pText 1.8.7

This release features:

• more documentation
• ´setup.py´ and ´requirements.txt´ have changed to ensure pText can easily be installed
• support for embedded files in PDF

pText version 1.8.6

This is a documentation release.
The documentation percentage is now 90%

1.8.3

• Bugfix release
• Improvements to layout algorithm
• Improvements to IO (enabling a Document to be saved multiple times)

add ascii logo in manifest

include afm files in distribution

1.7.0

• implement various small changes to better adhere to PDF spec
• add DisjointShape as LayoutElement (allowing non-contiguous figures)
• add example for DisjointShape
• add CodeBlock as LayoutElement (auto-formats code)
• add example for CodeBlock
• add example(s) for merging Document objects

You can obtain pText either on GitHub, or using PyPi
There are a ton more examples, check them out to find out more about working with PDF.

1.6.0

• support for barcodes (CODE_128, CODE_39, EAN, EAN_13, EAN_14, EAN_8, GS_1, GS_128, GTIN, ISBN, ISBN_10, ISBN_13, ISSN, ITF, JAN, PZN, QR, UPC, UPC_A)
• support for outlines
• support for MatPlotLib plots
• uniform examples
• solve almost all mypy warnings
• small improvements in table layout mechanism

You can obtain pText either on GitHub, or using PyPi
There are a ton more examples, check them out to find out more about working with PDF.

1.5.0

• adding Image class to enable writing images to PDF
• more examples on writing PDF documents
• added padding to all LayoutElement implementations
• added background_color to all LayoutElement implementations

• refactor package structure
• refactor test-package structure
• use LayoutElement in structure recognition
• add more examples of writing documents from scratch

pText is now able to create PDF documents from scratch.
Enabling you to:

add text (using various fonts, colours, font-sizes, etc)
add tables and lists
use a layout to keep track of positions, free space, etc
Minor improvements to:

speed
performance on edge-cases in corpus
image handling