Changelog for perl-PDF-API2-2.45.0-bp156.1.2.noarch.rpm :

* Tue Sep 26 2023 Tina Müller - updated to 2.045 see /usr/share/doc/packages/perl-PDF-API2/Changes 2.045 2023-09-25 - Fixed documentation error in synopsis for QR codes. - Fixed date validation when timezone offset minute contains a trailing apostrophe, which is required by the Adobe PDF specifications and prohibited by the ISO PDF specifications. PDF::API2 now accepts either version as valid (report by Johan Vromans). - Fixed passing a GD object to $pdf->image() (reported by Hakon Hagland). - Fixed a crash when object numbers contain leading zeroes.
* Thu Nov 17 2022 Tina Müller - updated to 2.044 see /usr/share/doc/packages/perl-PDF-API2/Changes 2.044 2022-11-16 - Added support for QR codes. - [GH-44] The X coordinate returned by $text->position() or (deprecated) $text->textpos() was incorrect when read after being set twice (report by Johan Vromans). - [GH-45] Renamed transform\'s \"relative\" option to \"repeat\" and fixed the documentation describing what it does (report by Johan Vromans). - [GH-49] Fix page_layout storing its value as page_mode (report by Johan Vromans). - [GH-50] Fix $pdf->viewer_preferences to return the same values it accepts for non_full_screen_page_mode (report by Johan Vromans). - Minor doc clarifications and improved error messages.
* Thu Dec 09 2021 Tina Müller - updated to 2.043 see /usr/share/doc/packages/perl-PDF-API2/Changes 2.043 2021-12-07 - Restores backward compatibility (with a warning) when the deprecated $pdf->pageLabel is given an invalid -style option starting with \"a\" or \"r\" (report by Johan Vromans). - Fix incorrect default in documentation for annotation borders (report and patch by Johan Vromans).
* Fri Sep 17 2021 Tina Müller - updated to 2.042 see /usr/share/doc/packages/perl-PDF-API2/Changes 2.042 2021-09-16 - This release includes many changes to method names, options, and documentation aimed at improving approachability, but existing code should continue to work. See the new Backward Compatibility section in the main PDF::API2 documentation for details about deprecation timelines and a suggested workflow for handling upgrades. See the new Migration section for a consolidated list of deprecated methods/options and their replacements. - Renamed several methods in the PDF::API2 base class: - end -> close - open_scalar -> from_string - stringify -> to_string - pages -> page_count - importPageIntoForm -> embed_page - isEncrypted -> is_encrypted - xmpMetadata -> xml_metadata - outlines -> outline - Merged saveas into save. - Added individual accessors for PDF metadata (title, author, producer, etc.). Replaced info and infoMetaAttributes with info_metadata for custom metadata. - Renamed the following methods in the PDF::API2::Page class: - gfx -> graphics - rotate -> rotation - Added $page->boundaries() and $pdf->default_page_boundaries() to replace the separate methods for the various page boundaries. The supported arguments are slightly different; some edge cases have been removed and new options have been added. See below and the PDF::API2::Page documentation for details. - Added $page->size() and $pdf->default_page_size() as a shortcut for setting the media box. - Both $page->size() and $page->boundaries() (and their $pdf default equivalents) now accept \"WxH\" page sizes in inches (e.g. 11x17 or 8.5x11). This does not apply to the deprecated versions of these methods. - Both $page->size() and $page->boundaries() (and their $pdf default equivalents) now accept a single number for page boundaries other than the media box, representing an amount in points to shrink the next larger box. This does not apply to the deprecated versions of these methods. - Replaced pageLabel with page_labels. The option syntax is slightly different (pass options as a hash instead of a hashref; remove hyphens from option names). - Replaced image_jpeg, image_tiff, image_pnm, image_png, image_gif, and image_gd with $pdf->image. - Replaced the individual barcode methods with $pdf->barcode, which is fully documented and includes reasonable defaults based on the chosen barcode format. - Improved spacing between barcodes and labels when both bar_extend (formerly -lmzn) and font_size (formerly -fnsz) are set and the font size is larger than the bar extension. - Replaced corefont, ttfont, psfont, and bdfont with $pdf->font. Unlike corefont, font requires the exact name of one of the standard fonts. Kerning is on by default (vs. off by default in the type-specific methods). - Renamed synfont to synthetic_font. Renamed and documented the options. The new hscale option (formerly -slant) now takes a percentage (100 = no change, vs. 1 = no change for -slant) to match the hscale method in Content. The new \"bold\" option is in thousandths of a text unit, vs. hundredths for \"-bold\", so multiply the old value by 10 when migrating. - Replaced the individual colorspace methods with $pdf->colorspace. Added documentation and examples for the various colorspace types except for the former colorspace_hue, because I couldn\'t find the standard that it implements (if one exists). - Renamed several methods in PDF::API2::Content: - linewidth -> line_width - linecap -> line_cap - linejoin -> line_join - miterlimit -> miter_limit - flatness -> flatness_tolerance - endpath -> end - rectxy -> rectangle - fillstroke -> paint - charspace -> character_spacing - wordspace -> word_spacing - nl -> crlf - advancewidth -> text_width - In PDF::API2::Content, replaced image and formimage with object. Added a $page->object() convenience method that is equivalent to $page->graphics->object(). - In PDF::API2::Content, merged text_center and text_right into text. Use the \"align\" option to set alignment to \"center\" or \"right\". - In PDF::API2::Content, merged paragraphs into paragraph. - In PDF::API2::Content, deprecated poly and added polyline. poly was the only path-drawing method that took a starting position as its first two arguments. These should be passed to a move call instead, with the remaining arguments passed to the new polyline method. - In PDF::API2::Content, added position, which combines the functionality of distance and textpos2 (which was undocumented). Deprecated textpos, which attempted to return the position of the \"cursor\" after taking into account coordinate transformations. textpos2 and the new position method return the text position before any coordinate transformations are applied, which is consistent with how the other methods in this class behave. - In PDF::API2::Content, deprecated bogen. Recreate using arc, if feasible. If not, I\'m likely to leave the code in place indefinitely as an undocumented method. - In PDF::API2::Content, deprecated cr. Replace with either position (if called with arguments) or crlf (if called without arguments). - Tentatively deprecated $pdf->cjkfont. If you\'re successfully using this method for CJK font support, read PDF::API2::Resource::CIDFont::CJKFont and contact me to discuss your use case. - Tentatively deprecated $pdf->unifont. If you\'re successfully using this method for Unicode support, please contact me to discuss your use case. - Replaced $pdf->preferences() with separate page_mode, page_layout, viewer_preferences, and open_action methods, all of which are now fully documented. - Added font_path and set_font_path accessors for the font search path (the list of directories searched when a font name is included without its full path). Renamed addFontDirs to add_to_font_path. - Removed C:/WinNT/Fonts from the default font search path. - Named Destinations are now fully documented, with updated method names and arguments. - Outlines are now fully documented, with additional methods for examining and modifying the outline tree. Existing method names and arguments have been updated to match those used in Named Destinations. Various bugs have been fixed when reading or modifying outlines in existing PDFs. - Updated annotation documentation. Revised methods and arguments to match those used in Named Destinations and Outlines. - A PDF version number specified in the document catalog is now respected by $pdf->version(). - Fixed space calculation between words in justified text (report and fix by Vladislav Glinsky).
* Wed Jul 28 2021 Tina Müller - updated to 2.041 see /usr/share/doc/packages/perl-PDF-API2/Changes 2.041 2021-07-27 - Bug reports should now be made at GitHub Issues rather than RT. - Rename openpage to open_page in PDF::API2. The old name is deprecated. - [RT #136648] Fix when writing PDFs containing cross-reference streams (reported by Chris Papademetrious, fix by Vadim Repin from RT #117184). - [RT #44877] GIFs containing comments or plain-text representations will no longer result in an error (reported by Chris Czub). - [RT #132844] Fix corruption when a PGM image is included (reported by Jeff Ratcliffe, fix by Vadim Repin). - Expand PNM support to include all image types. - [RT #131657] Disable recursion warnings while releasing (destroying) PDF indirect objects, which can be highly-interconnected (reported by Leon Winter). - [RT #41971] Fix when attempting to read an existing PDF\'s outlines (reported by Damyan Ivanov, fix based on a patch by Vadim Repin).
