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Changes are sorted by "type" and then chronologically with the most recent at the top. These symbols denote the various action types: add=add, fix=fix, remove=remove, update=update

Version 2.11 (6 May 2025)

Changes to the Code Base

• FOP-3236: Add all the needed namespaces to the parent element
• FOP-3241: Add option to convert image to CMYK
• XGC-142: Add generics to hints
• XGC-143: Use mvn for bundle jar
• XGC-145: Avoid parsing uri to read page number

Version 2.10 (9 Oct 2024)

Changes to the Code Base

• FOP-3135: Allow source resolution configuration
• FOP-3144: Add new schema to handle pdf/a and pdfa/ua
• XGC-127: Set an automatic module name
• XGC-139: Switch to spotbugs
• XGC-141: Do not use a singleton for ImageImplRegistry

Version 2.9 (22 Aug 2023)

Changes to the Code Base

• XGC-133: Fix test for Java 11
• FOP-3127: Allow XMP at PDF page level

Version 2.8 (9 Nov 2022)

Changes to the Code Base

• FOP-3051: Upgrade to Commons IO 2.11
• FOP-3055: Use a event for a draw image error
• FOP-3091: Add transparency color support for PS
• XGC-130: Allow subproperties in XMP
• XGC-132: Fallback to raw png if ImageIO cannot read image

Version 2.7 (20 Jan 2022)

Changes to the Code Base

• XGC-128: Remove image transparency for PS
• FOP-3038: Allow sections which need security permissions to be run when AllPermission denied in caller code
• FOP-3032: Embed pdf into afp using unique type

Version 2.6 (20 Jan 2021)

Changes to the Code Base

• XGC-123: Decode image at page load rather than document load
• XGC-122: Dont load DTDs in XMP

Version 2.4 (5 Nov 2019)

Changes to the Code Base

• FOP-2821: 1 bit image fails when using PreloaderRawPNG
• FOP-2856: Support compile on Java 12
• FOP-2873: Update to PDFBox 2.0.16
• XGC-112: TIFF resolution wrong on Java 10
• XGC-116: Don't draw fully transparent alpha on PS

Version 2.3 (23 May 2018)

Changes to the Code Base

• FOP-2251: PDF to PostScript not showing transparency
• FOP-2739: Avoid rastering PDF with Smask to image
• FOP-2740: PDF to PostScript tiling pattern error in Acrobat
• FOP-2753: PDF to PostScript allow fop fonts as fallback
• XGC-98: UndeclaredThrowableException while loading images
• XGC-111: Improve error message when language is empty

Version 2.2 (24 March 2017)

Changes to the Code Base

• update Support for Maven Build Process
• update AFP rounded corners not in CMYK

Version 2.1 (14 January 2016)

Changes to the Code Base

• fix Fix "insufficient data for an image" error: jai_imageio dependency regression
• fix Fix performancy penalty caused by excessive DeflaterOutputStream.write(byte) calls, thanks to Andre Klemann
• fix Include ps-setpagedevice when dsc-compliant is false
• fix UndeclaredThrowableException while loading images
• update Add PreloaderRawPNG to handle images ImageIO cant
• update Add support for PDF/A-3
• update Support CMYK JPEG in AFP
• update Support PDF/UA
• update Truetype support for AFP

Version 2.0.1 (3 June 2015)

Changes to the Code Base

• update PDF VT support. Committed by SS.
• update PDF to PS deduplication of images. Committed by SS.

Version 2.0 (1 Octomber 2014)

Changes to the Code Base

• fixReduce PDF to PS filesize. Committed by SS.

• fixPDF-A preflight warnings. Committed by SS.

• fixDSCParser always throws DSCException %%EOF not found when checkEOF is false. Committed by VH. Patch by Teon Metselaar, applied with minor changes + a test case.

• fixWeird border color inheritance (hashCode collisions). Committed by LB. Thanks to AG.

• fixImage written as having 72 DPI instead of its intrinstic resolution. Committed by LB.

• fixJavadocs fails on Java 8. Committed by SS.

• fixJPEG is squashed. Committed by SS.

• fix64bit image missing in pdf. Committed by LB. Thanks to SS.

• fixFOP-1801: conversion B&W GIF=>PDF creates PDF with colorspace RGB if FOP0.95 and Gray if FOP0.20.5;. Committed by LB. Thanks to Thanasis Giannimaras.

• fixIncorrect rendering of GIF images. Committed by LB. Thanks to Thanasis Giannimaras.

• update CMYK TIFF is rendered using RGB colourspace in Postscript output. Committed by LB. Thanks to SS.

