Version 4.3.0, 2024-07-14

What's new

New Features (ENH)

• Accept ETen-B5 and UniCNS-UTF16 encodings (#2721) by @pubpub-zz
• Add decode_as_image() to ContentStreams (#2615) by @pubpub-zz
• context manager for PdfReader (#2666) by @tibor-reiss
• Add capability to set font and size in fields (#2636) by @pubpub-zz
• Allow to pass input file without named argument (#2576) by @pubpub-zz

Bug Fixes (BUG)

• Fix deprecation for Ressources when using old constants (#2705) by @stefan6419846
• Fix images issue 4 bits encoding and LUT starting with UTF16_BOM (#2675) by @pubpub-zz
• Reading large compressed images takes huge time to process (#2644) by @snanda85
• Highlighted Text Cannot Be Printed (#2604) by @Nifury
• Fix UnboundLocalError on malformed pdf (#2619) by @farjasju

Documentation (DOC)

• Various improvements on docstrings and examples by @j-t-1

Robustness (ROB)

• Cope with missing Standard 14 fonts in fields (#2677) by @pubpub-zz
• Improve inline image extraction (#2622) by @pubpub-zz
• Cope with loops in Fields tree (#2656) by @pubpub-zz
• Discard /I in choice fields for compatibility with Acrobat (#2614) by @pubpub-zz
• Cope with some issues in pillow (#2595) by @pubpub-zz
• Cope with some image extraction issues (#2591) by @pubpub-zz

Maintenance (MAINT)

• Deprecate interiour_color with replacement interior_color (#2706) by @j-t-1
• Add deprecate_with_replacement to PdfWriter.find_bookmark (#2674) by @j-t-1

Code Style (STY)

• Change Link to be a non-markup annotation (#2714) by @j-t-1

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