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Changes in HTMLDOC v1.9.19

  • Updated configure script to look for zlib with pkg-config (Issue #519)
  • Updated markdown support code to mmd.

Changes in HTMLDOC v1.9.18

  • Fixed table rendering when there are missing </tr> (Issue #494)
  • Fixed support for links of the form "filename.html#anchor" in PDF output (Issue #514)
  • Fixed --header1 support for web page output (Issue #515)
  • Fixed markdown emphasized, strong, and struck-through text (Issue 517)

Changes in HTMLDOC v1.9.17

  • Added new --pre-indent option to control indentation of pre-formatted text (Issue #505)
  • Now link to CUPS library instead of embedding its HTTP code.
  • Updated PostScript and PDF date/time information to use UTC (Issue #490)
  • Fixed multiple conversions of UTF-8 HTML files from the GUI (Issue #496)
  • Fixed a compile bug on Solaris (Issue #498)
  • Fixed a markdown parsing bug (Issue #503)
  • Fixed a relative URL handling bug (Issue #507)
  • Fixed a crash bug with bad title images (Issue #510)
  • Fixed some minor CodeQL warnings.

Changes in HTMLDOC v1.9.16

  • Added support for $DATE(format) and $TIME(format) header/footer strings (Issue #472)
  • Fixed a potential image overflow bug with JPEG and PNG images (Issue #471)
  • Fixed potential heap overflow bugs with pages (Issue #477, Issue #478, Issue #480, Issue #482, Issue #483)
  • Fixed potential use-after-free in blocks (Issue #484)
  • Updated the GNU TLS HTTPS support code to use a faster connection shutdown mode (Issue #487)
  • Fixed some minor Coverity warnings.
  • Updated the GUI interface for current display fonts.

Changes in HTMLDOC v1.9.15

  • Fixed a potential heap overflow bug with GIF images (Issue #461)
  • Fixed a potential double-free bug with PNG images (Issue #462)
  • Fixed a potential stack overflow bug with GIF images (Issue #463)
  • Fixed a potential heap underflow bug with empty attributes (Issue #464)
  • Fixed a potential stack overflow bug with BMP images (Issue #466)
  • Fixed a potential heap overflow bug with the table-of-contents (Issue #467)
  • Fixed a potential heap overflow bug with headings (Issue #468)
  • Fixed a potential stack overflow bug with GIF images (Issue #470)

Changes in HTMLDOC v1.9.14

  • BMP image support is now deprecated and will be removed in a future release of HTMLDOC.
  • Fixed a potential stack overflow bug with GIF images.
  • Fixed the PDF creation date (Issue #455)
  • Fixed a potential stack overflow bug with BMP images (Issue #456)
  • Fixed a compile issue when libpng was not available (Issue #458)

Changes in HTMLDOC v1.9.13

  • Now install a 32x32 icon for Linux (Issue #432)
  • Fixed an issue with large values for roman numerals and letters in headings (Issue #433)
  • Fixed a crash bug when a HTML comment contains an invalid nul character (Issue #439)
  • Fixed a crash bug with bogus BMP images (Issue #444)
  • Fixed a potential heap overflow bug with bogus GIF images (Issue #451)
  • Fixed a potential stack overflow bug with bogus BMP images (Issue #453)

Changes in HTMLDOC v1.9.12

  • Fixed a crash bug with "data:" URIs and EPUB output (Issue #410)
  • Fixed crash bugs for books (Issue #412, Issue #414)
  • Fixed a number-up crash bug (Issue #413)
  • Fixed JPEG error handling (Issue #415)
  • Fixed crash bugs with bogus table attributes (Issue #416, Issue #417)
  • Fixed a crash bug with malformed URIs (Issue #418)
  • Fixed a crash bug with malformed GIF files (Issue #423)
  • Fixed a crash bug with empty titles (Issue #425)
  • Fixed crash bugs with bogus text (Issue #426, Issue #429, Issue #430, Issue #431)
  • Fixed some issues reported by Coverity.
  • Removed the bundled libjpeg, libpng, and zlib.

