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Version 1.26.0, 2016-05-18
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- NOTE: Active maintenance on PyPDF2 is resuming after a hiatus
- Fixed a bug where image resources where incorrectly
overwritten when merging pages
- Added dictionary for JavaScript actions to the root (louib)
- Added unit tests for the JS functionality (louib)
- Add more Python 3 compatibility when reading inline images (im2703
and (VyacheslavHashov)
- Return NullObject instead of raising error when failing to resolve
object (ctate)
- Don't output warning for non-zeroed xref table when strict=False
(BenRussert)
- Remove extraneous zeroes from output formatting (speedplane)
- Fix bug where reading an inline image would cut off prematurely
in certain cases (speedplane)
(pkgsrc changes)
- Githubify
Problems found locating distfiles:
Package acroread7: missing distfile AdobeReader_enu-7.0.9-1.i386.tar.gz
Package acroread8: missing distfile AdobeReader_enu-8.1.7-1.sparc.tar.gz
Package cups-filters: missing distfile cups-filters-1.1.0.tar.xz
Package dvidvi: missing distfile dvidvi-1.0.tar.gz
Package lgrind: missing distfile lgrind.tar.bz2
Otherwise, existing SHA1 digests verified and found to be the same on
the machine holding the existing distfiles (morden). All existing
SHA1 digests retained for now as an audit trail.
Patch 1.25.1, 2015-07-20
- Fix bug when parsing inline images. Occurred when merging
certain pages with inline images
- Fixed type error when creating outlines by utilizing the
isString() test
Version 1.25, 2015-07-07
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BUGFIXES:
- Added Python 3 algorithm for ASCII85Decode. Fixes issue when
reading reportlab-generated files with Py 3 (jerickbixly)
- Recognize more escape sequence which would otherwise throw an
exception (manuelzs, robertsoakes)
- Fixed overflow error in generic.py. Occurred
when reading a too-large int in Python 2 (by Raja Jamwal)
- Allow access to files which were encrypted with an empty
password. Previously threw a "File has not been decrypted"
exception (Elena Williams)
- Do not attempt to decode an empty data stream. Previously
would cause an error in decode algorithms (vladir)
- Fixed some type issues specific to Py 2 or Py 3
- Fix issue when stream data begins with whitespace (soloma83)
- Recognize abbreviated filter names (AlmightyOatmeal and
Matthew Weiss)
- Copy decryption key from PdfFileReader to PdfFileMerger.
Allows usage of PdfFileMerger with encrypted files (twolfson)
- Fixed bug which occurred when a NameObject is present at end
of a file stream. Threw a "Stream has ended unexpectedly"
exception (speedplane)
FEATURES:
- Initial work on a test suite; to be expanded in future.
Tests and Resources directory added, README updated (robertsoakes)
- Added document cloning methods to PdfFileWriter:
appendPagesFromReader, cloneReaderDocumentRoot, and
cloneDocumentFromReader. See official documentation (robertsoakes)
- Added method for writing to form fields: updatePageFormFieldValues.
This will be enhanced in the future. See official documentation
(robertsoakes)
- New addAttachment method. See documentation. Support for adding
and extracting embedded files to be enhanced in the future
(moshekaplan)
- Added methods to get page number of given PageObject or
Destination: getPageNumber and getDestinationPageNumber.
See documentation (mozbugbox)
OTHER ENHANCEMENTS:
- Enhanced type handling (Brent Amrhein)
- Enhanced exception handling in NameObject (sbywater)
- Enhanced extractText method output (peircej)
- Better exception handling
- Enhanced regex usage in NameObject class (speedplane)
Version 1.24, 2014-12-31
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- Bugfixes for reading files in Python 3 (by Anthony Tuininga and
pqqp)
- Appropriate errors are now raised instead of infinite loops (by
naure and Cyrus Vafadari)
- Bugfix for parsing number tokens with leading spaces (by Maxim
Kamenkov)
- Don't crash on bad /Outlines reference (by eshellman)
- Conform tabs/spaces and blank lines to PEP 8 standards
- Utilize the readUntilRegex method when reading Number Objects
(by Brendan Jurd)
- More bugfixes for Python 3 and clearer exception handling
- Fixed encoding issue in merger (with eshellman)
- Created separate folder for scripts
Upstream changes:
Version 1.23, 2014-08-11
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- Documentation now available at http://pythonhosted.org//PyPDF2
- Bugfix in pagerange.py for when __init__.__doc__ has no value (by
Vladir Cruz)
- Fix typos in OutlinesObject().add() (by shilluc)
- Re-added a missing return statement in a utils.py method
- Corrected viewing mode names (by Jason Scheirer)
- New PdfFileWriter method: addJS() (by vfigueiro)
- New bookmark features: color, boldness, italics, and page fit
(by Joshua Arnott)
- New PdfFileReader method: getFields(). Used to extract field
information from PDFs with interactive forms. See documentation
for details
- Converted README file to markdown format (by Stephen Bussard)
- Several improvements to overall performance and efficiency
(by mozbugbox)
