[Ftp-release] Poppler 0.15.0 (0.16 Alpha) released

Albert Astals Cid aacid at kde.org
Thu Sep 16 12:50:11 PDT 2010


Available from
http://poppler.freedesktop.org/poppler-0.15.0.tar.gz

WARNING: This is a unstable release, it is actually 0.16 Alpha release, it 
should work like any release from the 0.14 branch, but do not blame us if it 
turns your blueray player into a betamax one.

Changes against the 0.14 branch:
	core:
	 * Remove exception support
	 * Improve creation of Annotations
	 * Fix failure to parse PDF with damaged internal structure. (Bugs #29189 
#3870)
	 * Add a way to access the raw text of a page
	 * Speed improvements when reading multiple characters from a given Stream
	 * Speed improvements in the Splash backend
	 * Speed improvement in gray color space calculations
	 * Speed improvement in ICC color space calculations
	 * Speed improvement when reading some fonts
	 * Make GBool a bool instead of an int

	glib:
	 * Add GObject introspection support
	 * Improve creation of Annotations
	 * Add a way to get the coordinates of each character of a page
	 * Add a way to get the page label
	 * Documentation improvements
	 * Support password protected documents in the demo
	 * Support for selection in the demo
	 * Support for adding annotationss in the demo
	 * Misc improvements in the internals
	
	qt4:
	 * Add a way to access the raw text of a page
	 * Recognize "Print" as named action
	 * Documentation improvements
	
	build system:
	 * Add option for autogen.sh to skip configure
	 * Nicer autogen.sh output
	 * Improvements when build the glib frontend with CMake
	
	utils:
	 * pdftohtml: Use splash instead of external gs invocation to render the 
background
	 * pdftohtml: Let the user specify the resolution of the background. (Bug 
#29551)
	
	cpp:
	 * Add a way to access the raw text of a page

Testing, patches and bug reports welcome.

Albert


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