[poppler] Poppler 0.15.0 (0.16 Alpha) released
Albert Astals Cid
aacid at kde.org
Thu Sep 16 12:50:11 PDT 2010
Available from
http://poppler.freedesktop.org/poppler-0.15.0.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 blueray player into a betamax one.
Changes against the 0.14 branch:
core:
* Remove exception support
* Improve creation of Annotations
* Fix failure to parse PDF with damaged internal structure. (Bugs #29189
#3870)
* Add a way to access the raw text of a page
* Speed improvements when reading multiple characters from a given Stream
* Speed improvements in the Splash backend
* Speed improvement in gray color space calculations
* Speed improvement in ICC color space calculations
* Speed improvement when reading some fonts
* Make GBool a bool instead of an int
glib:
* Add GObject introspection support
* Improve creation of Annotations
* Add a way to get the coordinates of each character of a page
* Add a way to get the page label
* Documentation improvements
* Support password protected documents in the demo
* Support for selection in the demo
* Support for adding annotationss in the demo
* Misc improvements in the internals
qt4:
* Add a way to access the raw text of a page
* Recognize "Print" as named action
* Documentation improvements
build system:
* Add option for autogen.sh to skip configure
* Nicer autogen.sh output
* Improvements when build the glib frontend with CMake
utils:
* pdftohtml: Use splash instead of external gs invocation to render the
background
* pdftohtml: Let the user specify the resolution of the background. (Bug
#29551)
cpp:
* Add a way to access the raw text of a page
Testing, patches and bug reports welcome.
Albert
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