- Fixed a bug where geospatial information was not scaling along with
its page
- Fixed a type issue and a Python 3 issue in the decryption algorithms
(with Francisco Vieira and koba-ninkigumi)
- Fixed a bug causing an infinite loop in the ASCII 85 decoding
algorithm (by madmaardigan)
- Annotations (links, comment windows, etc.) are now preserved when
pages are merged together
- Used the Destination class in addLink() and addBookmark() so that
the page fit option could be properly customized
Version 1.22, 2014-05-29
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- Added .DS_Store to .gitignore (for Mac users) (by Steve Witham)
- Removed __init__() implementation in NameObject (by Steve Witham)
- Fixed bug (inf. loop) when merging pages in Python 3 (by commx)
- Corrected error when calculating height in scaleTo()
- Removed unnecessary code from DictionaryObject (by Georges Dubus)
- Fixed bug where an exception was thrown upon reading a NULL string
(by speedplane)
- Allow string literals (non-unicode strings in Python 2) to be passed
to PdfFileReader
- Allow ConvertFunctionsToVirtualList to be indexed with slices and
longs (in Python 2) (by Matt Gilson)
- Major improvements and bugfixes to addLink() method (see documentation
in source code) (by Henry Keiter)
- General code clean-up and improvements (with Steve Witham and Henry Keiter)
- Fixed bug that caused crash when comments are present at end of
dictionary
Version 1.21, 2014-04-21
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- Fix for when /Type isn't present in the Pages dictionary (by Rob1080)
- More tolerance for extra whitespace in Indirect Objects
- Improved Exception handling
- Fixed error in getHeight() method (by Simon Kaempflein)
- implement use of utils.string_type to resolve Py2-3 compatibility issues
- Prevent exception for multiple definitions in a dictionary (with carlosfunk)
(only when strict = False)
- Fixed errors when parsing a slice using pdfcat on command line (by
Steve Witham)
- Tolerance for EOF markers within 1024 bytes of the actual end of the
file (with David Wolever)
- Added overwriteWarnings parameter to PdfFileReader constructor, if False
PyPDF2 will NOT overwrite methods from Python's warnings.py module with
a custom implementation.
- Fix NumberObject and NameObject constructors for compatibility with PyPy
(R▒diger Jungbeck, Xavier Dupr▒, shezadkhan137, Steven Witham)
- Utilize utils.Str in pdf.py and pagerange.py to resolve type issues (by
egbutter)
- Improvements in implementing StringIO for Python 2 and BytesIO for
Python 3 (by Xavier Dupr▒)
- Added /x00 to Whitespaces, defined utils.WHITESPACES to clarify code (by
Maxim Kamenkov)
- Bugfix for merging 3 or more resources with the same name (by lucky-user)
- Improvements to Xref parsing algorithm (by speedplane)
Version 1.20, 2014-01-27
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- Official Python 3+ support (with contributions from TWAC and cgammans)
Support for Python versions 2.6 and 2.7 will be maintained
- Command line concatenation (see pdfcat in sample code) (by Steve Witham)
- New FAQ; link included in README
- Allow more (although unnecessary) escape sequences
- Prevent exception when reading a null object in decoding parameters
- Corrected error in reading destination types (added a slash since they
are name objects)
- Corrected TypeError in scaleTo() method
- addBookmark() method in PdfFileMerger now returns bookmark (so nested
bookmarks can be created)
- Additions to Sample Code and Sample PDFs
- changes to allow 2up script to work (see sample code) (by Dylan McNamee)
- changes to metadata encoding (by Chris Hiestand)
- New methods for links: addLink() (by Enrico Lambertini) and removeLinks()
- Bugfix to handle nested bookmarks correctly (by Jamie Lentin)
- New methods removeImages() and removeText() available for PdfFileWriter
(by Tien Ha▒)
- Exception handling for illegal characters in Name Objects
Version 1.19, 2013-10-08
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BUGFIXES:
- Removed pop in sweepIndirectReferences to prevent infinite loop
(provided by ian-su-sirca)
- Fixed bug caused by whitespace when parsing PDFs generated by AutoCad
- Fixed a bug caused by reading a 'null' ASCII value in a dictionary
object (primarily in PDFs generated by AutoCad).
FEATURES:
- Added new folders for PyPDF2 sample code and example PDFs; see README
for each folder
- Added a method for debugging purposes to show current location while
parsing
- Ability to create custom metadata (by jamma313)
- Ability to access and customize document layout and view mode
(by Joshua Arnott)
OTHER:
- Added and corrected some documentation
- Added some more warnings and exception messages
- Removed old test/debugging code
UPCOMING:
- More bugfixes (We have received many problematic PDFs via email, we
will work with them)
- Documentation - It's time for PyPDF2 to get its own documentation
since it has grown much since the original pyPdf
- A FAQ to answer common questions
PyPDF2 is a library for handling PDF files for python. It is an
enhanced version of pyPdf, supporting more PDF files encountered
in the wild with better error handling.
