Pdfcrowd Blog

Fixed:

• UTF-8 encoded input bytes objects are handled correctly now.
• Input file name can contain non-ASCII characters.

New:

• Added new methods to the PDF to PDF converter
  • Watermark and Background
    • setPageWatermark()
    • setMultipageWatermark()
    • setPageBackground()
    • setMultipageBackground()
  • PDF Format
    • setLinearize()
    • setEncrypt()
    • setUserPassword()
    • setOwnerPassword()
    • setNoPrint()
    • setNoModify()
    • setNoCopy()
  • Viewer Preferences
    • setPageLayout()
    • setPageMode()
    • setInitialZoomType()
    • setInitialPage()
    • setInitialZoom()
    • setHideToolbar()
    • setHideMenubar()
    • setHideWindowUi()
    • setFitWindow()
    • setCenterWindow()
    • setDisplayTitle()
    • setRightToLeft()

New:

• Our .NET API client library now supports the following .NET platforms:
  • .NET Framework 2.0+
  • .NET Standard 2.0+
  • .NET Core 2.0+

New:

• Added the ContentArea option which enables to specify a web page area to be converted.
  • setContentArea()
  • setContentAreaX()
  • setContentAreaY()
  • setContentAreaWidth()
  • setContentAreaHeight()

New:

• Added the setSmartScalingMode() method to the HTML to PDF API.

Fixed:

• Single page landscape PDFs were not handled correctly.

New:

• Added the setScaleFactor() method to the HTML to Image API.

Fixed:

• Java API client: the syntax of the last delimiter in multipart messages was incorrect.

New:

• Added the setOnLoadJavascript() method.

We added new methods that allow to specify image compression and DPI:

• setConvertImagesToJpeg()
• setJpegQuality()
• setImageDpi()

Fixes:

• Trailing blank pages were not discarded when a non-default PDF page background color was used.
• PDF was not linearized correctly when viewer preferences were set.

New:

• Added the setClientCertificate() method.
• Added the setClientCertificatePassword() method.
• Added the setHttpProxy() method.
• Added the setHttpsProxy() method.
• Added the setPageBackgroundColor() method.

Fixes:

• Python API client: correct handling of custom string classes, e.g. SafeText in Django.
• Converter: using the 'pdfcrowd-remove' and 'pdfcrowd-hide' CSS classes with the setElementToConvert() method works correctly now.

• Mobile friendly web.
• The online conversion form offers more customization settings.
• Added example integrations of our API with several web frameworks.
• API client libraries:
  • .NET client is now available on NuGet.
  • Node.js: enhanced error reporting in default handlers.
  • PHP: autodetect availability of file_get_contents and cURL.