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Revision history for Perl module CAM::PDF

1.60  14 Aug 2013
      [ENHANCEMENTS]
      - Added min/max font size for form field filling.
        Thanks to Gareth Tunley for the idea and the initial code

1.59  28 Jan 2013
      [FIXES]
      - Added support for the \134 escape, synonymous with \\
        Thanks to Zakariyya Mughal for the patch
        https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=83018

1.58  28 May 2012
      Many thanks for Vadim Repin for numerous excellent bug reports!
      [FIXES]
      - Appended pdf revisions incorrectly incremented object generation numbers
        https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=76513
      - Appending pdf revisions was broken for non-linearized PDFs
        https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=76514
      - Allow multiple "startxref" statements in the last 1024 bytes -- unlikely, but possible
        https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=77508
      - Allow whitespace at the beginning of an indirect object (I think the PDF spec is
        ambiguous about this)
        https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=76512
      - Allow backspace character
        https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=76151
      [DOCUMENTATION]
      - mention $pdf->setPageContent($pagenum, $tree->toString());
        Leo Lapworth and http://cpanforum.com/posts/13228

1.57  17 Dec 2011
      [FIXES]
      - Test for undef streams instead of truth, to allow streams like '' or '0'
        Thanks to Thorsten Schwander for the patch
      - Failed to parse PDF 1.5 cross reference streams where a
        1024-byte boundary happened to fall between "endstream" and
        "endobj" do to a logic error.
        Thanks to Thorsten Schwander for the report and fix suggestion

1.56  13 Dec 2011
      [FIXES]
      - Workaround for corrupt PDFs that have 'n' records in their index that point to byte zero
        of the file. Silently treat those as 'f' records. Yet another case of Acrobat supporting
        broken PDFs, so the rest of us have to support them too...
        Thanks to Mark Hunnibell for a sample PDF that demonstrated the problem

1.55  22 Jun 2011
      [FIXES]
      - Performance enhancement saving large files
        https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69021
        Thanks to David Porter of Audacitas Limited for the patch

1.54  26 Mar 2011
      [FIXES]
      - appendPDF was broken intermittently if appended doc was bigger than main doc
        Thanks to Charlie Katz for a sample PDF
        http://chrisdolan.net/talk/2011/03/26/cam-pdf-fixes-appendpdf-bug/

1.53  25 Mar 2011
      [FIXES]
      - Handle PDF 1.5 case where "endstream" token crosses a 1024-byte boundary
        Thanks to Charlie Katz for a sample PDF
      - Allow whitespace after the 'stream' token for better interoperability
        http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=42819
        Credit to Vonne 'Robert' Bannavong
      - Fix broken crunchjpgs.pl, patch submitted by George Greer
      - Tolerate leading zeros on objnums and gennums
        http://www.cpanforum.com/posts/11494

1.52  02 Oct 2008
      [FIXES]
      - Better handling of failures during filter loading
        (rlane10 via http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2008/10/msg2361238.html)

1.51  28 Sep 2008
      [FIXES]
      - Support PDFs with 24-bit offsets in the xref stream (PDF v1.5 only)
        (thanks to Dan Richman for reporting the problem and providing an example)

1.50  20 Sep 2008
      [ENHANCEMENTS]
      - Support for reading PDF 1.5 compressed object streams and cross reference streams.
        (we cannot write this style, but we can append to it)
      [FIXES]
      - Decompression of PNG-filtered streams was totally broken.
      - Deleting pages now also deletes back references from annotations on that page.
      - cleanse() now removes PieceInfo data.  I have no idea what
        PieceInfo does, but it had a whole bunch of page back links
        that broke page deletion.

1.21  13 Aug 2008
      [FIXES]
      - Permit comments after the %%EOF, like Adobe Reader does.  Thanks to
        Malcolm Cook for pointing out the incompatibility.

1.20  26 Jun 2008
      [ENHANCEMENTS]
      - Support for Type 2 encryption (just reading, not writing)
      - Support for reading PDFs where the owner and user passwords
        are different
      - Improvement to performance of node traversal, inspired by
        RT #35555 (credit Eric Hall and his anonymous employee).