• addAdd support for APP1 (Exif) segment in JPEG images. Committed by LB.

• addAdd support for svg gradients when generating PostScript. Committed by LB. Thanks to RM.

• fixSVN line clipping not correct when outputting to Postscript. Committed by RM.

• updateMake JPEGFile more resilient against potentially malformed JPEGs. Committed by JM.

• addAdded new subroutine to support OTF CFF in PostScript. Committed by LB. Thanks to RM.

• fix1 bit TIFF error. Committed by LB. Thanks to SS.

• fixJBIG2 PDF not shown in PS. Committed by LB. Thanks to SS.

• add provide a way to close the resources associated to an image without fully loading it. Committed by VH.

• updateUse event producer when Colour Profile in PNG Image is bad. Committed by LB. Thanks to SS.

• updateChange to XGC to support the changes in FOP for image scaling. Scaling by resolution is removed to avoid duplicate scaling. Committed by LB. Thanks to RM.

• fixFixes gradient fill opacity incorrectly inherits stroke opacity of previous svg element. Committed by LB.

• addLittle endian support for tiff images. Commited by LB. Thanks to JM and RM. See Issue [54195] (https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54196)

• fixsupport for sRGB and iCCP chunks. Committed by LB. See Issue [53408]

• fixSupport rdf:resource attributes in XMP. Committed by GA. Thanks to Brian Carlson. See Issue 50497.

• fixShould never use Error to report runtime errors. Committed by GA. Thanks to Sebastian Bazley. See Issue 47174.

• fixEnsure that throwables have meaningful messages. Committed by GA. Thanks to Sebastian Bazley. See Issue 47175.

• fixSupport for T.4 Group 3 1D encoding. Committed by PH. Thanks to JM and Mehdi Houshmand. See Issue 51911.

• fixFixed a bug formatting ISO 8601 dates with negative two-digit time zones. Committed by JM. Thanks to Florian Barbera Vila Bollain. See Issue 51039.

• fixAllow to override priority when registering an ImageWriter on the ImageWriterRegistry. Committed by JM. Thanks to Joshua Marquart. See Issue 49696.

• fixFix for TIFFs which report zero as their resolution. This resulted in an exception. Committed by JM.

• removeRemoved dependency on com.sun classes to achieve compatibility with Apache Harmony, OpenJDK and possibly other JVMs. Committed by JM.

• removeRemoval of the deprecated TextHandler.drawString(String, float, float) method. Committed by JM.

• updateMinor build improvements to eliminate warning and parameterize junit formatting. Eliminate (5) deprecation warnings. Committed by GA.

• updateVarious code style fixes Committed by JM. Thanks to Glenn Adams. See Issue 49703.

Contributors to this release

We thank the following people for their contributions to this release.

This is a list of all people who participated as committers:

Glenn Adams (GA), Luis Bernado(LB), Alexios Giotis (AG), Peter Hancock(PH), Vincent Hennebert (VH), Jeremias Märki (JM). Robert Meyer(RM), Simon Steiner (SS)

This is a list of other contributors:

Brian Carlson, Florian Barbera Vila Bollain, Glenn Adams, JM and Mehdi Houshmand, Joshua Marquart, Sebastian Bazley, Thanasis Giannimaras.

Version 1.5 (20 October 2012)

Changes to the Code Base

There is no significative change since Release Version 1.5-RC1.

Contributors to this release

We thank the following people for their contributions to this release.

This is a list of all people who participated as committers:

Glenn Adams (GA), Max Berger (MB), Chris Bowditch (CB), Adrian Cumiskey (AC), Christian Geisert (CG), Peter Hancock (PH), Vincent Hennebert (VH), Clay Leeds (CL), Jeremias Märki (JM), Cameron McCormack (CM), Simon Pepping (SP).

This is a list of other contributors:

Brian Carlson, Florian Barbera, Glenn Adams, Joshua Marquart, Julien Aymé, Luis Bernardo, Matthias Reischenbacher, Mehdi Houshmand, Robert Meyer, Sebastian Bazley, Vila Bollain.

Version 1.5-RC1 (2 July 2012)

Changes to the Code Base

• fixAdd two PNG image loaders, one using internal XGC PNG code, the other using an externally supplied IDAT chunk (for raw decoding). Committed by GA. Thanks to Luis Bernardo, Matthias Reischenbacher. See Issue 53408.

• updateFix corner cases involving long/double conversion and rounding error in double division when rounding 5E-N for certain N. Committed by GA. Thanks to Julien Aymé. See Issue 53327.

