v9.0.9

PDFjet v9.0.9, in all four ports: Java, C#, Go and Swift, kept behaviorally identical. A small release on top of 9.0.7: 3 additions, 2 changes and 2 fixes, listed in CHANGELOG.md under v9.0.9.

Highlights

• Markdown reads more of GitHub's Markdown. Task lists, - [ ] and - [x], are drawn with a box, gray when open and filled with a check mark when done, and read by a screen reader as ☐ and ☑; _italic_ and __bold__, which leave snake_case alone; ~~strikethrough~~; and addresses written out, https://pdfjet.com, as links. Markup reads them too.
• Colors for Markdown: setHeadingColor, setLinkColor and setCheckColor. The underline of a link is in the color of the link.
• Faster text. Each font keeps the glyph and the width of the ASCII characters it has: a 2,546-page table is 21% faster in Go and 11% in C#, with the same PDF.
• Go 1.26 or later, not 1.27; CI tests both.

Fixed

• A link, or underlined or struck-through text, that ended a paragraph had its line drawn one space past its last word.

Upgrading

• No changes to the API besides the additions.
• A Markup or Markdown text with _ or __ around words, ~~, or an address written out is drawn differently: as GitHub's Markdown draws it, where 9.0.7 drew the marks as text. A \_ keeps an underscore as it is.
• The bytes of a PDF with links differ from 9.0.7's: their underline is now in the link's color.

PDFjet Core

The Java and .NET packages of PDFjet Core are attached below: PDFjet-ForJava-Core.zip and PDFjet-For.NET-Core.zip, with the library, the reference documentation and the 50 examples with the PDFs they make, and the libraries alone, PDFjet.jar and PDFjet.dll. PDFjet Pro, with digital signatures, electronic invoices, the Swiss QR-bill and now the EPC QR code for SEPA payments, is at pdfjet.com.