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@@ -1,5 +1,22 @@ 2018-06-20 Jay Berkenbilt <ejb@ql.org> + * Added new classes QPDFAcroFormDocumentHelper, + QPDFFormFieldObjectHelper, and QPDFAnnotationObjectHelper to + assist with working with interactive forms in PDF files. At + present, API methods for reading forms, form fields, and widget + annotations have been added. It is likely that some additional + methods for modifying forms will be added in the future. Note that + qpdf remains a library whose function is primarily focused around + document structure and metadata rather than content. As such, it + is not expected that qpdf will have higher level APIs for + generating form contents, but qpdf will hopefully gain the + capability to deal with the bookkeeping aspects of wiring up all + the objects, which could make it a useful library for other + software that works with PDF interactive forms. PDF forms are + complex, and the terminology around them is confusing. Please see + comments at the top of QPDFAcroFormDocumentHelper.hh for + additional discussion. + * Added new classes QPDFPageDocumentHelper and QPDFPageObjctHelper for page-level API functions. These classes introduce a new API pattern of document helpers and object helpers in qpdf. The helper |