1.13  23 Apr 2008
      [FIXES]
      - setpdfbackground.pl computed RGB values incorrectly.  Thanks to
        Andrew Cadman for finding the bug and suggesting a fix

1.12  27 Nov 2007
      [FIXES]
      - I just realized that CAM::PDF::Renderer::Text was useless
        because it just printed to STDOUT.  Fixed to offer a
        toString() method instead.  Fuse::PDF wants this feature.
      - Fixed a typo in the Synopsis of CAM::PDF::Content

1.11  20 Nov 2007
      [ENHANCEMENTS]
      - added previousRevision() and allRevisions() [invented in Fuse::PDF]
      [INTERNALS]
      - Compliance with Perl::Critic v1.080

1.10  24 Mar 2007
      [FIXES]
      - RT #25306, regression in rangeToArray

1.09  25 Feb 2007
      [FIXES]
      - Restore Perl 5.6.x compatibility which was broken in 1.08
        (credit Brian Casey of rootlevelservices.com)
      - Detect end-image tag accidentally embedded with an inline
        image (credit Christian Drechsler)
      [INTERNALS]
      - Changed maintainer from CLOTHO@cpan.org to CDOLAN@cpan.org

1.08  17 Oct 2006
      [FIXES]
      - Add binmode() for Windows (RT #22136)
      - Fix addFont() where there is no 'Font' property (RT #22049)
      [INTERNALS]
      - Compliance with Perl::Critic v0.21 and Bangs
      - Moved the examples from scripts/ to bin/

1.07  11 Jul 2006
      [ENHANCEMENTS]
      - Add background_color options to fillFormFields
      [FIXES]
      - Add binmode() for Windows (RT #22136)
      - Documentation and copyright year
      [INTERNALS]
      - Compliance with Perl::Critic v0.17

1.06  20 Mar 2006
      [ENHANCEMENTS]
      - Added scripts/setpdfbackground.pl program
      - Added getPageDimensions() method

1.05  06 Dec 2005
      [FIXES]
      - Forgot to import Carp::cluck

1.04_01  30 Nov 2005
      [ENHANCEMENTS]
      - Docs
      [INTERNALS]
      - Refactoring
      - Add an ENV flag to skip some tests

1.03  20 Oct 2005
      [ENHANCEMENTS]
      - Regression tests
      [FIXES]
      - Fixes for deletePages with initial support for Dests and Outlines
      [INTERNALS]
      - Some code cleanup

1.02_01  18 Oct 2005
      Broken CPAN release!
      [ENHANCEMENTS]
      - Add options hash to the constructor.
      - Documentation
      [FIXES]
      - Regression: parseStream must be able to be called as a class method
      [INTERNALS]
      - Code refactoring.

1.01  20 Sep 2005
      [INCOMPATIBLE]
      - The API for CAM::PDF::Decrypt changed.  Several methods now
        require a CAM::PDF instance as a first argument.
      [FIXES]
      - Remove instances of circular references so CAM::PDF instances
        are able to be garbage collected.

1.00  19 Sep 2005
      [FIXES]
      - Fix an artificial limitation of the encryption module

0.99  22 Apr 2005
      First CPAN release
      [INCOMPATIBLE]
      - Relicence from GPL-only to GPL+Artistic
      [FIXES]
      - Debug asciify shell script
      - Read error on fontmetrics Width array (bounds error)
      [INTERNALS]
      - Add handy nodeType function

0.98  30 Nov 2004
      [ENHANCEMENTS]
      - Added better position support to GS
      - Added support for color devices in G
      - Prepend
      [FIXES]
      - addFont now checks that the font does not exist before adding
      [INTERNALS]
      - load Data::Dumper on demand only

0.97  09 Nov 2004
      [FIXES]
      - Tree validation fixes
      - Pass textwidth into the renderText() function
      - Page validation: string vs. hexstring


0.95  18 Jun 2004
      [ENHANCEMENTS]
      - New methods: addFont, wrapString
      [FIXES]
      - Debugged: graphic state computation

0.94  13 May 2004
      [ENHANCEMENTS]
      - New methods:
        getFontNames
        getFonts
        getFontByBaseName
        deEmbedFontByBaseName
        deEmbedFontObj
      - pdfinfo.pl - more detailed output
      - deillustrate.pl - new script to remove Illustrator metadata
      [FIXES]
      - disable the "node has only one kid and no parent" error
        This is a case where the delete code does a poor job of
        maintaining a balanced page tree and then complains about it's
        own bad work.  This should eventually be fixed, but for now,
        removing the die() is good enough.

