[poppler] Poppler 0.13.3 (0.14 Beta 2) released

Albert Astals Cid aacid at kde.org
Sat Apr 24 08:23:41 PDT 2010


Available from
http://poppler.freedesktop.org/poppler-0.13.3.tar.gz

WARNING: This is a unstable release, it is actually 0.14 Beta release, it 
should work like any release from the 0.12 branch, but do not blame us if it 
makes a volcano stop your plane.

Changes against the 0.13.2 release:

core:
 * Fix roll optimization in the PS function interpreter
 * Correctly parse numbers with '+' sign. Gnome bug #614549
 * Add support for cached files
 * Add support for reading a cached file from stdin
 * Add HTTP support using libcurl, disabled by default
 * Add some const correctnes to GooString
 * Rework DCTStream error handling. Bug #26280
 * Use current fill_opacity when drawing soft masked images in Cairo backend. 
Gnome bug #614915
 * Use the topleft of the Rect of text annots to draw
 * Fix saving update docs that have a compressed xref table. Bug #27450
 * Parse varius part of the document catalog on demand
 * Implement colorizing image masks with pattern colorspace in Cairo backend
 * Fix a crash when rendering 0x0 images in Cairo backend
 * Check pattern status after setting matrix when rendering images
 * Improve text selection/extraction order. Bug #3188
 * Fix pattern size when bbox is not at 0,0
 * Improve colorizing text and masks in pattern colorspace. Bug #27482
 * Silence some Illegal entry in bfrange block in ToUnicode CMap. Bug #27728

utils:
 * Add the -o[dd] and -e[ven] options to pdftoppm
 * Allow read from stdin using the new cached files feature
 * Fix crash in pdftohtml when output filename was shorter than 5 characters

glib:
 * Use existing cairo api when rendering to a pixbuf
 * Compile with -DGSEAL_ENABLE. Bug #27579

We are specially interested in possible regressions introduced to pdftotext 
because of the change on how text is extracted, mostly we are seeing 
improvements but it's not easy to test so any help there is welcome.

Testing, patches and bug reports welcome.

Next release will be poppler 0.13.4 (0.14 Release Candidate) scheduled for 9 
May

Albert


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