PDF Clown 0.1.2 released

This release enhances several base structures, providing fully automated object change tracking and object cloning (allowing, for example, to copy page annotations and Acroform fields). It adds support to video embedding, article threads, page labels and several other functionalities.

This release may be downloaded from:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/clown/files/PDFClown-devel/0.1.2%20Beta/

PDF Clown 0.1.1 released

NOTE — PDF Clown 0.1.1 has been superseded by PDF Clown 0.1.2

This release adds support to optional/layered contents, text highlighting, metadata streams (XMP), Type1/CFF font files, along with primitive object model and AcroForm fields filling enhancements. Lots of minor improvements have been applied too.

Last but not least: ICSharpCode.SharpZipLib.dll dependency has been removed from .NET implementation.

This release may be downloaded from:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/clown/files/PDFClown-devel/0.1.1%20Beta/

enjoy!

PDF Clown 0.1.0 released

LATEST NEWS — PDF Clown 0.1.0 has been superseded by PDF Clown 0.1.1

This release introduces support to cross-reference-stream-based PDF files (as defined since PDF 1.5 spec) along with page rendering and printing: a specialized tool provides a convenient way to convert PDF pages into images (aka rasterization). Lots of minor improvements have been applied too.

Last but not least: the project’s base namespace has changed to org.pdfclown

This release may be downloaded from:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/clown/files/PDFClown-devel/0.1.0%20Alpha/

enjoy!

PDF Clown 0.0.8 released

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!

This release is focused on text extraction support: a specialized tool provides, along with plain-text extraction, advanced functionalities such as full graphic state of extracted text (font, font size, text color, text rendering mode, text position…), text filtering by area, text grouping and sorting. Lots of minor improvements have been applied too.

Java version migrated to Java 6 platform, while C#/.NET version migrated to .NET 3.5.

LGPL 3 is the new license applied to the project.

Last but not least: the distribution’s directory structure has been revised to simplify its navigation and ease its integration with common IDEs (Eclipse- and Visual Studio-compatible).

This release may be downloaded from:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/clown/files/PDFClown-devel/0.0.8%20Alpha/

enjoy!

Patches

See PDF Clown 0.0.8 patches.