Development 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 0.2

0.2.0 — Enhanced content handling

• Estimated release date: July 2015
• Actual release date: ?
• Expected new features:
  • Enhanced Content Model
  • New Content Composition Model
  • Enhanced Rendering
  • Enhanced Interactive Form
  • Enhanced Annotations

PDF Clown 0.1

0.1.3 — Document Inspector

• Estimated release date: June 2013
• Actual release date: ceased (development goals evolved to 0.2 cycle)
• Expected new features:
  • Enhanced Interactive Form
  • PDF Clown Document Inspector
  • Font subsetting?
  • Enhanced Rendering?

0.1.2 — Multimedia and lots of good stuff

• Estimated release date: ?
• Actual release date: February 2013
• Expected new features:
  • Advanced object cloning and change tracking
  • Multimedia (video embedding)
  • Article threads
  • Page labels
  • PDF Clown Document Inspector (lowered priority)

0.1.1 — Text highlighting and lots of good stuff

• 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 — XRef streams, content rasterization and lots of good stuff

• 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)