- Fixed PdfStreamedDocument, see #88
- Added high-level signing API, see PdfSignerCMS and "TestSignature1" test case
- Set PdfSignature to have correct /ByteRange and /Contents after signing with PoDoFo::SignDocument
- Reviewed PdfFileSpec, PdfAction, PdfDestination API and their usage in PdfOutlineItem, PdfOutlines, PdfAnnotationActionBase, PdfAnnotationLink PdfAnnotationFileAttachment
- Fixed big performance regression introduced in 0.10, see #108
- Fixed data loss with encrypted documents, see #99
- Fixed compilation with VS2022 >= 17.8
- Fixed compilation using libxml >= 2.12.0
- Security related bugfixes #76, #89, #96
- Some compilation and test fixes
- Security bugfixes, #66, #67, #69, #70, #71, #72
- Rewritten PdfPageCollection for performance
- PdfCMapEncoding: Fix parsing some invalid CMap(s) supported by Acrobat
- PdfXRefStreamParserObject: Fixed handling of invalid XRef stream entries
- Support compilation of the library header (not the library itself) with C++20
- PdfPage/PdfAnnotationCollection/PdfAnnotation: Now functions with rect input assume it to be using the canonical coordinate system with no rotation
- PdfImage: Added support for CYMK jpeg
- PdfParser: Cleaned FindToken2 -> FindTokenBackward
- Renamed base source folder -> main
- 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 moved SmoothCurveTo, QuadCurveTo SmoothQuadCurveTo, ArcTo, Arc, to an helper structure until cleaned
- 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
- PdfEncrypt: Cleaned factory methods
- Added PdfArray::FindAtAs(), PdfArray::FindAtAsSafe(), PdfArray::TryFindAtAs(), PdfArray::GetAtAs(), PdfArray::GetAtAsSafe(), PdfArray::TryGetAtAs()
- Added PdfDictionary::FindKeyAsSafe() and PdfDictionary::TryFindKeyAs()
- PdfDictionary::AddKeyIndirect/PdfArray::AddKeyIndirect accepts a reference
- PdfAnnotation/PdfField API review
- PdfDate: Introduced PdfDate::LocalNow() and PdfDate::UtcNow() and default constructor is epoch time instead
- Renamed PdfDocument::GetNameTree() -> GetNames()
- PdfObject: Flate compress on write objects that have no filters
- PdfMemDocument does collect garbage by default when saving
- PdfField/PdfAnntation: Fully reworked the hierarchy and added proper fields ownership
- Added PdfField::GetParent(), PdfField::GetChildren()
- PdfImage: Cleaned/reviewed/fixed SetData()/SetDataRaw()
- Renamed PdfPageTree -> PdfPageCollection
- 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)
- Fixed serialization of strings with non ASCII PdfDocEncoding characters
- Removed PdfLocaleImbue
- PdfEncrypt: Removed PdfReference state. Added PdfStatefulEncrypt
- Removed use of std::ostringstream. Added efficient outstringstream
- Added PdfMath functionalities (matrix transformations and so on)
- Fixed serialization of UTF-16BE strings
- More lenient PdfDate parsing
- The project is now a C++17 library
- Added move semantics for PdfVariant, PdfObject, PdfArray, PdfDictionary
- Improved XRefStream support, added support in incremental saves
- Many fixes in save incremental object/generation number incrementing
- String backed with UTF-8 storage
- PdfName backed with UTF-8 storage
- Brand new PdfEncoding class with support for both /Encoding and /ToUnicode, more complete Unicode support
- Added a PdfDynamicEncoding class that creates a custom CID encoding based on actual used glyphs used
- Automatic creation of CIDMap and /ToUnicode
- Added PdfSigner class and SignDocument()
- Added PdfFontType1Encoding, which support Type1 implicit encoding
- Added support for PDF 2.0 UTF-8 strings (untested)
