Changes for version 3.018 - 2020-04-24
- lib/PDF/Builder/Content.pm-Page.pm [RT 132403] clarify documentation on the two different rotate() methods.
- lib/PDF/Builder/Content/Hyphenate_basic.pm, lib/PDF/Builder/Content.pm- Docs.pm, lib/PDF/Builder/Resource/BaseFont.pm, examples/HarfBuzz.pl, examples/resources/HarfBuzz_example.pdf, examples/examples.output, examples/README, tools/3_examples.pl, INFO/old/examples.bat, Makefile.PL, README, MANIFEST Implement support for use of HarfBuzz::Shaper (to shape chunks of text). [RT 113700] This is an optional installation (manually done). examples/HarfBuzz.pl will not run if you do not have HarfBuzz::Shaper installed. HarfBuzz_example.pdf is provided in examples/resources/ in case you can't (yet) run HarfBuzz.pl. It demonstrates the use of HarfBuzz::Shaper for a variety of Western (ligatures and kerning), Middle Eastern (script and RTL), and South and Southeast Asian scripts.
- lib/PDF/Builder/Content.pm Add 'none' option to text underline and strikethrough options. This was added to permit the option (underline or strikethrough) to be given in the code, but allow a 'none' value in those cases where drawing an underline or strikethrough is not desired. This is still the default.
- examples/021_synfonts, examples/examples.output, examples/README The synthetic font example only showed for regular BankGothic font. Added bold, bold-italic, and italic cases. Note that there is something a bit odd about Bank Gothic -- it looks like it may only have regular weight (no bold) and the italic is questionable.
- tools/TTFdump.pl, MANIFEST, lib/PDF/Builder/Resource/Font/CoreFont.pm, lib/PDF/Builder/Resource/BaseFont.pm, examples/022_truefonts, lib/PDF/Builder/Resource/Font/CoreFont/courier*.pm- helvetica*.pm-times*.pm-georgia*.pm-trebuchet*.pm-verdana*.pm Add full set of glyph widths to core font metrics files [RT 57248]. This is intended to allow correct rendering of non-Latin-1 single byte fonts, by expanding the width listing beyond Latin-1. A utility is provided to read a TTF/OTF font and return glyph lists in a format that can be dropped into a [typeface].pm file. Only glyph widths table was changed (no other metrics). Arial was used for Helvetica metrics, BankGothic could not be found (not sure what's being substituted for it), and various symbology fonts were not changed. Courier "missing width" updated to reflect the character used to indicate a missing glyph.
- INFO/RoadMap Update some items. Mention other packages PDF::Table, Text::Layout, and HarfBuzz::Shaper that may be useful.
- lib/PDF/Builder/Resource/CIDFont.pm For TTF (ttfont) fix improper ToUnicode cmap so that a PDF may be searched (was broken in 3.016).
- lib/PDF/Builder/Content.pm Add example of using add() function to cancel Chrome browser scaling and Y-axis flip before new content is added to an existing PDF.
- lib/PDF/Builder/Content.pm, lib/PDF/Builder/Content/Text.pm Remind users not to use charspace() when working with a connected (script) font such as Arabic, Devanagari, cursive handwriting, etc. Add -nocs option to text line fill (justified) routines to not use any charspace() values when expanding or shrinking text content to fit.
- lib/PDF/Builder/Basic/PDF/File.pm. The earlier fix for corrupted xref table only ran under diagnostics. Now only the warning message is under the diagnostics flag (-diags), and the fixup attempt is always run.
- INFO/Changes_2019, Changes, MANIFEST, lib/PDF/Builder.pm, README, Makefile.PL, INFO/KNOWN_INCOMP 3.017 build/release, 2020 copyright, archive 2019 changes.
- (see INFO/Changes_2019 for earlier changes) (see INFO/Changes-ver_2 for changes to PDF::API2 up through 2.033)
Modules
Facilitates the creation and modification of PDF files
Add annotations to a PDF
Corresponds to a PDF array. Inherits from PDF::Builder::Basic::PDF::Objind
A special form of PDF::Builder::Basic::PDF::String which holds the strings true or false
PDF Dictionaries and Streams. Inherits from PDF::Builder::Basic::PDF::Objind
Holds the trailers and cross-reference tables for a PDF file
Abstract superclass for PDF stream filters
compress and uncompress stream filters for ASCII-85
compress and uncompress stream filters for ASCII-Hex
compress and uncompress stream filters for Flate
compress and uncompress stream filters for Lempel-Ziv-Welch
compress and uncompress stream filters for Run-Length
Literal PDF Object. Inherits from PDF::Builder::Basic::PDF::Objind
Inherits from PDF::Builder::Basic::PDF::String and stores PDF names (things beginning with /)
PDF Null type object. This is a subclass of PDF::Builder::Basic::PDF::Objind and cannot be subclassed.
Numbers in PDF. Inherits from PDF::Builder::Basic::PDF::String
PDF indirect object reference. Also acts as an abstract superclass for all elements in a PDF file.
Represents a PDF page, inherits from PDF::Builder::Basic::PDF::Pages
a PDF pages hierarchical element. Inherits from PDF::Builder::Basic::PDF::Dict
PDF String type objects and superclass for simple objects that are basically stringlike (Number, Name, etc.)
