Implemented full Type1, TrueType font glyph selection
Many fixes in TrueType legacy subsetting
Added support for PDF/UA preserving when adding annotations/form fields
Improved PDF/A preserving (eg. when PDF/UA level is set as well in the XMP metadata)
Added support for automatically rotating imported images drawn on a PdfPainter when a orientation is detected in the source image codec metadata. Currently supported on Tiff images only (Jpeg exif metadata support pending)
Added high-level signing API, see PdfSignerCMS and TestSignature1 test case
Added support for signing encrypted documents
Added support for preserving encryption among savings
Removed Libidn dependency, default to AESV3R6 encryption
Added support for predefined CMap(s) for improved CJK text extraction
Added raw rectangle corners retrieval in PdfAnnotation, PdfPage
PdfDocument: Added GetFieldsIterator()
PdfPage: Added GetFieldsIterator()
PdfSignature: Added TryGetPreviousRevision()
PdfCanvas: Added CopyContentsTo()
FileStreamDevice now uses again C stdio for better performance
PdfName:
Optimized for struct size and construction from string const literal
Added PdfName operator""_nm(const char*, size_t)
PdfString:
Optimized for struct size
Added std::string&& constructor
PdfVariant: Optimized for accessing PdfString, PdfName and PdfReference
Reviewed PdfFileSpec, PdfAction, PdfDestination API and their usage in PdfOutlineItem, PdfOutlines, PdfAnnotationActionBase, PdfAnnotationLink, PdfAnnotationFileAttachment
Reviewed PdfExtension API
Reviewed PdfNameTree, renamed to PdfNameTrees and added PdfNameTree to pick specific trees with typed element
Reviewed PdfExtGState
Reviewed PdfTilingPattern, PdfShadingPattern, PdfFunction: the API now exposes the full capabilities of the PDF specification
PdfEncrypt is now stateless: added PdfEncryptContext as a separate state context and used as argument in PdfEncrypt methods
Set PdfSignature to have correct /ByteRange and /Contents after signing with PoDoFo::SignDocument
Added PdfNames and moved all known names there from PdfName
PdfPageCollection: Methods creating pages now takes PdfPageSize or default inferred size from doc
PdfPainter: Revamped API, added full state inspection with current point, added added PdfPainterTextContext to handle text object operations Use it with PdfPainter::Text instance member. Added PdfContentStreamOperators low level interface for PdfPainter
PdfFontMetrics: Added FilePath/FaceIndex for debugging, when available
PdfFont: Renamed GetStringLength() overloads with PdfString to GetEncodedStringLength()
PdfFontManager: Renamed GetFont() -> SearchFont() Re-Added better GetOrCreateFont() from file/buffer
Added XMP metadata reading/saving. Added PdfMetadata class
Added text extraction API
Review I/O API: Merged InputDevice/OutputDevice into StreamDevice. New hierarchy deriving StreamDevice
Reviewed PdfObjectStream API: added streaming operations, GetInputStream(), GetOutputStream(). Renamed GetFilteredCopy() -> GetUnwrappedCopy()/UnwrapTo(). They only unwrap non media filters (see PdfImage::DecodeTo for media ones). Added proper copy and move assignment operators
PdfImage: Added DecodeTo(pixelFormat)
Version 0.9.22 (pdfmm)
Fixed serialization of strings with non ASCII PdfDocEncoding characters
Renamed PdfElement-> {PdfDictionaryElement|PdfArrayElement} that respectively have GetDictionary(), GetArray()
Reviewed PdfWriteFlags, added PdfSaveOptions
Old PoDoFo ChangeLog
Version 0.7
Fixed PdfPainter::ArcTo
Fixed crash in FlateDecode and LZWDecode predictor functions
Fixed writing of unicode PdfStrings with brackets (will be escaped now)
Fixed encoding of bytes in PdfName
Added many new unit tests
Added methods to free object memory of objects that are not needed
anymore (These objects will be re-read from disk if they are needed again)
Fixed a crash when appending PDFs
Added unicode support on Win32 (wchar_t* constructors and methods
where apropriate, e.g. file handling)
Fixed a memory leak in PdfStream
Small optimizations in various places
Fixed DCTDecode filter for CMYK images
PdfReference is now immutable, which allows for various optimizations
Fixed PdfInputDevice::Read to return now the correct number of bytes read
Fixed a memory leak in PdfImmediateWriter/PdfStreamedDocument
Fixed several minor parsing issues
Fixed adding text to existing pages
Added Lua5.1 plan file support to podofoimpose
Several fixes in creating XObjects from pages
Fixed a possible crash in PdfNamesTree
Added support for setting colors in PdfAnnotations
Added advanced text drawing support to PdfPainter
Fixed parsing of Type1 fonts
Fixed deletion of PdfAnnations (fixes a memory leak)
Version 0.5
Added support for Embedded Files (annotations & named objects)
Added support for ExtGStates when drawing initially only supports basic transparency
Fixed reading values from nametrees
Added support for named destinations
Fixed a memory leak in PdfDestination::GetPage
Pages do not know their page number inside of the document
Fixed reading PdfActions from PDF files
Moved filter implementations to PdfFiltersPrivate.h