0.93  29 Mar 2004
      [FIXES]
      -  Fix for font de-embedding to remove unused font widths

0.92  30 Jan 2004
      [ENHANCEMENTS]
      - Add deEmbedFont() method
      [FIXES]
      - Fix a new bug in the page range code

0.91  30 Jan 2004
      [ENHANCEMENTS]
      - Add listfonts.pl
      [FIXES]
      - Fix bug regarding page number ranges in getpdftext.pl and
        rendertext.pl
      - Fix MANIFEST

0.90  18 Sep 2003
      [INCOMPATIBLE]
      - Rename revert.pl to revertpdf.pl
      [ENHANCEMENTS]
      - Add documentation to all scripts
      - Ensure that all scripts respect PDF Modify permission
      [INTERNALS]
      - Add functions to facilitate testing PDF permissions

0.80  16 Sep 2003
      [ENHANCEMENTS]
      - Lots and lots and lots of documentation
      - Use Module::Build
      [FIXES]
      - Caught a couple little bugs in Decrypt.pm
      - Clean up some obsolete code in the Decrypt module

0.75  11 Sep 2003
      [FIXES]
      - Fix little bug in getStringWidth method
      - Minor bugfix in debugging function

0.74  29 Aug 2003
      [FIXES]
      - Better handling for loading Text::PDF::Filter library
      [INTERNALS]
      - Split GS.pm into two parts for performance

0.73  11 Aug 2003
      [FIXES]
      - Font metric widths were not properly dereferenced, in the case
        of indirect objects
      - Page content "cm" directives (transform user coordinate system
        matrix) were replacing the current matrix instead of appending
        to it.

0.72  26 Jun 2003
      [ENHANCEMENTS]
      - Add documentation for extractPages
      [FIXES]
      - rangeToArray() bug fixes in the corner cases, added tests
      - Fix number of tests

0.71  25 Jun 2003
      [ENHANCEMENTS]
      - add extractPages()
      - add more tests
      [FIXES]
      - Fix bug in deletePages

0.70  24 Jun 2003
      [ENHANCEMENTS]
      - Convert parser to non-destructive for higher speed
      [FIXES]
      - Fix a bug in the test script

0.65  24 Jun 2003
      [ENHANCEMENTS]
      - Add toPDF() and needsSave() methods.

0.64  24 Jun 2003
      [ENHANCEMENTS]
      - Add PDF.pm dcumentation
      - Add isLinearized() method
      - Add more output for pdfinfo.pl
      [FIXES]
      - Fix bug in syntax for page "d" element (numbers, not just integers)

0.63  22 Jun 2003
      [ENHANCEMENTS]
      - Added PDF test document
      - Added pdfinfo.pl script
      - Added toString method on CAM::PDF::Content class
      - Added writeInlineImage method to support above
      [FIXES]
      - Simple bug fix in writeAny error message

0.62  09 Jun 2003
      [ENHANCEMENTS]
      - Add Images renderer
      - findImages() content method
      - Add prependPDF to function list
      [FIXES]
      - bug fix

0.61  22 Apr 2003
      [ENHANCEMENTS]
      - Added prependPDF(), deletePages(), and rangeToArray() methods
      - test.pl overhaul
      - a little debugging output in getPage()

0.60  04 Apr 2003
      [ENHANCEMENTS]
      - Graphics state and rendering, some little code clean ups
      - Make output function more mod-perl friendly
      - Add page content validation
      - Add parsing of inline images
      - Add better Tj/TJ handline
      - Add check option to getpdftext.pl
      - Simplify BT treatment
      - Enhance the content reading by using native PDF data type
        parsing (converted the parsing functions to be either instance
        or class methods)
      - Special heuristic treatment of TJs
      [FIXES]
      - Add getpdftext.pl to the manifest

