[Ftp-release] [poppler] Poppler 0.19.0 (0.20 Alpha) released
Albert Astals Cid
aacid at kde.org
Thu Mar 1 13:24:27 PST 2012
Available from
http://poppler.freedesktop.org/poppler-0.19.0.tar.gz
WARNING: This is a unstable release, it is actually 0.20 Alpha release, it
should work like any release from the 0.18 branch, but do not blame us if it
turns your mouse into a tree.
Changes against the 0.18 branch:
core:
* Merge Xpdf 3.03
* Add support for lcms2
* SplashOutputDev: Implement Overprint
* PSOutputDev: Implement Overprint
* Expand glyph name ligatures such as "ff", "ffi" etc to normal form (Bug
#7002)
* Use an Identity CharCodeToUnicode for Adobe-Identity and Adobe-UCS
collections (Bug #35468)
* CairoOutputDev: Avoid setting huge clip area when printing (Bug #44002)
* CairoOutputDev: Fix test for rotation (Bug #14619)
* CairoOutputDev: Don't read inline image streams twice (Bug #45668)
* CairoOutputDev: set mask matrix before drawing an image with a mask (Bug
#40828)
* Update glyph names to Unicode values mapping (Bug #13131)
* Only use Hints table when there are no parse errors (Bug #46459)
* Expose POPPLER_VERSION in poppler-config.h
utils:
* pdftohtml: Output images in -xml mode if no -i option is specified
* pdftohtml: Get rid of static data members; merge duplicated jpeg dumping
code
* pdftohtml: Be more consistent generating the outlines
* pdftohtml: Generate outlines in pdftohtml in -xml mode (Bug #56993)
* pdftohtml: Combine UTF16 surrogate pairs (Bug #46521)
* pdfinfo: Report page rotation
* pdfinfo: Decode utf-16 surrogate pairs
* pdftoppm: Allow one of -scale-to-[xy] = -1 to mean the aspect ratio is to
be preserved (Bug #43393)
* pdftocairo: Allow one of -scale-to-[xy] = -1 to mean the aspect ratio is to
be preserved
* pdffonts: Add -subst option to list the substitute font name and filename
* pdfseparate: Produce PDF/X conformant pdf pages if the original PDF was
PDF/X conformant
* pdfimages: Add -list option to list all images (Bug #46066)
* Improve various manpages
glib:
* Add poppler_fonts_iter_get_substitute_name
* Demo improvements
* Update gtk-doc makefile and m4 file
* Fix typos in documentation
qt4:
* Add the option of PSConverter creating EPS
* Form support improvements
build system:
* autotools: Print the cairo version required if not found (Bug #44619)
* autotools: Print the glib version required if not found
* autotools: Use pkgconfig to check for libopenjpeg (Bug #21789)
* autotools: Replace openjpeg compile test with a version test
* Add a configuration option for the test data dir
Testing, patches and bug reports welcome.
My TODO list is:
* Review " Support for CJK fonts in postscript / on Windows platforms" by
Thomas
* Decide something with Adrian in the "Pdf that uses the symbol font" thread
* Review "[Bug 46744] pdftops git 29feb12 -passfonts regression"
If anyone has anything else that thinks it is waiting on me for further
feedback, tellme, because it's not on my list
Albert
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