RasterMaster® v20.11.0 Release Notes

Below, please find the release notes for RasterMaster v20.11.0 and associated minor releases. For questions, please contact us at info@accusoft.com.

v20.11.0 - April 25, 2023

General availability release.

Known Issues

• None

New Features

• PDF
  • Added support for detecting and extracting attachments from PDF files via new API:
    • public byte[] IMGLOW_getAttachmentInfo(byte[] data)
    • public byte[] IMGLOW_getAttachment(byte[] data, int index)
• HEIC
  • HEIC files can now be detected and converted to other raster image formats. This feature must be enabled via Snowbnd.setHeicEnabled(true) (64-bit Windows and Linux only). See this page for more information on the HEIC feature.

Bug Fixes

• PDF
  • Fixed an issue that caused some handwritten text missing in PDF form fields, if the field had proprietary AAPL: keys.
  • Fixed an issue that caused rendering of incorrect text in PDF form fields, if the field had proprietary AAPL: keys.
  • Fixed an issue that caused text missing in PDF form fields, if the text was in Simplified Chinese encoding.
  • Fixed an issue that caused a right double quote sign to disappear in some PDF files.
  • Fixed an issue that caused a NullPointerException to be thrown when processing some malformed PDF files.
  • Fixed an issue that caused a NullPointerException to be thrown when opening specific PDF files during the decrypting process.
  • Fixed an issue that caused PDF pages to not open when the MediaBox and CropBox dictionaries contained negative values.
  • Fixed an issue where redacted form fields would contain a number of spaces equal to the character count of the original field contents.
  • Fixed an issue that caused annotations to not be exported to certain PDF files.
  • Fixed an issue that caused a ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException when processing certain PDF files.
  • Fixed an issue that caused rotated images to not display for certain PDF files.
  • Fixed an issue that caused uncompressed 1-bit embedded bitmaps in PDF files to display incorrectly.
  • Fixed an issue that caused some PDF files to appear with overlapping text.
  • Fixed an issue that caused some non-latin characters to display as empty boxes.
  • Fixed an issue that caused garbage character output when converting PDF files containing Chinese text to SVG.
• MS Office XML
  • Word
    • Fixed an issue that caused an NullPointerException to be thrown when processing some DOCX files.
    • Fixed an issue that caused an IndexOutOfBoundsException to be thrown when processing some DOCX files.
  • Excel
    • Fixed an issue that caused an OutOfMemoryError to be thrown when processing some XLSX files with narrow columns.
    • Fixed an issue that caused an NumberFormatException to be thrown when processing some XLSX files with formatted date/time values.
    • Fixed an issue that caused a watermark to be applied erroneously when creating a SnowDoc from a non-office format.
    • Fixed an issue that caused an OutOfMemoryError when processing certain XLSX files.
    • Fixed an issue that caused anchored content in XLSX files to be truncated when page size was not specified.
    • Fixed an issue that caused empty cells in XLSX sheets to appear with incorrect background color.
    • Excel Templates and Excel Macro files now open like regular Excel spreadsheets.
    • Fixed an issue that caused an infinite loop when processing some XLSX files.
    • Fixed an issue that caused missing text in some XLSX files.
• Legacy MS Office
  • Word
    • Fixed an issue that caused applications to hang when loading certain DOC files.
    • Fixed an issue that caused incorrect inter-paragaph line spacing for certain DOC files.
    • Fixed an issue with certain DOC files that caused Latin characters to display as Far East.
    • Fixed an issue that caused certain characters to display incorrectly on non-Windows machines.
  • Excel
    • Fixed an issue that caused text to be justified incorrectly in certain XLS files.
• TIFF
  • Fixed multiple issues with horizontal and vertical resolution of certain TIFF Group 4 files.
• ASCII
  • Fixed an issue that caused a FORMAT_NOT_SUPPORTED error for certain ASCII files.
  • Fixed an issue that caused an IndexOutOfBoundsException to be thrown for certain MarkDown ASCII files.
• RTF
  • Fixed an issue that caused dates to render incorrectly in certain RTF files.
  • Fixed an issue that caused the application to hang when loading certain RTF files.
  • Fixed an issue that caused some bi-directional text to appear out-of-order in certain RTF files.
• JPEG
  • Added JFIF to the list of formats in FormatHash.

Security

• Licensing
  • Addressed potential vulnerabilities in a third-party package dependency used by the slicense-validator component by updating it to a newer version.