News

2.2

• Import new qpdf package with pdf transformation tools
• Enable pdf_data() in poppler 0.71 now Debian has backported the encoding patch.
• Document new PPA for Ubuntu 16.04 and 18.04 with poppler 0.74

2.1

• Windows / MacOS: update poppler to 0.73.0
• Remove code that used the 'unstable' xpdf api
• Use unique_ptr objects to fix memory leaks

2.0

• Windows, MacOS: update poppler to 0.72.1 (backported UTF-8 fix)
• Enable pdf_data() on systems with 0.72.1 or newer
• Several encoding related fixes in text/metadata extraction
• Add a 'tibble' class to data frames for pretty printing

1.8

• Run configure script in bash

1.7

• Change autobrew script to avoid dependency on xQuartz

1.6

• pdf_render_page() and pdf_convert() gain argument to control 'antialias'
• Small tweaks in pdf_text() for dealing with malformed pdf files

1.5

• On Windows and MacOS we now bundle poppler-data to support non-latin text
• Windows: Upgrade libpoppler to 0.61.0 from rwinlib
• Windows: patch libpoppler bug that would cause pdf_convert() to generate corrupt files
• PDF rendering errors are relayed via message() instead of warning()

1.4

• Hide symbols in supported platforms
• Upgrade libpoppler on Windows

1.3

• Improve support for reading passworded and encyrpted pdf files (+ unit tests)
• Support direct conversion from pdf to png, jpeg, tiff (+ unit tests)
• Switch to Rcpp automatic symbol registration
• Tweak autobrew script for legacy Mavericks builds

1.2

• Fix autobrew for OSX Mavericks

1.1

• Extract autobrew script to separate repo

1.0

• Add workaround for poppler landscape truncation bug (fixes #7)

0.5

• Rebuild poppler on Windows to support PDF rendering

0.4

• Update Homebrew URL in configure script.
• Fix autobrew (rename libopenjepg -> libopenjp2)
• Update libpoppler 0.46 for Windows

0.3

• Update libpoppler 0.42 for Windows
• Use the COMPILED_BY variable on Windows to support R 3.3

0.2

• Switch pdf_render_page to 1 based indexing
• Fix for red/blue channel mixup in pdf_render_page
• Update example to use local PDF file

0.1

• Initial release

Reference manual