Release Notes -- Apache PDFBox -- Version 2.0.32

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 2.0.31 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-5303] - preflight-app fails on Java 11+ with NoClassDefFoundError: javax/activation/DataSource
[PDFBOX-5784] - AppearanceGeneratorHelper assumes fontscale 1000
[PDFBOX-5789] - Remove release subproject
[PDFBOX-5790] - Don't use a predefined CMap if a ToUnicode CMap is present
[PDFBOX-5792] - Regression NPE in Splitter
[PDFBOX-5794] - The content of the specified font is lost，Google Chrome can display it
[PDFBOX-5795] - Crash for Softmask with incorrect backdrop color components
[PDFBOX-5798] - Observable Timing Discrepancy (Timing Attack)
[PDFBOX-5802] - Black rectangle over image
[PDFBOX-5806] - Wrong font substitution for Wingdings
[PDFBOX-5809] - PDDocument#importPage slowed down by factor 1300
[PDFBOX-5811] - Split aborts with broken destinations
[PDFBOX-5822] - IllegalArgumentException: Parameter must be 1-based, but is 0 when using PDFTextStripperByArea
[PDFBOX-5825] - Files created with PDFMergerExample are not correct PDF/A
[PDFBOX-5826] - Missing /Subtype and /Type in Metadata not detected
[PDFBOX-5827] - Multiple exceptions coming from org.apache.fontbox.ttf for different PDFs
[PDFBOX-5829] - IOException: Error expected floating point numberactual='-12.-1'
[PDFBOX-5830] - NullPointerException: Cannot invoke "String.codePointAt(int)" because "uni" is null
[PDFBOX-5835] - DomXmpParser - IllegalArgumentException: prefix cannot be "null" when creating a QName
[PDFBOX-5839] - ClassCastException: org.apache.pdfbox.cos.COSNull cannot be cast to org.apache.pdfbox.cos.COSDictionary
[PDFBOX-5842] - IllegalArgumentException: Width (26) and height (0) must be non-zero
[PDFBOX-5843] - There is an exception when getting embedded font, is it compatible?
[PDFBOX-5848] - Infinite loop after splitting and saving PDF / giant result files

Improvement
[PDFBOX-5807] - JPEGFactory. Reduce logging severity when no image metadata is present
[PDFBOX-5813] - Add test for surrogate pair character 𩸽
[PDFBOX-5818] - Update unicode Scripts.txt
[PDFBOX-5821] - Include a PDFA check with VeraPDF for CreatePDFATest
[PDFBOX-5837] - Add center constructor parameter to PDFPageable and to pdfbox-app
[PDFBOX-5840] - When splitting, keep named page destinations that are part of target document(s)
[PDFBOX-5851] - When this PDF is rendered with the "f" Operator, a black screen appears.

Task
[PDFBOX-5820] - Investigate why we get "response contains wrong nonce value" during build tests


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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