SetaPDF 2.51 released!

Accessibility, tagged PDFs or PDF/UA are 🔥hot topics in the PDF world! Our SetaPDF-Merger component supports merging or splitting of tagged PDFs sinces version 2.49. In this release the next component follows and handles the tagging structure under the hood: The SetaPDF-FormFiller component supports flattening and deletion of form fields in tagged PDFs as of now!

Especially the flattening feature introduces a great solution to place dynamic content into existing tagged PDFs: The form field appearance will automatically become static content marked by a pre-defined structure element. You can find more details about the general handling in the manual of the SetaPDF-FormFiller component.

Also our SetaPDF-Stamper component got a native logic to mark stamps as artifacts now, which should cover almost all kind of watermarking or personalization tasks in tagged PDFs. Before implementing a hard logic into the SetaPDF-Stamper component for how to handle tagged PDFs we are collecting use-cases. By now we’ve updated a demo of the SetaPDF-Stamper component that allows you to add a text stamp to an existing tagged PDF while using an existing structure element as its parent element:

The parent element just needs an ID which is passed as a parameter to the proxy stamp class. The demo uses the current date and time for the stamp appearance but this could be anything such as a name or a reseller number. If you have any special need, feel free to contact us at support@setasign.com so that we can evaluate your requirements.

This release also comes with some improvements in the SetaPDF-Signer component regarding the creation of individual certificate collections. These collections are used to create certificate chains for gathering long term validation (LTV) information. With these improvements we build an example implementation based on an SQLite database.

For the complete changelog of all SetaPDF components please visit the news article on our website.