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Add release notes for qpdf 8.0.0

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Jay Berkenbilt 2018-02-21 20:06:41 -05:00
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<filename>ChangeLog</filename> in the source distribution.
</para>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term>8.0.0: February XXX, 2018</term>
<listitem>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
Packaging and Distribution Changes
</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
QPDF is now distributed as an <ulink
url="https://appimage.org/">AppImage</ulink> in addition to
all the other ways it is distributed. The AppImage can be
found in the download area with the other packages. Thanks
to Kurt Pfeifle and Simon Peter for their contributions.
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Bug Fixes
</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
<function>QPDFObjectHandle::getUTF8Val</function> now
properly treats non-Unicode strings as encoded with PDF Doc
Encoding.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Improvements to handling of objects in PDF files that are
not of the expected type. In most cases, qpdf will be able
to warn for such cases rather than fail with an exception.
Previous versions of qpdf would sometimes fail with errors
such as &ldquo;operation for dictionary object attempted on
object of wrong type&rdquo;. This situation should be mostly
or entirely eliminated now.
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Enhancements to the <command>qpdf</command> Command-line Tool.
All new options listed here are documented in more detail in
<xref linkend="ref.using"/>.
</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
The option
<option>--linearize-pass1=<replaceable>file</replaceable></option>
has been added for debugging qpdf's linearization code.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
The option <option>--coalesce-contents</option> can be used
to combine content streams of a page whose contents are an
array of streams into a single stream.
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
API Enhancements. All new API calls are documented in their
respective classes' header files. There are no non-compatible
changes to the API.
</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
Add function <function>qpdf_check_pdf</function> to the C API.
This function does basic checking that is a subset of what
<command>qpdf --check</command> performs.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Major enhancements to the lexical layer of qpdf. For a
complete list of enhancements, please refer to the
<filename>ChangeLog</filename> file. Most of the changes
result in improvements to qpdf's ability handle erroneous
files. It is also possible for programs to handle
whitespace, comments, and inline images as tokens.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
New API for working with PDF content streams at a lexical
level. The new class
<classname>QPDFObjectHandle::TokenFilter</classname> allows
the developer to provide token handlers. Token filters can be
used with several different methods in
<classname>QPDFObjectHandle</classname> as well as with a
lower-level interface. See comments in
<filename>QPDFObjectHandle.hh</filename> as well as the new
examples <filename>examples/pdf-filter-tokens.cc</filename>
and <filename>examples/pdf-count-strings.cc</filename> for
details.
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>7.1.1: February 4, 2018</term>
<listitem>