* Wed Apr 14 2021 Tina Müller - updated to 2.040 see /usr/share/doc/packages/perl-PDF-API2/Changes 2.040 2021-04-13 - Fix open() followed by stringify() resulting in a corrupt (mostly-empty) PDF, which was broken by changes in 2.039 (reported by Gareth Tunley). - [RT #134993] Calling open($filename) followed by saveas($same_filename) instead of update() resulted in a corrupt PDF in 2.039, which no longer reads the entire file into memory on open (reported by Marco Pessotto). - [RT #134957] Fix encoding of \
in a PDF string containing non-printable characters (reported by Stuart Henderson). - [RT #133131] Fix endianness of 64-bit numbers in cross-reference stream widths array (reported by Christopher Papademetrious, fix by Vadim Repin).
* Fri Mar 05 2021 Tina Müller - updated to 2.039 see /usr/share/doc/packages/perl-PDF-API2/Changes 2.039 2021-03-04 - PDF::API2->open($filename) no longer reads the entire file into memory before working on it, instead reading from the file as needed. This results in a substantial reduction in memory usage and start-up time for large PDF files, particularly in cases where the calling script doesn\'t need to access all of the contents of the PDF. - PDF files containing cross-reference streams can now be modified and saved normally. Previously, they were read-only. - $text->paragraph(...) and $text->paragraphs(...) (formerly \"section\") are no longer undocumented and experimental. If you were previously using them at your own risk, note that \"-spillover\" is no longer an option (text will always wrap inside the specified width if possible). In addition, paragraphs(...) no longer collapses consecutive newlines. - [RT #98546] There is now an -align-last option for justified text to specify how the final line should be justified. Left is still the default. - Code in the PDF::API2::Basic::PDF namespace was originally licensed under the Perl Artistic License, which has been determined to not be (L)GPL-compatible. Martin Hosken has graciously granted an MIT license for use of his code contained in PDF::API2, so the distribution may now be used solely under the terms of the LGPL rather than requiring both licenses simultaneously. Many thanks to Petr Pisar for his help in working through the licensing issues. - Renamed $text->lead(...) to $text->leading(...). The old name is deprecated but will continue to work. If you\'re modifying PDF::API2 objects by editing their hash values instead of using these accessors, you\'ll need to update your code. - Added a -compress option (on by default) to PDF::API2->new(), open(), and open_scalar(). If disabled, most streams won\'t be compressed, which can simplify debugging.
* Tue Sep 01 2020 Tina Müller - updated to 2.038 see /usr/share/doc/packages/perl-PDF-API2/Changes 2.038 2020-08-31 - Use PDF::API2::XS or Image::PNG::Libpng, if either is installed, to speed up inclusion of PNG files with an alpha channel by an order of magnitude (written by Rob Scovell, sponsored by prayerletters.com).
* Thu Feb 06 2020 - updated to 2.037 see /usr/share/doc/packages/perl-PDF-API2/Changes 2.037 2020-02-05 - Allow PDF 2.0 files to be opened. - [RT #131147] Ignore dictionary entries with null values (reported by Klaus Ethgen, fix by Vadim Repin).
* Wed Sep 18 2019 - updated to 2.036 see /usr/share/doc/packages/perl-PDF-API2/Changes 2.036 2019-09-17 - Eliminate another uninitialized value warning in BaseFont.pm.
