CHANGELOG.md

Unreleased

• No changes.

[31.2.15] - 11/25/2025

Bugs

• Resolved an issue where the time zone sign and the offset value were incorrect for negative offset time zones in the PdfSignature dictionary.

[31.2.12] - 11/18/2025

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[31.2.10] - 11/12/2025

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[31.2.5] - 11/04/2025

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[31.2.4] - 10/28/2025

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[31.2.3] - 10/22/2025

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[31.2.2] - 10/15/2025

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[31.1.23] - 10/07/2025

Bugs

• Resolved an issue where the application freezes when extracting text from a specific PDF document

[31.1.22] - 10/01/2025

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[31.1.21] - 09/23/2025

• No changes.

[31.1.20] - 09/17/2025

Bugs

• Resolved a typecast error encountered while accessing a form in a specific PDF document.

[31.1.19] - 09/12/2025

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[31.1.18] - 09/10/2025

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[31.1.17] - 09/05/2025

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[30.2.7] - 08/26/2025

Bugs

• Resolved an issue related to incorrect glyph bounding in a specific PDF document.

[30.2.6] - 08/19/2025

Bugs

• Fixed performance lag during loading encrypted PDF document.

[30.2.5] - 08/13/2025

Bugs

• Resolved an issue where the application hangs when accessing the read-only value of a form field in a specific PDF document.

[30.2.4] - 08/07/2025

Bugs

• Resolved an issue while extracting text line bounds from 90-degree rotated pages in a specific PDF document.

[30.1.41] - 07/22/2025

Bugs

• Resolved an exception that occurred when removing document-level layers in a specific PDF document.

[30.1.37] - 06/25/2025

General

• The compatible version of our Flutter PDF library has been updated to Flutter SDK 3.32.0.

[29.2.11] - 06/17/2025

Bugs

• Resolved an exception that occurred when hiding document-level layers in a specific PDF document.

[29.2.9] - 06/05/2025

Bugs

• Resolved a mismatch error in the text word length and text glyph length from a specific PDF document.

[29.2.7] - 05/27/2025

Bugs

• Resolved a range error exception while extracting text lines from a specific PDF document.

[29.2.4] - 05/14/2025

Bugs

• Resolved an Out-Of-Memory crash that occurred during the decryption of PDF document.
• Resolved a performance issue when decrypting password-protected PDF documents.

[29.1.41] - 05/06/2025

Bugs

• Resolved an issue where an exception occurred when flattening a signature field in a PDF document.

[29.1.40] - 04/29/2025

Bugs

• Resolved a content preservation issue that occurred when drawing multiple PDF grids on the same page of a PDF document.
• Resolved an issue where PDF form is returned as null when acro form has no fields.

[29.1.39] - 04/22/2025

General

• The minimum Dart version has been updated to 3.7.

[29.1.38] - 04/15/2025

Bugs

• Resolved an issue where the null check operator was incorrectly used on a nullable value.
• Resolved an issue where the PDF was shifting towards the top right corner when drawing existing page templates on PDFs.
• Exception occurs when getting the bounds of the text box form field item in a document has been resolved.

[29.1.37] - 04/08/2025

Bugs

• Resolved the invalid cross reference table issue occurs while loading the specific PDF document.
• Resolved the Layer name not preserved properly while removing layers in the PDF document

[29.1.35] - 04/01/2025

Bugs

• Resolved the exception that occurred while decrypting PDF files on the Flutter web platform.

[29.1.33] - 03/25/2025

General

• The compatible version of our Flutter PDF library has been updated to Flutter SDK 3.29.0.
• The Syncfusion^® Flutter PDF example sample have been updated to support kotlin build scripts in Android platform.
• The Syncfusion^® Flutter PDF example sample have been updated to support Swift package manager in macOS and iOS platforms.

Bugs

• Fixed incorrect TextWord bounds when extracting text from a cropped PDF document.

[28.2.9] - 03/04/2025

General

• The minimum Dart version of our Flutter widgets has been updated to 3.4 from 3.3.

Bugs

• Resolved the TypeError occurs when getting the bounds of the form field in a specific document

[28.2.7] - 02/25/2025

Bugs

• Resolved the Performance issue occurs while decrypting the pdf

[28.2.5] - 02/11/2025

Bugs

• Resolved the Format exception occurs while extracting the text from the PDF document

[28.2.4] - 02/04/2025

Bugs

• Resolved the preservation issue when filling the multiline text box field.
• Typecasting issue occurs while loading the checkbox fields in the PDF document has been resolved.

[28.1.39] - 01/14/2025

Bugs

• Resolved an issue where Unicode characters were not correctly recognized during text extraction from PDF documents.

