PLAYA-PDF v0.7.1: Python 3.8 compatibility and bug fixes

PLAYA 0.7.1: 2025-08-16

• Tolerate non-integer values for page rotation
• Restore Python 3.8 compatibility (oops!)
• Restore robustness to broken structure elements
• Correct handling of byte alignment in CCITT decoding fixing an endless loop
• Be more robust when extracting images

What's Changed

• fix: restore python 3.8 compatibility by @dhdaines in #172
• fix: accept non-integer values for rotate by @dhdaines in #173

Full Changelog: v0.7.0...v0.7.1

PLAYA-PDF v0.7.0: Vastly improved structure and marked content

PLAYA 0.7.0: 2025-08-04

• Remove long-deprecated functions
• Add and document finalize method on ContentObjects
• Make PageList work more or less like a Sequence
• Support iteration over playa.structure.ContentItem
• Greatly increase test coverage
• Greatly optimize marked content section access
• Add find and find_all methods to page.structure
• Extract CMYK images (except JPEG/JPEG2000) as TIFF

What's Changed

• fix: correct and test rotation behaviour which was very broken by @dhdaines in #167
• fix: use decode_text almost everywhere for utf-16 by @dhdaines in #168
• Improve coverage and fix bugs by @dhdaines in #161
• refactor: image extraction part 2 by @lambdalemon in #163
• feat: extract cmyk images as tiff by @lambdalemon in #170
• Greatly accelerate and improve logical structure tasks by @dhdaines in #165

Full Changelog: v0.6.6...v0.7.0

PLAYA-PDF v0.6.6: Fix two awful and long-standing bugs

PLAYA 0.6.6: 2025-08-01

• Correct and test rotation behaviour which was quite incorrect, and
  also allow users to update rotation and space on an existing page
• Fix a very long-standing and stupid bug in normalize_rect
• Never crash on invalid UTF-16 (we mean it this time)

Full Changelog: v0.6.5...v0.6.6

PLAYA-PDF v0.6.5: Clean up another hasty release

PLAYA 0.6.5: 2025-08-01

• Fix terrible error in xref detection and parsing
• Support 1D and mixed CCITT fax decoding

What's Changed

• Support one-dimensional and mixed CCITT image compression by @dhdaines in #162
• feat: Add finalize() method to ContentObject by @dhdaines in #164

Full Changelog: v0.6.4...v0.6.5

PLAYA-PDF 0.6.4: Clean up an overly hasty release

0.6.3 was released a bit too soon and had a big problem, and an unfixed bug.

From CHANGELOG.md

• Fix terrible error in fallback indirect object parsing
• Simplify and robustify xref detection
• Stop stream parsing on endobj as well as endstream

What's Changed

• Be robust to multiply broken PDFS (xrefs, streams, indirect objects) by @dhdaines in #160

Full Changelog: v0.6.3...v0.6.4

PLAYA-PDF v0.6.3: Various bugfixes

From CHANGELOG.md

• Correct and slightly optimize PNG predictor
• Accept all standard number syntaxes (oops)
• Fail fast on incorrect or damaged xref pointers
• Accept fontsize of 0
• Don't throw an exception on malformed text strings
• Extract images with any colorspace
• Correct ASCIIHexDecode for all odd-length strings (not just some)
• Remove sketchy characters from image and font filenames
• Track streamid in ObjectParser (this will become useful with time)
• Cache inline images in ObjectParser

What's Changed

• fix: always decode text (fixes: #153) by @dhdaines in #155
• fix: accept text hidden by setting fontsize to 0 by @dhdaines in #157
• feat: fail fast on incorrect or damaged xref pointers by @dhdaines in #156
• fix: accept all standard number syntaxes (oops) by @dhdaines in #158
• Correct and accelerate PNG predictor for multi-channel images by @dhdaines in #159
• extract images with cie based colorspace by @lambdalemon in #152
• refactor: cache inline image by @lambdalemon in #149

Full Changelog: v0.6.2...v0.6.3

PLAYA-PDF 0.6.2: Bug fixes and fonts

What's Changed

• fix: look in ICC profile for N if missing (fixes: #140) by @dhdaines in #141
• Fix: 1/2/4 bpc images by @lambdalemon in #144
• refactor: image extraction by @lambdalemon in #145
• feat: fontfile extraction by @lambdalemon in #147
• feat: cid2gid for CIDFont by @lambdalemon in #148

Full Changelog: v0.6.1...v0.6.2

PLAYA-PDF 0.6.1: Regression, refactoring, image extraction

What's Changed

• fix: correct bogus font descriptors with zero metrics by @dhdaines in #134
• feat: extract masks, softmasks, and alternates by @dhdaines in #135
• Good enough JBIG2 support by @dhdaines in #136
• Save Indexed images properly by @dhdaines in #137 (contribution by @lambdalemon)
• fix: avoid writing empty image files by @dhdaines in #139

Full Changelog: v0.6.0...v0.6.1

PLAYA-PDF 0.6.0: Structure and text improvements

What's Changed

• Iterate over Form XObjects inside Form XObjects with .xobjects by @dhdaines in #126
• Correct bbox on non-diagonal Type3 FontMatrix by @dhdaines in #127
• Fixes and improvements to text extraction, marked content and logical structure by @dhdaines in #124
• Add displacement property to text objects by @dhdaines in #129
• Allow iteration over Type3 font programs by @dhdaines in #130
• Extract images as PNMs if possible by @dhdaines in #131

Notes from CHANGELOG.md

• Add structure to Page to access structure elements indexed by
  marked content IDs (convenience wrapper over the parent tree)
• Add structure to XObjectObject for the same reason
• Add parent to all ContentObject to access parent structure
  element (if any) via the parent tree
• Descend into Form XObjects in Page.xobjects
• Improve text extraction for rotated pages
• Improve text extraction for tagged PDFs
• Correct displacement and bbox for Type3 fonts with non-diagonal
  FontMatrix
• Add displacement property to TextObject
• Add functioning __iter__ to GlyphObject in the case of
  Type3 fonts, which works like XObjectObject
• Extract non-JPEG images as PNM
• BREAKING: Fix __len__ on PathObject which incorrectly returned
  non-zero even though iteration is not possible
• BREAKING: Remove misleading char_width, get_descent, and
  get_ascent methods and hscale and vscale properties from font
  objects
• BREAKING: Do not guess basename for Type3 fonts (generally it
  isn't different from fontname for other subset fonts)
• BREAKING: Element.contents contains both structure.ContentItem
  and structure.ContentObject

Full Changelog: v0.5.1...v0.6.0

PLAYA-PDF 0.5.1: Bug fixes and a few little features

What's Changed

• Detect and correct missing unicode mappings for Type3 fonts by @dhdaines in #121
• Tolerate bogus line endings and blank lines in xref tables by @dhdaines in #122
• feat: support bbox on Annotation (oops) by @dhdaines in #123
• Implement do_gs by @lambdalemon in #118
• Correct ParentTree and RoleMap in logical structure

Full Changelog: v0.5.0...v0.5.1