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Foxit PDF SDK v8.4.0
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This is a minor release

____New API____
* Support for Mac ARM with M1 processor.
* Full support python and python wheels on Windows, Linux, and Mac. 

____New Features/Changes____
* Support for generating tables in PDF
    Relevant API: foxit.addon.TableGenerator Class 
* Auto tags PDFs and sets the alternative text for images.  
    Relevant API: addon: accessibility.
* SDK is now thread-safe code except for OCR-related APIs. 
* office2PDF supports Linux.
* New parameter to scale the annotations and form fields. 
    Relevant API: PDFPage.Transform()
* New interface to turn on /off to simulate overprinting
    Relevant API: pdf.OutputPreview.EnableSimulateOverprint()
* New interface to notify changes when setting new field values.
    Relevant API: ActionCallback::OnFieldValueChanged
* New flag to support for comparing annotation only. 
    Relevant APIs: Comparison::DoCompare()
* Support for importing form fields from a template-based FDF file. 
    Relevant API: PDFDoc::ImportFromFDF()
* Updated the output type of the PagingSealSignature as a signature instead of annotation.
* Optimize the cloud annotation to make the cloudy intensity generated by SDK appear same in other PDF editors. 
* The function OCRPDFDocuments() supports multiprocessing.
* The minimum support for the Linux GCC compiler version was upgraded to 4.9.4.

____Demo____
* New Demo for stamping with paging seal.
* New demo for form recognition.
* New demo for auto tagging PDF
* New Demo for fill&sign
* New Demo for Creating table.

____Documentation____
* New Developer Guide for Python

____Bug Fixes____
* Fixed crash after several failures to load PDF files in .Net framework.
* Fixed an issue where the cloneBitmap gets the image with incorrect color space from the graphic image object.
* Fixed an issue where color pixels appeared when rendering black text in DIB format rgb or rgb32.
* Fixed an issue where certain Unicode characters rendered improperly when they were placed as annotations.
* Fixed an issue where XFA files failed to render on certain pages. 
* Fixed the "std:regex_error" when setting telephone number on a form field in Linux. 
* Fixed an issue where the viewer would move the page when selecting multiple lines of text in a Text Field in the .Net ViewDemo. 
* Fixed an issue where the cursor position could not be moved using the arrow keys in the .Net ViewDemo.
* Fixed the crashes or freezes due to increased memory when calling get "GetUserPermissions()" and "GetSignature()" using multithreading in Windows .Net Core.
* [PrintManager] Fixed an issue where the entire page was shrank to half the page when printing some PDF pages in Windows .Net.
* Fixed an issue where signing a document with existing signature fields breaks all previous signatures and PDF/A compliance in .Net.
* Fixed the exception when setting Arabic text into bookmark title in Linux.
* Fixed an issue where the NSimsun font could not be embedded. 

Foxit PDF SDK v8.3.2
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This is a maintenance release

____Bug Fixes____
* [PrintManager] Fixed error when printing certain multi-page documents with the Ricoh 9001 printer. 
* [.Net] Fixed crash when getting textmatrix (text transformation text) from TextState.   
* [Demo] Fixed exception when printing a specific document through pdfprint demo.
* Fixed issue where named destinations are lost after merging documents.
* Fixed issue when using the StartExtractPages to extract pages from a tagged PDF, the resulting document does not contain the 'markinfo' flag. 
* Fixed issue when the destination name is null, the GoToR action resolves to a wrong named destination. 
* Fixed the rendering issue when the PDF page contains one bpp images with masks.
* Fixed issue where the text in the document became distorted and the page size changed after OCR recognition. 
* Fixed issue where the font embedding increased the resulting file size.
* Fixed issue where the arialbd.ttf bold can not be rendered when calling Field.SetDefaultAppearance to set the ap.  

____Optimization____
* Optimize the cloud annotation to make the cloudy intensity generated by SDK appear same in other PDF editors.   

____Document_____
* New Developer guide for Python.
* DotNet Core Developer guide added new FAQ article: How to run simple demo in .Net 6.

Foxit PDF SDK v8.3.1
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This is a maintenance release

____Improvements____
* Improved PDF optimization ratio by optimizing embedded font and XRefStream. 

____Bug Fixes____
* [HTML2PDF] Fixed issue where no exception thrown when setting invalid parameters. 
* [PrintManager] The highlight annotation color becomes opaque in the printed output without enabling "Print as Image".. 
* [PrintManager] The process is still running after the app is closed in .Net framework.  
* [PrintManager] Fixed printing issue where the output is blank with 'print as bitmap' enabled. 
* The incorrect appearance after setting the field value which has shared AP streams  
* Fixed printing issue with multi-threading in .Net framework. 
* Fixed Form ListBox issue where the item is not selected when gaining focus.
* Fixed issue where GetPageText function returns garbles when extracting Hebrew text in .NetCore framework.
* On a specific documents missing page objects, calling getAnnotAtPoint function causes a crash issue.  
* [Python] Fixed ImportErorr issue where the demo is not actually running when running the demo with rundemo_python3.py.

Foxit PDF SDK v8.3
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This is a minor release
____New API____
* Python API for Windows
Currently, we only release the windows version based on python 2.7 and python 3.9. Please contact us if other versions are required.

____New Features____
* Freetext annotations fully support text-overflow
    Related API: foxit::pdf::annots::FreeText::AllowTextOverflow
* Seal signature support
    Related Class: foxit::pdf::PagingSealSignature
* A new flag to show all document comparison result's layers
    Related API: foxit::addon::comparison::Comparison::GenerateComparedDoc
* Support Image field
* Set layer name for combination
* 1bbp RGB support for Image.AddFrame() Method
    Related info：enum foxit::common::Bitmap::DIBFormat 
* Specify input encoding format for HTML file's HTML2PDF conversion
    Related API：
    foxit::addon::conversion::HTML2PDFSettingData
    enum foxit::addon::conversion::HTML2PDFSettingData::HTML2PDFEncodingFormat
* Add a flag to set whether to print background for HTML2PDF
    Related info: enum foxit::addon::conversion::HTML2PDFSettingData::HTML2PDFMediaStyle
* Add headers and footers customization for HTML2PDF conversion
    Related API：foxit::addon::conversion::HTML2PDFSettingData 
* Options to turn off the capture of images for HTML2PDF
    Related API：foxit::addon::conversion::HTML2PDFSettingData
* Options to decide whether to optimize tags for HTML2PDF
    Related API：foxit::addon::conversion::HTML2PDFSettingData 
* Add option to Remove underline decoration of hyperlinks for HTML2PDF
    Related API：foxit::addon::conversion::HTML2PDFSettingData 
* Enhance JavaScript Support

____Demo____
* Add more timestamp illustrations to the Signature Demo
* Add Sound annotation illustrations to the Annotation demo
* A print demo  for .NET CORE

____Bug Fixes____
* Some XFA refresh issue
* An issue when passed empty MenuListArray to foxit::ActionCallback::PopupMenu
* Some issues related to JavaScript
* Files size issue when inserting png files to PDF
* Issue of input as "xxx-xxx-xxxx" for phone number format Form Field
* Issue of PDFtoXML feature while file path included "\\"
* Issue of flattening a file included multi-signature field