Roadmap

What do you have to expect from the next developments of PDF Clown? Here it is a plain description of its implementation schedule.

PDF Clown 0.1

0.1.2

  • Estimated release date: ?
  • Actual release date: (TODO)
  • Expected new features:
    • (ON PLANNING)

0.1.1

  • Estimated release date: late June/July 2011
  • Actual release date: November 2011
  • Expected new features:
    • Optional content [PDF:1.6:4.10]
    • Text highlighting
    • Fonts: Type1/CFF and CMAPs
    • Acroform: text field value setting (appearance stream update)
    • Text extraction: complex layout detection, such as columnar and tabular
    • Rasterization: text rendering

0.1.0

  • Estimated release date: late January 2011
  • Actual release date: early March 2011
  • Expected new features:
    • Cross-reference streams [PDF:1.6:3.4.7]
    • Content rasterization (rendering and printing)