Setasign Manuals

Manual Changelog Overview of Main Changes in the Manual

2026-04-08

SetaPDF-FormFiller

• Added information about how the SetaPDF-FormFiller handles flattening or deletion of form fields in tagged PDFs.

SetaPDF-Stamper

• Added information about how to mark a stamp as an artifact in tagged PDFs.

SetaPDF-Signer

• Added information about the setAllowTrustedIntermediateCertificatesAsTrustAnchor() and getAllowTrustedIntermediateCertificatesAsTrustAnchor() methods of the Collector class.

2025-09-11

SetaPDF-Core

• Added information for how to create compressed object streams.

• Added information for PDF/UA helper class.

SetaPDF-Merger

• Added information about handling of tagged PDFs.

2025-06-19

SetaPDF-Extractor

• Added information of how to "Process a Result Several Times".

SetaPDF-Signer

• Added information about new methods in the dynamic appearance class: setText() and setLineHeightFactor().

2025-03-19

• Added information about migration to namespaces in SetaPDF in all manuals.

SetaPDF-Core

• Added information about PDF/A and ZUGFeRD helper classes.

2023-02-21

SetaPDF-Stamper

• Added documentation for the Rich-Text stamp class.

2022-10-11

SetaPDF-Signer

• Updated example for individual modules.

• Added an example for an individual module that uses a service that only returns the signature value which is embedded into the CMS structure.

2022-07-13

SetaPDF-Extractor

• Added information about additional methods in the Words result class.

2021-09-09

SetaPDF-Signer

• Updated information about the reserved space for signatures.

• Added information about the OCSP cache facility.

2020-12-22

SetaPDF-Core

• Added information about the TempStream writer class and reduced the information for the stream writer class.

2020-08-18/19

SetaPDF-Core

• Removed information about Zend Encoder.

• Added information about the stream writer class.

2020-07-03

SetaPDF-Signer

• Split "Individual Signature Process" into "Individual Module" and "External Implementation".

• Added information about the "Build Properties Dictionary".

2020-06-22

SetaPDF-Signer

• Added some information about how to create several signatures without knowing the field names.

2020-06-17

SetaPDF-Signer

• Added information about creation of Long-Term Validation (LTV) signatures.

2019-04-04

SetaPDF-Merger

• Updated parameter description and examples for $nameConfig in addFile() and addDocument() methods.

• Updated parameter description for $outlinesConfig in addFile() and addDocument() methods.

2018-12-17

SetaPDF-Merger

• Added information about memory usage improvement.

2018-09-27

SetaPDF-Signer

• Added information on how to handle individual signature field names.

2018-09-13

FPDI

• Updated manual in view to tFPDF support.

2018-09-06

SetaPDF-Core

• Added information for how to use and store composer credentials.

FPDI PDF-Parser

• Added information for how to use and store composer credentials.

2018-01-29

SetaPDF-Core

• Updated fonts and encoding in view to TrueType subset fonts.

SetaPDF-FormFiller

• Updated information about unicode handling in view to TrueType subset fonts.

SetaPDF-Signer

• Added information about TrueType subset fonts to the dynamic appearance class.

SetaPDF-Stamper

• Added some information about loosing annotations in PDF stamps.

• Updated text stamp demos to use a TrueType subset font.

2018-01-03

SetaPDF-FormFiller

• Added information about how to remove XFA information from a static XFA form.

2017-09-05

SetaPDF-Signer

• Extended documentation for individual modules or external implementations.

2017-08-29

SetaPDF-Extractor

• Update "Result Types" in view to new Collection result class and implementations of individual result types.

• Updated documentation in view to new word group strategy.

• Added documentation of word group strategy.

2017-08-24

FPDI & FPDI PDF-Parser

• Added documentation for FPDI 2.

• Added documentation for FPDI PDF-Parser 2.

2017-05-08

SetaPDF-Core

• Updated information about handling corrupted PDF documents

2017-03-02

General

• Implemented linking of source code in demos and examples to the API documentation

SetaPDF-Core

• Added documentation for embedded file streams / attachments

• Added documentation of the file attachment annotation

SetaPDF-Merger

• PDF Portfolios (aka PDF Packages or Collections)

2017-01

General

• Updated versioning information

SetaPDF-Core

• The page object

• Canvas

• Open and close document outline items

SetaPDF-Extractor

• Treat additional characters as "word characters"

SetaPDF-FormFiller

• Individual form field appearances

• Push button fields

SetaPDF-Merger

• Change the page order of an existing document

• How to handle errors

SetaPDF-Signer

• Keys in PKCS#12 format

• Encrypted documents

• Several signatures

• Signing PDF forms

• Why are temporary files required

• Authenticate at timestamp servers