• updateFix determination of use of precise vs fast formatting in order to fix regression with value 5.22534294505995E-4, decimals: 17, precision: 17. Committed by GA. Thanks to Julien Aymé. See Issue 53327.

• fixUpgrade to checkstyle-5.5 and ensure no warnings. Committed by GA. See Issue 53352.

• fixImprove performance for certain kinds of PNG images. Committed by GA. Thanks to Luis Bernardo. See Issue 51149.

• fixFix handling of values less than 1E-300. Committed by GA. Thanks to Julien Aymé. See Issue 53327.

• updateFix handling of NaN, {+,-}Infinity, and other edge cases in double format utility. Committed by GA. Thanks to Julien Aymé. See Issue 43940.

• fixUnify date formatting between FOP and XGC as well as tidying the date format code. Committed by GA. Thanks to Robert Meyer. See Issue 53184.

• fixFix for XGC when rendering PostScript using SVG being drawn upside down when using a custom affine transform. Committed by GA. Thanks to Robert Meyer. See Issue 53177.

• updateUse new double format utility. Committed by GA. Thanks to Julien Aymé. See Issue 43940.

• addAdd double format utility to improve thread safety and performance. Committed by GA. Thanks to Julien Aymé. See Issue 43940.

• fixSupport rdf:resource attributes in XMP. Committed by GA. Thanks to Brian Carlson. See Issue 50497.

• fixShould never use Error to report runtime errors. Committed by GA. Thanks to Sebastian Bazley. See Issue 47174.

• fixEnsure that throwables have meaningful messages. Committed by GA. Thanks to Sebastian Bazley. See Issue 47175.

• updateMinor build improvements to eliminate warning and parameterize junit formatting.

  Eliminate (5) deprecation warnings. Committed by GA.

• fixSupport for T.4 Group 3 1D encoding. Committed by PH. Thanks to Mehdi Houshmand. See Issue 51911.

• fixFixed a bug formatting ISO 8601 dates with negative two-digit time zones. Committed by JM. Thanks to Florian Barbera, Vila Bollain. See Issue 51039.

• removeRemoved dependency on com.sun classes to achieve compatibility with Apache Harmony,OpenJDK and possibly other JVMs. Committed by JM.

• removeRemoval of the deprecated TextHandler.drawString(String, float, float) method. Committed by JM.

• updateVarious code style fixes Committed by JM. Thanks to Glenn Adams. See Issue 49703.

• fixAllow to override priority when registering an ImageWriter on the ImageWriterRegistry. Committed by JM. Thanks to Joshua Marquart. See Issue 49696.

• fixFix for TIFFs which report zero as their resolution. This resulted in an exception. Committed by JM.

Contributors to this release

We thank the following people for their contributions to this release.

This is a list of all people who participated as committers:

Glenn Adams (GA), Max Berger (MB), Chris Bowditch (CB), Adrian Cumiskey (AC), Christian Geisert (CG), Peter Hancock (PH), Vincent Hennebert (VH), Clay Leeds (CL), Jeremias Märki (JM), Cameron McCormack (CM), Simon Pepping (SP).

This is a list of other contributors:

Brian Carlson, Florian Barbera, Glenn Adams, Joshua Marquart, Julien Aymé, Luis Bernardo, Matthias Reischenbacher, Mehdi Houshmand, Robert Meyer, Sebastian Bazley, Vila Bollain.

Version 1.4 (7 July 2010)

Changes to the Code Base

• addAdded getter and setter for enabling/disabling comments in PSGenerator. Committed by JM. Thanks to Julien Aymé. See Issue 49250.

• addSmall optimization which only generates code for a clipping area if an element is not fully inside the clipping area. Committed by JM. Thanks to Calixte Denizet. See Issue 49056.

• addAdded option to enable/disable the generation of compact vs. verbose PostScript code. Committed by JM. See Issue 48797.

• addAdded shorthands for many PostScript commands to get more compact PostScript files. Committed by JM. Thanks to Calixte Denizet. See Issue 48797.

• addAdded code for supporting the AdobeStandardCyrillic encoding. Committed by JM. Thanks to Andrey Koltunov. See Issue 48395.

• addAdded interface for Color Conversions. Committed by CB. Thanks to Peter Hancock. See Issue 48237.

• addAdded support for configurable additional penalties for preloader, loader and converter plug-ins in the ImageImplRegistry (in addition to the hard-coded penalties). Committed by JM.

• addEnabled native encoding of CMYK images for PostScript output. Committed by JM. Thanks to Venkat Reddy. See Issue 48264.

