Release Notes

In addition to general bug fixes, and performance enhancements, refer to the changes below for each release.

March, 2021

Change

Description

New

Added support for eraser annotation tool to erase parts of drawing annotations.

New

New viewer API to fetch and open bookmarks in the PDF programmatically.

January, 2021

Change

Description

New

Added support for add text annotation in annotation APIs.

New

New viewer APIs to perform zoom and search operations on the PDF programmatically.

New

Enhancements in the mobile view experience of PDF files displayed using PDF Embed API.

New

Added a new event for “UNSUPPORTED_FEATURE_FOUND” which will be generated when any unsupported feature is used by the end-user.

New

Added a new section in documentation about recommended approaches for search engine indexing of PDF files displayed using PDF Embed API.

November, 2020

Change

Description

New

Added support for document search in the in-line embed mode.

New

Previously, the updateAnnotation API only supported updating comment text. It now supports updating color, stroke width, position and bounding box.

September, 2020

Change

Description

New

Added support for the new “Add Text Comment” annotation tool which adds free text to PDFs.

New

UI improvements in the right-hand comments panel.

New

Events for annotation actions.

New

Improvement in the PDF viewing experience in sized container embed mode by enabling fade-in and fade-out of page controls along with the top bar.

Bug fix

Previously, there was an issue in Embed API which caused the rendering of few PDFs to fail, and users would see an error message. This is now resolved and those PDFs render correctly in the web viewer.

August, 2020

Change

Description

New

Sized container full screen mode only: To facilitate exiting from full screen mode, support was added for a Close button in the top bar on all platforms as well as support for the swipe down gesture on mobile browsers.

New

Sized container full screen mode only: Improved the PDF preview experience in full screen mode on mobile browsers.

Bug fix

Previously, disabling print via the API disabled the context menu items behind the overflow icon but did not disable the keyboard shortcuts in all cases. Now, the API disables both the menu items and the keyboard shortcuts.

July, 2020

Change

Description

New

Moved the document search bar below the top bar in full window embed mode to unblock the annotation tools during a search operation.

New

PDF Embed API bug fixes and documentation updates around the save behavior.