Revision history for Text::Layout
0.023 2021-10-21
Add support for underline, overline and strike, and their
colours.
Add support for hyperlinks (span attributes a, href and link).
Note that this is not part of the official Pango Markup
specification.
0.022 2021-10-04
Fix some reentrancy problems.
Update for PDF::API 2.042.
0.021 2021-07-09
Fix font cacheing problem with PDFAPI2.
Update links for pango documentation.
0.020 2021-05-18
Use common font cache for PDFAPI.
Handle some more weight variants.
Added testing PDF::Builder unless it is of an incompatible
version. As of 3.019 PDF::Builder changed the font metrics to
compatible values.
0.019 2020-08-16
Add support for C<< <span font_desc="..."> >>. See
tests/pdfapi3.pl for an example how to use this to embed RTL
texts. Note, however, that this currently relies on the native
harfbuzz library to correctly determine ('guess') the
characteristics of the text.
Eliminated backend loading in favour of derived classes.
Enable font caching for PDF::API2.
0.018.3 2020-05-19
Dropped testing with PDF::Builder. Text::Layout will continue
to work with PDF::Builder to the extent that it is compatible
with PDF::API2.
0.018.2 2020-05-09
Avoid testing PDF::Builder if it is of an incompatible
version. As of 3.018 PDF::Builder changed the font metrics to
incompatible values.
0.018.1 2020-02-27
0.018 2020-02-06
Add support for HB Shaper features. Requires HarfBuzz::Shaper
0.019 or later.
0.017 2020-02-03
Add helper routines for PDF::Builder.
Add test file for PDF::Builder.
0.016 2020-01-30
Improve documentation for FontConfig and FontDescriptor.
Add FontConfig and FontDescriptor to provides.
0.015 2020-01-29
Add font attributes in registration.
0.014.1 2020-01-26
0.014 2020-01-23
Experimental support for text shaping using HarfBuzz.
Implemented for the PDF::API2/Builder backend only.
Requires perl module HarfBuzz::Shaper.
0.013 2019-10-22
Fix test 102.
Some more version issues.
0.012 2019-10-21
Fix some packaging problems.
Fix version number in release.
0.011 2019-09-01
Fix return values of get*extent and get*size.
Split off FontDescriptor from FontConfig.
Added tests for PDF::API2 backend.
Added lots of documentation.
0.01 2019-08-30
Initial check-in.