Big Faceless PDF Library 2.10.4

Big Faceless PDF Library 2.10.4 is an intelligent Java class library to help you create, edit, display and print Acrobat PDF doc

BFOs PDF Library provides unparalleled implementation flexibility and reliability for the developer. Its scalable, thread-safe and extremely fast, having been honed over the years, and runs on any Java platform from the humble PC up to Mainframes.

The API has been designed so you don't need to know the PDF specification in order to create PDFs. This gives you almost complete control over the PDF itself. Where possible it is re-used standard Java classes - for example the pages are stored in a java.util.List, which can be manipulated any way you like (so moving pages from one document to another is a breeze). This means an API which is smaller and easier to remember.

The Viewer Extension allows PDFs to be parsed and converted to bitmaps for display, to be saved as a bitmap image (e.g TIFF) or for printing. Although Java 1.5 theoretically supports printing PDFs out of the box, results are often poor and support for features like annotations, encrypted documents etc. is incomplete. PDF library fills this gap, giving consistent results for all PDFs

Major Features:

1. Transparent Unicode support - create documents in Arabic, Russian or Japanese as easily as English.
2. TrueType and Type1 fonts, with subsetting for smaller files. Great for OCR
3. PDF Encryption, for password-protected documents (40 and 128 bit RC4 or AES)
4. Embed JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF or java.awt.Image images, or add Barcodes directly to the PDF
5. Use Spot colors, calibrated ICC profiles and other advanced colorspaces
6. Add HTML-style Hyperlinks to text or images
7. Process 1000+ words a second with kerning, ligatures, justification and "curly quotes" for legibility
8. Simplify complex document creation by defining and applying "Styles"
9. Full support for PDF features like bookmarks, compression and document meta-information
10. Non-linear creation of documents - pages can be created and edited in any order
11. PDF Library Extended Edition
    • Load and edit existing PDF documents, as templates or merge with others
    • Create and edit interactive Forms, or "AcroForm"
    • Digitally sign documents, or verify existing digital signatures
12. Java PDF Viewer
    • SWING component for displaying PDF documents
    • Convert PDF to TIFF (or any other bitmap format)
    • Extract and index text and images from PDF documents, including integration with Apache Lucene
    • Print PDF documents, including support for annotations and other PDF features not supported by Java 1.5 printing
    • Pre-flight new or existing PDFs against PDF/X-1a and PDF/X-3.

Enhancements:

• Fixed obscure problem when creating canvases from a page containing flattened form fields.
• Corrected flags for some StandardCJKFonts, which was causing incorrect font substitution in Acrobat.
• Down appearance on buttons wasnt preserved if the button wasnt beveled.
• Slight improvements to memory and speed when rendering PDF to a bitmap.
• Removed some unnecessary work done to each page when reading and writing documents, resulting in a PDF that is slightly closer to the original file structure. Necessary for a particularly obscure bug with a sample PDF.
• Fixed opening of 128-bit encrypted documents using the owner password
• Fix to XFA field bug introduced in 2.6.9 which sometimes resulted in field content disappearing in Acrobat