[poppler] Poppler 0.25.2 (0.26 Beta 2) released

Albert Astals Cid aacid at kde.org
Wed Mar 26 17:20:34 PDT 2014


Available from
http://poppler.freedesktop.org/poppler-0.25.2.tar.xz

WARNING: This is a unstable release, it is actually 0.26 Beta release, it 
should work like any release from the 0.24 branch, but do not blame us if it 
turns your boots into flowers.

Changes against the 0.25.1 release:
core:
 * Tagged-PDF support
 * Open some broken files. Bug #75232
 * Fix crashes on broken files
 * Fix regression parsing some broken files. KDE Bug #329600
 * Improve compilation under Win 8 with Visual Studio 2012. Bug #73111
 * PSOutputDev: Ensure paper size takes into account rotation. Bug #72312
 * PSOutputDev: Fix DocumentMedia/Page/Media/PageBBox DSC comments
 * PSOutputDev: Use crop box as page size
 * PSOutputDev: Remove origpagesizes mode and make -origpagesizes an alias for 
-paper match
 * PSOutputDev: Only change paper size when different to previous size
 * PSOutputDev: Ensure there is always a page size in the output
 * PSOutputDev: Fix regression when creating level1 PS. Bug #75241 
 * CairoOutputDev: Clip to crop box. Gnome Bug #649886
 * Splash: Blend usage in PDF with spot colors casue random output. Bug #74883
 * Splash: Fix off by one that caused crash in a file. Bug #76387
 * Make sure number of least objects in hints table is valid. Bug #74741
 * Limit numeric parsing of character names. Bug #38456

glib:
 * Tagged-PDF support
 * Annotation improvements
 * Install error callback. Bug #73269
 * Fix gobject-introspection warnings
 * demo: Fix performance in text markup annotations
 * Increase gtk3 dependency

qt4:
 * Improve naming of internal export/import macros
 * Add GCC visibility export attributes
 * Expose document-supplied text direction

qt5:
 * Improve naming of internal export/import macros
 * Add GCC visibility export attributes
 * Expose document-supplied text direction

utils: 
 * pdftocairo: Ensure page size and crop box works the same as pdftops
 * Fix TIFF writting in Windows. Bug #75969 

buildsystem:
 * Learn about automake 1.14
 * Do not define -ansi. Bug #72499
 * cmake: Install JpegWriter.h depending on libjpeg
 * cmake: Use c99 for the c compiler

Schedule is as follows (modified a bit against last email since we slipped a 
few months again)
 * Apr 10 Poppler 0.25.3 (0.26 RC)
 * Apr 24 Poppler 0.26.0

Remember we are feature frozen now

Testing, patches and bug reports welcome.

Albert


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