CHANGES.rst

pyxpdf changelog

0.2.3 (2020-08-31)

• Config: make :any:`Config.cfg_path` public attribute
• Document: add support for :class:`~pathlib.Path` for loading pdf
• pyxpdf_data: add 35 base Postscript fonts from ghostscript

Bugs Fixed

• Fix #9: segfault using :meth:`~pyxpdf.xpdf.Document.text()`
• Fix #8: add checks for file in :any:`Config.add_font_file()`

0.2.2 (2020-07-03)

• Config: add function to add missing fonts :any:`Config.add_font_file()`
• Introduce :class:`~pyxpdf.xpdf.PDFImage` to represent a PDF Image.
• PDFImageOutput: :meth:`~pyxpdf.xpdf.PDFImageOutput.get` returns :class:`~pyxpdf.xpdf.PDFImage` instead of Pillow :class:`Image`

0.2.1 (2020-06-12)

Bugs Fixed

• fix all direct memory leaks
• Config: fix :any:`Config.text_encoding` setter, encodings with lowercase characters were not able to set.
• fix weird bytes encoding problem in python debug builds

0.2.0 (2020-06-11)

• Python 2.7 support dropped
• 2 optional dependencies (Pillow, pyxpdf_data) introduced

New Features

• Introduce (optional) package pyxpdf_data which add more encoding support.

• API: add specialised classes for pdf outputs, PDFOuputDevice.

  • TextOutput - For Text extraction
  • RawImageOutput - Render PDF Page as Image
  • PDFImageOutput - Extract images from PDF

• Config: add new global settings:

  • :any:`Config.anti_alias`
  • :any:`Config.enable_freetype`
  • :any:`Config.vector_anti_alias`

Bugs Fixed

• pdftotext: extracted text contains clipped text even when explictly discarding it.
• Config: fix loading of external xdfrc with :any:`Config.load_file()`

0.1.1 (2020-05-10)

• FIX: default :any:`Config.text_encoding` value i.e UTF-8 does not persist :any:`Config.reset()` and changes to Latin1.
• pdftotext: remove all parameters that change global :data:`~pyxpdf.xpdf.Config` properties.

0.1 (2020-04-20)

Initial stable release.