PDF Creator Pilot feature goals and the PDF library version history

Long-term feature goals

Improve conversion of metafiles
Improve clipping support
Improve documentation and samples
Add metafiles pagination
Add support for gradient, hatched and bitmap fill

PDF library version history

January 18 2008 :: Version 3.9.953
* maintenance release

December 29 2007 :: Version 3.9.914
* maintenance release

December 28 2007 :: Version 3.9
+ radio-buttons in forms can now have associated text
+ added support for CMYK JPEG images
* greatly improved text handling
* a number of memory leaks found and fixed
* improved metafiles conversion

October 31 2007 :: Version 3.8
+ added new methods and properties (LoadICCProfile,
SetPDFAOutputIntent, SetPDFXOutputIntent, PDFPAGE_GetColorSpace,
PDFPAGE_GetColorSpaceType, PDFPAGE_SetColorSpace,
PDFPAGE_SetDefaultGrayColorSpace, PDFPAGE_SetDefaultRGBColorSpace,
PDFPAGE_SetDefaultCMYKColorSpace, PDFPAGE_SetColor,
PDFPAGE_SetColorFill, PDFPAGE_SetColorStroke, ProducePDFA)
+ added PDF/A standard support
+ added new type TxColorSpaceType
+ added support for ICC-based colorspaces (RGB and CMYK)
+ added embedding of Base14 fonts
+ added XMP metadata creation
+ added support for PDF/A and PDF/X compatible output intents
* greatly improved handling of Type1 fonts
* greatly improved handling of TrueType fonts
* improved fonts embedding (superfluous font descriptors have been removed)
* documentation updated to reflect new methods, properties and types
* improved metafiles conversion (quality, speed and output file size)
* improved text positioning
* a number of memory leaks found and fixed
* fixed bug with HolidayPi BT font
* fixed bug with ASP scripts
* fixed bug with EMF on watermarks
* fixed bug with edit box (AcroControls)
* fixed PDFPAGE_SetPixel method
* fixed PDFPAGE_RectRotated method
* fixed bug with text copying

August 20 2007 :: Version 3.7
* Improved metafiles conversion.

July 17 2007 :: Version 3.6.366
* fixed bug with transparent images
+ added signing of dlls and installer scripts

July 10 2007 :: Version 3.6.360
* some bugs were fixed

July 9 2007 :: Version 3.6
+ added ability to use font family names with unicode characters
* fixed rendition of text boxes
* increased execution speed of TextOut and UnicodeTextOut methods
* fixed bug with text height detection
* improved scaling of virtual DC and metafiles
+ all text box methods clip output text now
* some optimizations were made to reduce output file size
* fixed bug with missing CapHeight property in output files
* fixed bug with conversion of text in metafiles
+ added support for non-English document properties strings
+ added support for Type1 fonts
+ fixed bug with conversion of polygons in metafiles
+ added support for meta clip regions in metafiles
* improved support of clip paths, clip regions and clip rectangles in metafiles

June 4 2007 :: Version 3.5
* improved metafiles clipping
* improved detection of metafiles' DPI-value
* improved detection of metafiles' sizes
* fixed bug with underline and strike-out text
* improved output of text with non-zero angles
* improved text positioning
* output files are now smaller because of improved font handling
* improved handling of licensed fonts
* fixed bug with NotEmbedAnyFonts
+ added support for TrueType font collections (ttc-files)
* improved codepage selection
* improved CJK-fonts handling
* fixed bug with PDFPAGE_Pie
+ static version of PDF Creator Pilot library
* fixed bug with compression of images during metafiles conversion
* fixed bug with "flipped" metafiles
+ added support for metafiles with non-equal horizontal and vertical DPI-values
* fixed bugs with DocumentInfo_CreationDate and DocumentInfo_ModifiedDate
+ added ability to specify name of a source printer for virtual DC (added PrinterForVirtualDC property)
* fixed handling of word spacing value with unicode text
+ added support for clipping of text during metafiles conversion
* fixed bug with stack overflow when using some fonts
+ added ability to retrieve text height (added PDFPAGE_GetTextHeight and PDFPAGE_GetUnicodeTextHeight methods)
+ added ability to set initial zoom level of created documents (added InitialZoom and InitialZoom2 properties)
* now full library version number gets placed into produced documents
+ added ability to use images with image masks (added AddImageWithMask method)
* fixed bug with AddImageWithColorMask
* fixed bug with AddImageFromBitmapHandle
* improved fonts size detection during metafile conversion
+ added ability to preprocess images added into document (added MakeImageNegative, FlipImage and MakeImageGrayScale methods)
* library now support multipage images
+ added ability to retrieve number of added images (added GetImageCount method)
+ added ability to retrieve added image properties (added GetImageWidth, GetImageHeight and GetImageResolution methods)
* fixed bug with line widths
+ added documentation for new methods and properties
* fixed search in library documentation
* changed samples

March 21 2007 :: Version 3.3.242
+ improved metafiles clipping
* fixed bug with symbolic fonts
* fixed bug with SimSun and MS PGothic fonts
+ added logging
+ clarified license-related warnings
* fixed bug with ASP scripts

March 13 2007 :: Version 3.3
+ x64 editions
* font handling improved
* fixed bug with metafile compression properties
* improved text positioning
* fixed bug with arcs and paths
* fixed bug with in-memory generation
* fixed bug with licensed fonts handling
* improved Windows Vista support
* fixed NotEmbedAnyFonts method
* fixed bugs with protection options

February 7 2007 :: Version 3.2
~ better EMF processing
~ stability increased
~ font handling improved
~ generation speed increased
* minor bug-fixes and improvements

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