Changes for version 3.015 - 2019-05-19
- The keepers of CPAN declined to re-index PDF::Builder 3.014, which had many reported problems with its load, so I'll kick out 3.015 earlier than I normally would. Hopefully, with a good load, "Testers" will show passed/ failed/other on the Meta page, and PDF::Builder will show up in the reverse dependencies of other products.
- Perl 5.18 now required minimum level.
- lib/PDF/Builder.pm, lib/PDF/Builder/Page.pm-Docs.pm [ref CTS 2] allow User Unit specification for PDF (globally) and page. This permits (with suitable Readers) document sizes in excess of 200 inches.
- lib/PDF/Builder.pm, lib/PDF/Builder/Page.pm-Docs.pm [ref CTS 2] clean up and extend documentation on "box" methods. Allow -orient option on "box" methods to name a page's media, but present in Landscape orientation. Default Media Box of US Letter (8.5in x 11in).
- lib/PDF/Builder.pm [ref RT 117184] in open(), if read-in PDF is missing an EOL after the final %%EOF, add one so that material added after isn't run-on in comment (most readers can handle this, but better to be clear). lib/PDF/Builder/Basic/PDF/File.pm [ref RT 117184] an empty xref (0 0) is now allowed to go through without tripping the fatal Malformed message. I don't think it's legal PDF, but Acrobat Reader passes it without comment, so I'll let it go (still may produce warning messages). Late add of 'hybrid.pdf' to RT 117184 has a number of problems reported as warnings in PDF::Builder (Acrobat Reader is silent on them), but seems to produce an acceptable PDF.
- Also don't add an EOL after overwriting the PDF version -- there should already be one there. Finally, there doesn't seem to be any point in explicitly handling a "run-on" header comment as described in RT 117210, as we merely copy the old file to the output (with version updated if necessary). If any Readers have trouble with such and need the comment stripped out, it might be done (1. don't change object offsets, and 2. put the new comment AFTER any binary comment).
- lib/PDF/Builder/Basic/PDF/Pages.pm [ref CTS 3] remove rebuild_tree() for now, as it has never been properly implemented.
- Add some comments to CONTRIBUTING pointing to the Software Development Kit.
Modules
Facilitates the creation and modification of PDF files
Add annotations to a PDF
Corresponds to a PDF array. Inherits from PDF::Builder::Basic::PDF::Objind
A special form of PDF::Builder::Basic::PDF::String which holds the strings true or false
PDF Dictionaries and Streams. Inherits from PDF::Builder::Basic::PDF::Objind
Holds the trailers and cross-reference tables for a PDF file
Abstract superclass for PDF stream filters
compress and uncompress stream filters for ASCII-85
compress and uncompress stream filters for ASCII-Hex
compress and uncompress stream filters for Flate
compress and uncompress stream filters for Lempel-Ziv-Welch
compress and uncompress stream filters for Run-Length
Literal PDF Object. Inherits from PDF::Builder::Basic::PDF::Objind
Inherits from PDF::Builder::Basic::PDF::String and stores PDF names (things beginning with /)
PDF Null type object. This is a subclass of PDF::Builder::Basic::PDF::Objind and cannot be subclassed.
Numbers in PDF. Inherits from PDF::Builder::Basic::PDF::String
PDF indirect object reference. Also acts as an abstract superclass for all elements in a PDF file.
Represents a PDF page, inherits from PDF::Builder::Basic::PDF::Pages
a PDF pages hierarchical element. Inherits from PDF::Builder::Basic::PDF::Dict
PDF String type objects and superclass for simple objects that are basically stringlike (Number, Name, etc.)
Utility functions for PDF library
Methods for adding graphics and text to a PDF
Simple hyphenation capability
additional specialized text-related formatting methods. Inherits from PDF::Builder::Content
additional documentation for Builder module
Lightweight PDF creation methods
matrix operations library
Add named destination shortcuts to a PDF
Manage PDF outlines (a.k.a. bookmarks)
further Outline handling. Inherits from PDF::Builder::Outline
Methods to interact with individual pages
Base class for PDF resources. Inherit from PDF::Builder::Basic::PDF::Dict
Base class for font resources
Base class for CID fonts
Base class for CJK fonts
TrueType font support
additional code support for TT font files. Inherits from PDF::Builder::Basic::PDF::Dict
Base class for PDF color spaces
colorspace handling for Device CMYK. Inherits from PDF::Builder::Resource::ColorSpace
base colorspace support for indexed color models. Inherits from PDF::Builder::Resource::ColorSpace
Adobe Color Table support
colorspace support for Device RGB. Inherits from PDF::Builder::Resource::ColorSpace::Indexed
colorspace support for "Web Safe" Device RGB colors. Inherits from PDF::Builder::Resource::ColorSpace::Indexed
Support for color space separations
translate color names into RGB settings
Graphics state dictionary support
some common support routines for font files. Inherits from PDF::Builder::Resource::BaseFont
Module for using bitmapped Fonts.