[28.1.38] - 01/07/2025

Bugs

• The preservation issue encountered when adding annotations to a document has been resolved.

[27.2.3] - 11/22/2024

Bugs

• The issue of the signature appearance being duplicated when viewing the resultant PDF in the Syncfusion^® viewer has been resolved.

[27.2.2] - 11/15/2024

Bugs

• The format exception that occurred while signing the document with a specific certificate using an external signer has been resolved.

[27.1.58] - 11/5/2024

Bugs

• The issue of an exception occurring when drawing emoji symbols in PDF form fields has been resolved.

[27.1.55] - 10/22/2024

Bugs

• Type casting issue occurs while extracting text lines from a specific PDF document has been resolved.

[27.1.52] - 10/08/2024

Bugs

• The issue of the file being corrupted while inserting a page into an existing PDF document has been resolved.

[27.1.50] - 09/24/2024

Bugs

• Type casting issue occurs while loading annotations from the PDF document has been resolved.
• The issue where file size did not decrease after removing pages from the PDF document has been resolved.

[26.2.14] - 09/10/2024

General

• The compatible version of our Flutter PDF library has been updated to Flutter SDK 3.24.0.

Bugs

• The issue of incorrect bounds being retrieved from text markup annotations created with the Firefox PDF viewer has been resolved.

[26.2.10] - 08/20/2024

Bugs

• Exception will no longer be thrown while extracting text from a particular PDF document.

[26.2.9] - 08/13/2024

Bugs

• Text will now be properly extracted in the Safari browser on macOS.

[26.2.7] - 07/30/2024

Bugs

• The text color now remains consistent after decrypting and saving the PDF document.

[26.2.4] - 07/24/2024

Bugs

• Incorrect bounds are no longer being retrieved when extracting text from a specific PDF document.

[26.1.42] - 07/16/2024

Bugs

• The issue causing null check errors when retrieving items from a radio button field in the PDF document has been resolved.

• The issue with type casting no longer occurs when retrieving annotations from a PDF document.

[26.1.41] - 07/09/2024

Bugs

• The performance issue no longer occurs when reading the signature field from the PDF document.

• The type cast issue no longer occurs when flattening the signature in a specific PDF document.

[26.1.40] - 07/02/2024

Bugs

• High memory consumption will no longer occur while extracting text from large PDF documents.

[26.1.38] - 06/19/2024

Bugs

• Extracting text lines now returns the proper bounds for the CID font type in the PDF document.

• Performance issue no longer occurs while extracting text lines from the PDF document.

[26.1.35] - 06/11/2024

Features

• Provided support for adding timestamp and LTV in PDF signature.

[25.2.6] - 05/28/2024

Bugs

• Resolved the issue where flattening some form fields was not working in a specific PDF document.

[25.2.5] - 05/21/2024

Bugs

• Preservation issues no longer occur when drawing on a page with negative crop box x and y coordinates.

[25.1.42] - 04/30/2024

Bugs

• Extracting text from an encrypted PDF document will no longer significantly increase file size and corrupt the document.

[25.1.41] - 04/23/2024

Bugs

• The existing signature no longer becomes invalid when adding a second signature to the PDF document.

[25.1.39] - 04/09/2024

Bugs

• RangeError will no longer occur while extracting text lines from the PDF document.

[25.1.37] - 03/26/2024

Bugs

• Preservation issue will no longer occur while flattening the signature field in the PDF document.

• The issue with the invalid signature has been resolved when signing the PDF document.

[25.1.35] - 03/15/2024

Breaking changes

• The sign method in the IPdfExternalSigner class has been changed to an asynchronous type, and the signSync method has been added for synchronous signing.

Features

• Provided support for importing and exporting annotations in the PDF document.

• Provided support for asynchronous external signing in the PDF document.

[24.2.8] - 02/27/2024

Bugs

• Resolved the issue where extracting text returns incorrect results for a specific PDF document.

• Invalid font name error will no longer occur when extracting text from specific PDF document.

[24.2.5] - 02/13/2024

Bugs

• Extracting text lines will no longer return incorrect results for specific PDF documents.

[24.2.4] - 02/06/2024

Bugs

• Find text related issues are now resolved in PDF documents.

• Extract text is now working properly in specific PDF document.

[24.2.3] - 01/31/2024

Features

• Provided support to check and uncheck the check box field items.

[24.1.46] - 01/17/2024

General

• Upgraded the intl package to the latest version 0.19.0.

[24.1.45] - 01/09/2024

Bugs

• Preservation failure no longer occurs in Mac PDF viewer while saving specific encrypted PDF document.

[24.1.44] - 01/03/2023

Bugs

• Null check error will no longer occur while removing pages from the PDF document.

