What’s new in the Aspose.PDF for Java 24.12

Release Highlights

Aspose.PDF for Java 24.12 introduces support for PDF/A-4 compliance, enhanced OCR overlay handling, and surrogate character processing. This version also includes a new method to quickly verify document repair needs, along with major improvements to redaction annotations, HTML rendering, multi-column text extraction, and LaTeX conversion stability.

New Features

• Lightweight Document Repair Check:
  Added a fast method to assess whether a PDF document requires repair before processing, improving efficiency in document validation pipelines.

• PDF/A-4 Compliance Support:
  New support for the latest archival standard (PDF/A-4), ensuring long-term document preservation.

• Surrogate Pair Character Handling:
  Enhanced Unicode support enables correct processing and rendering of characters outside the Basic Multilingual Plane.

• Editable Redaction Annotations:
  Developers can now modify overlay text positions and border thickness for RedactionAnnotation, giving more control over redaction styling.

Enhancements

• HTML to PPTX Performance Boost:
  Optimized conversion pipeline for HTML to PowerPoint to significantly reduce conversion times.

Bug Fixes

• Text Extraction and Stamping Fixes:

  • Corrected issues with incorrect text extraction from multi-column PDFs.
  • Fixed corrupted outputs when using PageNumberStamp.

• HTML to PDF Improvements:

  • Resolved multi-column layout misalignment.
  • Fixed min > opt errors with percentage-based max-width values.
  • Addressed misplaced HTML elements and extra white space in tables.
  • Improved content rendering and corrected Hebrew text direction.

• Conversion and Rendering Fixes:

  • Addressed LaTeX to PDF rendering issues.
  • Fixed exception during table absorption using tableAbsorber.visit(page).
  • Resolved PDF/A-2 conversion failures and Tesseract OCR overlay issues.
  • Fixed image loss during PDF to Excel conversion.
  • Addressed PNG conversion permission errors and memory use spikes with TextFragmentAbsorber.

• Annotation and Regex Fixes:

  • Corrected disappearing annotations in Chrome.
  • Fixed TextFragmentAbsorber issues with regex across pages and case-insensitive flags.

• Bitmap Conversion Fixes:

  • Applied CompressionCCITT4 correctly for BMPs.
  • Resolved NegativeArraySizeException in image width processing.

Public API and Backwards Incompatible Changes

Added Classes:

• HeaderFooterSettingsHandler
• BoundsOutOfRangeException
• ObjectReferenceCorruptedException
• ExportFieldsOptions
• ExportFieldsToJsonOptions
• ExportImportMessages
• FieldSerializationResult
• FieldSerializationStatus
• ImportFieldsOptions
• ImportFieldsToJsonOptions
• DictionaryEditor
• ICosPdfPrimitive

Added Methods:

• DocumentPrivilege.getPrintAllowLevel(), getChangeAllowLevel(), getCopyAllowLevel()
• OptimizationOptions.getLinkDuplicateStreamsScanLevel(), setLinkDuplicateStreamsScanLevel(int)
• OutputIntent.setOutputCondition(String), .setOutputConditionIdentifier(String), .setRegistryName(String), .setInfo(String), .#ctor(String)
• Page.getResourcesField()
• PdfFormatConversionOptions.getOutputIntent(), setOutputIntent(OutputIntent)
• Rectangle.moveBy(double, double)
• RenderingOptions.getAnalyzeFonts(), setAnalyzeFonts(boolean)
• TextFragment.getTextEditOptions(), setTextEditOptions(TextEditOptions)
• TextStamp methods for font sizing and adjustment
• XImage.getRawImageData()

Reorganized Class Locations:

• Updated class and method references across packages including pagination, comparison, dataeditor, and exceptions.

Renamed Method:

• XForm.getResources2() → XForm.getResourcesField()

🔍 Explore the Full Release Details

For full list of updates, please visit Aspose.PDF for Java 24.12 Release Notes.

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