[poppler] Poppler 0.15.1 (0.16 Beta) released

Albert Astals Cid aacid at kde.org
Wed Oct 20 14:58:34 PDT 2010


Available from
http://poppler.freedesktop.org/poppler-0.15.1.tar.gz

WARNING: This is a unstable release, it is actually 0.16 Alpha release, it 
should work like any release from the 0.14 branch, but do not blame us if it 
turns your unicorn into a horse.

Changes against 0.15.0:
core:
 * Consider render value when colorizing text (Bug #2807)
 * Improve rendering of Shading Type 6 and 7
 * Improve dict lookup speed for big dicts
 * Fix multiple crashes in malformed PDF files
 * Fix memory leak in in malformed PDF files
 * Fix memory leak in the Catalog names
 * Fix uninitialized uses on DCTScanInfo
 * Fix a crash when drawing square/circle annots without a border (Bug #30580)
 * Only clip boxes to mediabox if we are at the page level (Bug #30784)
 * Do not omit the notdef glyph in the Splash backend
 * Fix a crash when redering documents with invalid type 3 fonts in the Cairo 
backend
 * Form improvements
 * Add a method to get the PDF file identifier

glib:
 * Add more printing options to the API
 * Add a method to get the PDF file identifier
 * Add accessor for all PopplerDocument properties
 * Form improvements
 * Documentation improvements
 * Improvements to the demo

qt4:
 * Add a callback to know which page has been printed
 * Add a method to get the PDF file identifier
 * Optimize GooString to QString conversion
 * Some more autotests
 * Update Doxyfile (enables .qch file for assistant)

cpp:
 * Add the possibility of loading a document from raw data
 * Add a method to get the PDF file identifier
 * Improve Unicode to ustring conversion
 * Documentation improvements
 * Update Doxyfile

utils:
 * pdftohtml: Add -s option to generate a single HTML page
 * pdftotext: Add -bbox option

build system:
 * Require Cairo 1.10

Testing, patches and bug reports welcome.

Albert


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