We're pleased to announce the release of Spire.PDF for Python 12.9.4. This version adds support for multiple PDF annotation types, including Caret, Circle, Square, FileAttachment, Movie, Screen, RichMedia, and Widget annotations, and adds support for drawing Code 128 barcodes. It also fixes several issues related to PDF attachments, text replacement, text extraction, and text positioning. More details are listed below.
Here is a list of changes made in this release
| Category | ID | Description |
| New Feature | - | Added support for Caret annotations.
rect = RectangleF(100.0, 100.0, 10.0, 15.0) annotation = PdfCaretAnnotation(page, rect) annotation.Title = "CaretTest" annotation.Contents = "A caret annotation with default (None) symbol." annotation.Color = PdfRGBColor(0, 0, 255) annotation.Border.Width = 1 annotation.Intent = "ParaCaret" PdfAnnotationCollection.Create(page).Add(annotation) |
| New Feature | - | Added support for Circle annotations.
annotation = PdfCircleAnnotation(page, rect) annotation.Color = PdfRGBColor(128, 0, 128) annotation.InteriorColor = PdfRGBColor(255, 255, 200) annotation.Border.Width = 2 annotation.Border.Style = PdfBorderStyle.Solid annotation.Border.Effect = PdfBorderEffect.Cloudy annotation.Border.EffectIntensity = 2 PdfAnnotationCollection.Create(page).Add(annotation) |
| New Feature | - | Added support for Square annotations.
annotation = PdfSquareAnnotation(page, rect) annotation.Color = PdfRGBColor(128, 0, 128) annotation.InteriorColor = PdfRGBColor(255, 255, 200) annotation.Border.Width = 2 annotation.Border.Style = PdfBorderStyle.Dashed PdfAnnotationCollection.Create(page).Add(annotation) |
| New Feature | - | Added support for FileAttachment annotations.
fileSpecification = PdfFileSpecification("SalesReportChart.png", data)
annotation = PdfFileAttachmentAnnotation(page, bounds, fileSpecification)
annotation.Icon = PdfFileIcon.Graph
annotation.Color = PdfRGBColor(Color.get_Teal())
PdfAnnotationCollection.Create(page).Add(annotation)
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| New Feature | - | Added support for Movie annotations.
annotation = PdfMovieAnnotation(page, rect, "sample.wmv") annotation.Title = "My Movie Player" annotation.Movie.Poster = False annotation.Movie.Aspect = SizeF(16.0, 9.0) PdfAnnotationCollection.Create(page).Add(annotation) |
| New Feature | - | Added support for Screen annotations.
annotation = PdfScreenAnnotation(page, rect) annotation.Title = "ScreenWithBorder" annotation.Border.Width = 3.0 annotation.Border.Style = PdfBorderStyle.Dashed PdfAnnotationCollection.Create(page).Add(annotation) |
| New Feature | - | Added support for RichMedia annotations.
annotation = PdfRichMediaAnnotation(page, rect, content) annotation.Content = PdfRichMediaContent() annotation.Color = PdfRGBColor(Color.get_Green()) PdfAnnotationCollection.Create(page).Add(annotation) |
| New Feature | - | Added support for Widget annotations.
doc.LoadFromFile("widget.pdf")
a = PdfAnnotationCollection.Create(page).get_Item(0)
a.Characteristics.BackgroundColor
a.Characteristics.BorderColor
a.Flatten()
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| New Feature | SPIREPDF-7101 | Added support for drawing Code 128 barcodes through the PdfCode128ABarcode interface.
message = '0123456789' Code128 = PdfCode128ABarcode(message) Code128.BarcodeToTextGapHeight = 1.0 Code128.TextDisplayLocation = TextLocation.Bottom Code128.TextColor = PdfRGBColor(Color.get_Blue()) Code128.Draw(page, PointF(0.0, y)) |
| Bug Fix | SPIREPDF-7291 | Fixed an issue where attachments failed to open after being added to a PDF. |
| Bug Fix | SPIREPDF-7923 | Fixed an issue where text replacement failed. |
| Bug Fix | SPIREPDF-7939 | Fixed an issue where extra spaces appeared in extracted text. |
| Bug Fix | SPIREPDF-8119 | Fixed an issue where the position was incorrect after drawing text using the PdfTextWidget interface. |
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