- 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.