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January 18, 2012 - PDFView4NET 4.1.0 WPF & Silverlight edition release

PDFView4NET 4.1.0 WPF & Silverlight edition has been released. For the complete list of features click here. The following features are supported in this version (+ new features/enhancements, — bug fixes):
PDF Viewer:
+ PDF viewer control for Silverlight 4.0
— In some situations the AnnotationClick event throws an exception - fixed
— Images with 32bpp masks are not decoded correctly - fixed

January 18, 2012 - PDFView4NET 4.1.0 WinForms edition release

PDFView4NET 4.0.2 WinForms edition has been released. For the complete list of features click here. The following features are supported in this version (+ new features/enhancements, — bug fixes):
PDF Viewer:
+ Added support for measure annotations.
— Viewer control throws an exception when its size is zero - fixed
— If a textfield is being edited and the form is resized, the field is not displayed in the right position - fixed
— PDFPageView.MouseMove event is not fired if the mouse does not move over a page - fixed
— When the PDFPageView.ScrollPosition property is set directly the control content is not updated - fixed
— Scaled form Xobjects are not rendered correctly - fixed
— Images ignore the graphic state transparency - fixed
— Local Japanese fonts are not loaded correctly when the culture is set to Japanese - fixed
— PDFPageView.HighlightFormField method does not highlight the form field - fixed

November 28, 2011 - PDFView4NET 4.0.2 WinForms edition release

PDFView4NET 4.0.2 WinForms edition has been released. For the complete list of features click here. The following features are supported in this version (+ new features/enhancements, — bug fixes):
PDF Rendering:
— Some PDF files that contain references to missing objects cannot be loaded - fixed
— Zero width characters are rendered using default character width - fixed
— JPEG images with separation colorspace and reversed decode array are not displayed correctly - fixed
— Some images using PNG prediction are not decoded correctly - fixed
— Some fonts with invalid Widths array are not displayed correctly - fixed
PDF Viewer:
+ Added action properties to PDFAnnotation class.
— PDFPageView.EnsurePageVisible method does not work correctly on 270 degrees rotated pages - fixed
— Annotation display is not updated when the page is rotated - fixed
— Large pages (3*Letter size) rotated with 270 degrees are not displayed corectly - fixed
— When pages are reordered using the thumbnails view, the viewer control gets out of sync - fixed
— Ctrl and Shift modifiers do not work correctly with up/down arrows - fixed
— When copying and pasting free text annotation the Font property is lost - fixed
— Form XObject content is not clipped at XObject border - fixed
— Annotations are not placed correctly when screen dpi is greater than 96 - fixed
— Marquee zoom does not work when zoom mode is FitWidth/FitHeight/FitVisible - fixed
— Out of memory exception is thrown when zooming to 3000% and the file contains annotations - fixed
— Annotations with appearance bbox different than annotation rectangle are not displayed correctly - fixed

November 28, 2011 - PDFView4NET 4.0.2 WPF edition release

PDFView4NET 4.0.2 WPF edition has been released. For the complete list of features click here. The following features are supported in this version (+ new features/enhancements, — bug fixes):
PDF Rendering:
— Some PDF files that contain references to missing objects cannot be loaded - fixed
— Zero width characters are rendered using default character width - fixed
— JPEG images with separation colorspace and reversed decode array are not displayed correctly - fixed
— Some images using PNG prediction are not decoded correctly - fixed
— Some fonts with invalid Widths array are not displayed correctly - fixed
PDF Viewer:
— PDFPageView.Document is now a dependency property
— The 2nd call of Load method on the same PDFDocument object throws an exception - fixed
— In some situations the text is squeezed on vertical - fixed
— VerticalPageSpacing property cannot be set in XAML - fixed
— Images with stencil mask are not displayed - fixed
— PageNumberChanged event is not fired when scrolling using the keyboard - fixed
— Image cache is not cleared when the document is closed - fixed

September 27, 2011 - PDFView4NET 4.0.1 WinForms edition release

PDFView4NET 4.0.1 WinForms edition has been released. For the complete list of features click here. The following features are supported in this version (+ new features/enhancements, — bug fixes):
PDF Rendering:
— Text is not displayed when the font uses the encoding PDFDocEncoding - fixed
— Graphic state changes in a form XObject affect the page graphics after the form XObject - fixed
— PNG prediction is not decoded correctly - fixed
— 1bpp images with Indexed colorspace based on ICC are not decoded correctly - fixed
— 1bpp Gray images with softmasks are not displayed correctly - fixed
— 2bpp indexed images with color masking are not displayed correctly - fixed
— Large 1bpp mask images are not scaled correctly - fixed
PDF Viewer:
+ Added PDFPageView.RenderingProgressDisplay property to control the display of rendering progress bar.
— PDFDocument.Print does not print anything - fixed
— Keyboard scroll was disabled - fixed
— PDFPageView.BackgroundImage property is ignored - fixed
— PDFPageView.Cursor property does not work like in the previous version - fixed
— Type3 fonts are not displayed correctly - fixed
— PDFPageView.ZoomMode property cannot be set in design mode - fixed
— Some signature widgets cannot be converted to image - fixed
— PDFPageView.ShowAnnotations property does not show/hide the annotations - fixed
— PDFPageView.PageBorderColor and PDFPageView.ActivePageBorderColor properties are not used - fixed
— In some situations, when setting the FitWidth / FitHeight zoom modes the pages are not refreshed correctly - fixed
— Pages rotated with -180 degrees are not displayed correctly - fixed
— Tab key does not scroll page to bring field in view - fixed
— Form fields with widgets with no appearance (empty checkboxes) are not highlighted when HighlightFormFields property is set to true - fixed
— Text selection uses always red opaque color - fixed
— EnsurePageVisible method does not consider page rotation - fixed
— ZoomToPDFRectangle method does not consider page rotation - fixed

September 27, 2011 - PDFView4NET 4.0.1 WPF edition release

PDFView4NET 4.0.1 WPF edition has been released. For the complete list of features click here. The following features are supported in this version (+ new features/enhancements, — bug fixes):
PDF Rendering:
— Text is not displayed when the font uses the encoding PDFDocEncoding - fixed
— Graphic state changes in a form XObject affect the page graphics after the form XObject - fixed
— PNG prediction is not decoded correctly - fixed
— 1bpp images with Indexed colorspace based on ICC are not decoded correctly - fixed
— 1bpp Gray images with softmasks are not displayed correctly - fixed
— 2bpp indexed images with color masking are not displayed correctly - fixed
— Large 1bpp mask images are not scaled correctly - fixed
PDF Viewer:
— Viewer does not work under cultures different than EN-US - fixed
— Clipping regions were not set correctly in some situations - fixed
— Pages rotated with -180 degrees are not displayed correctly - fixed

August 22, 2011 - PDFView4NET 4.0.0 WPF edition release

PDFView4NET 4.0.0 WPF edition has been released. For the complete list of features click here.

