The upcoming 3.1 release contains non-compatible API changes, though
they only affect parts of the interface that are extremely unlikely to
have been used outside of qpdf itself. The methods and data types
affected were used for communication between QPDFWriter and QPDF and
would have had no real use in end user code.
Original code was written before we could shallow copy objects, so all
the filtering was done by suppressing the output of certain keys and
replacing them with other keys. Now we can simplify the code greatly
by modifying shallow copies of dictionaries in place.
Read and write support is implemented for /V=5 with /R=5 as well as
/R=6. /R=5 is the deprecated encryption method used by Acrobat IX.
/R=6 is the encryption method used by PDF 2.0 from ISO 32000-2.
Changes from upstream are limited to change #include paths so that I
can place header files and included "c" files in a subdirectory. I
didn't keep the unit tests from sphlib but instead verified them by
running them manually. I will implement the same tests using the
Pl_SHA2 pipeline except that sphlib's sha2 implementation supports
partial bytes, which I will not exercise in qpdf or our tests.
Allowing users to subclass InputSource and Pipeline to read and write
from/to arbitrary sources provides the maximum flexibility for users
who want to read and write from other than files or memory.
Previously only whitespace and comments did it. This fix is needed
for object streams whose last object is a literal (name, integer,
real, string) not terminated by space or newline.
Move object parsing code from QPDF to QPDFObjectHandle and
parameterize the parts of it that are specific to a QPDF object.
Provide a version that can't handle indirect objects and that can be
called on an arbitrary string.
A side effect of this change is that the offset used when reporting
invalid stream length has changed, but since the new value seems like
a better value than the old one, the test suite has been updated
rather than making the code backward compatible. This only effects
the offset reported for invalid streams that lack /Length or have an
invalid /Length key.
Updated some test code and exmaples to use QPDFObjectHandle::parse.
Supporting changes include adding a BufferInputSource constructor that
takes a string.
Add --copy-encryption and --encryption-file-password options to qpdf.
Also strengthen test suite for copying encryption. The strengthened
test suite would have caught the failure to preserve AES and the
failure to update the file version, which was invalidating the
encrypted data.
This fixes were to code added yesterday; the problems would not have
impacted any previously released code. These are all changes related
to the possibility that copyEncryptionParameters may be called on
behalf a different QPDF than the one being written.
QPDFObjectHandle::{new,is,assert}Reserved, QPDF::replaceReserved
provide a mechanism to add objects to a PDF file when there are
circular references. This is a prerequisite to copying objects from
one PDF to another.
Breaking API change: length parameter has disappeared from the
StreamDataProvider version of QPDFObjectHandle::replaceStreamData
since it is no longer necessary to compute it in advance. This
breaking change is justified by the fact that removing the length
parameter provides the caller an opportunity to simplify the calling
code.
Previous versions of qpdf incorrectly passed arbitrary objects from
/Pages objects down to individual pages in direct contradition with
the PDF specification. These are now left in /Pages. When
intermediate /Pages nodes are being discarded as when the /Pages tree
is being flattened, a warning is issued when unknown keys are
encountered.
With QPDF allowing integers to contain 64-bit quantities, this change
is necessary to be able to linearize files whose sizes might be larger
than 10 digits.
Also updated pdf_from_scratch test driver to use the new factories,
and made some cosmetic improvements and documentation updates for the
emptyPDF() method.
Significantly improve the code's use of off_t for file offsets, size_t
for memory sizes, and integer types in cases where there has to be
compatibility with external interfaces. Rework sections of the code
that would have prevented qpdf from working on files larger than 2 (or
maybe 4) GB in size.
