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RasterView 1.9.1 September 14, 2025

RasterView 1.9.1 is a bug fix release. Changes include:

• Fixed 16-bit and monochrome viewing support for many color spaces (Issue #23)

Enjoy!

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HTMLDOC 1.9.21 September 12, 2025

HTMLDOC 1.9.21 is a bug fix release. Changes include:

• Updated HTTP/HTTPS connection error reporting to include the reason.
• Updated markdown parser.
• Updated the HTTP/HTTPS connection timeout to 5 minutes (Issue #541)
• Fixed a bug in the new PDF link code (Issue #536)
• Fixed a bug in the number-up code (Issue #539)
• Fixed a regression in leading whitespace handling (Issue #540)
• Fixed a bug in numbered heading support (Issue #543)
• Fixed a bug with setting the header on the first page (Issue #544)
• Fixed paths in the HTMLDOC snap (Issue #545)

Binaries are available from Github for Windows 10+ and macOS 11+, and through the Snapcraft store for Linux.

Enjoy!

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PDFio 1.5.4 August 26, 2025

PDFio 1.5.4 is a bug fix release. Changes include:

• Updated indirect reference reading code to limit the range of generation numbers.
• Updated error messages for too large tokens (Issue #131)
• Fixed a JPEG copy bug (Issue #132)

Enjoy!

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PDFio 1.5.3 May 03, 2025

PDFio 1.5.3 is a bug fix release. Changes include:

• Fixed decryption of PDF files “protected” by 40-bit RC4 (Issue #42)
• Fixed decryption of UTF-16 strings (Issue #42)
• Fixed decryption of PDF files with large permission values.
• Fixed support for EncryptMetadata key in the encryption dictionary.
• Fixed pdfioObjCopy and pdfioPageCopy to properly identify the source PDF file being used (Issue #125)

Enjoy!

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PDFio 1.5.2 April 12, 2025

PDFio 1.5.2 is a bug fix release. Changes include:

• Updated maximum allowed PDF string size to 64k (Issue #117)
• Updated dictionary reading code to discard duplicate key/value pairs with a warning message (Issue #118)
• Fixed form detection in pdfioinfo example code (Issue #114)
• Fixed parsing of certain date/time values (Issue #115)
• Fixed support for empty name values (Issue #116)
• Fixed range checking in pdfioImageGetBytesPerLine (Issue #121)

Enjoy!

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PDFio 1.5.1 March 28, 2025

PDFio 1.5.1 is a bug fix release. Changes include:

• Fixed output of special characters in name values (Issue #106)
• Fixed output of special characters in string values (Issue #107)
• Fixed output of large integers in dictionaries (Issue #108)
• Fixed handling of 0-length streams (Issue #111)
• Fixed detection of UTF-16 Big-Endian strings (Issue #112)

Enjoy!

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PAPPL v1.4.9 March 20, 2025

PAPPL v1.4.9 is now available for download and is a bug fix release. Changes include:

• Fixed a bug in job event notifications.
• Fixed a bug that would delay shutdown by 60 seconds.
• Fixed some notification bugs.
• Fixed validation error checking bug in papplPrinterCreate (Issue #385)
• Fixed page number that is passed to the raster endpage function.
• Disabled raw socket support on Windows.

Enjoy!

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PDFio 1.5.0 March 06, 2025

PDFio 1.5.0 is a feature and bug fix release. Changes include:

• Added support for embedded color profiles in JPEG images (Issue #7)
• Added pdfioFileCreateICCObjFromData API.
• Added support for writing cross-reference streams for PDF 1.5 and newer files (Issue #10)
• Added pdfioFileGetModDate() API (Issue #88)
• Added support for using libpng to embed PNG images in PDF output (Issue #90)
• Added support for writing the PCLm subset of PDF (Issue #99)
• Now support opening damaged PDF files (Issue #45)
• Updated documentation (Issue #95)
• Updated the pdf2txt example to support font encodings.
• Fixed potential heap/integer overflow issues in the TrueType cmap code.
• Fixed an output issue for extremely small double values with the pdfioContent APIs.
• Fixed a missing Widths array issue for embedded TrueType fonts.
• Fixed some Unicode font embedding issues.

Enjoy!

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