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