August 22, 2011 - PDFView4NET 4.0.0 WinForms edition release

PDFView4NET 4.0.0 WinForms edition has been released. For the complete list of features click here. The following features are supported in this version (+ new features/enhancements, — bug fixes):
PDF Rendering:
— Some masked images are not decoded correctly - fixed
— Uacute character is not displayed for Type1 Courier font with WinAnsiEncoding - fixed
— Some CCITT G3 images are not decoded correctly - fixed
— Zero width/height clipping regions are not applied - fixed
— PDF files with null objects in form's Fields array cannot be loaded - fixed
— PDF files with signature fields that use a zero sized font cannot be loaded - fixed
— Some DeviceN colorspaces are not decoded correctly - fixed
— Some MacRoman encoded fonts are not displayed correctly - fixed
— Some Type1 fonts are not correctly decoded - fixed
— Some vertical text is not displayed correctly - fixed
— Some inline images are not decoded correctly - fixed
PDF Viewer:
+ Faster loading and display of PDF files
+ New multithreaded PDF rendering engine
+ Async page rendering with progress display
— Some character bounds are not extracted correctly - fixed
— Text selection and search results highlight does not work correctly on skewed text - fixed

July 8, 2011 - PDFView4NET 3.0.5 release

PDFView4NET 3.0.5 has been released. For the complete list of features click here. The following features are supported in this version (+ new features/enhancements, — bug fixes):
PDF Rendering:
— Some 1bbp images with reversed /Decode array are reversed twice during decoding - fixed
— PDF files with dictionary objects in trailer cannot be loaded - fixed
— PDF files with encrpytion version 2 and revision 2 cannot be loaded - fixed
— Helvetica Oblique and Courier Oblique fonts are rendered bold - fixed
— 1bpp images with Indexed / CalRGB colorspace are not decoded correctly - fixed
— Some bullet characters are not displayed correctly - fixed
— In /StandardEncoding the hyphen character is replaced by minus - fixed
— Very small paths (width/height less than 0.01 points) cause a memory exception when rendering on a Bitmap graphics - fixed
— Some JPEG2000 images are not decoded correctly - fixed
— Some embedded images are not decoded correctly - fixed
— Pages with an indirect reference for the /Rotate entry are not converted correctly to image - fixed
— Transparency is ignored for 32bpp images - fixed
— Font Monotype Corsiva, if it is not embedded, cannot be displayed - fixed
— Color mask is not applied correctly to indexed images - fixed
— Inline images with abbreviated name objects are not displayed - fixed
— PDFFile.GetPageImage generates an incorrect image when the computer's display scaling is set to a value larger than 100% - fixed
— DCT images with DeviceN colorspace based on CMYK are not decoded correctly - fixed
PDF Viewer:
+ Added support for submit form and reset form actions
+ Added DisplayQuadPoints property in highlight annotations
— When using TrueType fonts with free text annotations the font is not subset correctly - fixed
— An exception is thrown when using opaque 32bpp images as annotation appearance - fixed

February 23, 2011 - PDFView4NET 3.0.4 release

PDFView4NET 3.0.4 has been released. For the complete list of features click here. The following features are supported in this version (+ new features/enhancements, — bug fixes):
PDF Rendering:
— Images are not drawn transparent when the alpha channel is the in the graphic state - fixed
— Gray images with reversed /Decode array and Flate compression are displayed as negative - fixed
— Checkmarks are not displayed correctly in some situations - fixed
— Some JBIG2 images are not decoded correctly - fixed
— JBIG2 images having a width not multiple of 4 are decoded at aligned width not at real width - fixed
— Images with CCITT encoded softmasks cannot be decoded - fixed
PDF Viewer:
— In multiline fields, after typing many lines, the caret is no longer placed on the corresponding text line - fixed
— In multiline text fields, when navigating with left/right keys, an exception is thrown if the cursor is at the end of the line, the next line is not visible and right key is pressed or if the cursor is at the beginning of the line, the previous line is not visible and left key is pressed - fixed
— Tamil text is not extracted correctly in some situations - fixed
— PolygonInteriorColor property is ignored when creating the polygon appearance - fixed
— When a multiline textbox field contains more lines than available space, clicking the mouse on a line can generate an exception - fixed

January 31, 2011 - PDFView4NET 3.0.3 release

PDFView4NET 3.0.3 has been released. For the complete list of features click here. The following features are supported in this version (+ new features/enhancements, — bug fixes):
PDF Rendering:
— Text using TrueType fonts with MacRoman encoding is not displayed correctly - fixed
— PDF files with CID widths stored as double cannot be displayed - fixed
— Images that use abbreviations for filter names are not displayed correctly - fixed
— Fonts with cmap encoding are not displayed correctly - fixed
— CMYK JPEG2000 images are not decoded correctly - fixed
PDF Viewer:
+ Added TabOrder property to PDFFieldWidget class
+ Updated search so hyphen-minus is matched to en-dash
— When Ctrl+AnyKey is pressed in a textbox field and the text is selected, the selected content is removed after field looses focus - fixed
— In some situations, when loading a PDF form the font for field widgets is empty - fixed
— TrueTypeFont.Name property is empty for fonts created from objects inside a PDF file - fixed
— ZoomMarquee does not work correctly if current zoom mode is FitWidth or FitHeight - fixed
— Push button appearance is not created correctly - fixed
— An error appears when moving annotations with invalid popups - fixed
— FDF import does not work - fixed
— Text selection does not work correctly on pages with cropbox != mediabox - fixed
— Form fields are not filled correctly with some characters when they use fonts with custom encoding - fixed
— Text cannot be extracted when the /W entry contains double values - fixed
— Text selection is not displayed when the font has no ascent or capHeight - fixed
— When a page is rotated its thumbnail is not rotated correctly - fixed

December 15, 2010 - PDFView4NET 3.0.2 release

PDFView4NET 3.0.2 has been released. For the complete list of features click here. The following features are supported in this version (+ new features/enhancements, — bug fixes):
PDF Rendering:
+ Added support for displaying PDF patterns
— Text that uses 90msp-KJHS encoding is not displayed correctly - fixed
— PDF file cannot be loaded if comment delimited is placed next to a number object, no space between them - fixed
— Pages with PDF paths that contain lines with matching start/end coordinates cannot be displayed - fixed
— In some situations text using Wingdings fonts is not properly displayed - fixed
— Some PDF files cannot be loaded because of damaged objects - fixed
PDF Viewer:
+ Added support for horizontal scrolling with the keyboard
— Documents with even number of pages and TwoPageRight or TwoColumnRight display mode cannot be displayed - fixed
— In some situations the digital signatures are not created correctly - fixed
— Form fields with fonts that do not specify an encoding are not filled correctly with extended ASCII characters - fixed
— Free text annotations are not edited correctly on rotated pages - fixed
— Links do not work in text select mode - fixed
— Image appearance is displayed rotated when applied to field widgets on rotated pages - fixed
— When field font is subset for creating the appearance, after the form is saved, new characters are not displayed in the fields because the subset font does not include them - fixed
— Polygon annotations are not moved correctly when the page is rotated - fixed
— Polygon annotations are not displayed in PDFAnnotationsView control - fixed
— If a polygon annotations has no border defined, an exception is thrown when moving the annotation - fixed

October 6, 2010 - PDFView4NET 3.0.1 release

PDFView4NET 3.0.1 has been released. For the complete list of features click here. The following features are supported in this version (+ new features/enhancements, — bug fixes):
PDF Rendering:
— Page rendering is stopped when invalid color definitions are found, such as negative values for colors - fixed
— Characters are not placed correctly when they do not have a width in /W array and their width cannot be read from the font data - fixed
— Some Type1 fonts are not rendered correctly - fixed
— Rotated text using Fill&Stroke rendering mode is displayed very bold if the font size is encoded in the text transformation matrix - fixed
— PDFFile.Open leaks a file handle when the file is opened with an incorrect password - fixed
— Some AES encrypted files cannot be opened - fixed
PDF Viewer:
— PDFDocument.Dispose leaks a file handle - fixed
— Appearance is not updated for signature fields when the Appearance property is set - fixed
— Stream object with zero length are saved incorrectly, the stream tags are not saved - fixed
— Text selection does not work correctly in some situations - fixed
— Textbox displays a border when border width is zero and border color is not null - fixed
— Pressing TAB in an expanded dropdown list causes an exception - fixed
— Form fields with Type0 fonts do not display the field content - fixed
— Center and right alignment is not correct in textbox fields that use base PDF fonts (Helvetica, Times Roman or Courier) - fixed
— When a field is removed from document's fields collection, it is not removed from the corresponding pages' fields collections - fixed
— MoveItem method does not work correctly on the Annotations collection - fixed
— All link annotation actions are converted to Goto actions - fixed
— Removing a page from the document does not remove the page fields from the document - fixed
— Encrypted documents can no longer be decrypted - fixed
— A free text annotation that uses a custom font, loses its appearance when the file is loaded again in the viewer - fixed
— Arrows are not displayed for horizontal and vertical line annotations - fixed
— If all the fields in a form are read only, and a field is clicked with the mouse then TAB is pressed, an exception is thrown - fixed
— When a free text annotation is moved, its appearance is changed, the font switches to default - fixed
— Search results obtained by PDFPage.SearchText are not highlighted on the page using PDFPageView.HighlightSearchResult method - fixed
— PDFPageView.EnsureSearchResultVisible method does not highlight search results returned by PDFPage.SearchText - fixed
— PDF files with output intents are not saved correctly - fixed
— Some PDF forms cannot display the field values because the default appearance string is not well formed - fixed
— Comboboxes with Unicode content cannot be opened - fixed
— Custom appearance is lost for checkboxes, radiobuttons and pushbuttons when the widgets are moved/resized - fixed

