See the full release notes below for details about this release.
Note that a regression related to the way certain font encodings are handled was detected after this release was prepared. See PDFBOX-619 for the details. A fix to this issue will be included in a 1.0.1 patch release in near future.
Release Notes -- Apache FontBox -- Version 1.0.0
Introduction
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Apache FontBox is an open source Java library for working with PDF fonts.
The most notable changes in this release are the upgrade to Java 5, added support for Adobe CFF/Type2 fonts and switch of the build system from Ant to Maven. For more details, please refer to the following issues on the PDFBox issue tracker at https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX:
[PDFBOX-542] Support for Adobe CFF/Type2 fonts
[PDFBOX-572] Upgrading PDFBox (incl. JempBox and FontBox) to use Java 5 ...
[PDFBOX-608] Bug in CMap implementation
[PDFBOX-613] Adobe CFF/Type2 font additions
See the Apache PDFBox website at http://pdfbox.apache.org/ for more information about PDFBox and FontBox.
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.
About The Apache Software Foundation
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