0.50  01 Apr 2003
      [ENHANCEMENTS]
      - Add page content parsing
      - Add script to output page text content
      - Overhauled fillForm to do things like use inherited form field
        values, do justified text, do autosized text.  This requires
        the use of the Text::PDF font utilities.
      - Handle multiline form widgets
      [FIXES]
      - Fix font autosizing to account for multiline fields

0.42  19 Feb 2003
      [ENHANCEMENTS]
      - Add getFont() function and supporting script
      - Add deletePage() function
      - Add deletepdfpage.pl script
      [FIXES]
      - Expect Encoding key in resource dictionary
      - Expect font size zero in form widgets
      TO DO: properly treat font size zero as autoscaled font

0.39  28 Oct 2002
      [ENHANCEMENTS]
      - Add return of number of successes to fillformfields

0.38  28 Oct 2002
      [ENHANCEMENTS]
      - Added clearAnnotations and addPageResources
      [FIXES]
      - Fix appendPDF
      - Add appendpdf.pl to the MANIFEST

0.37  04 Oct 2002
      [ENHANCEMENTS]
      - Add appendPDF() function and a script to facilitate PDF merging
      - Support for removal of decryption blocks
      - deleteObject function
      - Add support for the "null" object type
      [FIXES]
      - Fix and enable the cleanse function.  I can't make this
        function fail any longer.  Yay!
      - Fix typo for free block in xref dictionary creation
      - Catch undef objects in fillFormFields

0.35  29 Jul 2002
      [ENHANCEMENTS]
      - Add clearFormFieldTriggers function
      - Make buildNameTable work on fonts as well as xobjects
      [FIXES]
      - Fix dereference() documentation.
      - Change "if" to "while" in check for cmd line arguments
      [INTERNALS]
      - Moved uninlineImages function into library from script
      - Made some improvements to the embedded image detection logic
      - Change data structure for nodes from arrayref to object (hashref)

0.31  14 May 2002
      [INTERNALS]
      - Reorganize directory

0.30  13 May 2002
      [INCOMPATIBLE]
      - Change package name from PDF to CAM::PDF
      [ENHANCEMENTS]
      - lots and lots of documentation
      [FIXES]
      - fix undef bug in getFormField

0.23  26 Apr 2002
      bugfixes

0.22  19 Apr 2002
      [ENHANCEMENTS]
      - Password fields
      - Make Makefile.PL smarter -- read MANIFEST itself
      [FIXES]
      - Fix delinearize for non-linearized files
      - Font tweaks in form filling
      - Add listpdffields.pl to the manifest

0.21  15 Apr 2002
      [FIXES]
      - Improvements to form handling
      - Bug fixes in output of xref

0.20  12 Apr 2002
      [ENHANCEMENTS]
      - Add .pl files to manifest

0.10  12 Apr 2002
      [INCOMPATIBLE]
      - Change how the changestring code works with regex values
      [ENHANCEMENTS]
      - Form fields
      - Remove extra files from make process
      - Support for:
        different PDF versions
        concatenated strings
        \ continued lines
        \ escaped characters
        cleaner output formatting
        some dictionary sorting (special cases)
      - mac2unix support in asciify
      - verbose option in extractallimages.pl
      - pdf versioning in rewritepdf.pl
      - new revision reversion tool
      [FIXES]
      - Fix bug for \n in string
      - Fix string output implementation (used to break Acrobat5 and Xpdf)

0.01  13 Mar 2002
      [ENHANCEMENTS]
      - JPG options; PDF stamping functions
      - Cmd line options for tweaking jpg compression
      - Add JPEG quality flag
      - Added support for messing with images
      [FIXES]
      - Fix bug in escaped strings
      - Fix permission modification

0.01  22 Feb 2002
      [ENHANCEMENTS]
      - encryption/decryption
      - some documentation

0.01  18 Feb 2002
      [ENHANCEMENTS]
      - Search-and-replace text in a PDF doc
      - Program to change all reference objects
      - add cleanse feature (which breaks acrobat), fix some traverse bugs
      - Inline image uninlining

0.00  15 Feb 2002
      Initial import