Release Notes -- Apache PDFBox -- Version 2.0.29

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 2.0.28 release. It contains
a couple of fixes and small improvements.

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

Bug

[PDFBOX-4010] - A (rotated) barcode is missing from a pdf when printed
[PDFBOX-5587] - NullPointerException in PDTrueTypeFont.java getPath( )
[PDFBOX-5591] - Parsing of XMP metadata without optional xmpmeta element
[PDFBOX-5593] - Avoid division by 0 in shading function interpolation
[PDFBOX-5596] - MyPageDrawer#getPaint may produce UnsupportedOperationException
[PDFBOX-5601] - Barcode corrupted when printing document
[PDFBOX-5604] - The text in some fonts is lost when converting pdf to image
[PDFBOX-5606] - PDFTextStripper runs out of memory in 2.0.28 but not in 2.0.27 same code
[PDFBOX-5609] - all values in the signature dictionary shall be direct objects
[PDFBOX-5611] - Glyphs not rendered
[PDFBOX-5612] - PDF with mangled font rendering in some environments
[PDFBOX-5614] - RadioButtons disappear when printing PDF
[PDFBOX-5620] - BitsPerComponent 16 not allowed in PDF/A-1b
[PDFBOX-5621] - NullPointerException in PDFStreamEngine.showText
[PDFBOX-5624] - Infinte loop when parsing Type1 font

Improvement

[PDFBOX-5571] - Add duplex and tray parameters to PrintPDF
[PDFBOX-5598] - Create command line utility to extract XMP data
[PDFBOX-5605] - Improve Opaque PDFRenderer example

Task

[PDFBOX-4932] - Implement /RunLengthDecode encoder
[PDFBOX-5595] - Slight regression on corrupt bug tracker file
[PDFBOX-5625] - move and update bc from jdk15on to jdk15to18

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 a SHA512 checksum 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://www.apache.org/dist/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 https://pdfbox.apache.org/

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