Utility functions for PDF library
Methods for adding graphics and text to a PDF
Simple hyphenation capability
additional specialized text-related formatting methods. Inherits from PDF::Builder::Content
additional documentation for Builder module
Lightweight PDF creation methods
matrix operations library
Add named destination shortcuts to a PDF
Manage PDF outlines (a.k.a. bookmarks)
further Outline handling. Inherits from PDF::Builder::Outline
Methods to interact with individual pages
Base class for PDF resources. Inherit from PDF::Builder::Basic::PDF::Dict
Base class for font resources
Base class for CID fonts
Base class for CJK fonts
TrueType font support
additional code support for TT font files. Inherits from PDF::Builder::Basic::PDF::Dict
Base class for PDF color spaces
colorspace handling for Device CMYK. Inherits from PDF::Builder::Resource::ColorSpace
base colorspace support for indexed color models. Inherits from PDF::Builder::Resource::ColorSpace
Adobe Color Table support
colorspace support for Device RGB. Inherits from PDF::Builder::Resource::ColorSpace::Indexed
colorspace support for "Web Safe" Device RGB colors. Inherits from PDF::Builder::Resource::ColorSpace::Indexed
Support for color space separations
translate color names into RGB settings
Graphics state dictionary support
some common support routines for font files. Inherits from PDF::Builder::Resource::BaseFont
Module for using bitmapped Fonts.
Module for using the 14 PDF built-in Fonts.
font-specific information for Bank Gothic font (not standard PDF core)
font-specific information for regular Courier font
font-specific information for bold weight Courier font
font-specific information for bold weight + slanted Courier font
font-specific information for slanted Courier font
font-specific information for regular Georgia font (not standard PDF core)
font-specific information for bold weight Georgia font (not standard PDF core)
font-specific information for bold weight + italic Georgia font (not standard PDF core)
font-specific information for italic Georgia font (not standard PDF core)
font-specific information for regular Helvetica font. Metrics and glyph list from Arial typeface.
font-specific information for bold weight Helvetica font. Metrics and glyph list from Arial typeface.
font-specific information for bold weight + slanted Helvetica font. Metrics and glyph list from Arial font.
font-specific information for slanted Helvetica font. Metrics and glyph list from Arial font.
font-specific information for the Symbol font
font-specific information for bold weight Times font
font-specific information for bold weight + italic Times font
font-specific information for italic Times font
font-specific information for regular (roman) Times font
font-specific information for regular Trebuchet font (not standard PDF core)
font-specific information for bold-weight Trebuchet font (not standard PDF core)
font-specific information for bold weight + italic Trebuchet font (not standard PDF core)
font-specific information for italic Trebuchet font (not standard PDF core)
font-specific information for regular Verdana font (not standard PDF core)
font-specific information for bold weight Verdana font (not standard PDF core)
font-specific information for bold weight + italic Verdana font (not standard PDF core)
font-specific information for italic Verdana font (not standard PDF core)
font-specific information for WebDings symbol font (not standard PDF core)
font-specific information for WingDings symbol font (not standard PDF core)
font-specific information for Zapf Dingbats symbol font
support routines for using PostScript fonts. Inherits from PDF::Builder::Resource::Font
Module for using synthetic Fonts.
preparsed uniglyph.txt file information
list of standard paper sizes and their dimensions
support stub for patterns. Inherits from PDF::Builder::Resource
support stub for shading patterns. Inherits from PDF::Builder::Resource
Unicode Font Support
Base class for external objects
Base class for external form objects
Base class for one-dimensional barcodes
specific information for CodaBar bar codes. Inherits from PDF::Builder::Resource::XObject::Form::BarCode
Code 128 and EAN-128 barcode support
specific information for 3-of-9 bar codes. Inherits from PDF::Builder::Resource::XObject::Form::BarCode
specific information for EAN-13 bar codes. Inherits from PDF::Builder::Resource::XObject::Form::BarCode
specific information for int 2-of-5 bar codes. Inherits from PDF::Builder::Resource::XObject::Form::BarCode
support routines for Forms. Inherits from PDF::Builder::Content, PDF::Builder::Content::Text, and PDF::Builder::Resource::XObject::Form
Base class for external raster image objects
support routines for Graphics Development image library. Inherits from PDF::Builder::Resource::XObject::Image
support routines for GIF image library. Inherits from PDF::Builder::Resource::XObject::Image
support routines for JPEG image library. Inherits from PDF::Builder::Resource::XObject::Image
support routines for PNG image library (using pure Perl code). Inherits from PDF::Builder::Resource::XObject::Image
support routines for PNG image library (using Image::PNG::Libpng). Inherits from PDF::Builder::Resource::XObject::Image
support routines for PNM (Portable aNy Map) image library. Inherits from PDF::Builder::Resource::XObject::Image
TIFF image support
support routines for TIFF image library
support routines for TIFF image library (Graphics::TIFF enabled)
TIFF image support (Graphics::TIFF enabled)
support routines for finding line breakpoints with Unicode text
utility package for often-used methods across the package.
Examples
- INFO/old/examples.bat
- examples/011_open_update
- examples/012_pages
- examples/020_corefonts
- examples/020_textrise
- examples/020_textunderline
- examples/021_psfonts
- examples/021_synfonts
- examples/022_truefonts
- examples/022_truefonts_diacrits_utf8
- examples/023_cjkfonts
- examples/024_bdffonts
- examples/025_unifonts
- examples/026_unifont2
- examples/030_colorspecs
- examples/031_color_hsv
- examples/032_separation
- examples/040_annotation
- examples/041_annot_fileattach
- examples/050_pagelabels
- examples/055_outlines
- examples/060_transparency
- examples/BarCode.pl
- examples/Boxes.pl
- examples/Bspline.pl
- examples/Content.pl
- examples/ContentText.pl
- examples/HarfBuzz.pl
- examples/README
- examples/RMtutorial.pl
- examples/Rotated.pl
- examples/Windows/027_winfont
- examples/examples.output
- examples/resources/HarfBuzz_example.pdf
- examples/resources/aptfrontview.jpg
- examples/resources/pod2htmd.temp
- examples/resources/sample.txt
- examples/resources/sample_55.pdf