Changes in HTMLDOC v1.9.11

  • Added high-resolution desktop icons for Linux.
  • Updated the internal HTTP library to fix truncation of redirection URLs (Issue #396)
  • Fixed a regression in the handling of character entities for UTF-8 input (Issue #401)
  • The --numbered option did not work when the table-of-contents was disabled (Issue #405)

Changes in HTMLDOC v1.9.10

  • Updated local zlib to v1.2.11.
  • Updated local libpng to v1.6.37.
  • Fixed packaging issues on macOS and Windows (Issue #377, Issue #386)
  • Now ignore sRGB profile errors in PNG files (Issue #390)
  • The GUI would crash when saving (Issue #391)
  • Page comments are now allowed in pre text (Issue #394)

Changes in HTMLDOC v1.9.9

  • Fixed a redirection issue - some sites (incorrectly) provide an incomplete Location: URL in the HTTP response.
  • Fixed https: support on newer versions of Windows (Issue #378)
  • Fixed a problem with remote URLs containing spaces (Issue #379)
  • Fixed a UTF-8 processing bug for Markdown files (Issue #383)
  • Added support for <FONT FACE="monospace"> (Issue #385)

Changes in HTMLDOC v1.9.8

  • Added support for a HTMLDOC.filename META keyword that controls the filename reported in CGI mode; the default remains "htmldoc.pdf" (Issue #367)
  • Fixed a paragraph formatting issue with large inline images (Issue #369)
  • Fixed a buffer underflow issue (Issue #370)
  • Fixed PDF page numbers (Issue #371)
  • Added support for a new L header/footer format ($LETTERHEAD), which inserts a letterhead image at its full size (Issue #372, Issue #373, Issue #375)
  • Updated the build documentation (Issue #374)

Changes in HTMLDOC v1.9.7

  • Refactored the PRE rendering code to work around compiler optimization bugs (Issue #349)
  • Added support for links with targets (Issue #351)
  • Fixed a table rowspan + valign bug (Issue #360)

Changes in HTMLDOC v1.9.6

  • Added support for data URIs (Issue #340)
  • HTMLDOC no longer includes a PDF table of contents when converting a single web page (Issue #344)
  • Updated the markdown support with external links, additional inline markup, and hard line breaks.
  • Links in markdown text no longer render with a leading space as part of the link (Issue #346)
  • Fixed a buffer underflow bug discovered by AddressSanitizer.
  • Fixed a bug in UTF-8 support (Issue #348)
  • PDF output now includes the base language of the input document(s) (Issue #350)
  • Optimized the loading of font widths (Issue #354)
  • Optimized PDF page resources (Issue #356)
  • Optimized the base memory used for font widths (Issue #357)
  • Added proper &shy; support (Issue #361)
  • Title files can now be markdown.

Changes in HTMLDOC v1.9.5

  • The GUI did not support EPUB output.
  • Empty markdown table cells were not rendered in PDF or PostScript output.
  • The automatically-generated title page now supports both "docnumber" and "version" metadata.
  • Added support for dc:subject and dc:language metadata in EPUB output from the HTML keywords and lang values.
  • Added support for the subject and language metadata in markdown input.
  • Fixed a buffer underflow bug (Issue #338)
  • htmldoc --help now reports whether HTTPS URLs are supported (Issue #339)
  • Fixed an issue with HTML title pages and EPUB output.

Changes in HTMLDOC v1.9.4

  • Inline fixed-width text is no longer reduced in size automatically (Issue #309)
  • Optimized initialization of font width data (Issue #334)

Changes in HTMLDOC v1.9.3

  • Fixed formatting bugs with aligned images (Issue #322, Issue #324)
  • Fixed support for three digit "#RGB" color values (Issue #323)
  • Fixed character set support for markdown metadata.
  • Updated libpng to v1.6.34 (Issue #326)
  • The makefiles did not use the CPPFLAGS value (Issue #328)

Changes in HTMLDOC v1.9.2

  • Added Markdown table support.
  • Fixed parsing of TBODY, TFOOT, and THEAD elements in HTML files.

Changes in HTMLDOC v1.9.1

  • Fixed monospace font size issue (Issue #309)
  • Added support for reproducible builds (Issue #310)
  • Added limited support for the HTML 4.0 SPAN element (Issue #311)
  • Added (extremely limited) UTF-8 support for input files (Issue #314)
  • Fixed buffer underflow for (invalid) short HTML comments (Issue #316)
  • Now indent PRE text, by popular request.
  • EPUB output now makes sure that <element property> is written as <element property="property">.
  • Now support both NAME and ID for table-of-contents targets.

