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| -rw-r--r-- | ChangeLog | 10 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | include/qpdf/QPDFWriter.hh | 9 |
2 files changed, 17 insertions, 2 deletions
@@ -1,3 +1,13 @@ +2017-08-21 Jay Berkenbilt <ejb@ql.org> + + * Add support for writing PCLm files. Most of the work was done by + Sahil Arora <sahilarora.535@gmail.com> as part of a Google Summer + of Code project in 2017. PCLm support is useful only for clients + that specifically know how to create PCLm files. Support in qpdf + is just for ensuring that objects are written in the correct order + and for including some additional material in the output that is + required by the PCLm standard. + 2017-08-19 Jay Berkenbilt <ejb@ql.org> * Remove --precheck-streams. This is enabled by default now diff --git a/include/qpdf/QPDFWriter.hh b/include/qpdf/QPDFWriter.hh index 0ab2f2ad..59a0dd98 100644 --- a/include/qpdf/QPDFWriter.hh +++ b/include/qpdf/QPDFWriter.hh @@ -353,8 +353,13 @@ class QPDFWriter QPDF_DLL void setLinearization(bool); - // Create PCLm output. Enables writing unreferenced objects, - // set PCLm header and writes pages before file catalog and page tree. + // Create PCLm output. This is only useful for clients that know + // how to create PCLm files. If a file is structured exactly as + // PCLm requires, this call will tell QPDFWriter to write the PCLm + // header, create certain unreferenced streams required by the + // standard, and write the objects in the required order. Calling + // this on an ordinary PDF serves no purpose. There is no + // command-line argument that causes this method to be called. QPDF_DLL void setPCLm(bool); |