PoDoFo Release Planned

Dominik Seichter — Mon, 18 Apr 2016 19:03:12 -0000

The last stable version of PoDoFo was released almost two years ago. Lately, there were also questions on the mailing list, when the next release can be expected.

Furthermore, countless patches have been integrated over the last two years! So, the quality of the current SVN trunk is much better than the latest release.

Now, we agreed to plan a new release of PoDoFo. We plan to introduce a code freeze starting on May 18th and package a new release of PoDoFo with version 0.9.4 on June 1rst 2016.

PoDoFo 0.6.0 Released

Dominik Seichter — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 10:48:01 -0000

After almost a year of development, the PoDoFo-team is
proud to announce a new release. PoDoFo 0.6.0 can be
downloaded as of now. PoDoFo has been tested on several
Linux and Windows systems.

Besides countless bug fixes, performance improvements and
API clean ups, we were able to add several new features.
An incomplete list of the most important additions is:

* podofoimpose - a PDF imposition tool was added
* Encryption support was added (RC4 and AES)
* Initial unicode font support was added using CID fonts
* Content stream parsing support was added
* PdfPainter has now support for drawing tables using PdfTable
* TIFF images can now be embedded directly into a PDF
* Bold or italic fonts can be selected

A small compability note should be added. To keep old
sources working, one has to change PdfDocument to
PdfMemDocument. PdfDocument is now an interface over
PdfMemDocument and PdfStreamedDocument so that PdfPainter
can work on both, but only the first one allows access to
the internal object structure of the PDF file.

See http://podofo.sourceforge.net for more details.

PoDoFo 0.5 released

Dominik Seichter — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 20:14:33 -0000

A new development release of PoDoFo is available for download.
Countless bugs were fixed compared to the last release and
many new features have been added.
An incomplete list of important changes:

- Support for embedded files added
- Support for interactive forms (creation and filling) added
- Support for ExtGStates when drawing added
- Support for named destinations added
- Greatly improved and faster PdfFilter interface
- PdfStreamedDocument was added (PDF document that is streamed
out directly to disk while being created)
- Switched completely to CMake as build system
- Fixed XRef streams

Along with PoDoFo we released version 0.5 of PoDoFoBrowser.
A gui for editing the object structur of PDF files directly.
PoDoFoBrowser is available as source release or precompiled for Win32.

MD5Sums for this release:

ef8bfefa7bfe2db58094dce2fb38ee5e podofo-0.5.0.tar.gz
d5b25ae99d6c865dacafeed316959ed8 podofobrowser-0.5.tar.gz
2d3cf35a9b530f5313b82bb21d4d9fa3 podofobrowser-0.5-win32-bin.zip

    http://podofo.sourceforge.net

PoDoFoBrowser and PoDoFo tools Win32 binaries available

Dominik Seichter — Sun, 27 May 2007 09:24:06 -0000

PoDoFoBrowser and several tool included in PoDoFo (namely podofomerge, podofoimgextract, podofopdfinfo and podofotxt2pdf) are available as prebuilt binaries for MS Windows operating systems. Please note that this is still alpha quality software in development!

PoDoFoBrowser is a Qt application for browsing the objects in a PDF file and modifying their keys easily. It is very useful if you want to look on the internal structure of PDF files.

We are still interested in your feedback, so drop as a mail at: podofo-users@lists.sf.net . Downloads are available on the sourceforge project page: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/podofo/PoDoFoBrowser20070524.zip?modtime=1180036345&big_mirror=0.

PoDoFo 0.4 released

Dominik Seichter — Sun, 15 Oct 2006 11:04:15 -0000

The PoDoFo team is proud to announce the 4th release of the free PDF parsing
and creation library.

PoDoFo 0.4.0 has been ported to Mac OS X in addition to the current Linux and
Windows versions.
Among the many new features is the support for generating web optimized (so
called linearized) PDF files from any PDF documnet surely the most interesting
addition. XRef tables can be written as XRef streams now, which does result in
smaller files. Outline support has been completed in this release. Garbage
collection of unused objects in the PDF file is now possible.

The coding style[1] used in PoDoFo is finally documented and the source code was
refactored and cleaned up to macht the documentation. This makes the PoDoFo
API much easier to learn.

Many bugs were fixed since the 0.3.0 release. Several optimizations to the
source made parsing and writing PDF files even faster.

Source downloads of PoDoFo are available in our downloads section[2]. Feel
free to report any error, bugs or comments to our mailing list[3].