August 9, 2010 - PDFView4NET 3.0 release

PDFView4NET 3.0 has been released. For the complete list of features click here. The following features are supported in this version (+ new features/enhancements, — bug fixes):
PDF Rendering:
+ Added support for decoding CMYK JPEG images.
+ Added support for calibrated CMYK to RGB conversion.
— Some Type1 fonts are not rendered correctly - fixed
— Indexed images with 1bpp and ICC base colorspace are not decoded correctly - fixed
— PDF files that contain TrueType fonts with invalid 'post' table cannot be loaded - fixed
— Low resolution barcode images cannot be scanned when they are printed - fixed
— Text is not displayed correctly when 'cm' operators appear inside BT/ET - fixed
— JPEG images with chroma key mask are not displayed correctly if they have a resolution larger than 96dpi - fixed
— When pages are printed as bitmap, the page image is not disposed - fixed
— PDF files that start with blank lines cannot be open - fixed
— Pages with fields that do not have an appearance, a default appearance string and resources cannot be converted to image - fixed
— Adieresis character is not displayed correctly in some situations - fixed
— CFF fonts created from TrueType fonts are not scaled correctly on display - fixed
PDF Viewer:
+ User interactive form design.
+ Add, edit and remove form fields.
+ Added FieldValidate event in PDFPageView control.
+ Added support for polygon annotations.
+ Added support for FitR option when executing destinations.
— Text cannot be selected from middle of word - fixed
— Text annotations with custom icon are displayed rotated on rotated pages - fixed
— Underline, strikeout and squiggly annotations are not displayed correctly on rotated pages - fixed
— Search results are not highlighted correctly on rotated pages - fixed
— PDF pages that contain widget annotations without parent fields cannot be loaded - fixed
— The Bounds property of selected text runs is not correct when the page is rotated - fixed
— When text is placed on page using offset values in TJ operator, the text selection does not follow the mouse - fixed
— Text selection is not displayed correctly when page mediabox.LLY is different from mediabox.LLX - fixed
— If a form contains only read only fields, clicking on a form field and pressing TAB causes an exception - fixed
— In some situations, when scrolling using the mouse wheel an exception is thrown - fixed
— When a page is rotated, its appearance is not updated in the thumbnails view - fixed
— If a document is loaded and then attached to a viewer control, the search functionality does not work in the viewer - fixed
— Tabbing through fields does not work when the page's annotations collection contains other annotation types than field widgets - fixed

April 26, 2010 - PDFView4NET 2.4.4 release

PDFView4NET 2.4.4 has been released. For the complete list of features click here. The following features are supported in this version (+ new features/enhancements, — bug fixes):
PDF Rendering:
+ Added support for decoding CMYK JPEG images.
+ Added support to display Japanese text with 90msRKSJ encoding.
— In some situations inline jpeg images are not loaded correctly from the file - fixed
— Some flate encoded images with paeth predictor cannot be decoded - fixed
— Some JBIG2 images cannot be decoded - fixed
— Encrypted PDF files with no document id cannot be decrypted - fixed
— Some Type1 fonts cannot be displayed, the outline data is not decoded correctly - fixed
— Rendering of link annotations with a border specification that include a dash pattern throw an exception - fixed
— Content of PDF files that set clip regions with 0 width and height is not displayed - fixed
— Some soft masks are not decoded correctly - fixed
— Times-Bold and Times-Italic fonts are not matched correctly to Times New Roman on local machine when they are not embedded - fixed
PDF Viewer:
+ Added support for vertical spacing before the first page and after the last page in OneColumn mode.
+ Added support for prerendering all document pages on load.
+ Added ZoomChanged, SmoothingModeChanged and TextSelectionCleared events in PDFPageView class.
— End key does not scroll pages till the bottom, 1 pixel is missing - fixed
— When a bookmark is clicked, the corresponding target is not executed - fixed
— Documents with many bookmarks on the same level cannot be loaded, stack overflow exception is thrown - fixed
— Line annotations are not rotated correctly - fixed
— Changing the attributes of an ink annotation after the annotation has been moved causes the annotation to disappear - fixed
— The image in stamp annotations with custom appearance is not rotated when the annotation is rotated - fixed
— The image in link and text annotations with custom appearance is not rotated when the annotation is rotated - fixed
— Annotations with custom appearance loaded from an PDF file lose the appearance when the annotation is rotated - fixed
— Comb fields cannot display unicode data - fixed
— When a field is active and the zoom changes, the field content is not scaled - fixed
— When a page is scrolled using the mouse wheel, if a form field is active, the form field is scrolled into wrong position - fixed
— HighlightSearchResult method has no effect on search results returned by PDFPage.SearchText method - fixed
— Text selection does not work on rotated pages - fixed

February 15, 2010 - PDFView4NET 2.4.3 release

PDFView4NET 2.4.3 has been released. For the complete list of features click here. The following features are supported in this version (+ new features/enhancements, — bug fixes):
PDF Rendering:
— 1bpp indexed images with a separation base colorspace are not rendered correctly - fixed
— Some 1bpp images include more data than necessary and they are not decoded correctly - fixed
— 1bpp indexed images with a color mask are not decoded correctly - fixed
PDF Viewer:
+ Added support to handle remote go to actions like local go to actions when the file name is missing.
+ Added support to draw vertical/horizontal line annotations.
+ Added support to display bookmarks with the color defined in the PDF file.
+ Added support for image appearance for link annotations.
— Dropdown list fields do not display all the items in some situations - fixed
— Text is not extracted in some situations - fixed
— Text selection does not work when text contains ligatures - fixed
— When an annotation is drawn on top of a link, the link cannot be clicked - fixed
— Cursor is not placed correctly in multiline textbox fields that are rotated with 270 degrees - fixed
— When loading a document with bookmarks in BookmarkClick event, a random bookmark is selected in the bookmarks view when the new document is loaded - fixed
— An exception is thrown when clicking the thumbnails view background, outside any page area - fixed
— An exception is thrown when a link without action is clicked - fixed

