PDFlib TET 5.3

Optimizes PDF resource handling, and enhances language bindings for .NET 5, PHP 8, Perl 5.32 and Ruby 3.0.

Features

• Optimized PDF resource handling to improve performance for documents with excessive numbers of images, patterns or other resources.
• Security and performance updates of all third-party components.
• Harden processing of damaged and illegal PDF documents by testing the full Issue Tracker PDF corpus with tens of thousands of stressful PDF files.
• Expanded platform and CPU support including Apple macOS on ARM64 and Linux on ARM64.
• Timeout can be specified to limit processing time for large or complex files.
• Enhancements in all language bindings and updates for the latest language versions including Microsoft .NET 5, PHP 8, Perl 5.32 and Ruby 3.0.
• Support for native UTF-8, UTF-16 and UTF-32 Unicode strings in C++17 and C++20.
• Implement detection of certain kinds of attacks using legal PDF constructs overly large data structures.
• Improved TETML output for edge cases.
• Improved word boundary, list and paragraph detection.
• Support for Unicode 13.
• Improved performance for Classic .NET binding.
• Many minor bug fixes and improvements.
• Updated CJK character collections and CMaps for PDF 2.0.