[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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