December 15, 2009 - PDFView4NET 2.4.2 release

PDFView4NET 2.4.2 has been released. For the complete list of features click here. The following features are supported in this version (+ new features/enhancements, — bug fixes):
PDF Rendering:
— Some CCITT images are not decoded correctly - fixed
— Some ASCII Hex encoded images are not decoded correctly - fixed
— Pages with zero width/height annotations cannot be converted to image - fixed
— Some image masks with predictor = 2 are not decoded correctly - fixed
— Some JBIG2 images are not decoded correctly - fixed
— Some Symbol characters are not displayed correctly - fixed
— Unescaped but paired paranthesis in strings are not handled correctly - fixed
PDF Viewer:
+ Added SearchText and ConvertToImage methods to PDFPage.
+ Updated text selection to allow starting a selection from a white space outside the text.
— In some situations encrypted files cannot be displayed when PDFPageThumbnailsView control is used together with the PDFPageView control - fixed
— Textbox fields with no appearance throw an exception when they are clicked - fixed
— When extracting text, in some situations, additional spaces are inserted in the text - fixed
— Text selection does not work when text contains ligatures - fixed
— Selection is dropdown lists with autosized font is not displayed correctly - fixed
— Max field length is not enforced when text is pasted into the field - fixed
— When the viewer displays pages in OneColumn mode, if the text is selected on one page and the pages are scrolled, the selection markings are drawn on other pages - fixed
— Widget annotations are not displayed if they are not linked to a form field - fixed
— When /NeedAppearances is true and fields have an appearance, the appearance is not rebuilt - fixed

October 19, 2009 - PDFView4NET 2.4.1 release

PDFView4NET 2.4.1 has been released. For the complete list of features click here. The following features are supported in this version (+ new features/enhancements, — bug fixes):
PDF Rendering:
— Some CCITT images are not decoded correctly - fixed
— Some images are not displayed in the right position - fixed
— Appearance is not built correctly for line and free text annotations when using other culture than US - fixed
— Cross reference streams that use a PNG predictor greater than 10 are not decoded correctly - fixed
— PDF pages with annotations that include only the /D appearance cannot be printed - fixed
— Pages with no MediaBox/CropBox cannot be loaded - fixed
PDF Viewer:
+ Added support for Launch actions
+ PDFPageView.HighlightNextSearchResult and PDFPageView.HighlightPrevSearchResult methods now return the highlighted search result.
+ Added PDFPageView.EnsureSearchResultVisible method to force a highlighted search result to move into visible control area.
+ Added support for Comb fields
— In some situations content of dropdown and listbox fields is not painted correctly - fixed
— FitWidth option does not work correctly when the PDFPageView control is hosted in a WPF application - fixed
— End key throws an exception when pressed in a single line field that is pre-filled with multiline text - fixed
— PDFPageView loses focus when scrollbars are removed because of zooming out - fixed
— Clicking the mouse on a page thumbnail when the thumbnail view control is not linked to a page view control causes an exception - fixed
— Ligatures are not converted correctly to separated characters when text is extracted from a PDF page - fixed
— Thumbnails are not always rendered correctly - fixed
— Search method does not display the highlight in the correct position in some situations - fixed
— In a multiline text field, when selecting a line (not the last one) with Shift-End and pressing Del, an exception is thrown - fixed

September 1, 2009 - PDFView4NET 2.4 release

PDFView4NET 2.4 has been released. For the complete list of features click here. The following features are supported in this version (+ new features/enhancements, — bug fixes):
PDF Rendering:
+ JPEG 2000 support
+ JBIG2 support
— Non-embedded Arial-BoldMT font is not matched correctly against a local machine font - fixed
— PDF files with Document catalog included in an object stream cannot be loaded - fixed
— PDF page cannot be rendered if it includes a form field using a font that cannot be found - fixed
— Some ASCII85 streams are not decoded correctly - fixed
— Encrypted files with non-encrypted metadata cannot be loaded - fixed
— Short strings (less than 16 bytes) are not decrypted when the input file uses AES encryption - fixed
PDF Viewer:
+ PDFThumbnailsView control for displaying page thumbnails
+ Text selection and copy
+ Added GetDestinationNames method to PDFDocument to retrieve the names of the destinations in the PDF file as a list of strings
+ Added MouseWheelScrollDelta property to PDFPageView to control the scroll distance using the mouse wheel.
+ BackgroundImage property is now used in PDFPageView to display a background image under the page

July 29, 2009 - PDFView4NET 2.3.2 release

PDFView4NET 2.3.2 has been released. For the complete list of features click here. The following features are supported in this version (+ new features/enhancements, — bug fixes):
PDF Rendering:
— PDF files that contain nested arrays on multiple levels cannot be loaded - fixed
— Copy operation works like Cut - fixed
— Flate compressed images with 1bpp and decode array [1 0] are not displayed correctly - fixed
— Fonts with incomplete Widths entry are not rendered correctly - fixed
— 1bpp flate compressed images, with PNG Prediction = None are not decoded correctly - fixed
— TJ operator does not display correctly vertical text when there are intercharacter spacing values - fixed
— Text is not positioned correctly in some situations - fixed
— Images with both a soft mask and a stencil mask are not displayed - fixed
— String elements of array objects stored as separated objects are not decrypted correctly - fixed
— Images with stencil masks that have a different size are not displayed correctly - fixed
— Grayscale images (1 color 8bpp) with LZW compression and predictor = 2 are not displayed correctly - fixed
— Flate compressed images with BPC=1 and predictor = 2,3,4 are not decompressed correctly - fixed
— Colors are not correctly rendered when the PDF content has comments - fixed
— Zero height paths are not displayed - fixed
— The PDFPageView control throws an exception when loading a page that has the CropBox/MediaBox defined as indirect objects - fixed
— Encrypted PDF files with encrypt dictionary embedded in the trailer are not displayed correctly - fixed
— Flate compressed images with 2 bits per pixel are not displayed - fixed
PDF Viewer:
+ Added ActivePageBorderColor property to PDFPageView
+ Added PDFPageView.HighlightPrevSearchResult() method
+ Added JumpToDestination method in PDFPageView for jumping programmatically to named destinations
— Removing thelast page in a document when multiple pages are visible, including the removed one, causes an exception - fixed
— Free text annotations can be edited even if they are locked or read only - fixed
— PDFPageView throws an exception when a file is displayed and the form is minimized or the form size is too small - fixed
— Position of text runs is not computed correctly when the page is rotated and multiple Tj operators are chained together - fixed
— Highlight annotation color is not updated correctly if the annotation is resized (increased) after it has been added to the page - fixed
— PDF files with infinite loops in bookmarks tree cannot be loaded - fixed
— In some situations the page number is not displayed correctly in PDFAnnotationsView control for newly added annotations - fixed
— Links and bookmarks no longer work when page display mode is SinglePage - fixed
— Zoom out operation throws an exception when the page becomes smaller that the control area - fixed
— Text cannot be displayed when the font includes an invalid Unicode Cmap - fixed
— In some situations the viewer is not updated correctly when the current page is displayed - fixed
— The bounding rectangle of an ink annotation is not updated when the ink width changes and parts of the ink become invisible when the width grows - fixed
— An exception is thrown when the TAB key is pressed and the current page is not the one that contains the active field and it does not contain any fields - fixed
— EnsurePageVisible method does not scroll to a position within the page, it always scroll to top of the page - fixed

