Re: cups-filters 1.22.0 released!

[Didier 'OdyX' Raboud <odyx@debian.org>]

Hi there,

Le vendredi, 18 janvier 2019, 14.10:25 h CET Till Kamppeter a écrit :
> I have released cups-filters 1.22.0 now, with the following changes:
> 
> 	- pdftopdf: Use QPDF for flattening interactive PDF forms
> 	  (Issues #2, #23, #36, Pull request #88).
> 	- pdftopdf: Fixed bug of closing temporary file prematurely
> 	  when external PDF form flattening utilities fail (Thanks to
> 	  Tobias Hoffmann for finding this, see pull request #88).
> 	- pdftoopvp: More fixes for building with Poppler 0.72
> 	  (Pull request #83, Issue #75).
> 	- pdftoraster, pdftoijs, pdftoopvp: Removed support for
> 	  Poppler 0.18 (Pull request #83).
> 	- cups-browsed: Fixed crash in applying the BrowseFilter
> 	  cups-browsed.conf directives (Debian bug #916765).

Thanks for the new version.

>  From this release on the pdftopdf filter flattens interactive PDF forms
> and annotations internally, using QPDF, instead of calling external
> utilities. This especially eliminates slowing factors as additional
> piping of the data and unneeded use of PDF interpreters. Using external
> utilities for flattening is still possible in case of problems. In
> addition, a crash bug in cups-browsed got fixed and compatibility of the
> filters with Poppler 0.72 assured.

Given that this seems quite a refactor (and Debian's already in Transition 
Freeze), I have uploaded this to Debian's experimental suite.

Cheers,
    OdyX

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