SOLID FRAMEWORK 10.0.17072

Solid Framework SDK has been updated.

PDF to .DOCX conversion improvements include:

  1. Fixed an issue causing an unnecessary table row merge
  2. Fixed an issue preventing conversion on Unix for files with long paths filepaths.
  3. Improved scanned page detection to adjust when OCR is enabled.
  4. Fixed an issue interfering with the character placement of certain type 3 font characters.
  5. Resolved an issue resulting in inconsistent OCR of similar scanned pages.
  6. Fixed an issue disrupting the font style assigned to a list indent.
  7. Improved bordered table detection of scanned documents.
  8. Improved header detection.
  9. Resolved an issue preventing conversion of a specific pdf on macOS only.
  10. Fixed a memory leak.
  11. Improved detection of underline style when the graphic line partially crosses a character.
  12. Resolved an issue causing a conversion error on certain Windows 7 machines.
  13. Improved header detection when the body contains a repeated table header.
  14. Resolved an issue resulting in the last character in a text box being clipped.
  15. Improved detection of hyperlinks.
  16. Improved borderless table detection.
  17. Improved footer detection.

PDF to .HTML conversion improvements include:

  1. Fixed an issue stopping a bold font style from being applied.
  2. Fixed an issue resulting in the loss of the background color of a textbox.
  3. Improved text placement in text boxes.

PDF to Office conversion improvements include:

  1. Enabled the loading of the freetype cmap table to ensure correct character detection.
  2. Enabled support for relative path file links in conversion output.

PDF to .PPTX conversion improvements include:

  1. Fixed unnecessary slide rotation.
  2. Improved missing slide auto-rotation.

SOLID FRAMEWORK 10.0.16864

Solid Framework SDK has been updated.

Breaking Change: 

PowerPoint slide extraction of a PowerPoint ‘handout view’ now respects the pdf page indexes when selecting a ‘page range’ (subset) of the pdf. Previously ‘page range’ respected the extracted slide index. 

PDF to .DOCX conversion improvements include:

  1. Optimized predefined cmap loading to improve rendering of certain pages of a file
  2. Fixed an issue interfering with header detection.
  3. Fixed an issue preventing a portion of a certain borderless table from being detected.
  4. Resolved issue blocking optical character recognition of certain pages of an internal document.
  5. Fixed an issue halting optical character recognition after the third page of a specific document.
  6. Fixed an issue resulting in a false table being detected.
  7. Improved detection of text background color.
  8. Resolved multiple issues preventing the successful conversion of a specific pdf on Linux only.
  9. Improved header detection.
  10. Resolved an issue preventing the successful conversion of a specific pdf on Linux and macOS only.
  11. Improved borderless table detection.
  12. Improved detection of multiple line spacing in a text box.
  13. Improved column detection in tables.
  14. Resolved an internal issue causing the separation of table content in a specific file.
  15. Updated included libraries with potential vulnerabilities.

PDF to Office conversion improvements include:

  1. Fixed an issue where local font detection was scheduled more often than necessary.
  2. Resolved an issue causing conversion failure when input files contained special.

SOLID FRAMEWORK 10.0.16570

Solid Framework SDK has been updated.

PDF to .DOCX conversion improvements include:

  1. Fixed an issue that generated an ellipse shape as a square shape
  2. Fixed an issue causing only the top portion of an embedded chart to be converted
  3. Fixed an issue causing an image near the top margin to be clipped incorrectly
  4. Fixed an issue where only a portion of a logo image was rendered on conversion 
  5. Fixed an issue causing content of a table to be partially excluded
  6. Fixed an issue where the detection of a watermark resulted in the cells of a table to be incorrectly merged
  7. Resolved an issue preventing the successful conversion of a specific source pdf on OSX and Linux
  8. Resolved an issue preventing the successful conversion of a specific source pdf on OSX only
  9. Resolved an issue preventing the successful conversion of a certain document on Linux only
  10. Resolved an issue preventing the successful conversion of a certain document on all platforms
  11. Resolved a z-order issue rendering a semi-transparent layer on top of an image
  12. Resolved an issue resulting in the detection of only a portion of a table  
  13. Resolved an issue causing a table to be clipped incorrectly, which excluded content
  14. Improved list detection
  15. Improved detection of graphic lines
  16. Improved clipping of partially coincident polygons
  17. Improved the vertical metrics for Apple Gothic on certain OSX files
  18. Improved detection of graph content improves the output of many files
  19. Improved font scaling in files converted on macOS where Microsoft Office is installed
  20. Improved image mask creation
  21. Improved conversion of inline graphic groups
  22. Improved the detection of headers to decrease page overflow errors
  23. Improved the detection of footers to decrease page overflow errors
  24. Improved detection of non-repeated footers
  25. Improved detection of headers and footers when the content shifts horizontally or vertically between pages

PDF to .PPTX conversion improvements include:

  1. Improved the z-order detection of filled text boxes with a border 

Solid Framework 10.0.16278

Solid Framework SDK has been updated.