* Sat Aug 10 2019 Stephan Kulow - updated to 2.035 see /usr/share/doc/packages/perl-PDF-API2/Changes
* Sun Jun 30 2019 Stephan Kulow - updated to 2.034 see /usr/share/doc/packages/perl-PDF-API2/Changes 2.034 2019-06-29 - SUPPORTED PERL VERSIONS: Starting with this release, PDF::API2 will support major Perl versions released in the past six years, plus the major release before that one. This should provide backward compatibility for the life of most LTS server distributions, while eliminating the need to troubleshoot warnings and bugs that only show up in increasingly-ancient versions of Perl. For this release, it means that the minimum supported Perl is 5.18, which was first released on 2013-05-18. - Add support for cross-reference streams using 64-bit field widths. - When the utf8 flag is set for a PDF string, automatically encode it as UCS-16BE instead of requiring a separate flag to be set in the PDF object. This resolves [RT #33497] and [RT #117031] in addition to making the code easier to maintain. - [RT #126274] Fix alignment when using UniFont with text_center or text_right when all characters are in the same block. - [RT #121911] Fix adding pages to a document structure with nested Pages elements. This included a fairly substantial rewrite of the relevant code, so please report any new bugs related to adding pages (report and troubleshooting by Vadim Repin). - Renamed pdfile() to pdf_file() in PDF::API2::Annotation and PDF::API2::Outline. The old name continues to work, but is deprecated.
* Wed Jul 12 2017 cooloAATTsuse.com- updated to 2.033 see /usr/share/doc/packages/perl-PDF-API2/Changes 2.033 2017-07-06 - [RT #122371] Remove a couple of improperly-placed weaken statements (reported by Phil Perry). - [RT #122372] Fix weakening when a page is added to the end of a multiple page document (reported by Phil Perry). - Fix Bank Gothic core font (reported by Phil Perry).
* Mon Jul 03 2017 cooloAATTsuse.com- updated to 2.032 see /usr/share/doc/packages/perl-PDF-API2/Changes 2.032 2017-07-02 - PDF::API2 has many circular references, and the end() method doesn\'t clear them all, so memory is leaked. This release uses Scalar::Util\'s weaken() function to improve garbage collection. A significant number of circular references have been weakened, though many likely still remain. - [RT #120756] Eliminate a warning for an ambiguous call to CORE::open (first reported by Abdelbaki Brahmia). - $text->text_justified() and $text->text_fill_justified() now adjust the space between words rather than stretching individual characters in order to get the text to fit. - [RT #120397] Indirect references and indirect objects can have comments embedded in their whitespace, and their object number and generation may be split across multiple lines, which may not all be buffered (reported by SPROUT). - [RT #120450] Fix PDF::API2->open($filename)->stringify() (reported by SPROUT). - Fix an off-by-one error when calculating text width while charspace is non-zero. - [RT #120048] Fix PDF::API2->synfont() (broken in 2.029, fixed by Vadim Repin) and add basic testing.
* Mon Feb 13 2017 cooloAATTsuse.com- updated to 2.031 see /usr/share/doc/packages/perl-PDF-API2/Changes 2.031 2017-01-26 - Fix use of cache files when reading streams: temp files will now be used any time a stream is larger than 16MB (by default). Formerly, due to a bug, they would only be created when a 4kB chunk of a stream increased to 16kB or more after being decompressed. - Numbers, booleans, and null values can now be read from object streams. - Update to [RT #113290]: Objects inside a large object stream are now read without loading the entire object stream into memory. - DEPRECATION: The low-level new_api methods have been deprecated in favor of calling new directly. If your code uses new_api($api2, ...), replace it with new($api2->{\'pdf\'}, ...). - [RT #118352] Don\'t crash when adding an annotation to a page that has an existing annotations array stored as an indirect object (reported by Johan Vromans). - [RT #118717] Die with an informative error if a file can\'t be opened during open() or saveas() (reported by Johan Vromans).
* Fri Oct 14 2016 cooloAATTsuse.com- updated to 2.030 see /usr/share/doc/packages/perl-PDF-API2/Changes
* Tue Oct 11 2016 cooloAATTsuse.com- updated to 2.029 see /usr/share/doc/packages/perl-PDF-API2/Changes 2.029 2016-10-09 - [RT #113293] Files with cross-reference streams weren\'t correctly setting the max object number (report and troubleshooting by Marco Pessotto). - Handle TIFF images with strips that are wider than the image (report and patch by Jeffrey Ratcliffe). - [RT #98574] Increase test coverage of PDF::API2::Content (tests by Phil Perry). - A bunch of code cleanup and documentation updates by Paul Cochrane. - Add a missing prereq on Win32 systems (patch by Michiel Beijen). - [RT #113514, #98552] Fix the dash() and renderingintent() methods in ExtGState (reported by Vadim Repin and Phil Perry). - Satisfy all Perl::Critic severity 5 policies. - [RT #117940] Allow PNG, GIF, and PNM files to be opened from filehandles in addition to filenames (patch by Johan Vromans). - [RT #33970] Fail fast when a referenced file can\'t be opened (requested by Barrie Slaymaker a mere 8.5 years ago). - Add -simplex, -duplexfliplongedge and -duplexflipshortedge as options to $pdf->preferences() (requested by Doug Poulin).
