[Ftp-release] Poppler 0.21.0 (0.22 Alpha) released

Albert Astals Cid aacid at kde.org
Fri Sep 21 07:04:36 PDT 2012


Available from
http://poppler.freedesktop.org/poppler-0.21.0.tar.gz

WARNING: This is a unstable release, it is actually 0.22 Alpha release, it 
should work like any release from the 0.20 branch, but do not blame us if it 
turns your cat into a tiger.

Changes against the 0.20 branch:
core:
 * Support the modification of files with Encrypt
 * Annotation improvements
 * Form improvements
 * Splash: Implement DeviceN support
 * Splash: Avoid bogus memory error for tilingPattern
 * TextOutputDev: Allow multiple fonts in a TextWord
 * Kill the concept of base dir
 * PSOutputDev: Always write HiResBoundingBox (Bug #53159)
 * Convert UTF-16 to UCS-4 when reading toUnicode cmap
 * GooString formatting: add support for uppercase hexadecimal
 * Use error() instead of fprintf(stderr, ...) in Annot::layoutText
 * poppler-config.h: remove WITH_FONTCONFIGURATION_* macros

glib:
 * Annotation improvements
 * Add poppler_page_remove_annot()
 * Add poppler_document_new_from_stream
 * Add poppler_document_new_from_gfile
 * Add poppler_page_find_text_with_options (Bug #2951)
 * Demo improvements
 * Port tests and demo to GTK+3

qt4:
 * Add accessor methods for movie poster information
 * Make 'additional actions' available in Annotation API (Bug #53589)
 * Add whole-page search method to Poppler::Page
 * Small changes in tests

utils:
 * pdftohtml: Make the output more xhtml compliant
 * pdftohtml: Add -fontfullname. (Bug #49872)
 * pdftohtml: Do not invoke gs anymore

build system:
 * Add the possibility of using lcms1 even if lcms2 is installed
 * Remove extra fontconfig CFLAGS and LIBS

Testing, patches and bug reports welcome.

Albert


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