Monday, September 03, 2007

Poppler 0.6 released

Poppler 0.6 is available from http://poppler.freedesktop.org/poppler-0.6.tar.gz

Changes since RC2:
- CairoOutputDev fixes
- Allow pdftoppm to read/write from stdin/stdout
- API work on Qt4 frontend
- Fix pdfimages produces inverted image for black & white image
- Fix error on the NFKC text matching routine
- Add support for word and line selections
- Do not enforce %%EOF at the end of file
- Pad zeroes instead of aborting when rendering 1-bit images
and the stream is too short
- Update glib bindings documentation

Testing, patches and bug reports welcome.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Poppler is one of the greatest things I know if. Good to see that you put so much effort into it.
Do you know if the OOo people will use Poppler for their PDF import in future? At least they were considering it but the licence is incompatible to my knowledge.
http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/completing_pdf_support_in_ooo