Changes¶

0.8.1 (2022-11-04)¶

Fix box-scaling which was totally buggy in release 0.8 (and I wonder why nobody noticed).
Fix plural forms in info messages.

Be less strict when reading PDF files.
Enhance some help messages.
Drop support for Python 2 and Python <= 3.5. Minimum supported versions are now 3.6 to 3.10.
Internal changes:
- Update required version of PyPDF to 2.1.1.
- Enhance code quality.

Incompatible change: DIN lang and Envelope No. 10 are now defined as landscape formats.
New options -f/--first and -l/--last for specifying the first resp. last page to convert
Reduce the size of the output file a lot. Now the output file is nearly the same size as the input file. While this behaviour was intended from the beginning, it was not yet implemented for two reasons: The content was a) copied for each print-page and b) not compressed.
Make the content of each page appear only once in the output file. This vastly reduces the size of the output file.
Compress page content. Now the output file is nearly the same size as the input file in much more cases. I thought, the underlying library will do this automatically, but it does not.
Fix bug in PDF code used for clipping the page content. Many thanks to Johannes Brödel for reporting this bug.
Add support for Python 3.
Use PyPFDF2 instead of the unmaintained pyPDF.

New option -A/--art-box to use the content area defined by the ArtBox instead of the TrimBox.
The page is now clipped to the TrimBox resp. ArtBox to ensure nothing outside of this box gets printed.
No longer set the CropBox, as this is interpreted quite differently by different renderers (even if the PDF 1.7 standard defines its behaviour).
Pages are now ordered top to bottom. This is a more natural for humans used to starting at the upper left. Thanks to Robert Schroll for the patch.
Smaller enhancements, e.g. more precise error massages, better error handling, etc.