Release Notes -- Apache PDFBox -- Version 2.0.7

Introduction
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The Apache PDFBox library is an open source Java tool for working with PDF documents.

This is an incremental bugfix release based on the earlier 2.0.6 release. It contains
a couple of fixes and small improvements.

For more details on these changes and all the other fixes and improvements
included in this release, please refer to the following issues on the
PDFBox issue tracker at https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX.

Bug

[PDFBOX-3515] - Problems with CourierStd font
[PDFBOX-3536] - IOException "Invalid dictionary, found: 'r' but expected: '/' at offset 1148" on a valid PDF
[PDFBOX-3794] - Problem in TextPosition implementation
[PDFBOX-3795] - PDFMergeUtility error invalid stored block lengths
[PDFBOX-3798] - Truncated file has first page empty
[PDFBOX-3799] - Problem in TextPosition's hashCode
[PDFBOX-3806] - Nullpointer exception in getLeftSideBearing
[PDFBOX-3807] - CMapParser NullPointerException
[PDFBOX-3811] - Problem with calling "saveIncrementalForExternalSigning" more than once in the same document
[PDFBOX-3813] - PDF Box crash when using PDFToImage or PDFDebug
[PDFBOX-3817] - Signature form names not standard
[PDFBOX-3821] - Newly added MDP functionality breaks PDFs <1.5
[PDFBOX-3826] - NPE if RAFDataStream.getCurrentPosition() when TrueTypeFont created from file is reused
[PDFBOX-3827] - Setting empty values on listbox keeps marked item
[PDFBOX-3829] - ExtractImages fails for JPX images
[PDFBOX-3831] - v2.0.6 still has hardcoded reference to BouncyCastleProvider
[PDFBOX-3832] - PDFBox Won't Embed a Font for a Form Field if Field is Empty
[PDFBOX-3833] - Characters in wrong order
[PDFBOX-3836] - PDFToImage: Text missing or background box stacks over
[PDFBOX-3838] - NPE in PatchMeshesShadingContext.readPatch()
[PDFBOX-3839] - AIOOB in PDResources.getFont()
[PDFBOX-3845] - Could not find referenced cmap stream H
[PDFBOX-3847] - code has bug
[PDFBOX-3850] - DrawPrintTextLocations should limit bbox paint to font bbox when type 3 font has incorrect large glyph bbox
[PDFBOX-3852] - Overlay a pdf file which is 750 pages ends up in OutOfMemoryError
[PDFBOX-3855] - NPE in CFFParser.parse()
[PDFBOX-3857] - Can not extract exported values for PDRadioButton
[PDFBOX-3858] - Optimize 1 component DeviceN colorspace
[PDFBOX-3861] - ClassCastException: org.apache.pdfbox.cos.COSStream cannot be cast to org.apache.pdfbox.cos.COSString
[PDFBOX-3864] - UTF16 encoded string to PDFDocEncoding
[PDFBOX-3867] - IndexOutOfBoundsException on CMapParser

Improvement

[PDFBOX-2963] - Remove Bouncy Castle Provider Reference
[PDFBOX-3820] - [Patch] Improved signing of existing signature fields II
[PDFBOX-3824] - Optimize TrueType font embedder
[PDFBOX-3828] - Generate appearance stream for multiselect listboxes
[PDFBOX-3854] - PDDeviceRGB.toRGBImage should return a RGB-Typed-Image
[PDFBOX-3859] - Output destination page in PrintBookmarks example
[PDFBOX-3860] - TilingPaint.getImage() should return an ARGB-Typed-Image
[PDFBOX-3863] - Support duplex entry in ViewerPreferences
[PDFBOX-3868] - Optimize usage of COSStream construction
[PDFBOX-3869] - Splitter.createNewDocument() should be able to consider different MemoryUsageSetting configurations

Task

[PDFBOX-3823] - Question about forming a PDF document, including CMYK images for printing.
[PDFBOX-3865] - Add OWASP dependency-check to build


Release Contents
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This release consists of a single source archive packaged as a zip file.
The archive can be unpacked with the jar tool from your JDK installation.
See the README.txt file for instructions on how to build this release.

The source archive is accompanied by SHA1 and MD5 checksums and a PGP
signature that you can use to verify the authenticity of your download.
The public key used for the PGP signature can be found at
https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/pdfbox/KEYS.

About Apache PDFBox
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Apache PDFBox is an open source Java library for working with PDF documents.
This project allows creation of new PDF documents, manipulation of existing
documents and the ability to extract content from documents. Apache PDFBox
also includes several command line utilities. Apache PDFBox is published
under the Apache License, Version 2.0.

For more information, visit http://pdfbox.apache.org/

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