Release notes from pdf2htmlEX

0.18.8.rc1: Merge pull request #86 from stephengaito/master

2020-08-19T20:43:25Z

adding DNF for use in Fedora and friends

v0.18.8.rc1

2020-08-21T07:53:40Z

This is the most recent release of the pdf2htmlEX project.

It adds support for Poppler version 0.89.0 as well as FontForge version 20200314.
It also adds the --turn-off-ligatures command line switch to explicitly tell browsers not to use ligatures. This can be useful if an embedded font does not include ligatures.

We release five types of objects:

You can click on any of the above links to find more information on how to
download and use each type of release object.

Finally, the various *.txt and buildInfo-*.sh files have well known
(unchanging) names which can be used by automatic scripts to identify the
current full names of the corresponding binary artifacts.

For information on how to use pdf2htmlEX have a look at our
Wiki

Latest release

2020-08-21T08:00:04Z

This is the most recent release of the pdf2htmlEX project.

It adds support for Poppler version 0.89.0 as well as FontForge version
20200314.

This release candidate also adds build scripts for any DNF based
distribution such as Fedora.

We release five types of objects:

You can click on any of the above links to find more information on how to
download and use each type of release object.

For information on how to use pdf2htmlEX have a look at our
Wiki

v0.18.7-poppler-0.81.0

2019-09-27T13:13:28Z

This release updates pdf2htmlEX to work with poppler-0.81.0. (It has been developed and tested on Ubuntu 19.04).

Since there is no Ubuntu/Debian package which corresponds to poppler-0.81.0 you must install a working version of poppler-0.81.0 yourself. Typically this will be by compiling poppler-0.81.0 from sources.

Install using APT

Install poppler-0.81.0
Download the deb distribution file listed below
Ensure your apt package information is up to date using:
sudo apt update
Install using:
sudo apt install ./pdf2htmlex_0.18.7-1.git20190927rb69b8-0ubuntu1.disco1_amd64.deb

Install from source

Since pdf2htmlEX is no longer packaged by Debian (and hence by any of Debian's derivatives), you will need to compile pdf2htmlEX yourself.

You can do this by downloading a copy of this repository and in the resulting pdf2htmlEX directory, typing the command:

 ./dobuild

If this is successful then you can install it for system wide use by typing the command:

 ./doinstall

Note that you will require sudo privileges to do the system wide install.

To have a successful build you will require the following packages:

libpoppler-private-dev
pkg-config
cmake
make
gcc (or clang)
g++
libcairo-dev
libspiro-dev
libpng-dev
libjpeg-dev
libpoppler-dev
libpango1.0-dev
libfontforge-dev
poppler-data
openjdk-8-jre-headless (required for minimization of javascript)

v0.18.6-poppler-0.80.0

2019-09-27T12:17:52Z

This release updates pdf2htmlEX to work with poppler-0.80.0. (It has been developed and tested on Ubuntu 19.04).

Since there is no Ubuntu/Debian package which corresponds to poppler-0.80.0 you must install a working version of poppler-0.80.0 yourself. Typically this will be by compiling poppler-0.80.0 from sources.

Install using APT

Install poppler-0.80.0
Download the deb distribution file listed below
Ensure your apt package information is up to date using:
sudo apt update
Install using:
sudo apt install ./pdf2htmlex_0.18.6-1.git20190927r583b1-0ubuntu1.disco1_amd64.deb

Install from source

Since pdf2htmlEX is no longer packaged by Debian (and hence by any of Debian's derivatives), you will need to compile pdf2htmlEX yourself.

You can do this by downloading a copy of this repository and in the resulting pdf2htmlEX directory, typing the command:

 ./dobuild

If this is successful then you can install it for system wide use by typing the command:

 ./doinstall

Note that you will require sudo privileges to do the system wide install.

To have a successful build you will require the following packages:

libpoppler-private-dev
pkg-config
cmake
make
gcc (or clang)
g++
libcairo-dev
libspiro-dev
libpng-dev
libjpeg-dev
libpoppler-dev
libpango1.0-dev
libfontforge-dev
poppler-data
openjdk-8-jre-headless (required for minimization of javascript)

v0.18.5-poppler-0.79.0

2019-09-27T09:32:13Z

This release updates pdf2htmlEX to work with poppler-0.79.0. (It has been developed and tested on Ubuntu 19.04).

Since there is no Ubuntu/Debian package which corresponds to poppler-0.79.0 you must install a working version of poppler-0.79.0 yourself. Typically this will be by compiling poppler-0.79.0 from sources.

Install using APT

Install poppler-0.79.0
Download the deb distribution file listed below
Ensure your apt package information is up to date using:
sudo apt update
Install using:
sudo apt install ./pdf2htmlex_0.18.5-1.git20190927rdb4cc-0ubuntu1.disco1_amd64.deb

Install from source

Since pdf2htmlEX is no longer packaged by Debian (and hence by any of Debian's derivatives), you will need to compile pdf2htmlEX yourself.

You can do this by downloading a copy of this repository and in the resulting pdf2htmlEX directory, typing the command:

 ./dobuild

If this is successful then you can install it for system wide use by typing the command:

 ./doinstall

Note that you will require sudo privileges to do the system wide install.

To have a successful build you will require the following packages:

libpoppler-private-dev
pkg-config
cmake
make
gcc (or clang)
g++
libcairo-dev
libspiro-dev
libpng-dev
libjpeg-dev
libpoppler-dev
libpango1.0-dev
libfontforge-dev
poppler-data
openjdk-8-jre-headless (required for minimization of javascript)

v0.18.4-poppler-0.78.0

2019-09-27T09:32:54Z

This release updates pdf2htmlEX to work with poppler-0.78.0. (It has been developed and tested on Ubuntu 19.04).

