Toolkit Release Notes 2011 R4.3


2011 R4.3


This article contains the release notes for ActivePDF Toolkit 2011 R4.3 (Build 5.4.3.14134).


Operating System Requirements


The following software is required for full use of Toolkit.

  • Windows Server® 2003 32- or 64-bit edition OR
  • Windows Server® 2008 32- or 64-bit edition OR
  • Windows Server® 2012 64-bit edition


Hardware Requirements


The following are minimum hardware requirements for Toolkit.

  • Pentium III 500-MHz or higher
  • 128 MB of RAM
  • 25 MB of hard disk space (for application)


Additional Requirements


Toolkit does not require the installation of any version of .NET to complete product installation. However, you cannot use Toolkit’s .NET components, unless your system has the minimum version of .NET required for the .NET component (1.1 or 2.0) you wish to use.


Important Changes


Please take note of the following new changes in Toolkit 2011 R4.3.


  • The License Manager

The ActivePDF License Manager has been updated to simplify the process of managing and maintaining product licenses. To learn more about the License Manager 2013, see the License Manager Reference here: https://support.activepdf.com/support/solutions/articles/35000174319-license-manager-documentation 


  • VLA Installers

VLA installers cannot yet be built with License Manager 2013, and should instead be built with License Manager 2011. Please contact ActivePDF Sales for assistance.


  • Toolkit Standard Users

Beginning with this release of Toolkit 2011 R4.3, your existing Standard keys for Toolkit will not function with Toolkit's new installer, which includes the new License Manager 2013. Please contact ActivePDF Subscriptions to determine the appropriate upgrade path. NOTE: Keys for Toolkit Professional are not affected and can be used with License Manager 2013.


Bug Fixes


The following issues were resolved in this release of Toolkit:



Bug ID #



Description



Resolution



2918



FILE SPECIFIC: After encryption, the file fails to open and results in Error 14.



Toolkit no longer attempts to encrypt the object stream twice.



2976



.NET ONLY: Calling EncryptFile multiple times results in a memory leak.



A change was made to release memory objects.



3325



FILE SPECIFIC: On a 32-bit system, CopyForm crashes when opening the PDF.



Changed the way extremely large numbers are handled in the PDF on 32-bit systems.



3606



Toolkit version 5.4.1.13272 locks up when attempting OpenInputFile.



Emptied the /Kids array within the /Pages object array.



3672



Using MergeFile results in an Access Violation error, "Attempted to read or write protected memory. This is often an indication that other memory is corrupt."



Changed the way non-flate encoded data is handled in the font program object.



3700



FILE SPECIFIC: Merged documents contain additional pages that are very small in size. The error, "There was a problem reading this document (23) with Toolkit version," appears when attempting to scroll through the pages.



Toolkit was updated to handle empty pages.



3736



Unable to convert TIFs to PDFs without using any local file storage. PrintTIFF results in an Access Violation error.



Although TiffToPDF, JPEGToPDF and ImageToPDF all take input memory files, they do not currently output memory files. A change was made to PrintTIFF to resolve the crashing issue.



3812



FILE SPECIFIC: The error, "Univers_57_Condensed," occurs on CopyForm or Merge and the resulting output file contains garbled data.



Support was added for abbreviations in PDF stream object dictionaries.



3820



FILE SPECIFIC: The error, "Unhandled exception at 0x0177bb0f in wscript.exe: 0xC0000005: Access violation writing location 0x00000000," occurs when attempting to Merge the file.



The decryption component was updated for handling of blank, encrypted strings in the input PDF.