===== many thanks to Amtivo Group for sponsoring this work!
see INFO/SPONSORS for more information
lib/PDF/Builder/Content/Text.pm, examples/README, examples/examples_output,
examples/Column.pl (new), MANIFEST, tools/3_examples.pl
Add column() function to Content::Text, to support markup (none, Markdown,
and HTML) in arbitrary columns. Note that PDF::Table will also support
column(), but only when using PDF::Builder.
lib/PDF/Builder.pm, lib/PDF/Builder/FontManager.pm (new), examples/README,
examples/examples_output, examples/FontManager.pl (new), MANIFEST,
tools/3_examples.pl
Add a Font Manager to be able to select a font simply by giving the "face"
and whether bold and/or italics are to be used. The actual font setting
(with font size) is still done with $text->font($font, $size), but
instead of having to explicitly create (or reuse) a $font, that part is
all handled for you. It does not depend on any OS-provided font manager
libraries (such as Linux provides, but Windows does not). Except for
the core fonts, your application has to specify the base font and the
files to use for italic, bold, etc.
===== end of sponsored work
lib/PDF/Builder.pm, lib/PDF/Builder/FontManager.pm
Update "font path" in Builder, make use of it in Font Manager. Note that
at this time, only FontManager.pm makes use of the global font path
settings (font_path() method). All other code, examples, and t tests
give full paths to font files. At some point in the future, this may be
changed, but the problem is that Linux and other non-Windows systems
seem to store their font files all over the place, and even Windows is
consistent only for TrueType files (it doesn't ship with any Type1 or
other format fonts). Note that if you wish to modify the default font
path list, you need to edit Builder.pm.
lib/PDF/Builder/Content.pm, examples/042_links, examples/HarfBuzz.pl,
examples/examples.output; MANIFEST, 040_annotation.pdf (new),
examples/resources/HarfBuzz_example.pdf (removed)
Remove the output of HarfBuzz Shaper's example from examples/resources
(examples/resources/HarfBuzz_example.pdf), as this file is now available
on the CTS website (Examples/PDF/Builder/HarfBuzz.pdf) and substitute a
much smaller PDF, the output from 040_annotation, as the PDF sample for
042_links. This will cut the package size of PDF::Builder by about half!
References to HarfBuzz_example.pdf as a sample to look at (should you
not be able to run HarfBuzz.pl due to HarfBuzz::Shaper not being
installed) have been updated to refer to the CTS website examples.
README.md, LICENSE, lib/PDF/Builder.pm, examples/Column.pl
Change copyright to 2023.
META.json, META.yml
Remove "provides" entries because 1) they do not seem to survive the
packaging process, 2) no one seems to be able to state what this inform-
ation is actually used for -- I see something vague about "search", and
3) how do I make "provides" entries that are better at doing whatever
they're supposed to do better than what CPAN does by default? Also,
there may be a META_ADD provides that I'm supposed to add to Makefile.PL,
but again, documentation is quite scarce. I think I'll just ignore the
whole "provides" thing until there's good documentation on it.
README.md, Makefile.PL, META.json, META.yml, tools/optional_update.pl,
t/00-all-usable.t, lib/PDF/Builder.pm, MANIFEST
No longer automatically install Graphics::TIFF, Image::PNG::Libpng, and
HarfBuzz::Shaper. This should lighten the installation and testing load
on users, if they do not plan to use TIFF or PNG images, or do text
shaping. Also list the new prerequisites for markup processing
(HTML::TreeBuilder, Text::Markdown). optional_update.pl no longer needed
and has been removed from the distribution.
xt/author-critic.t, xt/author-pod-syntax.t, MANIFEST, tools/2_t-tests.pl
Move a couple of specialty t tests from t/ to xt/
lib/PDF/Builder/Content/Hyphenate_basic.pm
Add ability to split a word on Required Blanks (non-breaking spaces), as
a last-ditch way to do basic hyphenation. Add ability to split a word to
fit a given width (regardless of where the split ends up), as an even
more last-ditch way.
lib/PDF/Builder.pm
Per PDF::API2 change, allow 'Times' as an alias for core font
'Times-Roman'. This was also done for 'corefont()', as well as the
original 'font()'. A warning is given if Times is used. Also, change
'die' on errors to 'croak'.
INFO/RoadMap, examples/020_corefonts
Add discussion of /StructTreeRoot, remove Bank Gothic examples from
core fonts (it appears to be just a partial alias for some other
sans-serif font).
LICENSE remove superfluous "59" from FSF address in license. From
PDF::API2 #59.
lib/PDF/Builder.pm open_page() clarify that default index is last page.
lib/PDF/Builder/ViewerPreferences.pm
Fix glitch in $pdf->viewer_preferences() for non-full-screen-page-mode.
From PDF::API2 #50.
lib/PDF/Builder.pm
Fix page mode "SinglePage" unsupported. From PDF::API2 #49.
lib/PDF/Builder/Page.pm
Add documentation reminding users of rotation problems when using a
crop box or other clipping. From PDF::API2 #58.
lib/PDF/Builder.pm
Add checks to page() method to see if the application is attempting to
add a new page number that is too negative (more than one before the
existing first page) or too positive (beyond the existing last page).
The index value (page number) is clamped to be within possible values,
with a warning. Ref: #190.
lib/PDF/Builder/Annotation-NamedDestination-Outline.pm,
lib/PDF/Builder.pm, t/named-destinations.t, t/042_links
Remove new PDF::API2-style location+args interfaces, as I don't like the
way they work, and that they are not backwards compatible with the old
methods. Unfortunately, this may break any application changed (or
recently written) to use the new PDF::API2 2.043 interfaces. If the
new location+args list notation were to be used, only if the number of
args was even could this be detected. An odd number of args, plus the
location string, would be indistinguishable from a hash list, one of
which may follow (as options) the location+args list. Ref: #190.
lib/PDF/Builder/Resource/CIDFont/TrueType/FontFile.pm
Typo fixed.