* Sun Jun 12 2016 cooloAATTsuse.com- updated to 2.028 see /usr/share/doc/packages/perl-PDF-API2/Changes 2.028 2016-06-08 - [RT #113290] Fix for reading objects inside an object stream in a large PDF (patch by Marco Pessotto). - Eliminate an infinite loop when reading a corrupt dictionary.
* Mon Mar 14 2016 cooloAATTsuse.com- updated to 2.027 see /usr/share/doc/packages/perl-PDF-API2/Changes 2.027 2016-03-11 - This release contains seven fixes for parsing PDFs. They mostly affect files using cross-reference streams, which were first supported in the previous release. Thanks to Marco Pessotto and Stuart Henderson for their help identifying and troubleshooting bugs. - Added contrib/pdf-debug.pl to help track down issues related to opening and parsing PDFs.
* Tue Mar 08 2016 cooloAATTsuse.com- updated to 2.026 see /usr/share/doc/packages/perl-PDF-API2/Changes 2.026 2016-02-24 - [RT #48683] Add support for PDFs with cross-reference streams and object streams (patch by Don Huettl of Grant Street Group). - [RT #107333] Accept an empty string as a valid Name, per PDF spec 1.7 section 7.3.5 (patch by Mark Balitsky). - [RT #98551] Rename aliases 2A, 4A, 2B, and 4B to 2A0, 4A0, 2B0, and 4B0. The old names will continue to work, but are now undocumented (patch by Phil Perry). - Add -mils and -color as options for barcodes. Reset linedash so that barcodes are always solid lines (patch by Erelen). - [RT #98549] Rename meterlimit to miterlimit (patch by Phil Perry). - [RT #98534] Rename hspace to hscale (patch by Phil Perry). - Fixed an infinite loop when RunLengthDecode is used for output. - [RT #65582] Fix embedding of OpenType fonts (fix by Simon Cozens). - [RT #67767] Allow an empty page to be imported into a PDF using importPageIntoForm (reported by Antti Lankila). - [RT #66341] Various fixes for ASCII85Decode and LZWDecode.
* Sat Sep 26 2015 cooloAATTsuse.com- updated to 2.025 see /usr/share/doc/packages/perl-PDF-API2/Changes 2.025 2015-09-23 - The previous release included a patch that broke compatibility with Perl 5.8.x. The minimum supported version is now Perl 5.8.5, and there is a .perl-version file to facilitate testing using plenv.
* Sun Sep 20 2015 cooloAATTsuse.com- updated to 2.024 see /usr/share/doc/packages/perl-PDF-API2/Changes 2.024 2015-09-18 - [RT #104133] Include all bounding boxes when importing a page (patch by Don Huettl of Grant Street Group). - [RT #104133] When retrieving bounding boxes for a page, fall back according to the defaults listed in the PDF spec (patch by Don Huettl of Grant Street Group). - Barcodes now take an optional -caption argument that will be printed beneath the barcode. This can replace or be used in conjunction with the text representation of the barcode (requested by Gareth Tunley). - [RT #105581] Calls to width() in BaseFont are now significantly faster (patch by Dmitri Tikhonov).
* Tue Apr 14 2015 cooloAATTsuse.com- updated to 2.023 see /usr/share/doc/packages/perl-PDF-API2/Changes 2.023 2014-09-12 - The fix for [RT #69503] broke a previously-working case where a page object could be passed (and was expected). The -firstpage option now accepts a page object or a page number. Thanks to Marco Pessotto for the bug report and test.