• addSupport loading of ICC Profiles from PNG and JPEG when used through ImageIO. Committed by MB.

• addAdded 60 seconds expiration for invalid URIs in the image cache to recover from temporarily unavailable images. Committed by JM.

• addAdded TexturePaint support for PSGraphics2D (PostScript tiling patterns). Committed by JM. Thanks to Jiří Kunhart. See Issue 46583.

• addXMP framework: Added support for the structure property shorthand form and for specifying simple property values as attributes on rdf:Description elements. Committed by JM.

• addAdded RefinedImageFlavor to the image loading framework for better refinement of image flavors. Committed by JM.

• fixTwo properties didn't get copied in copy constructor of PSState. Committed by JM. Thanks to Julien Aymé. See Issue 49364.

• fixBugfix for detecting multi-strip CCITT-encoded TIFFs. Committed by JM.

• fixBugfix: Properly handle file URLs where URL.getHost() is an empty string. Committed by JM.

• fixBugfix: Clip area got lost while cloning GraphicContext. Committed by JM.

• fixSwitched from linear RGB to sRGB for the fallback color model, in order to avoid trouble with some images (CMYK TIFF, for example). Committed by JM.

• fixBugfix: reset graphic state when a page is finished in PostScript. Committed by JM.

• fixBugfix: glyph names starting with ‘u’ but not in the ‘official’ glyph list could cause a StringIndexOutOfBoundsException because they were parsed as u1234-like unicode values. Committed by VH.

• fixBugfix: Streams were not closed in Service class. Committed by JM.

• fixCatching IllegalArgumentException in XMPSerializer when the Transformer implementation in use doesn't support the INDENT key. Committed by JM.

• fixAdded the ability to assign a string value for a key in a postscript dictionary. Committed by AC. Thanks to Jiří Kunhart. See Issue 46292.

• fixMade loading images via Image I/O more robust: A PNG with a zero resolution should fall back to the default resolution. Committed by JM. See Issue 45789.

• fixJPEGPreloader: Fixed interpretation of JPEG resolution when "dots per centimeter" is specified. Committed by JM. See Issue 45835.

• fixBugfix: Added missing start/endPrefixMapping() calls when serializing XMP packets. Committed by JM.

• updateOptimization for PostScript state handling in (E)PSDocumentGraphics2D. Committed by JM. Thanks to Julien Aymé. See Issue 49339.

• updatePS output: Using shorthand procedures for rectangles instead of the generic shape processor. Committed by JM. Thanks to Julien Aymé. See Issue 49338.

• updateMoved method disableClipping from AbstractPSDocumentGraphics2D to PSGraphics2D. Committed by JM. Thanks to Julien Aymé. See Issue 49337.

Contributors to this release

We thank the following people for their contributions to this release.

This is a list of all people who participated as committers:

Adrian Cumiskey (AC), Chris Bowditch (CB), Jeremias Märki (JM), Max Berger (MB), Vincent Hennebert (VH).

This is a list of other contributors:

Andrey Koltunov, Calixte Denizet, Jiří Kunhart, Julien Aymé, Peter Hancock, Venkat Reddy.

Version 1.3.1 (11 June 2008)

Changes to the Code Base

• addAdded fallbacks for Type 1 fonts which don't have the normal "one", "two" etc. glyphs, but actually only provide "oneoldstyle", "twooldstyle" etc. Committed by JM.

• addAdded an image loader for XML Graphics Commons' internal TIFF codec. Committed by JM.

• addAdded image processing hints to ignore an optionally embedded color profile in JPEG images. Committed by JM.

• fixMade file URLs with a host (as happens when using UNC paths) work when loading images. Committed by JM. See Issue 44902.

• fixBugfix for classpath resources: the code doesn't just check the system class loader anymore. Committed by MB.

• fixBugfix for a potential multi-threading issue concerning the use of the java.text package. Committed by JM.

• fixBugfix for extracting ICC color profiles from JPEG images. Committed by JM.

• fixFixed two cases of unclosed input streams in image loader code. Committed by JM.

• fixBugfix for unhandled NumberFormatException in Glpyhs when a unknown glyph name starting with "u" is found. Committed by JM.

• fixBugfix for ImageEncodingHelper which produced false results if an image's sample model used BGR instead of RGB. Committed by JM.

• fixFixed behaviour for the cases where a corrupt PNG image is encountered. Committed by JM.

• fixBugfix for EOFException when pre-loading very small PNG images (file size < 88 bytes). Committed by JM.

Contributors to this release

We thank the following people for their contributions to this release.

This is a list of all people who participated as committers:

Jeremias Märki (JM), Max Berger (MB).