The PoDoFo Team \(Dom, Leonard and Craig\)

[1] http://podofo.sourceforge.net/doc/html/Codingstyle.html
[2] http://podofo.sourceforge.net/download.html#podofo
[3] podofo-users@lists.sf.net

PoDoFo 0.3.0 released

Dominik Seichter — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 15:53:43 -0000

The PoDoFo team is proud to announce the third release of the free and portable PDF library for C++. PoDoFo 0.3 is available for download as source tarball which can be compiled on Unix and Windows systems.

The core API was refactored in most areas to simplify application development using PoDoFo. Many bugs could be fixed and several PDF features were added. To many things were changed to list all of them here. Major changes include:

- Exceptions are used instead of error codes
- A LZW decoder was added
- PdfDocument is now the core class for reading and writing PDF files
- PdfPainter can now draw on pages in existing PDF files
- Simpler API with fewer Init() methods
- Improved Info dictionary handling
- Many performance improvements thanks to profiling with callgrind

For questions on this release or if you have problems using PoDoFo we have installed a mailing list.
The PoDoFo library is a free, portable C++ library. It can parse existing PDF files and create new ones from scratch. Get more information on PoDoFo at http://podofo.sourceforge.net

PoDoFo 0.2 released

Dominik Seichter — Sat, 24 Jun 2006 10:30:55 -0000

PoDoFo 0.2 is available for download. The second release of the free PDF library brings many improvements. This is also the first release that comes along with PoDoFoBrowser. A graphical browser and editor for the object structure of PDF files. Screenshots and downloads can be found on our webpage.
New feautres of PoDoFo include:

- PoDoFo was ported to VC++ on MS Windows
- The documentation was improved and is now almost complete
- The underline color of text elements was fixed
- The PdfParser works now with updated PDF files
- Objects, streams and dictionaries are now loaded on demand from the PDF file, which improves the parsing speed greatly
- A PdfReference class was introduced and PdfVariant was refactored
- PdfFilter's are cached now and work with extra DecodeParms dictionaries
- The ImageExtractor tool was improved
- Many more fixes...

For questions on this release or if you have problems using PoDoFo we have installed a mailing list.

PoDoFo 0.1 released

Dominik Seichter — Sun, 11 Jun 2006 09:17:37 -0000

The first public release of PoDoFo is available for download[1]. PoDoFo is a C++ library which can create PDF files from scratch and can also parse and modify existing PDF documents. PoDoFo is licensed under the terms of the LGPL.

This release is fully documented. Please have a look at the online API documentation[2]. A example application has been created too[3]. Feel free to take a look at the source online to see how easy it is to create a PDF file using PoDoFo.

For questions on this release or if you have problems using PoDoFo we have installed a mailing list[4].

More information on PoDoFo can be found at http://podofo.sf.net

[1] http://podofo.sf.net/download.html#podofo
[2] http://podofo.sf.net/doc/html/index.html
[3] http://podofo.sf.net/support.html#examples
[4] podofo-users@lists.sf.net

PoDoFo available in Subversion

Dominik Seichter — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 13:36:22 -0000

The PoDoFo source code is now available for download and first testing in the Sourceforge svn repository. Along with the PoDoFo library, PoDoFoBrowser was commited to the repository. PoDoFoBrowser is a Qt based application to browse and edit the object structure of a PDF file directly using PoDoFo. Some screenshots are already online.

If you want to test PoDoFo please take a look at the svn download instructions. In case of problems, please ask at our mailinglist.

PoDoFo can be found at: http://podofo.sf.net

What is PoDoFo?

PoDoFo is a library to work with the PDF file format and includes also a few
tools. The name comes from the first letter of PDF (Portable Document
Format).

The PoDoFo library is a free portable C++ library which includes
classes to parse a PDF file and modify its contents into memory. The changes
can be written back to disk easily. The parser could also be used to write a
PDF viewer. Besides parsing PoDoFo includes also very simple classes to create
your own PDF files. All classes are documented so it is easy to start writing
your own application using PoDoFo.

The PoDoFo tools are simple tools build around the PoDoFo library. These tools
are first of all examples on how to use the PoDoFo library in your own
projects. But secondly they offer also features for working with PDF
files. More tools will come with future release and the existing tools will
gain more features. Currently there are two tools: podofoimgextract (which extracts all jpeg images from a given PDF file) and podofouncompress (which removes all compression filters from a PDF file - this is useful for debugging
existing PDF files).

Additionally there is the external tool PoDoFoBrowser which is not included in
this package, but can be downloaded from the PoDoFo webpage. PoDoFoBrowser is
a Qt application for browsing the objects in a PDF file and modifying their
keys easily. It is very useful if you want to look on the internal structure
of PDF files.

As of now PoDoFo is only available for Unix platforms. But the code is
portable C++ and a Windows version will be available soon.

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