Version 1.27.9, 2022-04-24

What's Changed

A change I would like to highlight is the performance improvement for large PDF files (#808 by @dsk7) 🎉

New Features (ENH)

• Add papersizes (#800)
• Allow setting permission flags when encrypting (#803)
• Allow setting form field flags (#802)

Bug Fixes (BUG)

• TypeError in xmp._converter_date (#813)
• Improve spacing for text extraction (#806)
• Fix PDFDocEncoding Character Set (#809)

Robustness (ROB)

• Use null ID when encrypted but no ID given (#812)
• Handle recursion error (#804)

Documentation (DOC)

• CMaps (#811)
• The PDF Format + commit prefixes (#810)
• Add compression example (#792)

Developer Experience (DEV)

• Add Benchmark for Performance Testing (#781)

Maintenance (MAINT)

• Validate PDF magic byte in strict mode (#814)
• Make PdfFileMerger.addBookmark() behave life PdfFileWriters' (#339)
• Quadratic runtime while parsing reduced to linear (#808)

Testing (TST)

• Newlines in text extraction (#807)

New Contributors

• @dsk7 made their first contribution in #808
• @khalida made their first contribution in #339

Full Changelog: 1.27.8...1.27.9