Saturday, November 10, 2007

Poppler 0.6.2 released

Available from http://poppler.freedesktop.org/poppler-0.6.2.tar.gz

Changes since 0.6.1:
poppler core:
* Fix CVE-2007-4352, CVE-2007-5392 and CVE-2007-5393
* Fix a crash on documents with wrong CCITTFaxStream
* Fix a crash in the Cairo renderer with invalid embedded fonts
* Fix a crash with invalid TrueType fonts
* Check if font is inside the clip area before rendering
it to a temporary bitmap in the Splash renderer. Fixes crashes on
incorrect documents
* Do not use exit(1) on DCTStream errors
* Detect form fields at any depth level
* Do not generate appearance stream for radio buttons that are not active
* mingw fixes

build system:
* Require fontconfig >= 2.0
* builddir != srcdir fixes

Qt4 frontend:
* Improved documentation

misc:
* Fix FSF address

Testing, patches and bug reports welcome.
a

4 comments:

  1. AnonymousTuesday, November 13, 2007 12:43:00 PM

    When will poppler honor the system hinting settings?
    IMHO opinion this is a showstopper. Sometimes I have to revert to the adobe reader to get nice non hinted fonts.

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  2. Albert Astals CidTuesday, November 13, 2007 11:37:00 PM

    Use http://bugs.freedesktop.org to report bugs or suggest enhancements. The component is poppler.

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  3. AnonymousWednesday, November 14, 2007 5:56:00 PM

    hi albert, sorry for the rant.
    but this problem has been around for years and devs seem to not care. Seems like they think that antialiased *and* hinted fonts is best you can get from freetype. which is not.
    Here's the bug:
    https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9862

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  4. clavicymbelFriday, November 30, 2007 8:09:00 PM

    This bug pertains to this problem as well.
    The problem is the patch herein doesn't work anzmore and needs attention by people who know the codebase

    https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3307

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