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Update release notes for 4.1.0
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<!ENTITY mdash "—">
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<!ENTITY ndash "–">
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<!ENTITY nbsp " ">
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<!ENTITY swversion "4.0.1">
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<!ENTITY lastreleased "January 17, 2013">
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<!ENTITY swversion "4.1.0">
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<!ENTITY lastreleased "April 14, 2013">
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]>
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<book>
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<bookinfo>
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<filename>ChangeLog</filename> in the source distribution.
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</para>
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<variablelist>
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<varlistentry>
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<term>4.1.0: April 14, 2013</term>
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<listitem>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Note to people including qpdf in distributions: the
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<filename>.la</filename> files generated by libtool are now
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installed by qpdf's <command>make install</command> target.
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Before, they were not installed. This means that if your
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distribution does not want to include <filename>.la</filename>
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files, you must remove them as part of your packaging process.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Major enhancement: API enhancements have been made to support
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parsing of content streams. This enhancement includes the
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following changes:
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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<function>QPDFObjectHandle::parseContentStream</function>
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method parses objects in a content stream and calls
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handlers in a callback class. The example
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<filename>examples/pdf-parse-content.cc</filename>
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illustrates how this may be used.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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<type>QPDFObjectHandle</type> can now represent operators
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and inline images, object types that may only appear in
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content streams.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Method <function>QPDFObjectHandle::getTypeCode()</function>
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returns an enumerated type value representing the
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underlying object type. Method
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<function>QPDFObjectHandle::getTypeName()</function>
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returns a text string describing the name of the type of a
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<type>QPDFObjectHandle</type> object. These methods can be
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used for more efficient parsing and debugging/diagnostic
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messages.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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<command>qpdf --check</command> now parses all pages' content
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streams in addition to doing other checks. While there are
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still many types of errors that cannot be detected, syntactic
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errors in content streams will now be reported.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Minor compilation enhancements have been made to facilitate
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easier for support for a broader range of compilers and
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compiler versions.
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Warning flags have been moved into a separate variable in
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<filename>autoconf.mk</filename>
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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The configure flag <option>--enable-werror</option> work
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for Microsoft compilers
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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All MSVC CRT security warnings have been resolved.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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All C-style casts in C++ Code have been replaced by C++
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casts, and many casts that had been included to suppress
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higher warning levels for some compilers have been removed,
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primarily for clarity. Places where integer type coercion
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occurs have been scrutinized. A new casting policy has
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been documented in the manual. This is of concern mainly
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to people porting qpdf to new platforms or compilers. It
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is not visible to programmers writing code that uses the
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library
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Some internal limits have been removed in code that
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converts numbers to strings. This is largely invisible to
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users, but it does trigger a bug in some older versions of
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mingw-w64's C++ library. See
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<filename>README-windows.txt</filename> in the source
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distribution if you think this may affect you. The copy of
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the DLL distributed with qpdf's binary distribution is not
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affected by this problem.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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The RPM spec file previously included with qpdf has been
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removed. This is because virtually all Linux distributions
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include qpdf now that it is a dependency of CUPS filters.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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A few bug fixes are included:
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Overridden compressed objects are properly handled.
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Before, there were certain constructs that could cause qpdf
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to see old versions of some objects. The most usual
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manifestation of this was loss of filled in form values for
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certain files.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Installation no longer uses GNU/Linux-specific versions of
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some commands, so <command>make install</command> works on
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Solaris with native tools.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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The 64-bit mingw Windows binary package no longer includes
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a 32-bit DLL.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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</para>
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</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry>
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<term>4.0.1: January 17, 2013</term>
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<listitem>
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