iText 0.30 - iText 0.39

http://itextpdf.com/changelog/03

Posted: 12/31/2000

iText 0.30 (February 14, 2000)

• Some errors in the metrics are corrected using an AFM-parser written by Stefan Mainz.
• I made some changes in the class PdfFont. Some methods are moved to the class PdfFontMetrics. I also solved a bug submitted by Brent Stains, who had a list of names that he'd liked to put in a single cell. The HTML equivalent was "<TD>name1<BR> name2<BR>....</TD>".
• If you ran the old Test-class on a PC (Windows), character 128 to 159 is replaced by a question mark. I solved this problem by specifying the encoding (latin1) when I invoke getBytes() or when I construct a new String.
• The use of color is added to the library
• I made some new classes in package com.lowagie.text:
  • class Anchor extends Phrase implements Element
  • class BadElementException extends DocumentException
  • class Cell extends Rectangle implements Element
  • class Chapter extends Section implements Element
  • class Chunk implements Element
  • interface DocListener extends EventListener
  • class Document implements DocListener
  • class DocumentException extends Exception
  • abstract class DocWriter implements DocListener
  • interface Element
  • class Font implements Comparable
  • class Header extends Meta implements Element
  • class HeaderFooter extends Rectangle
  • class List implements Element
  • class ListItem extends Paragraph implements Element
  • class Meta implements Element
  • class PageSize
  • class Paragraph extends Phrase implements Element
  • class Phrase extends ArrayList implements Element
  • class Rectangle implements Element
  • class Row implements Element
  • class Section extends ArrayList implements Element
  • class Table extends Rectangle implements Element
  I have also made some classes to generate HTML:
  • class HtmlWriter extends DocListener
  • class HtmlEncoder
  • class HtmlAttributes extends TreeMap
  and XML:
  • class XmlWriter extends DocListener
  The following classes in com.lowagie.text.pdf are new or have been changed in a drastic way.
  • class PdfBody, PdfCatalog, PdfInfo have become inner classes
  • class PdfCell extends Rectangle
  • class PdfChunk extends PdfString
  • class PdfDocument extends Document implements DocListener, PdfListener
  • class PdfLine
  • class PdfListener extends EventListener
  • class PdfRectangle extends Rectangle
  • class PdfTable extends Rectangle
  • class PdfWriter extends DocWriter implements PdfListener
• Document are now generated in a whole other way:
  • constructing a document is a lot more userfriendly
  • documents are now written directly to an OutputStream.

iText 0.35 (August 8, 2000)

• Fonts of type Symbol/Zapfdingbats were not shown on some devices
• Minor bugfixes concerning tables
• Support of Jpeg-images
• Support of Gif-images

iText 0.36 (September 11, 2000)

• Bugfix: pagenumbers were reals. This gave problems in Ghostview
• Bugfix: some shades of Gray gave problems in the Gif Color Table
• BugFix: when you changed the backgroundcolor of the rectangle that describes the pagesize of a document, this color was not shown on the document.
• Bugfix: centering of images
• Support of Png-images (by Paulo Soares)

iText 0.37 (October 2000)

• Bugfix: PNG-support and Rotation (fixed by Paulo Soares)
• Bugfix: Error in class Watermark fixed
• Possibility to add graphic elements (lines, curves,...) with the Graphic-object.
• Implementation of the Anchor-object for PDF (not yet as I want it to be)
• Possibility to add Text Annotations

iText 0.38 (November 2000)

• Possibility to underline/strike chunks
• Nested lists
• Better management of Page Resources (1 Resource Dictionary per page)
• Destinations (doesn't work yet)

iText 0.39 (December 2000)

• Omission of the PdfListener-interface
• Omission of the PdfRoot-object
• Changes in the way pages and page are managed
• Outlines
• All Chapters and Sections are put in an outline tree