Added PdfFilter::CanEncode and PdfFilter::CanDecode
Simpliefid PoDoFos handling of XRef tables
Version 0.4
PdfImage now supports creating an image stream from a "raw bitmap" which can also be optionally Flate compressed
Added some new Page-related methods to PdfDocument:
Append - append one document to another
InsertPages - insert a range of pages from one document to another
DeletePages - delete a range of pages
Added new tool podofomerge for merging two PDFs together
Added methods to get & set a document's PageMode
Added methods to set a document's FullScreen mode
Added methods to set all the various ViewerPreferences for a document
Added methods to set the document's PageLayout
Added Outline support modified podofoinfo to display them, if present
Added a PdfDestination class
Added PdfNamesTree class for handling the global named objects modified podofoinfo to display them, if present
PdfPainter can draw bezier curves
Added XCode project for building on Mac OS X fixed up conditionals in font code to enable building on MacOSX - but no font loading, YET
Added support for writing linearized PDF
Added support for garbage collection of unused objects
Simplified PdfObject constructor
Improved annotation support
Added support to encode names and various name testcases
Fixed ascent and descent of fonts
Improved PdfImage API
Added support for the creation of file identifiers which makes PoDoFo created PDF files work in more different PDF workflows
PdfImage optionally takes ownership of buffers
Fixed a major parser bug: The parser expected all objects in object streams to be of type dictionary.
Version 0.3
TOTAL revamp of PdfObject & PdfVariant to enable clean/consistent object handling; Added new PdfDocument object - new high level object for reading & writing a PDF doc;
TOTAL revamp of the PdfDocument, PdfWriter & PdfParser relationship PdfDocument is now hub for both reading and writing a document it holds the PdfVecObjects - the others just reference them.
TOTAL revamp of PdfPainter
now uses PDF coordinates - UserUnits from bottom/left added PdfPainterMM for mm-based coords
supports user-specified float precision and writes out floats in an optimal manner
supports "appending" mode for drawing on existing documents
Improved handling of the /Info dict for both reading and writing PDFs;
Added new test app - podofopdfinfo, which will be used to dump metadata, etc. from a PDF;
Added PdfError::DebugMessage() as the official way to write out debugging info; updated all other debugging msgs to use this;
Added PdfError::DebugEnabled() to enable/disable display of debug messages;
Added tracking of file size in PdfParser;
Minor tweak to Linearization handling - to enable getting the status from a doc;
Added getting GetPdfVersionAsString() to PdfWriter;
Added new info/object getting methods to PdfDocument:
bool IsLinearized();
size_t FileSize();
PdfObject* GetStructTreeRoot();
PdfObject* GetMetadata();
PdfObject* GetOutlines();
PdfObject* GetAcroForm().
Updated pdfinfo & podofopdfinfo to call the new PdfDocument methods;
Added PdfDictionary and PdfArray classes;
Added new PdfPagesTree (inside of PdfDocument.cpp) for handling walking a /Pages tree;
Added new GetPageCount() method to PdfDocument;
Modifications to PdfPage to attach it to a PdfDocument & construct from a PdfObject;
Added new Legal and A3 standard page sizes;
Changed page coordinates to be PDF unit-based instead of 1/1000mm;
Changed PdfRect to use PDF units and also use bottom instead of top;
Added ability to go between PdfRect and PdfArray & also get string version of a PdfRect;
Added support for PdfPage to return all the standard boxes (Media, Crop, etc);
Added support for fetching inherited values from pages (eg. boxes, rotation, etc.)
Added more methods to PdfPage:
GetRotation();
GetNumAnnots().
Use Exceptions now instead of error codes;
Removed Init from PdfOutputDevice;
Removed Init from PdfParser;
Added LZW Filter support;
Added PdfElement as base class for PdfAction, PdfAnnotation and
PdfPage;
Fixed podofoimageextract, podofotxt2pdf and podofopdfinfo;
Removed PdfSimpleWriter in favour of PdfDocument;
Headers are now installed in includedir/podofo/;
Added a new WatermarkTest demonstrates how to read an existing PDF and draw on each page.
Version 0.2
Improved Documentation;
Added SetInformation for additional error information to PdfError;
Fixed the underline color of text;
Introduced PdfReference class;
Fixed PdfStream::GetFilteredCopy;
Improved handling of DecodeParms for filters;
Fixed PDF files with more than one DecodeParms dictionary in one object;
Added on demand loading of objects to the PdfParser;
Ported to windows by Leonard Rosenthol;
On demand loading of objects is now the default;
Refactored PdfFilter interface so that filters are cached;
Fixed multiple connected XRef tables through /Prev keys in the trailer;
Fixed a number of compiler warnings;
Replaced char*'s with std::strings in a number of classes;
Added std::ostream support to PdfOutputDevice;
Improvements to the ImageExtractor tool;
Refactored PdfVariant so that it is easier to use.
1.17.0