[24.1.43] - 12/27/2023

Bugs

• Preservation issue will no longer occur while flattening text box field in specific PDF document.

[24.1.41] - 12/18/2023

Features

• Provided support for text markup and popup annotations.

• Provided support for adding annotation flags to PDF annotations.

Bugs

• The issue of retrieving incorrect values from the text box field after saving an encrypted PDF document has been resolved.

[23.1.44] - 11/07/2023

Bugs

• The null reference exception that occurred while retrieving the page from the form fields in the PDF has been resolved.

[23.1.40] - 10/10/2023

Bugs

• Resolved the incorrect image dimension recording in PdfBitmap.

[23.1.39] - 10/04/2023

Features

• Support has been provided for back color, border color, and border style in the PDF signature field.

[22.2.11] - 08/29/2023

Bugs

• High memory consumption will no longer occurs while extracting text from large PDF documents.

• Null check exceptions will no longer occur while drawing PDF grid in a loaded page.

[22.2.9] - 08/15/2023

Bugs

• Null reference exceptions will no longer occur when retrieving form fields from the PDF document.

[22.2.5] - 07/27/2023

Bugs

• Resolved white background preservation while flattening loaded empty signature field.

• Type casting issue no longer occurs while flattening specific PDF document.

[22.1.36] - 06/28/2023

Bugs

• Resolved the space between text missing issue in the extract text layout and lines.

• PDF signature added with signed name is now valid in Adobe viewer.

[21.2.4] - 05/09/2023

Bugs

• Null reference exceptions will no longer occur while getting form fields from the PDF document.

• Now, spaces are preserved properly when extracting text with the layout.

• The preservation issue no longer occurs after modifying the values in the fields of the PDF document.

[21.1.41] - 04/18/2023

Bugs

• The unhandled exception that occurred during the extraction of text and flattening of form fields in the PDF document has been resolved.

[21.1.39] - 04/11/2023

Bugs

• RTL bookmark title is now properly retrieved from Encrypted PDF documents.

[21.1.37] - 03/29/2023

Bugs

• Text words are now properly split while extracting text from PDF documents.

[20.4.54] - 03/15/2023

Bugs

• The issue of PDF document size increasing after removing pages has been resolved.

[20.4.50] - 02/14/2023

Bugs

• Resolved the document corruption exception when signing existing signed PDF documents.

• Text bounds are now retrieved properly when finding text from cropped PDF documents.

[20.3.57] - 11/15/2022

Bugs

• Alpha channel is not initialized properly in transparent brush is now resolved.

[20.3.56] - 11/08/2022

Features

• Provided support to set signed date while signing the pdf document.

[20.2.48] - 09/06/2022

Bugs

• The type casting issue when trying to get annotation is now resolved.

[20.2.45] - 08/23/2022

Bugs

• The font is not updated properly for loaded form fields is now resolved.

[20.2.36] - 06/30/2022

Breaking changes

• The save method has been changed to an asynchronous type in the PdfDocument and the saveSync method has been added for synchronous.

Features

• Provided asynchronous save support for PDF documents.

Bugs

• The preservation issue when flattening the PDF text box field is now resolved.

• Resolved the document corruption issue while modifying encrypted PDF document.

[20.1.48-beta] - 04/12/2022

Bugs

• The layout issue when extracting text from the PDF document is now resolved.

[20.1.47-beta] - 04/04/2022

Features

• Provided support to extract RTL text from an existing PDF document along with its bounds.

• Provided support to find RTL text in an existing PDF document.

Known Limitation

• Combination of RTL and LTR text in find operations will not work. For example "80٪ خصم في المحدد jeans".

[19.4.41-beta] - 01/04/2022

Bugs

• Typecasting exceptions will no longer occur while extracting text from the PDF document.

[19.3.55-beta] - 11/23/2021

Bugs

• Exception will no longer be thrown while extracting text from a particular PDF document.

[19.3.48-beta] - 11/02/2021

Bugs

• Emoji character preservation issue has been resolved now.

• Null check exception will no longer be thrown while removing the password from a PDF document.

[19.3.47-beta] - 10/26/2021

Features

• Provided support to identify whether the TextGlyph is rotated or not.

[19.3.46-beta] - 10/19/2021

Bugs

• The text search bounds related issue has now been resolved.

[19.3.45-beta] - 10/12/2021

Bugs

• The PDF destination retrieval related issue has now been resolved.

[19.2.56-beta.1] - 08/17/2021

Bugs

• Resolved the RangeError while extracting text lines from the PDF document.
• The TextLine extraction bounds related issue has been resolved now.

[19.2.56-beta] - 08/17/2021

Features

• Provided the support to get or set rotation in an existing PDF page.

