PDF Clown 0.2.0 — Enhanced content handling

UPDATED ON January 20, 2022 IMPORTANT -- Version 0.2.0, which had paused since 2016 (and never published), has been superseded by a new, heavy development cycle (version 2.0) since early 2021: the new version (whose release date is still undefined) will represent a full-order-of-magnitude advancement over the existing code base, completely renovating its functionalities yet … Continue reading PDF Clown 0.2.0 — Enhanced content handling

PDF Clown 0.1.3 — Document Inspector

NOTE -- As ContentScanner class is under refactoring, the development of 0.1.3 version is temporarily frozen. 1. Document Inspector Since its earliest versions, PDF Clown has been shipped including a simple Swing-based proof of concept for viewing PDF file structures. Now that little fledgling is going to become a comprehensive tool for the visual editing … Continue reading PDF Clown 0.1.3 — Document Inspector

PDF Clown 0.1.2 — Multimedia and lots of good stuff

LATEST NEWS -- On February 10, 2013 PDF Clown 0.1.2 has been released! This release cycle revolves around these topics: Multimedia Text line alignment File references (file specifications, file identifiers, PDF stream object externalization) Advanced cloning Article threads 1. Multimedia For a long time I kept low priority over multimedia features (chapter 9 of PDF … Continue reading PDF Clown 0.1.2 — Multimedia and lots of good stuff

PDF Clown 0.1.1 — Text highlighting and lots of good stuff

LATEST NEWS -- On November 14, 2011 PDF Clown 0.1.1 has been released! Next release is going to introduce new exciting features (text highlighting, optional/layered contents, Type1/CFF font support, etc.) along with improvements and consolidations of existing ones (enhanced text extraction, enhanced content rendering, enhanced acroform creation and filling, etc.). This post will be kept … Continue reading PDF Clown 0.1.1 — Text highlighting and lots of good stuff

PDF Clown 0.1.0 — XRef streams, content rasterization and lots of good stuff

NOTE -- On March 4, 2011 PDF Clown 0.1.0 has been released! Hi there! New features currently under development that will be available in the next (0.1.0) release: Cross-reference streams and object streams Version compatibility check Content rasterization Functions Page data size (a.k.a. How to split a PDF document based on maximum file size) It's … Continue reading PDF Clown 0.1.0 — XRef streams, content rasterization and lots of good stuff

PDF Clown 0.0.8 — Text extraction

LATEST NEWS -- PDF Clown 0.0.8 functionalities are part of the latest release (PDF Clown 0.1.0). As 0.0 version series is under decommissioning, you're warmly invited to adopt the current 0.1 version series. Thank you! I know, it's been just about one year since the latest version (0.0.7) was released... please, forgive me! 😉 In … Continue reading PDF Clown 0.0.8 — Text extraction