v2.0.17

📣 borb release 2.0.17

This is a bugfix release.

• Fixes for Hyphenation
• Add extra features to line-art
  • Add GradientColoredDisjointShape to enable users to draw a gradient
  • Add RectangularMazeFactory to enable users to draw mazes
  • Add RectangularHitomezashi to enable users to draw space-filling shapes

Some minor administrative work has also been done.

• A EULA is being drafted by lawyers to ensure borb can be licensed to customers.
• The license in the borb repository have been modified to ensure no copyright violation.

v2.0.16

📣 borb release 2.0.16

This is a bugfix release.

• Fixes how Alignment.JUSTIFIED is handled when there is only 1 line of text.
• Fixed how hyphenation handles words shorter than 4 characters.
• Everything formatted by black.
• Added hyphenation for:
  • be : Belarusian
  • bn : Bengali
  • fi : Finnish
  • lt : Lithouanian
  • ro : Romanian
  • ru : Russian

v2.0.15

📣 borb release 2.0.15

This is a bugfix release.

v2.0.14

📣 borb release 2.0.14

This is a bugfix release.

v.2.0.13

📣 borb release 2.0.13

With this release, borb is one step closer to being able to write a PDF/A-1b document.
We still need to create an \OutputIntents Dictionary in the document to be fully compliant.
This is planned for the next release.

This release features:

• Minor bugfix to estimating width of a space character
  • Useful in text extraction
• Bugfix in TrueTypeFont to build a proper \Widths array and cmap
• Fixes in XMPDocumentInfo class
  • Title
  • Author
  • Creator
  • CreatorTool
• Separate logic that writes \Info Dictionary
  • This class now also writes the XMP \Metadata when needed
  • Enables PDF/A-1b
  • Added tests for PDF/A-1b (preservation of metadata)

v2.0.12

📣 borb release 2.0.12

This release features:

• Minor bugfix to LayoutElement to ensure \Resources dictionary gets initialized.
• Added asserts to ensure password-protected documents are handled properly.

v2.0.11

📣 borb release 2.0.11

This release features:

• minor bugfix to previous add_event_listener - refactor
• First effort to implement PDF encryption
  • Currently support for StandardSecurityHandler
    • RC4
    • MD5

v2.0.10

📣 borb release 2.0.10

This release features:

• Changes to layout of text LayoutElement(s)

  • Support for multiplied_leading
  • Support for fixed_leading
  • Small fix to text justification algorithm

• Updated the test to comply with the new behaviour

• Added legal stuff to the library

  • BORB_CONTRIBUTOR_LICENSE_AGREEMENT.md
  • CONTRIBUTING.md

• Added an extra test/showcase

  • Creating a flyer using PDF graphics

• Removed EventListener options on PDF objects

  • EventListeners are now part of the parsing process, rather than the object
  • EventListeners are passed around during parsing
  • Objects are more lightweight

v2.0.9.1

📣 borb release 2.0.9.1

This release features:

• A small fix to remove the curses dependency

v2.0.9

📣 borb release 2.0.9

This release features:

• A small fix in ChunksOfText ensuring the LayoutElement does make unneeded copies

  • I also added a few tests for the new behaviour

• More documentation in the Page class (some minor work on annotations)

• A new annotation type (or rather a convenience method for an existing annotation type): remote-go-to

  • This enables you to embed links to websites in your PDF's.
  • I also added a few tests for this new method.

• Fixed a fair amount of MyPy warnings

• Added TextRank keyword-extraction algorithm

  • Implemented BigramPartOfSpeechTagger
  • Added test(s)