[Phil]

This is release 3.016

• Add a road map for development.
• BDF (bitmapped) fonts now work.
• Minor documentation improvements (some "how to" task orientation).
• Document that CJK fonts can't be embedded or synthesized.
• Fix "noembed" for CFF files (font file was embedded but not usable).
• Uniform "get" and "set" bounding box calls.
• More tolerance of out-of-spec PDF structures (no longer fatal errors).
• Minor improvements to buildDoc.pl, including # targets.
• PDF::API2 latest changes merged in to PDF::Builder.
• .cmap files updated to latest level.
• Minor improvements in Perl Critic and t-tests tools.

[Phil]

This is release 3.017

• Add Rich Measham's tutorial and a Boxes demo to the examples.
• RT 131147 fix (and a narrower scope alternative) for Null object bubbleup
  (thanks to Klaus Ethgen and Vadim Repin).
• Add Rotated program to the examples, to demonstrate rotating pages.
• Remove expired "deprecated" functionality.
• Some minor code improvements (avoid uninitialized variables, etc.).
• Ban UTF* encodings for core fonts, PS fonts, bitmapped fonts.
• Restrict rotate() to 90 degree increments.

[Phil]

This is release 3.018

• Clarify difference between page->rotate and graphics->rotate.
• Fix for RT 113700 support for HarfBuzz::Shaper, permitting complex script display.
• Add bold, italic, and bold-italic synthetic fonts for Bank Gothic.
• Fix for RT 57248 missing core font glyph widths for non-Latin1 characters.
• Add to Road Map, especially mention of some Builder-compatible products from others.
• Fix ToUnicode CMap so TTF text may be searched.
• Add example for add() method to illustrate canceling the odd scaling and Y-axis flip that the Chrome browser PDF output (with headers or footers) can leave the text state in.
• Remind users to avoid charspace() usage with connected glyph scripts (handwriting, Arabic, etc. "justified" text calls add -nocs flag to avoid using charspace in expanding/condensing a line to fit.
• Earlier fix for corrupted XREF table only worked with -debug=>1. Now fixes are always done.

[Phil]

This is release 3.019

• Add information on converting from API2 to Builder.
• Revert corefont glyph widths to Adobe standard values rather than actual TTF widths.
• PNG image processing clear up some potential undefined values.
• PNM image processing [RT 132844] bug fix and allow default LL corner.
• New annotation (links) documentation.
• Perl 5.20 is now minimum installable version.
• Enhance HarfBuzz::Shaper use (textHS) for TTB and BTT text direction.
• Update textlabel() documentation

[Phil]

This is release 3.020

Full details about the changes made may be found in the Changes file on
either a full download (developer's install) or on GitHub or cpan.org.

• Removed deprecated names "spline" and "pdfile".
• Add some more examples of links to PDF targets.
• Cross-reference stream permit 5, 6, and 7 byte fields, and for >4 bytes, attempt to avoid 64-bit Perl requirement.
• Read-in PDF basic validation check, and find any /Version override (RT 130722, 133131, et al.).
• RT 133131 quad int width fixed, with warning about xref stream (Vadim Repin).
• RT 131657 Deep Recursion errors fixed in Outlines (Vadim Repin).
• HTML documentation navigation improved.
• Multiple licenses in use, harmonize them (Petr Pisar).
• TIFF problem with colormap fixed (carygravel).
• t/tiff.t tests 10 and 11 re-enabled (carygravel).
• PNM support greatly expanded (16 bit, plain added).
• PNM/PBM bitmapped bi-level image error fixed.
• Support PNG library speedup for alpha channels (Ben Bullock).
• User selection of which optional prerequisites to attempt installing.
• Resume automatically trying to install optional prerequisites.
• Add instructions to README for installing on older Perl versions.
• Fix some spelling glitches (carygravel).
• Add some new paper sizes, fix a couple sizes.
• Replace CJK font used in HarfBuzz example, to save space.

[Phil]

This is release 3.021

Full details about the changes made may be found in the Changes file on
either a full download (developer's install) or on GitHub or cpan.org.

• Clean up support-related URLs and email addresses.
• Image::PNG::Libpng minimum level now 0.56.
• Improved handling of TIFF files with Alpha channel (carygravel)
• Clean up some things that Perl Critic didn't like.
• "no warnings" removed and "use warnings" in all files.
• Make t-tests and runtime more robust if encounter a back-level optional package.