- Added indirect iteration for PdfArray/PdfDictionary (see GetIndirectIterator methods)
- Added PdfDocument::GetPdfALevel()
- Added PDFA preserving writing
- Refactored/Reviewed PdfInputDevice: versions that take buffer do not copy it (use istringviewstream)
- Added font replacement facility PdfFont::TryCreateFontSubstitute()
- Added standard14 fonts embedding, with font programs from PDFium
- Reviewed PdfXObject hierarchy, added PdfXObjectForm, PdfXObjectPostScript
- Added PdfTextState and use it to compute string widths in PdfFont
- Improved PdfDocEncoding to expose conversion utf8 conversion facilities
- PdfParser: Support also files with whitespace offset before magic start
- PdfObject auto ownership
- PdfContents: create on demand /Contents. First create a single stream, after array
- Improved IsDirty handling: less dirty bit sets
- Added PdfPostScriptTokenizer that as better general support for PostScript
- PdfDictionary: Review/convert GetKey -> FindKey
- PdfDictionary: Review GetKeyAs methods
- Fixed hundreds of warnings. No warnings left in tested builds
- FontConfigManager: better handling with custom configurations
- Removed PdfMutex. Used std::mutex where necessary
- Datatypte: remove PdfDataType::HexString
- Removed support for old compilers (MSVC6, hpux, borland, turbo...)
- Added better endian swap functions
- Removed auto_ptr usage
- Removed pdf_int/pdf_uint types
- Removed use of pdf_long/long types
- Removed use of ptrdiff_t
- Removed unistring and ugly string conversion code. Moved to utfcpp
- Reviewed PdfObject::GetNumber/PdfObject::GetReal (strict/lenient)
- Remove PdfObject inheritance on PdfVariant
- Reviewed PdfVariant/PdfObject/PdfArray/PdfDictionary equality/disequality operators
- Simplified copyright headers
- Object copy constructor must copy also stream
- PdfElement: GetDocument(), GetObject() refs
- PdfVecObjects: GetParentDocument() -> GetDocument()
- Remove PdfSignOutputDevice::SetSignatureSize(size)
- Moved inline code to .cpp
- Remove comments on overrides
- Cleaned CMakeFiles (removed custom Find<>.cmake)
- NULL -> nullptr
- Use shared_ptr in PdfFontMetrics, PdfEncoding in PdfFont
- Cleaned PdfFontCache (renamed PdfFontManager), removed font functions from PdfDocument
- PdfArray::FindAt() return ref
- Simplified license headers
- Reviewed PdfPageTree and PdfPageTreeCache API
- Reviewed most int vs unsigned indexing
- Remove all hungarian notation
- Sanitize code style
- Removed all const char* and passed to string/string_view
- Renamed PdfFontCache -> PdfFontManager
- Renamed PdfVecObjects -> PdfIndirectObjectList
- Renamed PdfNamesTree -> PdfNameTree
- Renamed PdfPagesTree -> PdfPageTree
- Renamed PdfPagesTreeCache -> PdfPageTreeCache
- PdfObject: removed GetIndirectObject(), MustGetIndirectKey (must use PdfDictionary now)
- Remove PdfMemoryManagement.cpp, Removed podofo_new, podofo_free
- Add chars type for char array storage/buffering which inerits string
- Review pointer vs ref parameters/return types
- Remove PdfRefCountedBuffer, PdfRefCountedInputDevice, PdfRefCountedOutputDevice
- Removed PdfMemoryManagement and all C style malloc/free usage
- Refactored PdfOutputDevice (PdfMemoryOutputDevice/PdfFileOutputDevice/etc.)
- Clean PdfError, remove wchar_t
- Remove printf, snprintf
- Renamed PdfElement-> {PdfDictionaryElement|PdfArrayElement} that respectively have GetDictionary(), GetArray()
- Reviwed PdfWriteFlags, added PdfSaveOptions
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.
Version 0.1 (11 June 2006)
- Initial release.