[poppler] Poppler 0.17.3 (0.18 Beta 3) released
Albert Astals Cid
aacid at kde.org
Mon Aug 29 15:12:45 PDT 2011
Available from
http://poppler.freedesktop.org/poppler-0.17.3.tar.gz
Changes against the 0.17.2 release:
core:
* PSOutputDev: Use Patterns for tiling fill when PS level >= 2
* PSOutputDev: Avoid using /PatternType if only one instance of the pattern
is used
* PSOutputDev: Add poppler version as comment in the file
* CairoOutputDev: Set mime data for soft masked images (Bug #40192)
* CairoOutputDev: Assume printer pixel size is 1/600" when stroking 0 width
lines (Bug #39067)
* CairoOutputDev: Use cairo_show_text_glyphs() when printing
* CairoOutputDev: Fix stroke patterns (Bug #11719)
* CairoOutputDev: Fix unique id mime data
* CairoOutputDev: fix stroking of very thin lines
* CairoOutputDev: align strokes when Stroke Adjust is true and line width <=
1 (Bug #4536)
* TextOutputDev: Add TextFontInfo::matches()
* Improve PNGWriter
* Rework writing of PDF files
utils:
* Introduce pdftocairo - utility for creating png/jpeg/ps/eps/pdf/svg using
CairoOutputDev
* Introduce pdfextract - utility to extract PDF pages
* Introduce pdfmerge - utility to merge PDF files
* Fix compilation warning
* pdftohtml: Support text rotation (Bug #38586)
* Update SEE ALSO section of man pages
glib:
* Add poppler_page_get_text_attributes()
* Add text attributes information to text demo
qt4:
* Add a way to get the fully qualified name of a FormField
* Minor documentation improvements
We are on track for the release schedule which means we no longer accept
features, only bugfixes:
* Sep 12 (+2 weeks) Poppler 0.17.4 (0.18 RC)
* Sep 26 (+2 weeks) Poppler 0.17.3 (0.18)
On my queue for RC is:
* BOM and endianness of poppler::ustring class
Testing, patches and bug reports always welcome.
Albert
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