Previous Version: Chilkat v11.1.0 Release Notes The main addition in v11.2.0 is the Chilkat.Ai class, and the Chilkat.StringBuilder.MarkdownToHtml method. Ai: The Chilkat AI class provides a unified API for interacting with different AI providers: OpenAI, Google, Claude, xAI, Perplexity, and DeepSeek. It provides functionality for conversation management, multimodal inputs, and streaming mode. Markdown to HTML […]
Starting with the v10.0.0 release (end of September 2024), Chilkat moves to standard semantic versioning. Prior to this release, for various technical reasons, Chilkat was stuck with versions 9.5.0.xx, where only xx changed. For this first leap to semantic versioning, where the major version changes to 10 (from 9), there are no backward incompatible changes. […]
Chilkat is working on making it easy to produce B-LTA level signatures. However, it has come to our attention that some CRL’s can be large, and a server handling requests at the CRL distribution point can be very slow. For example, the CRL at http://ca.mup.gov.rs/MUPGradjaniCA4.crl is almost 25MB in size, and the server (ca.mup.gov.rs) is […]
A Chilkat customer signed a PDF using the Chilkat API. There were no errors, and the output PDF seemed to be signed. Using the Chilkat API to verify the signed PDF was also successful. Chilkat could see the signature and validated it successfully. However, the signature in the signed PDF could not be seen in […]
This blog post describes the case where your application asks Chilkat to produce an LTV-enabled PDF signature by specifying “ltvOcsp” in the signing attributes, yet the signed PDF as viewed in Adobe Acrobat does not show the signature as being LTV enabled. For example, in Adobe Acrobat, an LTV enabled signature looks like this: You […]
Question: I need to sign a PDF with a certificate and a signed hash returned from a 3rd party. Answer: It’s possible, and it’s a feature that was introduced in the latest version of Chilkat (v9.5.0.96). However, it requires a well-defined REST API (or something similar) where Chilkat can make the REST API call from […]
Open a PDF in Adobe Acrobat DC. Then without doing anything else, close the PDF. Does Acrobat ask to save changes even though you made no changes? If so, then it means that Acrobat auto-fixed a corrupt PDF.
A Chilkat customer is signing PDFs and then validating using the online tool at https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/DSS/webapp-demo/validation A few errors/warnings were encountered: 1) “The signature is not intact”. <b>This error only happens if the “ltvOcsp” option was set</b> to create an LTV-enabled signature. The source of the “Signature is not intact” error can be found here: https://github.com/esig/dss/blob/master/validation-policy/src/main/java/eu/europa/esig/dss/validation/process/bbb/cv/checks/SignatureIntactCheck.java […]