Since there is no Ubuntu/Debian package which corresponds to poppler-0.78.0 you must install a working version of poppler-0.78.0 yourself. Typically this will be by compiling poppler-0.78.0 from sources.

Install using APT

Install poppler-0.78.0
Download the deb distribution file listed below
Ensure your apt package information is up to date using:
sudo apt update
Install using:
sudo apt install ./pdf2htmlex_0.18.4-1.git20190927r34bac-0ubuntu1.disco1_amd64.deb

Install from source

Since pdf2htmlEX is no longer packaged by Debian (and hence by any of Debian's derivatives), you will need to compile pdf2htmlEX yourself.

You can do this by downloading a copy of this repository and in the resulting pdf2htmlEX directory, typing the command:

 ./dobuild

If this is successful then you can install it for system wide use by typing the command:

 ./doinstall

Note that you will require sudo privileges to do the system wide install.

To have a successful build you will require the following packages:

libpoppler-private-dev
pkg-config
cmake
make
gcc (or clang)
g++
libcairo-dev
libspiro-dev
libpng-dev
libjpeg-dev
libpoppler-dev
libpango1.0-dev
libfontforge-dev
poppler-data
openjdk-8-jre-headless (required for minimization of javascript)

v0.18.3-poppler-0.77.0

2019-09-26T18:17:41Z

This release updates pdf2htmlEX to work with poppler-0.77.0. (It has been developed and tested on Ubuntu 19.04).

Since there is no Ubuntu/Debian package which corresponds to poppler-0.77.0 you must install a working version of poppler-0.77.0 yourself. Typically this will be by compiling poppler-0.77.0 from sources.

Install using APT

Install poppler-0.77.0
Download the deb distribution file listed below
Ensure your apt package information is up to date using:
sudo apt update
Install using:
sudo apt install ./pdf2htmlex_0.18.3-1.git20190926r7ed19-0ubuntu1.disco1_amd64.deb

Install from source

Since pdf2htmlEX is no longer packaged by Debian (and hence by any of Debian's derivatives), you will need to compile pdf2htmlEX yourself.

You can do this by downloading a copy of this repository and in the resulting pdf2htmlEX directory, typing the command:

./dobuild

If this is successful then you can install it for system wide use by typing the command:

./doinstall

Note that you will require sudo privileges to do the system wide install.

To have a successful build you will require the following packages:

libpoppler-private-dev
pkg-config
cmake
make
gcc (or clang)
g++
libcairo-dev
libspiro-dev
libpng-dev
libjpeg-dev
libpoppler-dev
libpango1.0-dev
libfontforge-dev
poppler-data
openjdk-8-jre-headless (required for minimization of javascript)

v0.18.2-poppler-0.76.0

2019-09-26T18:18:25Z

This release updates pdf2htmlEX to work with poppler-0.76.0. (It has been developed and tested on Ubuntu 19.04).

Since there is no Ubuntu/Debian package which corresponds to poppler-0.76.0 you must install a working version of poppler-0.76.0 yourself. Typically this will be by compiling poppler-0.76.0 from sources.

Install using APT

Install poppler-0.76.0
Download the deb distribution file listed below
Ensure your apt package information is up to date using:
sudo apt update
Install using:
sudo apt install ./pdf2htmlex_0.18.2-1.git20190926ra37f7-0ubuntu1.disco1_amd64.deb

Install from source

Since pdf2htmlEX is no longer packaged by Debian (and hence by any of Debian's derivatives), you will need to compile pdf2htmlEX yourself.

You can do this by downloading a copy of this repository and in the resulting pdf2htmlEX directory, typing the command:

./dobuild

If this is successful then you can install it for system wide use by typing the command:

./doinstall

Note that you will require sudo privileges to do the system wide install.

To have a successful build you will require the following packages:

libpoppler-private-dev
pkg-config
cmake
make
gcc (or clang)
g++
libcairo-dev
libspiro-dev
libpng-dev
libjpeg-dev
libpoppler-dev
libpango1.0-dev
libfontforge-dev
poppler-data
openjdk-8-jre-headless (required for minimization of javascript)

v0.18.1-poppler-0.75.0

2019-09-26T12:25:10Z

This release updates pdf2htmlEX to work with poppler-0.75.0. (It has been developed and tested on Ubuntu 19.04).

Since there is no Ubuntu/Debian package which corresponds to poppler-0.75.0 you must install a working version of poppler-0.75.0 yourself. Typically this will be by compiling poppler-0.75.0 from sources.

Install using APT

Install poppler-0.75.0
Download the deb distribution file listed below
Ensure your apt package information is up to date using:
sudo apt update
Install using:
sudo apt install ./pdf2htmlex_0.18.1-1~~git20190926r11e2a-0ubuntu1~~disco1_amd64.deb

Install from source

Since pdf2htmlEX is no longer packaged by Debian (and hence by any of Debian's derivatives), you will need to compile pdf2htmlEX yourself.

You can do this by downloading a copy of this repository and in the resulting pdf2htmlEX directory, typing the command:

./dobuild

If this is successful then you can install it for system wide use by typing the command:

./doinstall

Note that you will require sudo privileges to do the system wide install.

To have a successful build you will require the following packages:

libpoppler-private-dev
pkg-config
cmake
make
gcc (or clang)
g++
libcairo-dev
libspiro-dev
libpng-dev
libjpeg-dev
libpoppler-dev
libpango1.0-dev
libfontforge-dev
poppler-data
openjdk-8-jre-headless (required for minimization of javascript)