This release of iText by Apryse brings support for .NET MAUI AOT compilation, and automated PDF/UA-2 validation during document creation. There’s also significant enhancement to PDF/UA creation and conversion from HTML, PDF optimization, and iText’s advanced typography features.
The PDF Shadow Attacks are a new class of security vulnerabilities for PDF. In case you need a tldr; then rest assured that iText is immune to the published attacks. However, we also found that iText 7 could be utilized to detect potentially malicious documents, resulting in this series of posts.
It’s a milestone release for this open source, permissively-licensed Java software for PDF creation and processing.
