The latest public release of Solid Framework SDK is now available for download from the developer portal at www.solidframework.net. This is version 10.0.10974.
The main features in this build are:
Support for Medium Weight fonts
Previously, if a PDF used a medium weight font, then this would be substituted even if the font was installed on the local machine.
Medium weight fonts can now be used in the reconstructed document.
Support for Non-ASCII names when exporting to HTML
Non-ASCII file names resulted in links to images that were incorrect. This is now resolved and the images can be correctly seen in all of the major browsers including Internet Explorer and Edge.
Better handling of page headers for documents that start on an even page
Word supports “odd” and “even” page headers.
However it poorly supports adjacent pages having the same type of header. Where this occurs, Word would creates a hidden page resulting in the page count being incorrect.
This was particularly a problem if the first page of a PDF had an even number, since it was assumed that it would be an “odd” page, often causing Word to report an extra page.
The first page of a document can now be either “odd” or “even”, resolving this specific issue.
Support for “TargetWordFormat”
This allows documents to be reconstructed that do not show “Compatibility Mode” when opened in Word 2010 and later. The default value is Word 2010.
The latest public release of Solid Framework SDK is now available for download from the developer portal at www.solidframework.net. This is version 10.0.10278.
The latest public release of Solid Framework SDK is now available for download from the developer portal at www.solidframework.net. This is version 10.0.10158.
The main features in this build are:
Support For Exporting 16 Digit Numbers to Excel
Excel only supports 15 significant digits. As a result longer numbers were being rounded following reconstruction of a spreadsheet from a PDF.
In the example below, the number in the PDF was 2180715866372664
In 10054 the number is silently rounded which results in the incorrect number being displayed.
In 10158 the number is treated as text so that the displayed value is correct.
Other changes
Add Support for Fonts Database File when Converting with a JobProcessor
Solid Framework has supported the use of a database of font metrics since 10.0.9182, which allows it to use fonts during the reconstruction process that are not installed on the machine.
This mechanism was previously only available for the “Converter” classes. It is now also available when using “JobEnvelopes” with a “JobProcessor”.
Allow Fonts Database File to be Reloaded
It is now possible to change which fonts database file is used without restarting the converter process. In previous versions of Solid Framework attempting to do so would be silently ignored.
Breaking Changes
Some SolidFramework.Platform functions no longer return a Boolean
This affects:
SetAppDataDirectory
SetCMapDirectory
SetColorProfileDirectory
SetFontDirectory
SetFontsDataBaseFile
Platform.SetFontsDataBaseFile can now throw exceptions
The main scenario where this is likely to occur is if the specified FontsDataBaseFile does not exist.
Solid Framework 10.0.10974
/in Release Summary /by Solid DocumentsThe latest public release of Solid Framework SDK is now available for download from the developer portal at www.solidframework.net. This is version 10.0.10974.
The main features in this build are:
Support for Medium Weight fonts
Previously, if a PDF used a medium weight font, then this would be substituted even if the font was installed on the local machine.
Medium weight fonts can now be used in the reconstructed document.
Support for Non-ASCII names when exporting to HTML
Non-ASCII file names resulted in links to images that were incorrect. This is now resolved and the images can be correctly seen in all of the major browsers including Internet Explorer and Edge.
Better handling of page headers for documents that start on an even page
Word supports “odd” and “even” page headers.
However it poorly supports adjacent pages having the same type of header. Where this occurs, Word would creates a hidden page resulting in the page count being incorrect.
This was particularly a problem if the first page of a PDF had an even number, since it was assumed that it would be an “odd” page, often causing Word to report an extra page.
The first page of a document can now be either “odd” or “even”, resolving this specific issue.
Support for “TargetWordFormat”
This allows documents to be reconstructed that do not show “Compatibility Mode” when opened in Word 2010 and later. The default value is Word 2010.
SOLID FRAMEWORK 10.0.10278
/in Release Summary /by Solid DocumentsThe latest public release of Solid Framework SDK is now available for download from the developer portal at www.solidframework.net. This is version 10.0.10278.
Among other improvements, this version represents a major improvement in the handling of Non-Standard Encoding.
Solid Framework 10.0.10158
/in Release Summary /by Solid DocumentsThe latest public release of Solid Framework SDK is now available for download from the developer portal at www.solidframework.net. This is version 10.0.10158.
The main features in this build are:
Support For Exporting 16 Digit Numbers to Excel
Excel only supports 15 significant digits. As a result longer numbers were being rounded following reconstruction of a spreadsheet from a PDF.
In the example below, the number in the PDF was 2180715866372664
In 10054 the number is silently rounded which results in the incorrect number being displayed.
In 10158 the number is treated as text so that the displayed value is correct.
Other changes
Add Support for Fonts Database File when Converting with a JobProcessor
Solid Framework has supported the use of a database of font metrics since 10.0.9182, which allows it to use fonts during the reconstruction process that are not installed on the machine.
This mechanism was previously only available for the “Converter” classes. It is now also available when using “JobEnvelopes” with a “JobProcessor”.
Allow Fonts Database File to be Reloaded
It is now possible to change which fonts database file is used without restarting the converter process. In previous versions of Solid Framework attempting to do so would be silently ignored.
Breaking Changes
Some SolidFramework.Platform functions no longer return a Boolean
This affects:
Platform.SetFontsDataBaseFile can now throw exceptions
The main scenario where this is likely to occur is if the specified FontsDataBaseFile does not exist.