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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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