April 28, 2009 - PDFView4NET 2.3.1 release

PDFView4NET 2.3.1 has been released. For the complete list of features click here. The following features are supported in this version (+ new features/enhancements, — bug fixes):
PDF Rendering:
— Images with BPC=4 and predictor 15 are not displayed correctly - fixed
— In some situations TrueType fonts are not decoded correctly - fixed
— Some non embedded fonts not matched correctly to local fonts - fixed
— Fields without /DR key (at field or at form level, so the font cannot be located) are not displayed correctly - fixed
— Soft masked Jpeg images with resolutions other than 96 are not displayed correctly - fixed
— CCITT G4 images with missing /Columns entry are not decoded correctly - fixed
— Pages that use /Multiply blend mode for content are not displayed because the content is considered transparent - fixed
— Encrypted PDF files with version = 1 and revision = 3 cannot be decrypted - fixed
— When displaying text with CidFontType2 fonts, the /DW entry is not considered for characters that do no have a width in /W array - fixed
— Indexed images with chroma masks are not displayed correctly - fixed
— Invalid text matrix cause the page rendering to stop - fixed
PDF Viewer:
+ Added support for page and annotation cloning
+ Added support for drawing unicode text in drop down lists and list boxes
+ Added support for annotation serialization
+ Added ZoomClick work mode
+ Added IncrementalLoad property to PDFDocument to allow full document load in memory
+ Added FieldClick, FieldBeginEdit and FieldEndEdit events
— In some situations, when the viewer is in one column mode, an exception is thrown when loading a document with 1 page after a document with n pages has been loaded before - fixed
— Text selection does not work correctly in multiline textbox fields, Shift-End does not select the last character and selection is not displayed if the field displays only one line of text and it is not the first one - fixed
— When viewer control is used in a WPF application, in single page mode, in some situations the wrong page is displayed - fixed
— FontName property in text run returns the font label instead of actual font name - fixed
— Insert method in Pages collection always adds the new page at the end of collection - fixed
— In some situations an exception is thrown when a textbox field is clicked - fixed
— SearchText does not work when the text contains empty ("") text runs - fixed
— PDF forms with missing fields (fields listed in /AcroForm but not in the PDF file) cannot be loaded - fixed
— Text run position is not computed correctly and text search highlight is not displayed in the right position when the text is included in a form XObject - fixed
— Marquee zoom does not work correctly for rotated pages - fixed - fixed
— Text extraction does not work correctly for some CJK files - fixed

February 19, 2009 - PDFView4NET 2.3 release

PDFView4NET 2.3 has been released. For the complete list of features click here. The following features are supported in this version (+ new features/enhancements, — bug fixes):
PDF Rendering:
+ Printing multiple page ranges with PDFPrintSettings class
+ Form XObjects are now displayed based on their optional content status, view only and/or print only.
— Some tiff images are not decoded correctly - fixed
— 4bit indexed images with Gray colorspace are not decoded correctly - fixed
— CCITT G4 images that have Columns != Width are not decoded correctly - fixed
— Streams encoded with A85 filter (instead of ASCII85) are not decoded - fixed
— Images with DeviceN colorspace that uses an ICCBased colorspace are not decoded correctly - fixed
— Paths defined by a single line are not filled with correct color - fixed
— 1bpp Indexed images with /DeviceGray colorspace are not displayed correctly - fixed
— Vertically drawn text is not displayed in the right position - fixed
— Separation color with /DeviceGray base colorspace is not displayed correctly - fixed
PDF Viewer:
+ ZoomIn, ZoomOut, ZoomDynamic and ZoomMarquee work modes for viewer control
+ Annotation popup windows
+ Annotation multilevel replies
+ Annotation opacity
+ Highlight form fields on a page
+ Standard and owner draw field tooltips
+ Tooltip property added to PDFField class
+ Added support for SHIFT-TAB keys to navigate backwards in the form fields
+ WYSIWYG drawing for highlight, rectangle, ellipse and ink annotations
+ Added support for moving and resizing annotations with CTRL+arrows and SHIFT+arrows
+ SearchText methods now returns the results of search text operation
+ Added SearchResultHighlightColor property to PDFPageView for setting the highlight color of search results
+ Added VerticalPageSpacing and HorizontalPageSpacing properties to PDFPageView for setting the space between pages in continuous page display modes
+ Added VisibleWidth and VisibleHeight properties to PDFPage class
— Text cannot be extracted from PDF files with resources defined at /Pages level - fixed
— When the Color property of a newly added FreeTextAnnotation is changed in BeforeAnnotationAdd event, an exception is thrown - fixed
— Destinations that use a page number (not in PDF spec) instead of a page reference in GoTo actions are not executed properly - fixed
— Line annotation appearance is not updated when line width changes - fixed
— When text is selected using Shift-End in a text box field and Backspace or Delete keys are pressed, and exception is thrown - fixed
— Text in textbox fields is not aligned according to field align property - fixed
— If a secured document is loaded into a PDFDocument, and then a clear document is loaded, the PDFDocument object still keeps the SecurityManager from the previous document - fixed

January 9, 2009 - PDFView4NET 2.2.1 release

PDFView4NET 2.2.1 has been released. For the complete list of features click here. The following features are supported in this version (+ new features/enhancements, — bug fixes):
PDF Rendering:
— PDF files created with Aspose.Words cannot be loaded - fixed
— Some thin lines are not displayed - fixed
— PDF files with zero length lines (start and end points are the same) cannot be displayed - fixed
PDF Viewer:
+ Added support for highlighting form fields on a page
+ Added WYSIWYG drawing for highlight, rectangle, ellipse and ink annotations
+ Added Tooltip property to PDFField class
+ SearchText methods now returns the results of search text operation
+ Added SearchResultHighlightColor property to PDFPageView for setting the highlight color of search results
+ Added VerticalPageSpacing and HorizontalPageSpacing properties to PDFPageView for setting the space between pages in continuous page display modes
— Document dispose throws an exception in some situations - fixed
— Highlighting of search results does not work when scaling transformations are in place - fixed
— When the attributes of an undisplayed annotation (annotation that is on a page that is not currently displayed) are changed, the annotation becomes invisible - fixed
— PDF files with infinite loops in bookmarks tree cannot be loaded - fixed
— When the document is first loaded and then attached to a viewer, the viewer throws an exception because the search results are not initialized - fixed
— If the searched text is not found and HighlightNextSearchResult method is called, the viewer throws an exception - fixed

December 2, 2008 - PDFView4NET 2.2.0 release

PDFView4NET 2.2.0 has been released. For the complete list of features click here. The following features are supported in this version (+ new features/enhancements, — bug fixes):
PDF Rendering:
— Images with Indexed colorspace that uses a DeviceN colorspace as base colorspace, cannot be displayed - fixed
— Inline images cannot be displayed - fixed
— When a DCT encoded image has a softmask with a different size, the image is not displayed - fixed
— Float values with more than 10 decimals are not converted correctly - fixed
— GetPageImagesAsMultipageTiff methods create an invalid TIFF image when the PDF file has only 1 page - fixed
— Images with Indexed colorspace that uses a ICC colorspace as base colorspace, cannot be displayed - fixed
— Some Type1 fonts with custom embedded encodings are not displayed correctly - fixed
— Some Type4 functions (postscript) are not evaluated properly - fixed
— PDF pages that have attributes defined on parent /Pages node are not displayed correctly - fixed
— Non-embedded fonts without post table cannot be rendered - fixed
— Some image masks are not painted correctly - fixed
— Some images with CalRGB colospace are not displayed - fixed
— Copies property in PrinterSettings is ignored if the printed does not support multiple copies - fixed
— PDF files that include annotations smaller than 1pt cannot be displayed - fixed
— Text cannot be extracted from some pages that include inline images - fixed
— Type2 functions without a /Range entry are not computed correctly - fixed
PDF Viewer:
+ Search text and highlight search results in PDFPageView control
+ Annotation tooltips
+ Custom appearances for text and stamp annotations
+ Added support for TAB key in PDF forms
+ Added PageClick and PageDoubleClick events to PDFPageView to notify the user when the page was clicked
— Author for free text annotation is not initialized by default with logged in user - fixed
— Setting the Contents property on a free text annotation does not update its visual appearance in the viewer - fixed
— Annotations reply model does not work unless the reply annotation (a text annotation) does not have these flags: print | hidden| nozoom | norotate - fixed
— When a field value is set from code and the form is not displayed in the viewer, the field appearance is not built - fixed
— Checkbox and radiobutton field values are not stored correctly in the PDF file, changing the Checked status does not sets correctly the field value when the file is saved - fixed
— Zoom and ZoomMode properties cannot be set at design time - fixed
— Clicking on a link annotation with a GoTo action, the PageNumberChanged event is fired twice and the 2nd time the page number is wrong - fixed
— In some situations the border of a link annotation is not displayed - fixed
— Load method does not throw an exception if the document has no pages - fixed
— In some situations, the first page of the loaded PDF file is not displayed - fixed
— Newly created annotations on rotated pages are not displayed correctly - fixed
— PDFPageView control is not refreshed when a loaded PDFDocument is attached to it - fixed
— If a multipage document is displayed in OneColumn view, and the pages do not have the same width, the hittest for form fields and annotations does not work properly - fixed
— If the current page number is larger than the number of pages in a document that is loading, an exception is thrown by the viewer - fixed
— Filling forms from code take a long time when the form has many fields - fixed
— "Visible but not print" and "Hidden but printable" options for form fields are not handled correctly - fixed
— Bookmarks with /XYZ destination and null values for coordinates generate an exception - fixed
— Annotations with empty appearance dictionaries throw an exception - fixed
— Top level bookmarks throw an exception when they are removed - fixed
— Space key was not displayed in textbox editor until another character was typed - fixed

