[poppler] Poppler 0.20.0 released

Albert Astals Cid aacid at kde.org
Thu May 10 13:01:03 PDT 2012


Available from
http://poppler.freedesktop.org/poppler-0.20.0.tar.gz

Changes against 0.18:
core:
 * Merge Xpdf 3.03
 * Annotation improvements
 * CairoOutputDev: Fix regression caused by mesh gradients
 * CairoOutputDev: Use correct userfont font bbox (Bug #48399)
 * CairoOutputDev: Fix paintTransparencyGroup when both mask and fill opacity 
are required (Bug #48453)
 * CairoOutputDev: Ensure 0 width lines with stroke_adjust are aligned
 * CairoOutputDev: Only align stroke coords for horizontal and vertical lines 
(Bug #48318)
 * CairoOutputDev: Fix stroke pattern with transparency group (Bug #48468)
 * CairoOutputDev: update cairo mesh pattern to 1.12 api
 * CairoOutputDev: fix some transparency issues (Bug #47739)
 * CairoOutputDev: Fix regression in some shadings
 * CairoOutputDev: Avoid setting huge clip area when printing (Bug #44002)
 * CairoOutputDev: Fix test for rotation (Bug #14619)
 * CairoOutputDev: Don't read inline image streams twice (Bug #45668)
 * CairoOutputDev: set mask matrix before drawing an image with a mask (Bug 
#40828)
 * SplashOutputDev: Implement Overprint
 * SplashOutputDev: Fix slow rendering of pdf with a lot of image masks in 
pattern colorspace
 * SplashOutputDev: Fix rendering of knockout groups (Bug #12185)
 * SplashOutputDev: Fix cmyk transfer bug (Bug #49341)
 * PSOutputDev: Implement Overprint
 * TextOutputDev: Don't add newline to last line extracted by 
TextSelectionDumper (Bug #45955)
 * Add support for lcms2
 * More compatible file writing
 * CJK font improvements
 * ttc<->ttf fallback is expected for CJK font list in for Windows (Bug 
#48046)
 * Improve font matching for non embedded fonts
 * Fix typos glyph names in truetype 'post' table standard mac ordering
 * Fix page labels to not have a null character at the end
 * Fix logic error in Rendition parsing code (Bug #47063)
 * Minor API changes to SplashOutputDev (Bug #46622)
 * Expand glyph name ligatures such as "ff", "ffi" etc to normal form (Bug 
#7002)
 * Use an Identity CharCodeToUnicode for Adobe-Identity and Adobe-UCS 
collections (Bug #35468)
 * Update glyph names to Unicode values mapping (Bug #13131)
 * Only use Hints table when there are no parse errors (Bug #46459)
 * Fix crash in JBIG2Stream decoding
 * Fix crashes in broken documents
 * Expose POPPLER_VERSION in poppler-config.h
 * Reconstruct xref table if xref needed but missing (Bug #40719)
 * Fix getFullyQualifiedName with unicode field names (Bug #49256)
 * Bring back the Outputdev::begin/endMarkedContent virtuals
        
qt4:
 * Annotations can now be modified
 * Annotations can now be added
 * Annotations can now be removed
 * Form support improvements
 * Support for LinkMovie object (Bug #40561)
 * Support for Media Rendition
 * Add the option of PSConverter creating EPS
 * Convert propertly unicode encoded field qualified names
        
glib:
 * Add poppler_fonts_iter_get_encoding
 * Add poppler_fonts_iter_get_substitute_name
 * Demo improvements
 * Update gtk-doc makefile and m4 file
 * Fix typos in documentation
 * glib: Use delete[] to free array allocated with new[] (Bug #48447)

utils:
 * pdftohtml: Fix crash when the destination file does not exist
 * pdftohtml: Add producer and version to xml output
 * pdftohtml: Fix the mask inversion for PNG
 * pdftohtml: extract mask images even if they are not JPEG (Bug #47186)
 * pdftohtml: Flip images if they need to (Bug #32340)
 * pdftohtml: Add possibilty of controlling word breaks percentage. (Bug 
#47022)
 * pdftohtml: Output images in -xml mode if no -i option is specified
 * pdftohtml: Get rid of static data members; merge duplicated jpeg dumping 
code
 * pdftohtml: Be more consistent generating the outlines
 * pdftohtml: Generate outlines in pdftohtml in -xml mode (Bug #56993)
 * pdftohtml: Combine UTF16 surrogate pairs (Bug #46521)
 * pdffonts: List the encoding of each font. (Bug #46888)
 * pdffonts: Add -subst option to list the substitute font name and filename
 * pdfinfo: Report page rotation
 * pdfinfo: Decode utf-16 surrogate pairs
 * pdftotext: Add missing section heading to man page
 * pdftops: Fix -passfonts regression. (Bug #46744)
 * pdftoppm: Allow one of -scale-to-[xy] = -1 to mean the aspect ratio is to 
be preserved (Bug #43393)
 * pdftocairo: Allow one of -scale-to-[xy] = -1 to mean the aspect ratio is to 
be preserved
 * pdfseparate: Produce PDF/X conformant pdf pages if the original PDF was 
PDF/X conformant
 * pdfimages: Add -list option to list all images (Bug #46066)
 * Improve various manpages
        
build system:
 * autotools: Do not append "-ansi" to CXXFLAG, if "-std=XXX" is already 
specified.
 * autotools: Do not clear FREETYPE_CFLAGS, FREETYPE_LIBS before 
PKG_CHECK_MODULES()
 * autotools: Copying graphics library CFLAGS to cpp frontend Makefile.am
 * autotools: Print the cairo version required if not found (Bug #44619)
 * autotools: Print the glib version required if not found
 * autotools: Use pkgconfig to check for libopenjpeg (Bug #21789)
 * autotools: Replace openjpeg compile test with a version test
 * minor cmake fixes
 * Add a configuration option for the test data dir

Testing, patches and bug reports welcome.

I've also created the poppler-0.20 branch for fixes for the upcoming 0.20.x 
releases

Congratulations to all of the involved, the changelog looks great :-)

Albert


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