cpan PDF-Builder 3.011

latest releases: 3.026, 3.025, 3.024...
6 years ago

move .travis.yml.HOLD and dist.ini.old from the root to INFO/, to unclutter
the root. It is unknown when and if they will ever be used.

lib/PDF/Builder/Annotation.pm [ref RT 125917] minor fix to properly
implement a default target page fit (-xyz), otherwise the link()
method would not go to the desired target page. Some minor POD updates
to indicate that some functionality depends on the PDF reader (e.g.,
mouseover text on a link).
lib/PDF/Builder/XObject/Resource/Image/PNG.pm-PNG_IPL.pm
minor POD updates

lib/PDF/Builder/XObject/Resource/Image/PNG-PNG_IPL-TIFF-TIFF_GT.pm,
Makefile.PL, MANIFEST, lib/PDF/Builder.pm, lib/PDF/Builder/Docs.pm,
t/png.t
[ref RT 124349] If libpng.a and its wrapper, Image::PNG::Libpng are
installed, use them to process PNG files for inclusion into a PDF
document. If this library is not installed, or the user directs that
it is not be used via the -nouseIPL option, the existing pure Perl
PNG library (PNG.pm) will be used. The new library (PNG_IPL.pm) is
considerably faster than the old one and offers support for 16 bits
per sample and interlaced images*. Documentation has been updated in
TIFF and TIFF_GT, and functions LA_GT() and LA_IPL() have been added
to Builder to check LibraryAvailability (package availability) for
Graphics::TIFF and Image::PNG::Libpng, so you can know in advance
whether it is safe to try to use certain image functionality.

  • interlacing is removed during processing, so it is irrelevant to
    PDF, and 16bps channels (force PDF 1.5) can be reduced to 8bps,
    permitting PDF 1.4 output, by use of the -force8bps option.

Makefile.PL try directing support issues to GitHub rather than CPAN RT

lib/PDF/Builder.pm while working on 124349, I noticed that a partially
transparent RGBA PNG file (white background made transparent) with -notrans
option was showing as transparent. The problem was found to be that no
options given in the image_png() call, such as -notrans, were being passed
to the PNG image processing routine. This has been fixed.

docs/buildDoc.pl modified to first look for .pod files, and then .pm files
for producing documentation .html files. It still has some issues with
finding too much input, but is generally workable. The POD search path
needs further work, as references to other packages often don't work
(don't produce a working link, but a severe error message).

lib/PDF/Builder.pm internal routine proc_pages() renamed _proc_pages(),
walk_obj() renamed _walk_obj(), and add POD for save() method. There is a
release() method that is undocumented but it's not clear whether it's
internal. Improve documentation of mediabox and other *box methods.
lib/PDF/Builder/Annotation.pm-Matrix.pm-Outline.pm-Page.pm minor POD fixes.
There are a lot of low level calls (e.g., Array.pm) that perhaps should not
be considered as part of the User API (i.e., remove from POD).

lib/PDF/Builder/Outline.pm-NamedDestination.pm-Annotation.pm, INFO/DEPRECATED
deprecate pdfile() method and replace by pdf_file() (same as done earlier
for Annotation.pm). pdfile() will be removed on or after October, 2020.
lib/PDF/Builder/XObject/Resource/Image/TIFF_GT.pm-TIFF.pm, INFO/DEPRECATED
remove warning and support for Blackls1 (should be BlackIs1).

lib/PDF/Builder/Content.pm, examples/Content.pl
[ref RT 124218] add -strikethru text capability similar to -underline.
New example of strike-through in Content.pl examples.

lib/PDF/Builder.pm [ref #93] Bringing PDF::Builder into the 21st century
add -outver option (default: 1.4) to new() as output PDF version. It will
be increased by any PDF file read in with a higher PDF level (with message)
or by a call to version().
add -msgver option (default: 1) to output (value 1) a warning message when
the PDF output version is increased by verCheckInput() or verCheckOutput().
A value of 0 suppresses the warning messages.
add verCheckInput(version) to give warning if PDF just read in is of higher
PDF version than the current version, and to increase the current version
to that level. Implemented for reading of PDF files.
WARNING: just because the PDF output version has been increased does NOT
guarantee that any particular content will be handled correctly! There
are many known cases of PDF 1.5 and up files being read in, that have
content that PDF::Builder does not handle correctly, corrupting the
resulting PDF. Pay attention to run-time warning messages that the PDF
output level has been increased due to a PDF file being read in, and check
the resulting file carefully.
add verCheckOutput(version, description) to increase the output PDF version
if a PDF feature that requires a higher PDF version is requested. At this
time, there are no output features higher than 1.4.
in version(), give warning if LOWERING the output PDF version (not
suppressed by -msgver).
lib/PDF/Builder.pm, lib/PDF/Builder/Basic/PDF/File.pm-Name.pm
internally store PDF version as full number (e.g., 1.4) instead of just the
minor version (e.g., 4), as PDF 2.0 has been announced.
t/02-xrefstm.t, t/03-xrefstm-index.t
both t-tests read in a PDF-1.5 file, so add a call to new(-outver=>1.5) to
silence the warning message that the maximum version is being increased.

lib/PDF/Builder/Resource/Basefont.pm-CIDFont.pm-UniFont.pm
fix typo variable name $ident to $indent (indentation)
lib/PDF/Builder/Resource/UniFont.pm
ref RT 126274/#96 by adding missing indentation
value to recursive text() call (rather than reporter's more complex fix).

lib/PDF/Builder/Content.pm
ref RT 98539 close. According to PDF
spec, there's no real way to tell by eye whether it's within tolerance, and
results are unpredictable if you try to force visible line segments with
a higher tolerance. Also update POD to clarify the range of permissible
tolerance values, and silently clamp the input value to be in that range.

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