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Version 8.8.0 Changelog (2022-08-30)

WebViewer Core

New

Updated content editing to use new inline editing mode to edit text
Added AddParagraphTool for creating new text boxes within documents
Added ContentEditManager to control entering and exiting edit mode
Added the capability to add images to the PDF content with the new AddImageContentTool
Updated the template fill sample to showcase support for HTML and markdown inputs
Added support for Adobe negative form field styling
Added API to enable virtual display mode after webviewer instantiation: enableVirtualDisplayMode, the counter-part of the already existing API disableVirtualDisplayMode
Improve scrolling in Safari
Removed appearance rendering for Free Text Annotations for Rich Text as they can be directly rendered by the PDF workers
Added new event createAnnotationWithNoScale that is fired when a measurement tool tries to create an annotation but no scale has been set yet

Fixes

Fixed issue where annotations with NoZoom property set to true could not be rotated
Fixed issue where no message would be shown if a XOD document was not properly loaded
Fixed issue where the search event onPageEnd was only firing when the whole document was searched, instead of after each page being searched
Fixed issue where calling drawAnnotations with an override canvas wouldn't draw FreeText text if it was being edited in the main document view
Fixed issue where an error was thrown when creating FreeText annotation in IE
Fixed issue where getDocumentCompletePromise returned undefined on images
Fix issue where links and widgets were not being rendered correctly when navigating to a page by clicking on a search result
Fixed issue where complicated regex search would fail sometimes
Fixed issue with DistanceMeasurementTool when overrideSelection is enabled
Fixed issue where XOD documents would stop loading pages if the internet connection was lost, and then re-established
Fixed issue with the search result not updating when the text extraction order changed
Fixed single dot signature floating above signature field
Fixed bug where opening WebViewer in Chrome Dev Tools mobile view mode for iOS devices would result in a worker error
Fixes bug where performing undo/redo on a link annotation, would cause the annotation to disappear
Fixed issue with invoking Core.PDFNet.VerificationOptions.addTrustedCertificateFromURL without optional parameters
Fixed some PDFNet namespace documentation where some methods were erroneously listed as static methods when they were not
Fixed Office conversion to PDF issue of cutting off images when the pages were rotated
Fixed issue where annotation appearances were generated when it was not required
Fixed virtualized list for pages issue with linearized PDFs
Fixed inconsistencies with the radio button options in the page redaction modal
Fixed issue with adding new lines while editing text not appearing correctly
Fixed resizing issue with moving rotated annotation between page
Fixed issue when importing field data would create duplicate widget annotations
Fixed issue where custom headers did not work with images
Fixed issue where zooming over ~2000% will break continuous mode when returning to original zoom level
Fixed bug where FreeText annotation border would not follow autosizing while typing
Fixed issue where potentially malicious URLs could be launched when opening a PDF with embedded JavaScript
Fixed issue where content edit mode wouldn't work by default with a custom UI

WebViewer UI

New

Added Edit Text Toolbar Group to Header
Added TextEditingPanel to style text in editing mode (desktop only)
Added hotkey (ctlr/cmd + F) to toggle the search panel
Added new multiPageManipulationControls API on UI namespace to create new buttons on left panel multipage view
Added support for showing tooltips when tabbing through UI elements
Added getAnnotationStylePopupTabs and setAnnotationStylePopupTabs APIs for getting and customizing annotation style popup tabs
Added new multi select annotations feature for the notes panel
Revamped measurement scale and calibration experience. Scales for tools and annotations are easily synced and updated, they're editable from a new modal, they can be fractional or decimal and common defaults are included to get started.
Updated outline panel UI including features such as setting precise destination and multi-select mode
Added translations for Czech, Polish, Hungarian, Thai, Romanian, and Swedish
New and improved experience of measurement scale
Added additional languages to the language modal
Added data-elements to language options in the language modal for disabling individually
Added Language constant in the UI namespace for default languages in WebViewer
Added a getCurrentLanguage API to return the current UI language
Added a getLocalizedText API to return the localized text from a given translation key
Added a languageChanged event that triggers when the language changes
Added setCustomEmptyPanelContent API for customizing the content of an empty notes panel
Added audio and video redaction to the redaction panel

Fixes

Fixed issue where WebViewer would crash when repeatedly pressing or holding down the escape key
Fixed issue where an error would be thrown if setHeaderItems API is called after creating a new toolbar group using the createToolbarGroup API
Fixed issue where mention did not work if the username included numbers, dash or an underscore
Fixed issue where the page manipulation overlay stays open when a file is loaded via loadDocument
Fixed issue where images were not being downloaded as PDF from the UI
Fixed issue where the parent window would scroll if a non-continuous display mode is used and the user uses the mouse wheel to change pages
Fixed issue where the element header could not be disabled when instantiating WebViewer
Fixed issues where Ellipsis where being resized incorrectly when being drawn close to the edges of the document
Fixed issue where the unposted comment indicator would remain even if there was no pending comment
Fixed bug not allowing users to set the orientation of pages more than once when calling setDefaultPrintOptions
Fixed an issue with viewerLoaded event not firing
Fixed bug where redaction annotations created from the redaction panel were not carrying over the correct styles
Fixed issue where the document preview in PageRedaction Modal was sometimes wrong
Fixed issue where an error was being thrown in the console if the AnnotationPopup was disabled and the browser window was resized with an annotation selected
Fixed an issue where the Redaction panel would open for media redactions

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