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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)

Enjoy!

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HTMLDOC 1.9.20 December 09, 2024

HTMLDOC 1.9.20 is a bug fix release. Changes include:

• Fixed a regression that caused spaces to disappear between some words (Issue #533)
• Fixed resolution of relative links within a document (Issue #534)

Binaries are available from Github for Windows and macOS, and through the Snapcraft store for Linux.

Enjoy!

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HTMLDOC 1.9.19 November 21, 2024

HTMLDOC 1.9.19 is a bug fix release. Changes include:

• Security: Fixed an issue with the file_basename implementation (Issue #532)
• Added support for ‘file’ method in links (Issue #512)
• Updated HTML and header/footer code to use a string pool to simplify memory management and fix potential double-free bugs.
• Updated configure script to look for zlib with pkg-config (Issue #519)
• Updated markdown support code to mmd.
• Fixed hyperlinks to subfolders (Issue #525)
• Fixed export of UTF-8 HTML (Issue #526)
• Fixed handling of whitespace-only nodes (Issue #528)
• Fixed handling of tabs in PRE nodes (Issue #529)
• Fixed case sensitivity of link targets (Issue #530)

Binaries are available from Github for Windows and macOS, and through the Snapcraft store for Linux.

Enjoy!

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PAPPL v1.4.8 November 14, 2024

PAPPL v1.4.8 is now available for download and is a bug fix release. Changes include:

• SECURITY: The web interface password didn’t work properly (Issue #373)
• Now use the “listen-hostname” hostname as system hostname if a name is specified (Issue #369)

Enjoy!

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