.
3.0.59.0
March 28, 2011
bugfix
Extended radial shading is sometimes not extended far enough, leading to unpainted areas.
bugfix
Some inline images are not displayed.
3.0.58.0
March 9, 2011
bugfix
Lines may not get printed if these lines are constructed from thin rectangles.
bugfix
In rare cases, some graphics may not render.
feature
Improved support for rendering fonts that are not entirely according to specs.
feature
Improved support for rendering images that are not entirely according to specs.
bugfix
Annotations in layers are not taken into account.
3.0.57.0
February 28, 2011
bugfix
Page.ExtractImages doesn't extract all images.
3.0.56.0
February 17, 2011
bugfix
Opening corrupt documents has been improved.
bugfix
JavaScript handling has been improved.
3.0.55.0
February 3, 2011
bugfix
Vertical text spacing is off.
bugfix
Small tiling patterns may not show up on high resolution devices.
bugfix
PostScript fonts with missing end of data markers do not show up.
bugfix
Some JPEG 2000 encoded images are rendered incorrectly.
3.0.54.1
January 12, 2011
bugfix
Bitmaps may get rendered with a low resolution for documents that share the same bitmap at various image sizes. This problem was introduced in 3.0.49.0.
3.0.54.0
January 4, 2011
bugfix
In ConvertToWpf the pen width is incorrect in scaled objects.
bugfix
Pages with inline images with an empty filters array results in incorrect output.
3.0.53.1
December 10, 2010
bugfix
Control characters are rendered as bullets in WinAnsi encoding.
3.0.53.0
December 7, 2010
bugfix
Secured files that lack a document ID do not render.
feature
Some blend modes are now approximated using GDI+ transparency.
feature
Page.ConvertToTiff allows converting only a particular rectangle on the page.
bugfix
Luminosity soft masks are not taken into account.
bugfix
Axial shading is not always correct.
3.0.52.0
November 15, 2010
bugfix
License validation fails during an asyn drawjob when handled in a new app-domain.
feature
Overlay blends are displayed better.
3.0.51.0
November 11, 2010
bugfix
page.ExtractImages leads to an AccessViolation.
bugfix
Vertical text is not positioned correctly.
3.0.50.0
October 26, 2010
bugfix
Some Type 1 fonts (PostScript fonts) render distorted.
3.0.49.0
October 12, 2010
feature
Improved the handling of corrupt Type 1 fonts.
feature
Improved the handling of corrupt TrueType fonts.
feature
Improved the rendering speed for documents with many small identical images.
3.0.48.0
October 6, 2010
bugfix
Radial shading is slightly off.
bugfix
Mapping a font to a font collection (.ttc) may result in missing glyphs.
feature
The Font class has been extended with an EmbedMode property.
3.0.47.0
September 27, 2010
bugfix
Improved handling incorrect/corrupt documents.
3.0.46.0
September 24, 2010
bugfix
Some rectangles contain an additional diagonal line.
feature
The TallComponents.PDF.Rasterizer.Configuration.GdiRenderSettings.Synchronized setting can be used to serialize all GDI rendering, even for independent Graphics instances. This avoids a GDI issue when rendering to MetaFile instances in parallel.
bugfix
ConvertToWpf does not support radial shading.
bugfix
ConvertToWpf converts CMYK colors incorrectly.
3.0.45.0
September 7, 2010
feature
Improved handling of corrupt font resources.
bugfix
Some CCITT fax group 3 encoded images are rendered incorrectly, typically leading to superfluous horizontal lines.
bugfix
Partially trusted applications may throw a security exception because PDFRasterizer.NET temporarily changes the culture of a thread.
3.0.44.0
August 18, 2010
bugfix
Rectangles with zero width or height do not show up when stroked.
bugfix
Words may have too much spacing between them. This issue was introduced in 3.0.43.0.
bugfix
Images may have stripes in them depending on the rotation of a page. This is caused by an inconsistency in GDI+ for which we have implemented a workaround.
feature
Improved support for handling corrupt PDF documents.
3.0.43.0
July 8, 2010
feature
The WPF evaluation banner is no longer transparent, as that turned out to cause slow printing/large spool files (the latter is basically a .Net/Driver issue).
feature
Implemented an optional workaround for a driver issue (PCL and XPS) that causes too many paths to be closed. This issue shows up as an additional straight line between end points of a curve. See TallComponents.PDF.Rasterizer.Configuration.GdiRenderSettings.WorkAroundClosePathBug.
bugfix
Reconstructing corrupt documents has been improved.
feature
Support for .NET 4.0 and .NET 4.0 Client Profile added (2 new assemblies).
3.0.42.1
June 24, 2010
bugfix
16-bit images may fail to render.
