Release Notes¶

This document describes the change history across releases for supported versions. For details regarding versioning and support policies, see Version - Support policy.

Supported versions¶

This document as well as the URLs on Adobe’s website and other documentation link to the latest product version.

Note: Links to repository assets (e.g. GIT, Maven, etc.) direct to the top level directory. To download assets that match the documentation, navigate to the correct version. For example, When using the 1.0.0 Java documentation, you can find the 1.0.0 samples in the GIT repo as follows:

Go to the GIT repo.
Select Releases.
Select and download the needed release.

Documentation library¶

Refer to the following for links to supported product documentation.

Item	Public doc
1.2.0	Web page
1.1.0	Web page
1.0.0	Web page

Change types¶

Change types include the following:

New: Features or implementation changes added in the current release.
Changed: Modified code that changes a feature or implementation detail.
Security: A patch or bug fixed released in an out-of-band patch.
Deprecated: Existing functionality for which support is ending (or ended).

Note

The new release is backward compatible with the previous release. Upgrading to the latest SDK should not break existing applications.

Change history¶

1.2.0 (September, 2020; minor release)¶
Change	Language	Description
New	All	Added more features to the password-protect operation to secure a PDF with an owner password and to enable users to restrict features like printing, editing and copying.
New	All	Added an operation for removing password protection from a PDF.
New	All	Added a split PDF operation that splits a PDF document into multiple smaller documents by simply specifying either the number of files, pages per file, or page ranges.

1.1.0 (June, 2020; minor release)¶
Change	Language	Description
New	All	Added a password-protect operation to securely open a PDF.
New	All	Added an operation for inserting a PDF file into an existing PDF.
New	All	Added a replace file operation which replaces a PDF with another.
New	All	Added an operation for deleting pages from a PDF.
New	All	Added a rotate page(s) operation for rotating one or more pages in a PDF.
New	All	Added reorder page(s) operation to support rearranging page(s) in a PDF.
New	All	Added a compress PDF operation to reduce a PDF file size.
New	All	Added a linearize operation to convert a PDF file into a web optimized PDF file for incremental access in network environments.
Changed	All	Changed the combine file limit from 12 to 20.

1.0.0 (March, 2020; First major release)¶
Change	Language	Description
New	All	Added create PDF operation to create PDF from Office formats, image formats and HTML (doc, docx, ppt, pptx, xls, xlsx, txt, rtf, bmp, gif, tiff, jpeg, png).
New	All	Added export PDF operation to export PDF to Office formats and image formats (doc, docx, pptx, rtf, xlsx, jpeg, png).
New	All	Added combine PDF files operation.
New	All	Added an OCR operation to convert PDF files into a searchable PDF.