AFP to PDF Converter update history
Version: 2.4.2.0 20210316 – released March 16, 2021
- Improved support for segmented FNI records
- Improved support for embedded True Type Fonts
- Enhancement for decoding TRN records in AFP Overlays
- Improvement for external Coded Font Resource Files
Version: 2.4.0.0 20210204 – released February 4, 2021
- Improved support for embedded and external AFP Outline Fonts, as well as true type fonts
- Added support for IBM ACIF Shade objects
Version: 2.3.5.0 20210120 – released January 20, 2021
- Improved support for embedded true type fonts
Version: 2.3.2.0 20201118 – released November 18, 2020
- Repeated AFP codepage to ICU lookup failures are only emitted once as warning
- Repeated AFP font glyphs lookup failues are only emitted once as warning
- AFP PT text runs with missing glyphs are not written to the output to
ensure generated PDFs are PDF/A compatible - Added simple conversion statistics
Version: 2.3.1.0 20201104 – released November 4, 2020
- Improvement for I180 B270 rotation required additional LF for Acrobat Reader
Version: 2.3.0.0 20201103 – released November 3, 2020
- Improvement for I270 B0 rotation
- Improved support for color information in IOCA bilevel images
- Improved compression performance
Version: 2.2.0.0 20200925 – released September 25, 2020
- Added Color Conversion option: Grayscale
- improvement for PT STO (Set Text orientation) command
Version: 2.1.28.0 20200817 – released August 17, 2020
- New commandline option –log to support different modes (Stdout, File, Syslog, Quiet)
Version: 2.1.27.0 20200811 – released August 11, 2020
- Improved AFP character to PDF Cmap mapping for full Unicode support
- IOB Scaling improved
- Improved automatic detection of caodepages
- Improved image cache.
- GOA improved GSCR reacord reading and writing
Version: 2.1.26.0 20200629 – released June 29, 2020
- Improved rendering for documents with nested includes
(e.g. pagesegment inside a overlay).
Version: 2.1.16.0 20200512 – released May 12, 2020
- Improved support for GOCA objects in overlays.
Version: 2.1.10.0 20200417 – released April 17, 2020
- IM incorrect offset handling of celled images.
Version: 2.1.9.0 20200408 – released April 8, 2020
- –compress-pdf false: images are not decompressed
Version 2.1.8.0 20200327 – released March 27, 2020
- Bug Fix: added default values for missing PTD records in the Active Environment Object.
- Bug Fix: fixed default values for PTX rotation on new page.
Version 2.1.7.0 20200313 – released March 13, 2020
- Bug fix for rotated rules
Version 2.1.6.0 20200227 – released February 27, 2020
- Improved support for text rotations.
- Bug Fix: Fixed issue with Overlays offsets
Version 2.1.2.0 20200214 – released February 14, 2020
- Implemented hard and soft loading of PAGESEGMENTS (PSEG without a mapping)
Version 2.1.0.0 20200121 – released January 21, 2020
- Bug fix: Added color for Type3 fonts
- IOCA bilevel images with foreground color are rendered correctly
- Position of IOCA images on page level where sometimes wrong
Version 2.0.16.0 20191106 – released November 6, 2019
- AFP MCF1 font mapping with empty FCSName but populated CFName, CPName attribute
Version 2.0.13.0 20191010 – released October 10, 2019
- Bug Fix for empty GAD records.
Version 2.0.12.0 20191007 – released October 7, 2019
- Improved GOCA support.
- Bug fix: GOCA text decoder now supports multiple segments in one GAD record.
- Bug fix: OCA color table fixes.
Version 2.0.11.0 20190820 – released August 20, 2019
- Bug Fix: Added fix for invalid AFP documents that causes a memory dump
- Added: setForeGroundColor(ocaColor) : Sets Bilevel(!) Image Color for IOCA (IDD record).
(For backward compatibility.) - Presentation Text Records (PTX): Improved implementation of the SVI (variable space increment) record.
Version 2.0.10.0 20190814 – released August 14, 2019
- Added foreground color for mono images in IOCA
- Support for LUT record in IOCA TILE
- Improved image mapping to AFP Objects
- Better compression for mono images
- Create PDF from AFP Page Object
- Bug fix for transparency of mono images. (AFP IM objects over text)
- Bug fix for rotation of inlined IOB objects
Version 2.0.4.0 20190611 – released June 11, 2019
- Type 3 Font Glyph sizing and scaling improved
- GOCA improvement on SCD Set Current Default
- Page size correction
Version 1.8.2 20190228 – released February 28, 2019
- Improvements PDF File size
- Improvements in performance on IOCA images
- Support for uncompressed IOCA CMYK Images with IDE size 32
- Improvements on Overlay and FormDef Overlay Documents
Version 1.6.9 20190106 – released January 6, 2019
- PTOCA SVI Support enhancement
Version 1.5.5 20181112 – released November 12, 2018
- Improvements on SVSI and RMI PTX Records
Version 1.5.2 20181023 – released October 23, 2018
- Pixel shift fix in tiled IM Image Objects
- PTX, TRN, DIR and DBR rotation fix with STO command has no subsequent AMI or AMB command
- Added support for Object Containers with rotated images
- Added support for IOCA TIFF_LZW compressed imaged with CMYK color model
- Modified Demo message layout to website link
- Update Demo mode information
Version 1.5.1 20181008 – released October 8, 2018
- retired triplet – Text Orientation Triplet X’1D’ enhancement
- Type 3 rotation enhancement
Version 1.5.0 20181002 – released October 2, 2018
- Extended support for IOCA images
- New supported functions sets: FS10, FS11, FS42, FS45
- Supported Image compressions:
- TIFF LZW
- G3 MH-Modified Huffman
- IBM MMR-Modified Read
- JPEG algorithm
- No compression
- Bilevel images are saved as CCITT G4
Version 1.4.3 20180921 – released September 21, 2018
- Font substitution for missing fonts
- Font substitution table
- PDF/A validation issues fixed
- Commandline feature to list available codecs
Version 1.4.0 20180905 – released September 05, 2018
- 64bit ICU support
Version 1.3.9 20180829 – released August 29, 2018
- New option –afp-codec as fallback option when codepage is not present in the AFP
- AUS/GERM EBCDIC as default fallback codec
Version 1.3.8 20180828 – released August 28, 2018
- PDF/A compatible output documents
Version 1.3.3 20180508 – released May 8, 2018
- New option –list-defaults to provide defaults for configuration file
- New option –defaults-file to provide configuration file
Version 1.3.2 20180507 – released May 7, 2018
- Reading of external fonts added