[poppler] Poppler 0.19.1 (0.20 Beta 1) released

Albert Astals Cid aacid at kde.org
Sun Mar 25 14:18:01 PDT 2012


El Diumenge, 25 de març de 2012, a les 22:34:20, Thomas Freitag va escriure:
> Am 19.03.2012 08:05, schrieb Thomas Freitag:
> > Am 16.03.2012 16:08, schrieb Carlos Garcia Campos:
> >> Excerpts from Albert Astals Cid's message of jue mar 15 22:23:15 +0100 
2012:
> >>> Available from
> >>> http://poppler.freedesktop.org/poppler-0.19.1.tar.gz
> >>> 
> >>> WARNING: This is a unstable release, it is actually 0.20 Beta 1 release,
> >>> it
> >>> should work like any release from the 0.18 branch, but do not blame us
> >>> if it turns your cat into a lion and eats your breakfast.
> >>> 
> >>> Changes against the 0.19.0 branch:
> >>> 
> >>> core:
> >>>   * Improve CJK suport in PSOutputDev
> >>>   * CJK substitute implementation on WIndows platforms
> >>>   * Do not crash on malformed files with 0 bits in the color map of an
> >>>   image
> >>>   * Fix regression in some PSOutputDev array sizing
> >>>   * Improvements to Annotation editing
> >>>   * Fix logic error in Rendition parsing code (Bug #47063)
> >>>   * Minor API changes to SplashOutputDev (Bug #46622)
> >>>   * Fix mismatch in some functions declarations
> >>>   * Update poppler copyright year
> >>> 
> >>> utils:
> >>>   * pdftops: Fix -passfonts regression. (Bug #46744)
> >>>   * pdffonts: List the encoding of each font. (Bug #46888)
> >>>   * pdftohtml: Add possibilty of controlling word breaks percentage.
> >>>   (Bug #47022)>>> 
> >>> qt4:
> >>>   * Support for LinkMovie object (Bug #40561)
> >>>   * Support for Media Rendition
> >>> 
> >>> glib:
> >>>   * Add poppler_fonts_iter_get_encoding
> >>>   * Improvements to the demo
> >>> 
> >>> Testing, patches and bug reports welcome.
> >>> 
> >>> My TODO list is:
> >>>   * Work with Fabio in his Annot Qt4 patches
> >>>   * Decide something with Adrian in the "Pdf that uses the symbol font"
> >>>   thread * Review 47186 pdftohtml: mask images are not extracted,
> >>>   unless they are JPEG * Review 32340 pdftohtml: renders images
> >>>   vertically flipped
> >>> 
> >>> Remember feature freeze is in 2 weeks with Beta 2
> >>> 
> >>> If anyone has anything else that thinks it is waiting on me for further
> >>> feedback, tellme, because it's not on my list
> >> 
> >> The xpdf303 merge introduced some regressions in the cairo backend,
> >> I'll try to find some time this weekend to send more details to the list.
> 
> I just finished the patch for these regressions, they had differents reasons
> 1. In CharCodeToUnicode::mapToUnicode the identity support was missing 

You mean CharCodeToUnicode::mapToCharCode, right? This doesn't seem much 
related to Cairo at all, no?

> 2.
> The new algorithms for axial and radial shading caused problems in cairo. I
> revert these changes but removed the examination of hidden content (this is
> already done in the calling function)
> 3. The examination of optional hidden content in showing text was wrong:
> of course hidden text should not be shown, but text parameters like text
> position in the state must be changed!
> 4. Searching and finding fonts especially with base14 fonts should be
> more exact than just looking at the base14 name (i.e. fixed width and so
> on) when using fontconfig. I implement that to find the best font
> fitting to the needs.

I'll have a look/regtest this asap.

Cheers,
  Albert

> 
> Cheers,
> Thomas
> 
> >>> Albert
> >> 
> >> Thanks,
> >> 
> >> 
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