Tweak release instructions, support signed AppImage

README-maintainer.md

@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@
   * libqpdf/QPDF.cc
   * manual/qpdf-manual.xml
   `make_dist` verifies this consistency.
+* Generate a signed AppImage. To do this, have the gpg key available and run `./appimage/build-appimage --sign`. Rename the AppImage in appimage/build to qpdf-<version>-x86_64.AppImage and include it in the set of files to be released.
 * Update release date in `manual/qpdf-manual.xml`.  Remember to ensure that the entities at the top of the document are consistent with the release notes for both version and release date.
 * Check `TODO` file to make sure all planned items for the release are done or retargeted.
 * Each year, update copyright notices. Just do a case-insensitive search for copyright. Don't forget copyright in manual. Also update debian copyright in debian package. Last updated: 2018.
@@ -58,6 +59,12 @@
   git tag -s release-qpdf-$version HEAD -m"qpdf $version"
   ```
 * When releasing on sourceforge, `external-libs` distributions go in `external-libs/yyyymmdd`, and qpdf distributions go in `qpdf/vvv`. Make the source package the default for all but Windows, and make the 32-bit mingw build the default for Windows.
+* Prepare and archive all release files. Files should be the source package, Windows binaries, AppImage, checksum files, and signature files.
+* Create a github release after pushing the tag. `gcurl` is an alias that includes the auth token.
+  ```
+  url=$(gcurl -s -XPOST https://api.github.com/repos/qpdf/qpdf/releases -d'{"tag_name": "release-qpdf-$version", "name": "qpdf $version", "draft": true, "body": "test *body* text"}' | jq -r '.url')
+  ```
+* Upload files to sourceforge and github. Publish the github release. Release notes can be added to the github release manually. Publish a news item manually on sourceforge. Email the qpdf-announce list.
 
 # General Build Stuff
 

README-what-to-download.md

@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 To build from source for Linux or other UNIX/UNIX-like systems, it is generally sufficient to download just the source `qpdf-<version>.tar.gz` file.
 
+Virtually all Linux distributions include packages for qpdf. If you'd like to run the latest version of qpdf on an AppImage, you can download `qpdf-<version>-x86_64.AppImage`.
+
 For Windows, there are several additional files that you might want to download.
 
 * `qpdf-<version>-bin-mingw32.zip`

appimage/build-appimage

@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 set -ex
+sign=
+if [ "$1" = "--sign" ]; then
+    sign=--sign
+fi
 here="$(dirname $(readlink -f "$0"))"
 top=$(dirname $here)
 cd $top
@@ -30,7 +34,7 @@ unset QTDIR; unset QT_PLUGIN_PATH ; unset LD_LIBRARY_PATH
 # Generate AppImage
 ./linuxdeployqt*.AppImage --appimage-extract
 rm appdir/AppRun ; cp $top/appimage/AppRun appdir; chmod a+x appdir/AppRun # Replace symlink with custom script
-PATH=./squashfs-root/usr/bin:$PATH ./squashfs-root/usr/bin/appimagetool appdir
+PATH=./squashfs-root/usr/bin:$PATH ./squashfs-root/usr/bin/appimagetool $sign appdir
 echo ""
 echo "*** AppImage is ready in appimage/build ***"
 echo ""

appimage/qpdf.desktop

@@ -2,6 +2,6 @@
 Type=Application
 Terminal=true
 Exec=qpdf
-Name=QPDF
+Name=qpdf
 Comment=Structural, content-preserving transformations on PDF files
 Icon=qpdf

ispell-words

@@ -56,11 +56,13 @@ allowPrintLowRes
 antivirus
 aobjid
 apexcovantage
-API
+api
 APIs
 appendable
 appendItem
 appendString
+AppImage
+appimage
 arandom
 arg
 argc
@@ -95,6 +97,7 @@ assertType
 assignCompressedObjectNumbers
 atof
 atoi
+auth
 AuthEvent
 autobuilder
 autoconf
@@ -198,6 +201,7 @@ CHPageOffsetEntry
 CHSharedObject
 CHSharedObjectEntry
 CHSomething
+ci
 cin
 cinfo
 ciphertext
@@ -482,6 +486,7 @@ Gagic
 GajiÄ
 Gajic
 gcc
+gcurl
 gen
 generateHintStream
 generateID
@@ -606,6 +611,7 @@ gm
 gmail
 GNUC
 gnuwin
+gpg
 grayscale
 grep
 gsdnld
@@ -754,6 +760,7 @@ JMSG
 jpeg
 jpeglib
 JPOOL
+jq
 JSAMPARRAY
 JSAMPLE
 JSAMPROW
@@ -864,6 +871,7 @@ msg
 msvc
 MSVC's
 msys
+MT
 multibyte
 multiline
 multipage
@@ -1171,6 +1179,7 @@ replaceObject
 replaceOrRemoveKey
 replaceReserved
 replaceStreamData
+repos
 reserveObjects
 resetBits
 resolveLiteral
@@ -1345,6 +1354,7 @@ Subtype
 sudo
 supp
 suppressions
+svg
 swapObjects
 swversion
 Symlink
@@ -1384,6 +1394,7 @@ Toolchains
 toupper
 toUTF
 tp
+travis
 TrimBox
 trimTrailerForWrite
 tt
@@ -1526,6 +1537,7 @@ xor
 XP
 xpacket
 xpdf
+XPOST
 XRef
 xref
 xrefEntry