September 9, 2008 - PDFView4NET 2.1.0 release

PDFView4NET 2.1.0 has been released. For the complete list of features click here. The following features are supported in this version (+ new features/enhancements, — bug fixes):
PDF Rendering:
+ Added IconName property to stamp annotations
+ Added support for specifying the DocumentName being displayed in printer queue window when printing a PDF file
— PDF forms with signature fields cannot be loaded - fixed
— Highlight annotations are printed opaque - fixed
— Some 1bit images using flate compression cannot be decoded correctly - fixed
— Bitmap printing ignores the PDFPrintContent flags - fixed
— Resolution is not set (default remains 96) on B/W images - fixed
— When the /Annots array contains direct dictionary objects, the PDF file cannot be printed - fixed
— In some situations the TimesNewRoman font is not rendered correctly - fixed
— In some situations the softmask is not applied correctly to an image - fixed
— Dashed lines with very small dash width are not displayed - fixed
— Some inline images are not decoded correctly - fixed
— Some encrpyted PDF files cannot be open - fixed
— PDF files with custom objects in /Pages hierarchy cannot be loaded - fixed
— Some CCITT encoded images are not decoded correctly when the width of a line in bytes is not multiple of 4 bytes - fixed
PDF Viewer:
+ Added new page display layouts in PDFPageView control: single page, one column, two columns with support for keyboard navigation (up/down/page up/page down/home/end)
+ Added new bookmarks view control
+ Added support for free text annotations (type writer tool)
+ Added support for annotation states in text annotations and in reply to annotation model
+ The PDFDocument now throws an UnsupportedEncryptionException when an unknown encryption is used
+ All exceptions are now serializable
+ Updated hit testing method for annotations to match behavior in Adobe Acrobat
+ Added Close method to PDFDocument to close the underlying PDF file
+ Added AllowFormFill property to PDFPageView to enable/disable the form filling at viewer level
— Characters are not multiplicated when a key is pressed for a longer period of time in a textbox field - fixed
— Default field appearance defined on widget instead of field is ignored - fixed
— PDFLinkAnnotation class does not have a public constructor - fixed
— The PDFAnnotationsView control displays a Page entry for each page that includes annotations, even if those annotations are not listed in the control - fixed
— CreationDate property on newly created annotations returns DateTime.MinDate instead of actual creation time - fixed
— When updating the description of file attachments, the new value is not saved - fixed
— MoveItem method on pages collection does not move the pages properly and the viewer is not refreshed if the displayed page is affected - fixed
— When the interior color of ellipse and rectangle annotations changes, the viewer is not updated - fixed
— Scroll events are not fired in PDFPageView control when scrolling pages using the keyboard - fixed
— After a page has been rendered once, changing its rotation does not trigger page rendering again unless it is the displayed page - fixed
— Readonly fields can be filled interactively by end user - fixed

July 7, 2008 - PDFView4NET 2.0.1 release

PDFView4NET 2.0.1 has been released. For the complete list of features click here. The following features are supported in this version (+ new features/enhancements, — bug fixes):
PDF Rendering:
— In some situations the annotations are not printed in the right position - fixed
— In some situations custom encoded text is not printed - fixed
— In some situations border is not displayed for link annotations - fixed
— Some PDF files throw an exception when they are closed - fixed
— Fonts with invalid Differences array are not displayed - fixed
— Dashed lines are not displayed correctly - fixed
— Some CCITT 1D images are not displayed correctly - fixed
— Reversed softmasks are not decoded correctly
— Some ICC based images are not displayed correctly
PDF Viewer:
— AfterAnnotationMove and AfterAnnotationResize events are fired even if the annotation is just clicked - fixed
— In some situations textbox fields display the text in wrong position - fixed
— When a bookmark title has changed, the new title is not saved when the file is saved - fixed
— When a top level bookmark is moved (added) to another bookmark, the hierarchy is broken - fixed
— Some PDF forms with empty fields are not loaded - fixed
— An exception is thrown when the last page is displayed in the viewer control and another page is removed from the document - fixed

June 16, 2008 - PDFView4NET 2.0.0 release

PDFView4NET 2.0.0 has been released. For the complete list of features click here. The following features are supported in this version (+ new features/enhancements, — bug fixes):
Breaking changes:
+ FromPage and ToPage properties in PrinterSettings start now at 1 instead of 0.
+ Image property in text and stamp annotations changed to Appearance (type: PDFAnnotationAppearance)
PDF Rendering:
+ Support for converting PDF pages to B/W TIFF images
— When an encoding dictionary includes hex codes in differences array, the characters are not displayed - fixed
— Some Type 1 fonts with custom encoding are not displayed correctly - fixed
— Images with ImageMask set to true and missing BitPerComponent entry cannot be decoded - fixed
— Annotations with non-standard rectangle (llx, lly, urx, ury) are not rendered correctly in GetPageImage method - fixed
— Images with /CCF filter (short from /CCITTFaxDecode) are not displayed correctly - fixed
— In some situations black squares (.notdef char) are displayed for unprintable characters - fixed
— In some situations images with DeviceN colorspace are not rendered correctly - fixed
— Images with a device colorspace stored as array are not displayed - fixed
PDF Viewer:
+ User interactive form filling
+ Fill forms from code
+ Pushbutton, checkbox, radiobutton, dropdown list and listbox fields
+ Save filled forms
+ Zoom modes: custom, fit width, fit height, fit visible
+ Support for transparent PNG and GIF images in image stamps and text annotations
+ New events PDFPageView.AfterAnnotationMove and PDFPageView.AfterAnnotationResize
— Link action is executed when page viewer is in EditAnnotations mode - fixed
— Annotation visual appearance is not updated when annotation color or icon has changed - fixed
— Annotations are added to the page (but they are hidden) even if the BeforeAnnotationAdd event is canceled - fixed
— Highlight annotations do not update the visual appearance when the color is changed - fixed
— Annotation events on PDFAnnotationsView control are not fired unless the PageView property is set - fixed
— Highlight annotations are not created correctly when regional settings are not eu-US - fixed
— The horizontal line in underline annotations is not displayed - fixed
— Annotations are not moved and resized correctly when the page is rotated - fixed
— An exception is thrown when a top level bookmark is removed - fixed
— Nested arrays that contain indirect references are not saved correctly - fixed

