Release Notes -- Apache PDFBox -- Version 1.8.3

Introduction
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The Apache PDFBox library is an open source Java tool for working with PDF documents.

This is an incremental bugfix release based on the earlier 1.8.3 release. It 
contains a couple of fixes and small improvements.

For more details on all fixes included in this release, please refer to the following
issues on the PDFBox issue tracker at https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX.

Bug Fixes

[PDFBOX-161] - java.util.EmptyStackException from PDFTextStripper.writeText
[PDFBOX-940] - [pdmodel.font.PDFont] Error: Could not parse predefined CMAP file for
               'PDFXC-Indentity0-0'
[PDFBOX-1302] - Got ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException in parsing a Chinese ttf file.
[PDFBOX-1541] - expected='endstream' actual='' failure to parse
[PDFBOX-1585] - org.apache.pdfbox.util.PDFTextStripper.getText() causes thread to block
                indefinitely
[PDFBOX-1625] - java.lang.IndexOutOfBoundsException at writing PDF file
[PDFBOX-1668] - Loading a Russian PDF never finishes
[PDFBOX-1679] - java.io.IOException: Error: Expected an integer type, actual='f'
[PDFBOX-1725] - Character rendered at wrong position
[PDFBOX-1733] - Rectangles have one rounded edge in rendered image only
[PDFBOX-1763] - Exception caused by "Invalid ICC Profile Data"
[PDFBOX-1770] - ExtractText gets all "?" when pdf 's font is instance of PDType1Font
[PDFBOX-1777] - memory leak in org.apache.pdfbox.cos.COSDocument
[PDFBOX-1789] - NullPointerException at PDPageContentStream.setFont
[PDFBOX-1794] - Rendering Problem with Type 3 Fonts
[PDFBOX-1796] - Infiniteloop BaseParser.java:1010
[PDFBOX-1799] - NullPointerException when constructing a PDJPeg using a BufferedImage
[PDFBOX-1802] - COSDictionary in COSArray setDirect(true) but dic written indirect
[PDFBOX-1804] - PDFTextStripper Issue related to word positions not correctly being parsed
[PDFBOX-1808] - PDFTextStripper.getText - hight memory usage
[PDFBOX-1810] - PDFToImage: Image of pdf is resized and drawn multiple times at top of 
                output image
[PDFBOX-1812] - Illegal characters in XML output
[PDFBOX-1818] - Push back buffer is full error
[PDFBOX-1829] - PDF Extract Image Pixelmap Issue
[PDFBOX-1830] - Grey background rectangle rendered at different position
[PDFBOX-1861] - Line is incorrectly dashed
[PDFBOX-1862] - Incomplete signature creation (regression in 1.8.3 with PDFBOX-1780)

Improvement

[PDFBOX-1685] - Verify interpretation of rdf:about for PDF/A
[PDFBOX-1707] - Add dispose() when done with graphics
[PDFBOX-1769] - Fix crash on invalid xref
[PDFBOX-1815] - Suggestion: close files in COSStream
[PDFBOX-1820] - Suggestion: close streams in PDIndex and PDJpeg
[PDFBOX-1839] - PDFImageWriter default BufferedImage type makes output colors look poor

Release Contents
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This release consists of a single source archive packaged as a zip file.
The archive can be unpacked with the jar tool from your JDK installation.
See the README.txt file for instructions on how to build this release.

The source archive is accompanied by SHA1 and MD5 checksums and a PGP
signature that you can use to verify the authenticity of your download.
The public key used for the PGP signature can be found at
https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/pdfbox/KEYS.

About Apache PDFBox
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Apache PDFBox is an open source Java library for working with PDF documents.
This project allows creation of new PDF documents, manipulation of existing
documents and the ability to extract content from documents. Apache PDFBox
also includes several command line utilities. Apache PDFBox is published
under the Apache License, Version 2.0.

For more information, visit http://pdfbox.apache.org/

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