PDF to .DOCX conversion improvements include:

  1. Improve the scale/spacing correction for certain RTF format breaks
  2. Optimize conversion of paragraph height for empty paragraphs
  3. Improve conversion to prevent overflow of text
  4. Fixed a bug that could break the link to a previous footer upon increase in page number digit
  5. Fixed a bug causing text with a paragraph style background color to be rendered as a text box
  6. Fixed a bug preventing the detection of the first page number of a certain document as a footer
  7. Fixed a bug rendering the location of the content of a pin incorrectly
  8. Fixed a bug causing text and graphics to be rendered in the wrong order
  9. Support the ability to disable table detection on conversion
  10. Improve the detection of spacing in lists
  11. Fixed a bug causing one line of text in a specific document to be garbled
  12. Improve detection of borderless tables
  13. Fixed a bug that could cause certain files containing annotations to be detected with unreadable content
  14. Improve the detection and order of graphics for isolated groups over background groups

PDF to .PPTX conversion improvements include:

  1. Improve detection of glyph width
  2. Improve conversion to prevent overflow of text

Solid Framework 10.0.16078

Solid Framework SDK has been updated.

PDF to .DOCX conversion improvements include:

  1. Resolved a structured exception handling issue in post process on certain files
  2. Fixed a bug that produced an additional page of content on conversion
  3. Fixed a bug that could result in a crash or error when embedded font ‘OXQFLY + Franklin Gothic Demi’ was extracted
  4. Fixed a bug disrupting the detection of z-order with architecture CAD pins
  5. Improved the conversion of right to left aligned text
  6. Improved scanned page detection
  7. Improved detection and importing of columns with graphics
  8. Improved the detection of right to left paragraphs
  9. Improved detection of column alignment based on paragraph formatting
  10. Improved detection of z-order when document contains graphic text
  11. Improved detection of graphic header elements
  12. Improved detection of z-order when document contains graphics and horizontal lines
  13. Improved the conversion of right to left aligned dates and numerical content

PDF to .HTML conversion improvements include:

  1. Fixed a bug that caused certain ordinal numbers to be detected incorrectly

PDF to .XLSX conversion improvements include:

  1. Improved the conversion of right to left aligned text
  2. Improved the detection of mixed left to right and right to left aligned text

PDF to .PPTX conversion improvements include:

  1. Fixed a bug that was misaligning graphic elements with table text
  2. Improved detection of z-order when document contains shapes and lines

PDF to Image conversion improvements include:

  1. Fixed a bug that caused highlighting to obscure text

Solid Framework 10.0.15836

Solid Framework SDK has been updated.

PDF to .DOCX conversion improvements  include:

  1. Table of Contents content detection
  2. Anchoring of graphics over multiple cells containing text has been improved
  3. Counting of hyperlinks on pictures and on other graphic objects within groups
  4. Line position in case of Inline Wrapping and DrawingObject type
  5. Spacing of diacritic Thai characters
  6. Detection of textbox and background
  7. Distortion or removal of text over image
  8. Non Standard Encoding detection
  9. Placement of graphic groups inside cells
  10. Rendering of text location in relation to horizontal lines
  11. Table detection, table border styles, rendering of contents, rendering of background and division into columns
  12. Z order detection of images
  13. Support export of shapes anchored to paragraphs that are inside a table cell
  14. Detection of horizontal lines in front of background images
  15. Column detection
  16. List detection

PDF to .HTML conversion improvements include:

  1. Rendering of underscores after a list item
  2. Removal of soft hyphens after conversion

PDF to .XLSX conversion improvements include:

  1. Improved conversion of background gradient colours

Solid Framework 10.0.15232

Solid Framework SDK has been updated.

Improvements include:

  1. Performance optimization
  2. PDF to DOCX/RTF: Fonts, SmallCaps, Tables, Lists, Headers/Footers, Column Layout and Hyperlinks
  3. PDF to XLSX: Fonts
  4. PDF to PPTX: Fonts, Character Spacing

Solid Framework 10.0.14502

Solid Framework SDK has been updated.

PDF to .DOCX conversion improvements  include:

1. Improved handling of malformed PDFs
2. Scaling – character and word scaling improvements
3. Improve graphic Z-order placement in output
4. Borderless table recognition
5. ff and ft ligature rendering
6. Handling of hidden content
7. Chart export
8. Improved list handling
9. Hyperlink detection and exporting that includes spaces
10. Textbox grouping and placement in output
11. Multi-column layouts

PDF to .PPTX conversion improvements  include:

1. Improved font embedding
2. Improved character property detection
3. Table borders

PDF to .XLXS conversion improvements  include:

1. Improve handling of data cell formats

Solid Framework 10.0.14122

The latest release of Solid Framework is now available.

Improvements include:

PDF to Excel – saving to old .XLS formats
PDF to Excel – performance
PDF to Excel – column detection
PDF to Excel – table detection; tables that span page boundaries

PDF to Word – general reconstruction improvements
PDF to Word – loading of malformed PDFs
PDF to Word – math formulas; non-standard encoded characters
PDF to Word – Linux specific fonts issues
PDF to Word – text scaling for CJK

PDF to PowerPoint – layout, text wrapping

PDF to Images – shadings and background colour

Solid Framework 10.0.13796

The latest release of Solid Framework is now available.

Improvements include:

PDF to HTML improvements
PDF to PPTX & Word update to avoid overlapping words
PDF to DOCX: CJK character scaling improvements