May 06, 2008 - PDFView4NET 2.0.0 Beta 3 release

PDFView4NET 2.0.0 Beta 3 has been released. For the complete list of features click here. The following features are supported in this version (+ new features/enhancements, — bug fixes):
PDF Viewer:
— Editing field is shown shifted to botttom when the form's boxes have negative lower left coordinates - fixed
— Field activation throws an exception if the field's appearance object does not include a /Subtype key - fixed
— In some situations the textbox field value is not displayed - fixed
— Text in textbox fields appears blurry when field is inactive - fixed

May 06, 2008 - PDFView4NET 1.0.5 release

PDFView4NET 1.0.5 has been released. For the complete list of features click here. The following features are supported in this version (+ new features/enhancements, — bug fixes):
PDF Rendering:
— CCITT encoded stencil masks are not applied correctly - fixed
— Char spacing is not applied correctly in some situations - fixed
— Indexed 4bit images are not displayed - fixed
— In some situations, PDF files that use object stream compression cannot be loaded - fixed
— Some PDF files with CJK fonts are not displayed correctly - fixed
— File attachments with Unicode file names cannot be saved in Acrobat/Reader 8 - fixed
— Annotation's image is not updated on screen if the image is changed from code - fixed
— Encrypted PDF files that use object streams cannot be displayed - fixed
— Strings stored in encrypted object streams are damaged when they are decrypted - fixed
— In some situations paths that include rectangles are not filled correctly - fixed
— Images with Separation colorspace are not displayed - fixed
— PDF files with incomplete catalog dictionary are not loaded - fixed
— Paths that are drawn with pens that use a dash pattern with 0 length elements generate an exception - fixed
— CalRGB colors are not displayed correctly in some situations - fixed
PDF Viewer:
— Documents with delayed load file attachments are not saved correctly - fixed
— Text annotations with custom images display standard note icon when they are clicked in Acrobat/Reader 7 - fixed
— Page removal from a document does not work - fixed
— Stream objects are not saved correctly when their size is 0 - fixed

March 28, 2008 - PDFView4NET 2.0.0 Beta 2 release

PDFView4NET 2.0.0 Beta 2 has been released. For the complete list of features click here. The following features are supported in this version (+ new features/enhancements, — bug fixes):
PDF Viewer:
+ Added MaxLength support for textbox fields
— Content of multiline text boxes is not scrolled correctly on vertical - fixed
— Enter character is displayed as rectangle - fixed
— Comboboxes/listboxes crash when the number of items is smaller than max number of visible items - fixed
— Textboxes retain focus when clicking outside the control - fixed

March 28, 2008 - PDFView4NET 1.0.4 release

PDFView4NET 1.0.4 has been released. For the complete list of features click here. The following features are supported in this version (+ new features/enhancements, — bug fixes):
PDF Rendering:
— DCT compressed softmasks are not applied correctly - fixed
— Stencil masks are not applied correctly - fixed
— Font encoding is not properly determined for font objects with Encoding dictionaries - fixed
— Inline images with custom colorspace are not displayed - fixed
— PDF files with Type0 fonts that include entire font dictionary in /DescendantFonts key are not displayed properly - fixed
— Borderless link annotations are rendered with border in PDFRender4NET - fixed
— Zero width/height rectangles are not displayed when they are stroked with non-zero pen - fixed
— In some situations TIF images are not displayed because the underlying stream has been closed - fixed
— Text is not displayed in some PDF files that use object compression - fixed
— 1x1 images are not scaled as block and dithering appears - fixed
— TrueType CourierNew font is not rendered correctly when the font is not embedded - fixed
— Files that include complete annotation dictionaries in /Annots arrat cannot be loaded - fixed
— PDF forms that include fields without default appearance cannot be loaded - fixed
— Forms with empty fields that use a font that is not used elsewhere in the file cannot be displayed - fixed
— Images encoded with predictor #2 are not decoded correctly - fixed
PDF Viewer:
+ Added Execute method on bookmarks for explicit execution of bookmark's action or destination
+ Added SetCustomKey method to PDFDocumentInformation class - fixed
+ Added support for displaying images in text and stamp annotations
+ Added delayed load option for file attachments
— Disposal of some PDF documents throw an exception - fixed
— Mouse cursor is not restored in PDFPageView control when changing from EditAnnotation to Pan&Scan mode - fixed
— New bookmarks added to a document are not saved when the document is saved - fixed

February 25, 2008 - PDFView4NET 1.0.3 release

PDFView4NET 1.0.3 has been released. For the complete list of features click here. The following features are supported in this version (+ new features/enhancements, — bug fixes):
PDF Rendering:
+ Added support for CCITT T4 1D decoding
+ Added support for RunLengthDecode filter
— Pages with resources specified in parent objects are not rendered correctly - fixed
— Some ASCII85 encoded streams are not decoded correctly - fixed
— Incorrectly escaped paranthesis in strings cause the page rendering to hang - fixed
— Stroked text is not rendered correctly in some situations - fixed
— Embedded JPEG images with a soft mask are not displayed correctly - fixed
— Initial colorspace in page content was considered to be DeviceRGB instead of DeviceGray - fixed
— Files with invalid CFF data cannot be displayed - fixed
— Indexed 1bpp images are not decoded correctly - fixed
PDF Viewer:
+ Added PageNumberChanged event to PDFPageView control
— Documents with links that use named destinations cannot be loaded - fixed
— Link annotations with /Dest key do not work - fixed
— Bookmarks with named destinations do not work - fixed
— Clearing the attachments collection from PDFDocument does not remove the attachments from the actual PDF file - fixed
— Invalid annotations appearance is created when regional settings on local computer are not en-US - fixed
— PDF files with invisible signatures cannot be loaded - fixed
— Ink annotation points are not set correctly from code - fixed
— In some situations the page size is not updated properly in PDFPageView control - fixed

January 22nd, 2008 - PDFView4NET 1.0.2 release

PDFView4NET 1.0.2 has been released. For the complete list of features click here. The following features are supported in this version (+ new features/enhancements, — bug fixes):
PDF Rendering:
+ Attribute "AllowPartiallyTrustedCallers" applied to PDFRender4NET assembly
— Color masks are not processed correctly - fixed
— Some Type1 fonts are not decoded correctly - fixed
— Pages with inline images that include /IM key are not rendered - fixed
— Printed page content is shifted to the right and down when None scaling option was used - fixed
— Tiff images with custom indexed colorspace are not displayed correctly - fixed
PDF Viewer:
+ Support for Remote GoTo actions
+ IRawPDFData interface to support raw PDF data extraction from annotations, actions, pages, bookmarks and document
+ Support for PDFRectangle for annotations
+ Support for converting screen points <-> PDF points in PDFPageView control
+ Support for text markup (highlight, underline, stirkeout, squiggly) annotations
— Link actions are not loaded - fixed
— PDFPageView displays garbage lines when scrolling the page up/down - fixed

November 26th, 2007 - PDFView4NET 1.0.1 release

PDFView4NET 1.0.1 has been released. For the complete list of features click here. The following features are supported in this version (+ new features/enhancements, — bug fixes):
PDF Rendering:
— Unprintable chars in range 0 - 31 are displayed as empty squares - fixed
— Some Type1 fonts are not decoded correctly - fixed
— Hidden and NoView flags are not handled in PDF rendering library - fixed
— Arial Black font is not substituted correctly when the font is not embedded - fixed
— Flex operations are not handled correctly in Type1 font - fixed
— Flate encoded grayscale images are not decoded correctly - fixed
— Separation colorspaces with ICC alternate colorspace are not rendered correctly - fixed
— CITT images with byte aligned data are not displayed - fixed
— Text that uses a font with negative size is not displayed - fixed
PDF Viewer:
— PDF file is not released when the PDFDocument is disposed - fixed
— When PDFPageView.MouseDown event is handled in user code and the handling code displays a modal dialog box, the page remains blocked in pan mode after the dialog is closed - fixed

November 2nd, 2007 - PDFView4NET 1.0 release

PDFView4NET 1.0 has been released. For the complete list of features click here.

