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HexaPDF v0.20.0 Release Notes

Release Date: 2021-12-30 // over 2 years ago

  • ➕ Added

    • 👌 Support for signing a PDF using a digital signature
    • 👌 Support for reading and validating digital signatures
    • Output info regarding digital signatures when using the hexapdf info command
    • [HexaPDF::Type::AcroForm::Form#create_signature_field] for adding signature fields
    • [HexaPDF::Type::Annotation::AppearanceDictionary#set_appearance] for setting the appearance stream
    • [HexaPDF::Type::Annotation#create_appearance] for creating an empty appearance stream

    🔄 Changed

    • 💥 Breaking change: Method signature of [HexaPDF::Type::Annotation#appearance] changed
    • [HexaPDF::Object#==] to allow comparison to simple value if not indirect
    • 0️⃣ [HexaPDF::Type::AcroForm::Form] to use an empty array as default for the /Fields field
    • [HexaPDF::Type::ObjectStream] to not store signature fields in object streams
    • [HexaPDF::Writer] to return the last written cross-reference section
    • 🖨 [HexaPDF::Type::AcroForm::Field#create_widget] to automatically set the print flag and assign the page

    🛠 Fixed

    • Incremental writing of files in cases where object streams were deleted (e.g. when using the optimize: true argument when writing)
    • Comparison of non-indirect [HexaPDF::Object] instances with other HexaPDF::Object instances
    • Deleting of objects via [HexaPDF::Revision#delete] to re-use the [HexaPDF::PDFData] object of the deleted object when using mark_as_free: true
    • [HexaPDF::Revision#each_modified_object] to work correctly for dictionary objects even if a value is changed only by reading it