[19.2.48-beta] - 07/20/2021

Bugs

• The white space missing issue while extracting text has been resolved now.
• The unhandled exception when encrypting PDF document is resolved now.

[19.2.44-beta] - 06/30/2021

Features

• Provided the support to import and export form fields.
• Provided the support to add skew transformation in PDF graphics.

Bugs

• The text extraction issue has been resolved now.
• The document corruption issue while removing pages has been resolved now.

[19.1.67-beta] - 06/08/2021

Bugs

• The wrong text bounds calculation issue has been resolved now.

[19.1.54-beta] - 03/30/2021

Breaking changes

• The property flatten has been removed from the PdfAnnotation and PdfAnnotationCollection. And added a new method called flatten and flattenAllAnnotations instead.

Features

• Provided the support to add image position in the PDF grid cell.
• Provided the support to set clip using the path data on the PDF graphics.
• Provided the support to add encryption options when protecting the PDF files.
• Provided the support to create, read, modify, fill, and flatten PDF form fields.
• Provided the support to digitally sign the PDF document.

Bugs

• The wrong header row index retrieved from the PDF grid begin cell callback has been resolved now.

[18.4.48-beta] - 03/23/2021

Bugs

• The page size is not updated properly when adding margins issue resolved now.

[18.4.43-beta] - 02/16/2021

Bugs

• The bookmark Unicode text preservation issue resolved now.

[18.4.42-beta] - 02/09/2021

Bugs

• The unhandled exception when adding watermarks to the PDF document is resolved now.

[18.4.41-beta] - 02/02/2021

Bugs

• The text rendering issue while using the PdfTextElement is resolved now.

[18.4.34-beta] - 01/12/2021

Features

• Provided the support to set clip using path data on the PDF graphics.

[18.4.32-beta] - 12/30/2020

Features

• Provided the support to add image position in PDF grid cell.

[18.4.31-beta] - 12/22/2020

Bugs

• The header row index issue has been resolved now.

[18.4.30-beta] - 12/17/2020

Breaking changes

• The extractTextWithLine method has been removed and added a new extractTextLines method instead.

Features

• Provided the support to encrypt or decrypt a PDF document.
• Provided the support to create, read, and edit layers in PDF documents.
• Provided the support to create a PDF conformance document.
• Provided the support to extract text with the layout.
• Provided the support to draw an image with pagination.
• Provided the support to add an attachment to the PDF document.
• Provided the support to add the document information in a PDF document.

Bugs

• The bookmark parsing issue has been resolved now.

[18.3.52-beta] - 12/01/2020

• The method extractTextWithLine from PdfTextExtractor has been deprecated and added new method called extractTextLines instead.

[18.3.51-beta] - 11/24/2020

Bugs

• The typecasting issue has been resolved now.

[18.3.35-beta] - 10/01/2020

Features

• Support provided to parse the existing PDF document.
• Support provided to add or remove the PDF pages in an existing PDF document.
• Support provided to add the graphical content to the existing PDF document page.
• Provided the incremental update support for the existing PDF document.
• Support provided to create and load the annotations in a new or existing PDF document.
• Support provided to load the existing PDF document bookmarks with its destination.
• Support provided to extract the text in an existing PDF document along with its bounds.
• Support provided to find the text in an existing PDF document along with its bounds and page index.
• Support provided to flatten the supported annotations in an existing PDF document.
• Support provided to save the PDF document with a cross-reference stream.

[18.2.59-beta.1] - 09/24/2020

Bugs

• The meta package issue has been resolved now.

[18.1.52-beta] - 05/14/2020

Bugs

• Text will be preserved properly while using the TrueType font.

[18.1.36-beta] - 03/19/2020

Initial release

Features

• Provided the support for creating a PDF document with pages and sections.
• Provided the support for adding text, images, shapes, and more.
• Provided the support for adding Unicode text with True Type font.
• Provided the support for drawing right-to-left (RTL) language text with True Type font.
• Provided the support to create a customizable table.
• Provided the support to create a table using DataTable as an external source.
• Provided the support for adding headers and footers with text, images, shapes, and dynamic fields such as page numbers, date and time, and more.
• Provided the support for adding a flow layout text using PdfTextElement.
• Provided the support for bullets and lists with more customization
• Provided the support for creating bookmarks to the PDF.
• Provided the support for drawing images (JPEG and PNG only) to the PDF document.
• Provided the support for adding hyperlinks and internal document navigations.
• Provided the support for color, pen, and brushes.
• Provided the support for adding Chinese, Japanese, and Korean text with the standard CJK fonts.
• Provided the support for creating and drawing PdfTemplates.