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HexaPDF v0.13.0 Release Notes

Release Date: 2020-11-15 // over 3 years ago

  • ➕ Added

    • Cross-reference table reconstruction for damaged PDFs, controllable via the new 'parser.try_xref_reconstruction' option
    • Two new hexapdf inspect commands for showing page objects and page content streams by page number
    • Flag --check to the CLI command hexapdf info for checking a file for parse and validation errors
    • [HexaPDF::Type::AcroForm::Field#embedded_widget?] for checking if a widget is embedded in the field object
    • [HexaPDF::Type::AcroForm::Field#delete_widget] for deleting a widget
    • [HexaPDF::PDFArray#delete] for deleting an object from a PDF array
    • [HexaPDF::Type::Page#ancestor_nodes] for retrieving all ancestor page tree nodes of a page
    • 🚚 [HexaPDF::Type::PageTreeNode#move_page] for moving a page to another index

    🔄 Changed

    • 💥 Breaking change: Overhauled document/object validation interfaces and internals to be more similar and to allow for reporting of multiple validation problems
    • Validation of TrueType fonts to ignore missing fields if the font name suggests that the font is one of the standard 14 PDF fonts
    • Option -p of CLI command hexapdf image2pdf to also allow lowercase page size names

    🛠 Fixed

    • 📜 Reporting of cross-reference section entry parsing error
    • 0️⃣ PDF version used by default for dictionary fields
    • 📜 Error in CLI command hexapdf inspect when parsing an invalid object number
    • Output of error messages in CLI command hexapdf inspect to go to $stderr
    • 🐛 Bug in [HexaPDF::Type::AcroForm::TextField] validation due to missing nil handling