PDF-API2 2.022

on Perl CPAN

• Added $pdf->version() get/set method. When opening an existing
  PDF, the existing version number will now be retained.

• Renamed the following in PDF::API2:

  • importpage to import_page
    
  • openScalar to open_scalar
    

The old names are deprecated.

• [RT #69503] Fix the -firstpage option to $pdf->preferences() so
  that it doesn't always lead to a crash (reported by Dietrich
  Streifert).

• [RT #47974] Accept malformed xref subsections (with a warning)
  that have extraneous spaces on the first line (reported by
  Abhinav Kaushik).

• [RT #94505] For Code128 barcodes, the initial character set is
  now optional (defaults to B or C depending on the content to be
  encoded). The initial character set can be passed as a capital
  letter, and the program will die if an invalid character set is
  requested (requested by Andrea Nall).

• Interleaved 2 of 5 barcodes now prepend a zero when an odd
  number of digits is specified, which is standard behavior.
  Previously, a zero was appended instead.

• $page->rotate(0) now sets rotation to 0 degrees rather than
  deleting an existing page rotation command. Page rotation is
  inherited, so this is necessary to undo any inherited page
  rotation.

• Fix: Attempts to use EAN-128 barcodes resulted in an error.

• Add a more informative error when text() is called without first
  setting a font(), and when font() is called without including a
  font size.