pymupdf/PyMuPDF 1.24.2

PyMuPDF-1.24.2 released

on GitHub

PyMuPDF-1.24.2 has been released.

Wheels for Windows, Linux and MacOS, and the sdist, are available on pypi.org and can be installed in the usual way, for example:

python -m pip install --upgrade pymupdf

[Linux-aarch64 wheels will be built and uploaded later.]

Changes in version 1.24.2 (2024-04-17)

• Removed obsolete classic implementation from releases
  (previously available as module fitz_old).

• Fixed issues:

  • Fixed #3331
  • Fixed #3354

• Other:

  • New/modified methods:

    • Document.bake(): new, make annotations / fields permanent content.
    • Page.cluster_drawings(): new, identifies drawing items
      (i.e. vector graphics or line-art)
      that belong together based on their geometrical vicinity.
    • Page.apply_redactions(): added new parameter text.
    • Document.subset_fonts(): use MuPDF's pdf_subset_fonts() instead of PyMuPDF code.

  • The Document class now supports page numbers specified as slices.

  • Avoid causing MuPDF warnings.