Michael R Sweet

PDFio 1.5.1 March 28, 2025

PDFio 1.5.1 is a bug fix release. Changes include:

Fixed output of special characters in name values (Issue #106)
Fixed output of special characters in string values (Issue #107)
Fixed output of large integers in dictionaries (Issue #108)
Fixed handling of 0-length streams (Issue #111)
Fixed detection of UTF-16 Big-Endian strings (Issue #112)

Enjoy!

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PAPPL v1.4.9 March 20, 2025

PAPPL v1.4.9 is now available for download and is a bug fix release. Changes include:

Fixed a bug in job event notifications.
Fixed a bug that would delay shutdown by 60 seconds.
Fixed some notification bugs.
Fixed validation error checking bug in papplPrinterCreate (Issue #385)
Fixed page number that is passed to the raster endpage function.
Disabled raw socket support on Windows.

Enjoy!

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PDFio 1.5.0 March 06, 2025

PDFio 1.5.0 is a feature and bug fix release. Changes include:

Added support for embedded color profiles in JPEG images (Issue #7)
Added pdfioFileCreateICCObjFromData API.
Added support for writing cross-reference streams for PDF 1.5 and newer files (Issue #10)
Added pdfioFileGetModDate() API (Issue #88)
Added support for using libpng to embed PNG images in PDF output (Issue #90)
Added support for writing the PCLm subset of PDF (Issue #99)
Now support opening damaged PDF files (Issue #45)
Updated documentation (Issue #95)
Updated the pdf2txt example to support font encodings.
Fixed potential heap/integer overflow issues in the TrueType cmap code.
Fixed an output issue for extremely small double values with the pdfioContent APIs.
Fixed a missing Widths array issue for embedded TrueType fonts.
Fixed some Unicode font embedding issues.

Enjoy!

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PDFio 1.4.1 January 24, 2025

PDFio 1.4.1 is a bug fix release. Changes include:

Added license files for the example fonts now bundled with PDFio (Issue #91)
Fixed the link libraries for the example source code (Issue #86)
Fixed handling of the Info object (Issue #87)
Fixed opening of PDF files less than 1024 bytes in length (Issue #87)
Fixed potential NULL dereference when reading (Issue #89)
Fixed reading of compressed object streams (Issue #92)
Fixed reading of UTF-16 string values (Issue #92)

Enjoy!

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Mini-XML 4.0.4 January 19, 2025

Mini-XML v4.0.4 is a bug fix release. Changes include:

Added Linux-specific build files and dropped unused long long config tests (Issue #335)
Documentation fixes (Issue #334, Issue #337)
Fixed an issue when reporting errors with a NULL options pointer (Issue #329)
Fixed some compiler warnings (Issue #333)
Fixed installation on MingW (Issue #336)

Enjoy!

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A Simple Raspberry Pi Zero Case January 09, 2025

I spent part of the holiday break designing myself a simple but flexible 3D-printable case for the Raspberry Pi Zero SBCs. The design is available for free on Thingiverse.

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PDFio 1.4.0 December 26, 2024

PDFio 1.4.0 is a feature and bug fix release. Changes include:

Added new pdfioDictGetKey and pdfioDictGetNumPairs APIs (Issue #63)
Added new pdfioArrayRemove and pdfioDictClear APIs (Issue #74)
Added new pdfioFileCreateNameObj and pdfioObjGetName APIs for creating and getting name object values (Issue #76)
Updated documentation (Issue #78)
Updated pdfioContentTextMeasure to support measuring PDF base fonts created with pdfioFileCreateFontObjFromBase (Issue #84)
Fixed reading of PDF files whose trailer is missing a newline (Issue #80)
Fixed builds with some versions of VC++ (Issue #81)
Fixed validation of date/time values (Issue #83)