Release Notes -- Apache PDFBox -- Version 2.0.10

Introduction
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The Apache PDFBox library is an open source Java tool for working with PDF documents.

This is an incremental bugfix release based on the earlier 2.0.9 release. It contains
a couple of fixes and small improvements.

For more details on these changes and all the other fixes and improvements
included in this release, please refer to the following issues on the
PDFBox issue tracker at https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX.

Bug

[PDFBOX-3585] - National characters not correctly displayed in text form field
[PDFBOX-3631] - Signature interoperability issue / visible signature not visible on some viewers
[PDFBOX-3999] - Merge failed to clone tags
[PDFBOX-4097] - Compressed object will lost when brute force search failed to handle compressed streams
[PDFBOX-4151] - FlateFilter, LZWFilter with predictor causes double memory usage
[PDFBOX-4157] - Flatten ne positonne pas bien le 1er champs si Image avant
[PDFBOX-4158] - COSDocument and PDFMerger may not close all IO resources if closing of one fails
[PDFBOX-4162] - OutOfMemoryError in PDExtendedGraphicsState#getLineDashPattern
[PDFBOX-4164] - NPE in PDFDebugger when expanding page subtree
[PDFBOX-4167] - OutOfMemoryError on FlateFilter - Deflater.end() is missing
[PDFBOX-4169] - PDFPrintable has subsampling but it can not be used
[PDFBOX-4172] - Flatten fails on first form element only
[PDFBOX-4176] - PDImageXObject doesn't support TIFF although JavaDoc says it does
[PDFBOX-4179] - Preflight test fails: Parameter 'directory' is not a directory
[PDFBOX-4180] - TextToPDF Does Not Explicitly Close Reader objects
[PDFBOX-4181] - GlyphList.toUnicode not secured for concurrent access
[PDFBOX-4185] - Fetching options for PDChoice causes ClassCastException
[PDFBOX-4195] - Valid XMP Metadata TimeZone not accepted
[PDFBOX-4197] - PDStructureElement.getAttributes() ignores reference objects
[PDFBOX-4200] - DataFormatException: invalid code lengths set when rendering image
[PDFBOX-4204] - Problem when merging PDF 1.4 and PDF 1.1 Documents
[PDFBOX-4207] - Coordinates shown in PDFDebugger are incorrect on HiDPI displays
[PDFBOX-4218] - image with stencil mask appears interpolated
[PDFBOX-4222] - PDFMergerUtility: java.lang.ClassCastException: org.apache.pdfbox.cos.COSDictionary cannot be cast to org.apache.pdfbox.cos.COSNumber
[PDFBOX-4223] - PDFMergerUtility: java.io.IOException: Error: can't convert to Destination COSArray{[COSName{XYZ}]}
[PDFBOX-4227] - java.util.zip.DataFormatException: invalid distance too far back
[PDFBOX-4228] - PDFBox crashes when a Type3 font don't have an embedded encoding.
[PDFBOX-4230] - NullpointerException in CmapSubtable
[PDFBOX-4235] - NPE when setting the DA of a PDTextField

Improvement

[PDFBOX-3809] - PDAcroForm.flatten(PDField list, refreshAppearances boolean) flattens all form fields instead of specified ones.
[PDFBOX-4057] - Allow rendering with different X and Y scale
[PDFBOX-4095] - Non Separable Blend Modes implementation(HUE, SATURATION, COLOR, LUMINOSITY)
[PDFBOX-4156] - Possible optimization of SampledImageReader.from8bit by using InterleavedRaster
[PDFBOX-4159] - PDFBox doesn't warn if Special graphics state operators are used in text mode
[PDFBOX-4161] - Overlay class should allow user to influence transform
[PDFBOX-4165] - Support IBM OS/400 font locations
[PDFBOX-4168] - Add a setTextRise() method to PDPageContentStream
[PDFBOX-4171] - getColorKeyMask() not needed for inline images
[PDFBOX-4175] - Update apache parent pom
[PDFBOX-4186] - Add quality option for compressed images to pdfbox-app
[PDFBOX-4187] - Refactor LosslessFactory alpha
[PDFBOX-4192] - Support subsampling in PDFToImage command line tool
[PDFBOX-4198] - Remove one of three LiberationSans-Regular.ttf

Task

[PDFBOX-4170] - Update CCITTFaxDecoderStream.java from twelvemonkeys (2)
[PDFBOX-4173] - New OOM getting LineDashPattern
[PDFBOX-4224] - Update jbig2 plugin usage to 3.0.1

Release Contents
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This release consists of a single source archive packaged as a zip file.
The archive can be unpacked with the jar tool from your JDK installation.
See the README.txt file for instructions on how to build this release.

The source archive is accompanied by SHA512 checksums and a PGP signature
that you can use to verify the authenticity of your download.
The public key used for the PGP signature can be found at
https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/pdfbox/KEYS.

About Apache PDFBox
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Apache PDFBox is an open source Java library for working with PDF documents.
This project allows creation of new PDF documents, manipulation of existing
documents and the ability to extract content from documents. Apache PDFBox
also includes several command line utilities. Apache PDFBox is published
under the Apache License, Version 2.0.

For more information, visit http://pdfbox.apache.org/

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