Release Notes -- Apache PDFBox -- Version 2.0.34

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 2.0.33 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.


Release Contents
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Bug
[PDFBOX-4744] - PageDrawer is not rendering unrotatable Annotations on rotated pages
[PDFBOX-5230] - Zero-width non-joiner characters visible in generated PDF
[PDFBOX-5747] - Surrogate pairs with combining diacritics are incorrectly ordered on text extraction
[PDFBOX-5936] - TestCreateSignature.testCreateSignedTimeStamp checkLTV build test fail (2) / Support several issuers
[PDFBOX-5937] - IllegalArgumentException: Width (0) and height (0) must be non-zero
[PDFBOX-5939] - Merge docs with specific characteristics causes stack overflow
[PDFBOX-5940] - InvalidKeyException: Supplied key (sun.security.ec.ECPrivateKeyImpl) is not a RSAPrivateKey
[PDFBOX-5942] - Can't read the embedded Type1 font: Found Token[kind=NAME, text=def] but expected begin
[PDFBOX-5945] - Wrong size entry in trailer after incremental save
[PDFBOX-5948] - FileSystemFontProvider doesn't register failed type1 fonts
[PDFBOX-5949] - Text annotation crosshair symbol too small when using Adobe symbol font
[PDFBOX-5951] - Orphan /OpenAction destination page kept in merge
[PDFBOX-5952] - PDFRenderer causes endless loop
[PDFBOX-5954] - Invalid stream length: 0, stream start position: <xxx>
[PDFBOX-5957] - Inline image incorrectly parsed (2)
[PDFBOX-5961] - IllegalArgumentException: Not a valid Unicode code point: 0xE28496
[PDFBOX-5963] - Type 3 font glyphs not displayed
[PDFBOX-5966] - Rendered PDF is missing shading pattern graphics
[PDFBOX-5968] - NPE during merge
[PDFBOX-5975] - Class cast exception in building PDDestinationNameTreeNode
[PDFBOX-5976] - DomXmpParser incorrectly expects namespaces on attribute level
[PDFBOX-5980] - BDC processor mishandles property name
[PDFBOX-5987] - Can't render some Type1C fonts.
[PDFBOX-5989] - PDF to Image conversion results in a blank white page

Improvement
[PDFBOX-5938] - Implement PDFormXObject.setGroup()
[PDFBOX-5941] - CertificateVerifier.isSelfSigned() should not throw an exception
[PDFBOX-5946] - Use Zapf Dingbats code for cross text annotation
[PDFBOX-5947] - Support PushPin, Tag and Graph file attachment annotation icons
[PDFBOX-5950] - Improve PDFMergerUtility memory footprint
[PDFBOX-5955] - Support rare RC4 encryption where R=4, key length < 128 bits
[PDFBOX-5974] - Improve checkWithNumberTree() test
[PDFBOX-5985] - Use SHA256 instead of MD5 for document id

Wish
[PDFBOX-974] - PrintPDF should not be case sensitive against printer name on Windows

Task
[PDFBOX-5986] - Run regression tests for 2.0.34

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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