[poppler] NEWS file for 0.11.0
Albert Astals Cid
aacid at kde.org
Sun May 10 08:56:18 PDT 2009
I'll be releasing poppler 0.11.0 (Alpha 1) tomorrow, this is the NEWS file
entry, please review
Release 0.11.0 (0.10 Alpha)
core:
* Add initial support for color management
* Remove case-insensitive matching of filenames in PDFDoc constructor
* Fix extraction of some ActualText content
* More work on Annotations support
* Improve font rendering in Cairo output device
* Fix bug in cairo backend with nested masks
* Fix cairo luminosity smask rendering
* Add optionally text support to Cairo output device
* Add the possibility of setting the datadir on runtime
* Return an error code instead of a boolean when saving
* Make the font scanner more versatile
* Small opimization in documents that use PostScriptFunction transforms
* Minor optimization to Stream handling
* Fix some compile warnings
glib:
* Optional content support
* More work on Annotations support
* Improvements to the demo
* Documentation improvements
* Fix build when compiling with GTK_DISABLE_SINGLE_INCLUDES
Qt4:
* Support URI actions for Table Of Contents items
* Documentation improvements
* Improvements to the demo
* Add a FontIterator for iterating through the fonts of the document
utils:
* Allow the use of cropbox in pdftoppm
* Make pdftohtml output png images when the image stream is not a jpeg
* Make pdftotext accept cropping options like pdftoppm
* Support rendering non-square pixels in pdftoppm
build system:
* Require Cairo 1.8.4 for the Cairo output device
* Require CMake 2.6 when using the CMake build system
* Optionally require libpng for pdftohtml
* Optionally require libcms for color management
Tomorrow i'll send also a mail to discuss the release schedule for the 0.11.x
and 0.12.0 versions.
Albert
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