Version 1.3 (07 Feb 2008)

Changes to the Code Base

• addImage Loading: Support for passing in SAXSource instance. Committed by JM. Thanks to Adam Strzelecki. See Issue 44466.

• addThe package org.apache.xmlgraphics.image.loader was added. It contains a general image loading framework for various image formats (bitmap & vector). Committed by JM.

• addXMP: Added support for structured properties. Committed by JM.

• addPostScript: Added classes for "BoundingBox" DSC comments. Committed by JM.

• addAdded support for classpath resources (find files in JAR files in the classpath using their MIME type) Committed by JM. Thanks to Max Berger. See Issue 42980.

• addApplication of the patch in Bugzilla 43069: New Macro safe-set-page-device which guards against the possibility of invalid/unsupported postscript key/values being issued to the implementing postscript page device Committed by CB. Thanks to Adrian Cumiskey. See Issue 43069.

• fixBugfix for ISO 8601 date formatting with negative time zones in the XMP package. Committed by JM.

• fixBugfix for XMP serialization: arrays with only one entry were serialized as simple property which could lead to information loss for merge operations. Committed by JM.

• fixPostScript: Fixed %%EOF checking for nested documents. Committed by JM.

• fixPostScript: Improved robustness of DSC parsing (multi-line comments with no value on the first line don't cause crashes anymore, fallback for unparsable DSC comments). Committed by JM.

• fixFixed a possible NPE in the TIFF codec (in the TIFFImage constructor). Committed by JM. Thanks to Sergey Orlov. See Issue 43120.

• updateSupport for Java 1.3 has been dropped. Java 1.4 or later is required now. Committed by JM.

• updatePostScript: Improved PSImageUtils by introducing the ImageEncoder interface and allowing for streams instead of byte arrays for data transfer which can lower memory consumption. Committed by JM.

Contributors to this release

We thank the following people for their contributions to this release.

This is a list of all people who participated as committers:

Chris Bowditch (CB), Jeremias Märki (JM).

This is a list of other contributors:

Adam Strzelecki, Adrian Cumiskey, Max Berger, Sergey Orlov.

Version 1.2 (21 July 2007)

Changes to the Code Base

• addAdded support for CMYK and GRAY color spaces for PSGenerator (moved there from PSGraphics2D). Committed by JM. Thanks to Adrian Cumiskey. See Issue 42507.

• fixFixed literal text string escaping in PSGenerator. Some characters were not properly escaped. Committed by JM.

• fixFixed the PDF/A namespace according to ISO-19005-1:2005/Cor.1:2007 and deprecated the use of the draft PDF/A namespace used by Adobe Acrobat 7.x. Committed by JM.

Contributors to this release

We thank the following people for their contributions to this release.

This is a list of all people who participated as committers:

Jeremias Märki (JM).

This is a list of other contributors:

Adrian Cumiskey.

Version 1.1 (22 Dec 2006)

Changes to the Code Base

• addAdded the start of an XMP metadata framework. Committed by JM.

• addImageWriter abstraction now supports writing multi-page formats like TIFF. Committed by JM.

• addImageWriter implementation for TIFF output using Image I/O API. Committed by JM.

• addDefault implementation for AbstractGraphics2D.drawText(ACI, float, float) so PSGraphics2D supports painting text using the AttributedCharacterIterator. Committed by JM. Thanks to Max Berger.

• fixVarious fixes and improvements in the ImageWriter abstraction. Committed by JM.

• fixBugfix: The generation of the PostScript setdash command was assuming that only integer values can be used but that isn't the case. Committed by JM.

Contributors to this release

We thank the following people for their contributions to this release.

This is a list of all people who participated as committers:

Jeremias Märki (JM).

This is a list of other contributors:

Max Berger.

Version 1.0 (17 Apr 2006)

Changes to the Code Base

• addInitial release with several components from Batik and FOP: Image codecs, Image writer abstraction, I/O classes, Java2D helpers, PostScript library with Graphics2D implementation. Committed by JM.

Contributors to this release

We thank the following people for their contributions to this release.

This is a list of all people who participated as committers:

Jeremias Märki (JM).

All Committers

This is a list of all people who have ever participated as committers on this project.

• Glenn Adams (GA)

• Max Berger (MB)

• Chris Bowditch (CB)

• Adrian Cumiskey (AC)

• Christian Geisert (CG)

• Vincent Hennebert (VH)

• Clay Leeds (CL)

• Jeremias Märki (JM)

• Cameron McCormack (CM)

• Simon Pepping (SP)

• Volunteer needed (open)

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