lib/PDF/Builder/Content/Text.pm, examples/Column.pl
Add HTML "reversed" (boolean) to

tag to count down instead of up
(needs "start" value to make any sense).

I wanted to fix a few more minor problems with column(), including the
color of the first text in a

1. overriding the marker color, a bunch
   of redundant font and color change commands and some other
   inefficiencies, and some other stuff. Unfortunately, that looks like a
   considerable rewrite of column(), and I ran out of runway, so I'll have
   to put it off to the next release.

   lib/PDF/Builder/Content.pm
   Add some POD notes about the use of charspace for tracking adjustments,
   and the interaction with wordspace adjustments for a more balanced
   appearance of justified text.

   devtools/
   A collection of various utilities I use to build PDF::Builder (the CPAN
   package), as well as do the PHP conversion of HTML code for the web page
   display of documentation (see catskilltech.com). Note that buildDoc.pl
   (to build all the HTML files from POD) is already shipped with the
   package. Further note that tools/1_pc.pl (Perl Critic) will complain
   a LOT about the code in devtools/ ... maybe some day I'll get around to
   cleaning it up.

   (many .pm files), META.yml, Makefile.PL, README.md, docs/buildDoc.pl,
   t/00-all-usable.t, tools/optional_update.pl, version
   Cleanup of POD so that unordered/bulleted lists, ordered/numbered lists,
   definition/description lists, and indented paragraphs are properly
   handled upon conversion to HTML. Change optional POD-to-HTML generation
   from the old pod2html to Pod::Simple::XHTML.

   lib/PDF/Builder/Content.pm
   The linedash() method was not properly handling a restore of a saved
   dash pattern, resulting in PDF "dash pattern" values that could be
   unusable by a Reader.

   lib/PDF/Builder.pm, lib/PDF/Builder/FontManager.pm,
   lib/PDF/Builder/Content/Text.pm, t/03-xrefstm-index.t
   Continuing Issue #197, clean up handling of newly-created PDF object
   in from_string() method (used by open() method). Also knock-on effects
   on some t-tests.

   lib/PDF/Basic/PDF/Pages.pm
   Issue #203 a new page was being inserted in the wrong place. Thanks to
   Vadim Repin for finding a "one off" index error that's apparently been
   there for at least a decade, and the fix.

   lib/PDF/Builder.pm, lib/PDF/Builder/Basic/PDF/File.pm
   Improve upon the Integrity Check, acknowledging that missing objects
   might be hidden in an object stream. The open() function was also
   sometimes seeing a class reference rather than a pure class, which has
   been fixed. See issue #196 and especially #197.

   lib/PDF/Builder.pm, lib/PDF/Builder/Content.pm, examples/060_transparency,
   INFO/KNOWN_INCOMP, tools/1_pc.pl
   Remove ability to generate save() ("q") and restore() ("Q") while in a
   text object. If attempted in text, it is now a no-op with a one-time
   (per run) warning message reminding users to update their code NOT to
   attempt save and restore in text mode. This was prompted by PDF::TableX
   t-tests using text save and restore, which isn't permitted by the PDF
   definition. Updated one PDF::Builder example that (unnecessarily) did a
   save/restore in text mode. Thanks to Vadim Repin for troubleshooting this
   and determining the problem and fix. While in here, make the warning
   message that a request for 'Times' core font is changed to 'Times-Roman'
   a one-time (per run) output, rather than every time.

   lib/PDF/Builder/Page.pm, INFO/DEPRECATED, t/deprecations-page.t
   Obsolete and deprecated methods get_mediabox(), get_cropbox(),
   get_bleedbox(), get_trimbox(), and get_artbox() have been removed. Please
   use the regular methods (in $pdf or $page) with no arguments, to retrieve
   the current box values.

   lib/PDF/Builder/Resource/XObject/Image.pm, INFO/DEPRECATED
   Deprecate Image object methods width() and height() ability to SET the
   width and height of an image. This setting apparently has never worked
   properly, but in case someone is actually using it for some purpose, it
   has not been immediately removed. It is planned to be removed after
   October, 2025, unless someone shows that they are using it.

   (most .pm files)
   Reformat POD to make navigation easier, including the listing of all user-
   accessible methods in a POD's Table of Contents at the top.

   lib/PDF/Builder/Content.pm, lib/PDF/Resource/XObject/Form/Hybrid.pm,
   lib/PDF/Builder/Lite.pm, INFO/DEPRECATED, examples/021_psfonts,
   t/content-deprecated.t, t/deprecations.t
   Remove long-deprecated method and global variable "lead". Use "leading"
   instead, which is the correct typographical term. Although the "Lite"
   subpackage isn't really maintained, "textlead()" has been replaced by
   "textleading()".

   lib/PDF/Builder/Basic/PDF/Array.pm, /lib/PDF/Builder/Basic/PDF/Objind.pm,
   INFO/DEPRECATED, t/deprecations.t
   Remove long-deprecated method "elementsof()" in favor of "elements()".
   Remove long-deprecated method "removeobj()" in favor of "remove_element()".

   README.md, Makefile.PL, META.yml, META.json, lib/PDF/Builder.pm,
   examples/Column.pl
   Minimum Perl version changed from 5.24 to 5.26. Update list of expected
   end-of-service against various Perl versions.

   lib/PDF/Builder/Content.pm
   Clarify description of "bogen()" method's "larger" and "reverse" options.

   lib/PDF/Builder/Content.pm, lib/PDF/Builder/Content/Text.pm
   Implement 'align' option for text() left/center/right, l/c/r.

