Great news for Python developers! Aspose.PDF for Python via .NET 24.4.0 delivers various features and enhancements to create, manipulate, process, and analyze PDF documents within your Linux-based Python apps.

Key Highlights

• Text Processing Optimizations: Experience improved subscript and superscript text detection and conversion with the latest API update, and represent text with high accuracy in various output formats.
• Printing Control Improvements: Seamlessly control paper selection during printing with the ability to choose the paper source based on PDF page size using the API on Linux systems.
• Better and Richer Annotations: You can now create annotations with an extended variety of dashed line styles for enhanced document aesthetics.
• PDF/A Conversion: Aspose.PDF for Python via .NET 24.4.0 lets you work with the PDF/A conversion functionality, offering better compatibility with different PDF/A variants.
• Saving PDFs Asynchronously: Developers can asynchronously save PDF documents to DOCX format for quicker processing with this Python API update.
• Clipping Masks for Images: Easily apply clipping masks to your images for enhanced image manipulation within PDFs on Linux systems.

Bug Fixes

Numerous problems have been resolved in this API version to address document flattening, XFA to standard PDF conversion, PDF resizing, and more issues.

Public API and Backward Incompatible Changes

Added APIs

We have added several new methods, properties, and types to the public API in this release. Some of these are:

• aspose.pdf.annotations.Dash.#ctor(list[int])
• aspose.pdf.devices.TiffDevice.binarize_bradley(stream,stream,bool)
• aspose.pdf.Document.pick_tray_by_pdf_size bool
• aspose.pdf.facades.ViewerPreference.PICK_TRAY_BY_PDF_SIZE int
• aspose.pdf.facades.Form.export_json(stream,bool)
• aspose.pdf.facades.Form.import_json(stream)
• aspose.pdf.forms.Field.export_value_to_json(stream, bool)
• aspose.pdf.forms.Field.import_value_from_json(stream) bool
• aspose.pdf.FileHyperlink.new_window aspose.pdf.ExtendedBoolean
• aspose.pdf.plugins.SignOptions
• aspose.pdf.plugins.Signature
• aspose.pdf.XImage.add_stencil_mask(stream)

Removed APIs

We have removed the following public API members from this release:

• aspose.pdf.devices.DocumentDevice.binarize_bradley(stream,stream,float)

You can view the list of all new features, enhancements, and bug fixes introduced in this release by visiting Aspose.PDF for Python via .NET 24.4.0 Release Notes.