October 11th, 2007 - PDFView4NET 0.9.5 beta preview release

PDFView4NET 0.9.5 beta preview has been released. For the complete list of future features click here. The following features are supported in this beta (+ enhancements, — bug fixes):
PDF Rendering:
+ Support for transparent colors.
— JPEG images with Lab and CalRGB colorspace are not rendered correctly - fixed
PDF Viewer:
+ Support for rotating pages with 90, 180 and 270 degrees.

September 20th, 2007 - PDFView4NET 0.9.0 beta preview release

PDFView4NET 0.9.0 beta preview has been released. For the complete list of future features click here. The following features are supported in this beta (+ enhancements, — bug fixes):
PDF Rendering:
+ Before and After print events to print your content on the PDF file without modifying the source file.
— Some Unicode TrueType fonts are not displayed correctly - fixed
— Some Type1 fonts are not displayed correctly - fixed
PDF Viewer:
+ New annotations:
   Rectangle
   Ellipse
   Line
   Ink
+ Locked, ReadOnly, Hidden and NoView flags for annotations.

September 10th, 2007 - PDFView4NET 0.8.15 beta preview release

PDFView4NET 0.8.15 beta preview has been released. For the complete list of future features click here. The following features are supported in this beta (+ enhancements, — bug fixes):
PDF Rendering:
— Checkbox fields are not displayed correctly on some computers - fixed
PDF Viewer:
+ Added support for FitWidth and FitHeight display modes.

September 3rd, 2007 - PDFView4NET 0.8.14 beta preview release

PDFView4NET 0.8.14 beta preview has been released. For the complete list of future features click here. The following features are supported in this beta (+ enhancements, — bug fixes):
PDF Rendering:
— Some Type1 fonts are not decoded correctly - fixed
— Stencil mask images are not displayed correctly - fixed

August 17th, 2007 - PDFView4NET 0.8.12 beta preview release

PDFView4NET 0.8.12 beta preview has been released. For the complete list of future features click here. The following features are supported in this beta (+ enhancements, — bug fixes):
PDF Viewer:
+ Basic support for text box fields

August 10th, 2007 - PDFView4NET 0.8.11 beta preview release

PDFView4NET 0.8.11 beta preview has been released. For the complete list of future features click here. The following features are supported in this beta (+ enhancements, — bug fixes):
PDF Rendering:
+ Support for OpenType fonts
+ Support for proportional scaling at print time
+ Images with ICC colorspace
— PDF files created with Crystal Reports cannot be rendered and printed - fixed
PDF Viewer:
+ Support for check boxes and radio buttons
+ Support for document printing

August 3rd, 2007 - PDFView4NET 0.8.10 beta preview release

PDFView4NET 0.8.10 beta preview has been released. For the complete list of future features click here. The following features are supported in this beta (+ enhancements, — bug fixes):
PDF Rendering:
— Some TrueType fonts are not decoded correctly - fixed
— Documents are not printed correctly when paper orientation is Landscape - fixed
— PrinterSettings class renamed to PDFPrintSettings - fixed
— Lab to RGB conversion is not correct - fixed
PDF Viewer:
+ Support for text extraction, both extraction of simple text and extraction of text runs is supported.

July 27th, 2007 - PDFView4NET 0.8.9 beta preview release

PDFView4NET 0.8.9 beta preview has been released. For the complete list of future features click here. The following features are supported in this beta (+ enhancements, — bug fixes):
PDF Rendering:
+ CalRGB, CalGray and Lab colorspaces.
— Encoding is not built correctly for some Type1 fonts - fixed

July 20th, 2007 - PDFView4NET 0.8.8 beta preview release

PDFView4NET 0.8.8 beta preview has been released. For the complete list of future features click here. The following features are supported in this beta (+ enhancements, — bug fixes):
PDF Rendering:
+ Inline images.
+ Image masks.
+ Alpha channel masks (soft masks).
— Unicode CMap is not decoded correctly for some fonts - fixed

July 17th, 2007 - PDFView4NET 0.8.7 beta preview release

PDFView4NET 0.8.7 beta preview has been released. For the complete list of future features click here. The following features are supported in this beta (+ enhancements, — bug fixes):
PDF Rendering:
+ DeviceN and Pattern colorspaces.
+ PrintContent options for printing page content and/or annotations and/or form fields.
+ PaperSource and PaperSize properties added to PrinterSettings class.
+ Chroma key transparency for images.
+ CIDFontType0 fonts.
— Some CIDFontType2 fonts are not displayed correctly - fixed
PDF Viewer:
— An exception is thrown when the document's bookmarks collection is cleared - fixed

July 13th, 2007 - PDFView4NET 0.8.6 beta preview release

PDFView4NET 0.8.6 beta preview has been released. For the complete list of future features click here. The following features are supported in this beta (+ enhancements, — bug fixes):
PDF Rendering:
+ Separation colorspaces.
+ Runtime execution of PDF functions.
— Some CCITT images are not decoded correctly - fixed
PDF Viewer:
— An exception is thrown when an annotation is deleted from PDFAnnotationsView control - fixed
— PDF file is still locked after the PDFDocument object has been disposed - fixed

July 10th, 2007 - PDFView4NET 0.8.5 beta preview release

PDFView4NET 0.8.5 beta preview has been released. For the complete list of future features click here. The following features are supported in this beta (+ enhancements, — bug fixes):
PDF Rendering:
+ PDF printing with support for N-up printing and page scaling
— Annotations are not rendered correctly on rotated pages - fixed
— Encoding is not created correctly for some CFF fonts - fixed
PDF Viewer:
— Selection of annotations on rotated pages does not work correctly - fixed

July 6th, 2007 - PDFView4NET 0.8.4 beta preview release

PDFView4NET 0.8.4 beta preview has been released. For the complete list of future features click here. The following features are supported in this beta:
PDF Rendering features:
» Support for Type1 fonts
» Improved PDF rendering for PDF graphics

June 29th, 2007 - PDFView4NET 0.8.3 beta preview release

PDFView4NET 0.8.3 beta preview has been released. For the complete list of future features click here. The following features are supported in this beta:
PDF Rendering features:
» Improved PDF rendering for TrueType fonts

June 21st, 2007 - PDFView4NET 0.8.2 beta preview release

PDFView4NET 0.8.2 beta preview has been released. For the complete list of future features click here. The following features are supported in this beta:
PDF Rendering features:
» Improved PDF rendering
» Indexed and ICC colorspaces
» ICC images

June 15th, 2007 - PDFView4NET 0.8.1 beta preview release

PDFView4NET 0.8.1 beta preview has been released. For the complete list of future features click here. The following features are supported in this beta:
PDF Rendering features:
» Improved PDF rendering
» CCITT and Indexed images
» Silent printing of PDF files

June 7th, 2007 - PDFView4NET 0.8 beta preview release

PDFView4NET 0.8 beta preview has been released. For the complete list of future features click here. The following features are supported in this beta:
PDF Rendering features:
» DeviceRGB, DeviceCMYK and DeviceGray colorspaces
» All drawing primitives
» Base 14 PDF fonts
» True type fonts, ANSI and Unicode
» CFF fonts
» Raw and DCTDecode images
» Rendering of annotations with built in appearance.
» Rendering of text, stamp and file annotations with no built in appearance.
» Convert PDF files to images
» Render PDF pages to System.Drawing.Graphics
» Print PDF files
PDF Viewer features:
» All above rendering features
» Zoom, pan & scan
» Document navigation, first page, previous page, next page, last page
» Text, stamp and file annotations - add, edit, remove
» Basic bookmarks support with direct page destinations
» File attachments - view, add, edit, remove

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