   README.md, examples/020_textunderline
   Add pointer to README to online documentation, and clarify underline
   example (that first text is NOT underlined).

   lib/PDF/Builder.pm
   Clarify documentation on page_labels() versus pageLabel(), add code to
   check differences in starting page index and form of options, in response
   to PDF::API2 Issue #61.

   lib/PDF/Builder/Content/Text.pm
   A number of minor fixes: explicitly make paragraph

   a block level,
   any pending margin-bottom at the end of a column (if ran out of input)
   should be accounted for in the returned $start_y.

   INFO/ACKNOWLEDGE.md (new), README.md, MANIFEST
   Add acknowledgements and thanks.

   lib/PDF/Builder/Basic/PDF/Filter/LZWDecode.pm
   Revert an earlier change that broke some filtering.

   README.md Update to point to new PDF::Builder Home Page structure (on
   catskilltech.com).

   t/info.t
   Add test of modified() method.

   lib/PDF/Builder.pm
   Incorrect check on date format (missing last '). Reported by Johan Vromans
   against PDF::API2 #62. The _is_date() method has been updated to reflect
   a number of date/time formats found "in the wild", although the PDF
   documentation is a bit inconsistent over time, as well as ambiguous, so
   this may allow through some invalid formats.

   lib/PDF/Builder.pm, examples/050_pagelabels
   Fix an incompatibility with PDF::API2 recent changes (page_labels method).
   Now starts page index (for page_labels) at 1 instead of 0, and warns
   if 0 page index (page number) is given for page_labels (per API2 ticket
   #61). The old pageLabel method, kept for compatibility, is unaffected.
   The example script has been updated to show both styles.

   lib/PDF/Builder/Content/Text.pm
   Make paragraph() method compatible with PDF::API2's, i.e., $continue
   parameter is optional. It should make no difference in calls to paragraph
   whether there is a fourth parameter (continue) before the options. This
   incompatibility showed up in PDF::TableX t-tests.

   lib/PDF/Builder/Docs.pm
   Full writeup of what's supported for markup input (Markdown, HTML).

   tools/3_examples.pl, examples/020_corefonts, examples/021_synfonts,
   examples/023_cjkfonts
   Add -s flag to run a small subset of the lengthy test list for three of
   the examples, plus overall when running all examples.

   lib/PDF/Builder/Page.pm, lib/PDF/Builder/Resource/CIDFont.pm
   Clean up some typos preventing synfont t-test from running.

   lib/PDF/Builder.pm, lib/PDF/Builder/Resource/CIDFont.pm
   It has come to our attention (#193) that PDF Readers (Adobe Reader and a
   number of Third Party readers) do not properly handle the "Tw" operator
   with TrueType fonts. Other font types work as expected. This operator,
   set by the $text->wordspace(n) method, is ignored for TTF and OTF fonts
   ($pdf->ttfont()) because Tw works only for inputs in the stream where
   words are separated by ASCII spaces (x20). TrueType fonts, on the other
   hand, uses an input list of glyph IDs (4 digit hex numbers). Thus, there
   are never any ASCII spaces to detect and adjust their widths.

   We have updated the TTF/OTF handling code to honor the Tw operator value
   and emulate its actions, even though a native PDF Reader does not. In
   order to match the effects of the Tw operator on other font types, only
   ASCII spaces (x20) in the original text strings are affected, and not
   other flavors of spaces. Finally, TextHS() and advancewidthHS() still do
   not handle charspace or wordspace settings (perhaps in the future).

   lib/PDF/Builder/Content/Text.pm
   When linking to a page via Markdown or HTML (URL #p-x-y), the default
   zoom was 1 (100%) when given just the x and y coordinates on a page. This
   has been changed to leave the zoom factor unchanged by default (unless,
   of course, you choose to specify a zoom amount). Also, the thickness
   (height) of the horizontal rule defaulted to 1pt, which was a bit heavy
   in appearance. It has been changed to default to 0.5pt.

   lib/PDF/Builder.pm
   GD image call was not working in some circumstances, due to image_gd()
   being called incorrectly. Reported and fixed by Hakon Hagland against
   PDF::API2 (#60).

   lib/PDF/Builder/Resource/Font/Postscript.pm, lib/PDF/Builder/Docs.pm,
   examples/021_psfonts, t/font-type1.t
   Update Type 1 font (PS font) handling to allow T1 fonts (.t1 filetype,
   variant of .afm/.pfm). Also some new font paths to search on. Per request
   #194 from Red Hat packager (@ppisar).

   ===== IMPORTANT NOTICE =====
   lib/PDF/Builder.pm, lib/PDF/Builder/Docs.pm,
   lib/PDF/Builder/Resource/Font/Postscript.pm
   Adobe has announced an end to support for Type 1 (Postscript/T1) fonts in
   its products. The announcement wordings are a bit vague, sometimes
   referring to "all products" and other times just to "authoring software".
   Presumably, Adobe PDF Readers (as well as Readers supplied by other
   parties) will continue to display PDFs with Type 1 fonts for quite some
   time, although this is by no means absolutely certain. Note that this
   does NOT mean that PDF::Builder or other Third Party authoring tools may
   not continue to support Type 1 fonts. This termination by Adobe of
   support of a now old and obsolete font format does not affect the use of
   PDF::Builder for authoring PDFs, nor is it binding on other non-Adobe
   readers and authoring tools. However, using Adobe products for editing of
   PDFs with Type 1 fonts, and possibly of displaying them, may soon no
   longer be possible. At any rate, users may want to consider starting to
   move away from Type 1 font usage (psfont), and switch to TTF/OTF (ttfont)
   or even core fonts (corefont), as it is unknown how long Type 1 Reader

   support will continue.