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pdfrw 0.4 release

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@pmaupin pmaupin released this 18 Sep 09:44
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Fixes, enhancements, and new examples:

  • Python 3.6 added to test matrix
  • Proper unicode support for text strings in PDFs added
  • buildxobj fixes allow better support creating form XObjects
    out of compressed pages in some cases
  • Compression fixes for Python 3+
  • New subset_booklets.py example
  • Bug with non-compressed indices into compressed object streams fixed
  • Bug with distinguishing compressed object stream first objects fixed
  • Better error reporting added for some invalid PDFs (e.g. when reading
    past the end of file)
  • Better scrubbing of old bookmark information when writing PDFs, to
    remove dangling references
  • Refactoring of pdfwriter, including updating API, to allow future
    enhancements for things like incremental writing
  • Minor tokenizer speedup
  • Some flate decompressor bugs fixed
  • Compression and decompression tests added
  • Tests for new unicode handling added