New features:
o Cpdf now has a man page, which abbreviates cpdfmanual.pdf
o More sensible -help (current -help moved to -summary)
o Detect and remove JavaScript
o Show progress on long files
o Create PDF portfolios
o Remove procsets, article threads, page pieces
o Remove web capture, output intents, alternate images
o Reprocess JPEG2000s within files
o Convert lossless images to JPEG2000
o Remove all metadata streams
o Extract all metadata streams to file
o Allow the empty range
o Allow a range specifying some pages which do not exist
o Extract a single image with -extract-single-image
Extended features:
o CCITT and CCITTG4 encoders in -process-images
o Force image processing even when image larger
o -thinlines can ensure maximum as well as minimum thickness
o New -just-content for easier content stream debugging
o -squeeze processes xobjects inside xobjects
o Speed increases for -squeeze on huge files
o Select only such pages as are annotated
o Allow -create-pdf and friends to appear in middle of AND
o -draw can use JPEG2000s
o New -list-attached-files -json optionally including file data
o List and add descriptions and relationships for attachments
o Process lossless CMYK images
o Use 8bpp Alpha PNGs with -rasterize, -output-image, -png and when drawing
o -list-images and friends show mask status, and list masks
o -list-images and friends now list inline images
o -list-images now distinguishes types of CCITT encoding
o -list-images now distinguishes lossy and lossless JBIG2
o Extract inline images
o Extract soft masks
o Optionally combine soft marks with image when extracting images
o Decompress can decompress JBIG2 encoded streams with jbig2dec
Fixes:
o Sanitizes inputs to prevent command injection attacks (supported by a grant from NLnet)
o Fix PMAXX et al. w.r.t -add-rectangle
o Allow Float/Int to appear anywhere in CPDFJSON / bookmark JSON
o Allow -info in the case where objstm reading requires password
o Allow -stdin in -info and in -merge (once)
o Cpdfimages was accidentally creating palettised PNGs
o Page label prefixes now in UTF8
o Regression where bookmarks were being corrupted
o Removes the dependency on wmic for reading the date.
o -pad-after, -pad-before were failing if range not sorted
Available now at https://www.coherentpdf.com/