PDFtk Free Changelog
What's new in PDFtk Free 2.02
Feb 4, 2014- Added drop_xmp output option for removing the document XMP metadata stream from a PDF.
- Added dump_data output of custom page data embedded by STAMPtk tool. See the embed option in STAMPtk for more information.
- Improved PDF bookmark merging logic so it can handle more input cases.
- Fixed a password bug where some 'upper-ASCII' characters weren't being mapped to the correct code points.
- Fixed a 40-bit decryption bug introduced in version 2.00.
- Fixed a bug in the bookmark merging logic that caused bookmarks to be omitted from the merged PDF.
- Added a test to ensure that encryption passwords use permitted characters only. (Decryption attempts still allow a larger set of input characters.)
- Rewrote the wide-to-utf8 code for Windows to make it more rigorous.
- Organized our calls of JvInitClass() in main().
- Added descriptions to some exception reports.
- Reviewed some code from pdftk.cc, PdfReader.java, PdfWriter.java and friends.
New in PDFtk Free 1.44 (Oct 30, 2010)
- Added new feature for collating PDF page scans: shuffle. Please see the man page for usage details.
- Introduced update_info_utf8, dump_data_utf8 and dump_data_fields_utf8 to provide UTF-8 companions to update_info, dump_data and dump_data_fields. These latter operations use XML numerical entities to encode non-ASCII characters. In version 1.43, we changed the encoding for update_info to UTF-8, but that made it incompatible with dump_data and also broke some downstream applications. By introducing these UTF-8 operations, we can revert update_info to its original behavior.
- Burst feature now copies the metadata (including XMP) from the input file to the output pages.
- Updated Bouncy Castle library to 1.45.
- Removed or replaced third-party code that wasn’t compatible with pdftk’s GPL license.
- Updated third-party license information.
New in PDFtk Free 1.43 (Oct 6, 2010)
- This maintenance release fixes many bugs and adds a couple features.