Module for using the 14 PDF built-in Fonts.
font-specific information for Bank Gothic font (not standard PDF core)
font-specific information for regular Courier font
font-specific information for bold weight Courier font
font-specific information for bold weight + slanted Courier font
font-specific information for slanted Courier font
font-specific information for regular Georgia font (not standard PDF core)
font-specific information for bold weight Georgia font (not standard PDF core)
font-specific information for bold weight + italic Georgia font (not standard PDF core)
font-specific information for italic Georgia font (not standard PDF core)
font-specific information for regular Helvetica font
font-specific information for bold weight Helvetica font
font-specific information for bold weight + slanted Helvetica font
font-specific information for slanted Helvetica font
font-specific information for the Symbol font
font-specific information for bold weight Times font
font-specific information for bold weight + italic Times font
font-specific information for italic Times font
font-specific information for regular (roman) Times font
font-specific information for regular Trebuchet font (not standard PDF core)
font-specific information for bold-weight Trebuchet font (not standard PDF core)
font-specific information for bold weight + italic Trebuchet font (not standard PDF core)
font-specific information for italic Trebuchet font (not standard PDF core)
font-specific information for regular Verdana font (not standard PDF core)
font-specific information for bold weight Verdana font (not standard PDF core)
font-specific information for bold weight + italic Verdana font (not standard PDF core)
font-specific information for italic Verdana font (not standard PDF core)
font-specific information for WebDings symbol font (not standard PDF core)
font-specific information for WingDings symbol font (not standard PDF core)
font-specific information for Zapf Dingbats symbol font
support routines for using PostScript fonts. Inherits from PDF::Builder::Resource::Font
Module for using synthetic Fonts.
preparsed uniglyph.txt file information
list of standard paper sizes and their dimensions
support stub for patterns. Inherits from PDF::Builder::Resource
support stub for shading patterns. Inherits from PDF::Builder::Resource
Unicode Font Support
Base class for external objects
Base class for external form objects
Base class for one-dimensional barcodes
specific information for CodaBar bar codes. Inherits from PDF::Builder::Resource::XObject::Form::BarCode
Code 128 and EAN-128 barcode support
specific information for 3-of-9 bar codes. Inherits from PDF::Builder::Resource::XObject::Form::BarCode
specific information for EAN-13 bar codes. Inherits from PDF::Builder::Resource::XObject::Form::BarCode
specific information for int 2-of-5 bar codes. Inherits from PDF::Builder::Resource::XObject::Form::BarCode
support routines for Forms. Inherits from PDF::Builder::Content, PDF::Builder::Content::Text, and PDF::Builder::Resource::XObject::Form
Base class for external raster image objects
support routines for Graphics Development image library. Inherits from PDF::Builder::Resource::XObject::Image
support routines for GIF image library. Inherits from PDF::Builder::Resource::XObject::Image
support routines for JPEG image library. Inherits from PDF::Builder::Resource::XObject::Image
support routines for PNG image library (using pure Perl code). Inherits from PDF::Builder::Resource::XObject::Image
support routines for PNG image library (using Image::PNG::Libpng). Inherits from PDF::Builder::Resource::XObject::Image
support routines for PNM (Portable aNy Map) image library. Inherits from PDF::Builder::Resource::XObject::Image
TIFF image support
support routines for TIFF image library
support routines for TIFF image library (Graphics::TIFF enabled)
TIFF image support (Graphics::TIFF enabled)
support routines for finding line breakpoints with Unicode text
utility package for often-used methods across the package.
Examples
- INFO/old/examples.bat
- examples/011_open_update
- examples/012_pages
- examples/020_corefonts
- examples/020_textrise
- examples/020_textunderline
- examples/021_psfonts
- examples/021_synfonts
- examples/022_truefonts
- examples/022_truefonts_diacrits_utf8
- examples/023_cjkfonts
- examples/024_bdffonts
- examples/025_unifonts
- examples/026_unifont2
- examples/030_colorspecs
- examples/031_color_hsv
- examples/032_separation
- examples/040_annotation
- examples/041_annot_fileattach
- examples/050_pagelabels
- examples/055_outlines
- examples/060_transparency
- examples/BarCode.pl
- examples/Bspline.pl
- examples/Content.pl
- examples/ContentText.pl
- examples/README
- examples/Windows/027_winfont
- examples/examples.output
- examples/resources/aptfrontview.jpg
- examples/resources/pod2htmd.temp
- examples/resources/sample.txt
- examples/resources/sample_55.pdf