3.0.42.0
June 23, 2010
bugfix
Printing to a PostScript printer is extremely slow for certain documents (this is basically a GDI/driver issue for which we have implemented a workaround).
bugfix
Some fonts do not render.
bugfix
generating WPF output fails for some documents with ligatures.
bugfix
Page clipping is slighlty off.
bugfix
Some images contain black bars.
3.0.41.0
June 11, 2010
feature
Added some default font mappings for Verdana.
bugfix
Some fonts do not get rendered.
bugfix
The RenderImages and RenderText flags do not work for non-WPF rendering.
bugfix
Tiling patterns may not render correctly due to a GDI+ issue. Effects may vary per machine/OS/resolution.
feature
A RenderCurves flag has been addded to the CurveRenderSettings, so that rendering of curves can be turned off.
feature
A RenderPageGraphics flag has been added to the render settings, which allows one to just render the annotations on a page.
3.0.40.0
June 3, 2010
feature
XPS output is now searchable.
bugfix
Dash patterns are incorrect.
bugfix
Some low-resolution images get rendered badly (introduced by 3.0.39.0).
3.0.39.0
May 28, 2010
bugfix
The PDFPrint sample may shift printed page content to the right and down.
bugfix
Some images contain stripes.
bugfix
CFF fonts may rendered garbled.
3.0.38.0
May 11, 2010
bugfix
Improved handling incorrect/corrupt documents.
3.0.37.0
May 4, 2010
bugfix
Reconstructing corrupt documents has been improved.
3.0.36.0
May 3, 2010
bugfix
Flate encoded images with a predictor are sometimes incorrect rendered.
bugfix
Correct JavaScript code may be rejected or does not behave as expected.
bugfix
Ccitt encoded images can be rendered distorted
3.0.35.0
April 20, 2010
feature
Reduced the print spool size for files with particular low resolution images.
bugfix
Patterns are not rendered in rare cases.
bugfix
Reconstructing corrupt documents has been improved.
3.0.34.0
April 12, 2010
bugfix
Reconstructing corrupt fields has been improved.
bugfix
Several JavaScript fixes has been made.
feature
DocumentInfo.LastModifiedDate getter added.
feature
Document.Calculate method added.
3.0.33.0
March 3, 2010
bugfix
ConvertToTiff may create an image that is 1 pixel too narrow or too low, based on the specified resolution.
feature
Added support for type 7 shadings (tensor-product patch meshes).
3.0.32.0
February 8, 2010
feature
The ScaledPrinting sample now supports a LandScape flag.
bugfix
page.SingleImageOnly sometimes returns true, however there is text on the page as well.
bugfix
Some inline images are decoded incorrect, resulting in incorrect rendered pages.
bugfix
Recreating corrupt document sometimes throws a NullReferenceException during the document constructor.
bugfix
Rendering documents with layers can result in empty pages.
3.0.31.0
January 25, 2010
feature
Fields are rebuild when a missing or currupt AcroForm entry in the PDF is found.
bugfix
Some CMaps cannot be parsed, resulting in missing characters.
bugfix
Corrupt encoded names inside PDF results in missing content. We now detect this -- skip them -- and continue.
3.0.30.0
January 5, 2010
bugfix
Some DCT images are rendered inverted.
3.0.29.0
December 28, 2009
bugfix
In rare situations TrueType fonts are not rendered.
bugfix
Page.SingleImageOnly may throw an exception.
feature
Memory use has been reduced for large images.
bugfix
Images masks may sometimes fail to render correctly. This typically leads to incorrect shadow effects.
feature
Support has been added to deal with certain types of corrupt Type 1 fonts.
3.0.28.0
December 18, 2009
bugfix
Some pages are rendered completely blank.
bugfix
Sometimes field content is not rendered.
3.0.27.0
December 16, 2009
bugfix
In rare situations a password encrypted document cannot opened without password, even if it has no user password, a WrongPassordException is thrown.
bugfix
Some Type 1 fonts do not render correctly.
3.0.26.0
December 2, 2009
bugfix
License.GetLicenseInfo() returns the assembly version only.
bugfix
Word spacing is multiplied with the horizontal scaling, resulting in incorrect distances.
bugfix
The FreeText and RubberStamp annotation that have no appearance in the PDF are rendered a little fuzzy.
3.0.25.0
November 19, 2009
bugfix
Annotations that have no appearance in the PDF are not rendered (if enabled in the AnnotationRenderSettings). For the following types we constuct a custom appearance: FreeText, Highlight, Line, RubberStamp, Square, SquigglyUnderline, StrikeOut, Text, Underline and Widget (form fields).
3.0.24.0
October 22, 2009
bugfix
The AxialShading doesn't clamp and the extend bools are not respected.
3.0.23.0
October 9, 2009
feature
The VB samples have been synchronized with their CS counterparts.
comment
Final/RTM version.
3.0.22.0 [RC]
September 28, 2009
comment
First release candidate.
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