Changes in HTMLDOC v1.9

  • Added support for repeating a single header row for tables that span multiple pages (Issue #16)
  • Added support for embedding the current filename/URL in the header or footer (Issue #50)
  • Added EPUB support (Issue #301)
  • Added Markdown support (Issue #302)
  • Fixed a regression in header/footer image scaling (Issue #303)
  • Documentation updates (Issue #305)
  • Compiler fixes (Issue #304, Issue #306)
  • Fixed a bug when running HTMLDOC as a macOS application.
  • Updated the bundled libpng to v1.6.29.

Changes in HTMLDOC v1.8.30

  • Updated documentation to reflect new project page on Github.
  • Dropped old CDE and IRIX desktop integration files.
  • Cleaned up the GUI and adopted new default text editors for Linux and macOS.
  • PAGE BREAK comments at the end of a file in web page mode would lose the first page (Issue #251)
  • Fixed the scaling of header/footer images to limit them to the height of the header or footer (Issue #273)
  • Fixed an issue with the top-level makefile not exiting with an error as needed (Issue #282)
  • Fixed a URL referencing bug when the same hostname but a different port was used (Issue #290)
  • Fixed build issue on macOS (Issue #291)
  • Fixed handling of indexed+alpha PNG images (Issue #295)

Changes in HTMLDOC v1.8.29

  • Updated local PNG library to version 1.6.20.
  • Updated local JPEG library to version 9b.
  • Dropped support for OpenSSL.
  • Added configure script support for libjpeg-turbo.
  • Updated HTTP code to latest CUPS/ippsample sources.
  • Duplex PDF output incorrectly forced an even number of pages
  • The table of contents showed the wrong page numbers after headings containing the "_HD_OMIT_TOC" attribute.
  • Fixed reported build issues
  • The configure script's --enable-local* options did not work.

Changes in HTMLDOC v1.8.28

  • Updated local zlib to version 1.2.8.
  • Updated local PNG library to version 1.6.8.
  • Updated local JPEG library to version 9.
  • Updated default PDF version to 1.4.
  • SECURITY: Fixed three buffer overflow issues when reading AFM files and parsing page sizes.
  • Fixed incompatibility with Fortify's version of strcpy, which does not work properly with variable-length arrays
  • Fixed compilation against PNG library 1.5 or later
  • Fixed documentation errors
  • Marked Zapf-Dingbats as a standard font
  • Fixed GPL license text in GUI
  • Fixed a table formatting problem when a column has multiple colspan values
  • Fixed parsing of HTML comments
  • Fixed potential out-of-bounds read in table-of-contents rendering code
  • Fixed handling of image URLs with ampersands in them
  • Fixed top/bottom margins for logo and header/footer images
  • Fixed image alignment bug
  • Fixed X11 build problem

Changes in HTMLDOC v1.8.27

  • Fixed a crash bug that appeared when more than 10 blank pages were present in a document
  • Color changes were not reflected in PRE text
  • Remote URLs did not always work on older operating systems
  • Image filenames using % escapes were not decoded properly.
  • Rows using BGCOLOR that spanned across multiple pages did not render properly
  • Rows no longer start on a new page due to a cell with both HEIGHT and ROWSPAN specified
  • CMYK JPEG images caused HTMLDOC to crash
  • Table cell width calculations didn't always account for the proper minimum width
  • Images were not copied when generating indexed HTML output to a directory
  • Changing the bottom margin resulted in text that was formatted below the bottom margin.
  • The Monospace-Oblique font was not embedded properly in PDF files.

Changes in HTMLDOC v1.8.26

  • Outline and keyword strings in PDF files are now stored as Unicode
  • The Flate compression code could get in an infinite loop if it ran out of memory
  • Book files saved from the GUI did not handle filenames with spaces
  • Fixed and re-enabled the ASCII85Device filter support in PostScript Level 2/3 output
  • Character entities in the first word of a file were not rendered properly
  • Fixed-size table columns were incorrectly resized when a table width was also specified and there was extra space to distribute
  • Text could "walk" up or down when in-line images were used
  • Row backgrounds incorrectly replaced cell backgrounds when the first cell in a row used ROWSPAN
  • HTMLDOC did not correctly parse FONT FACE attributes
  • Images in Level 2/3 PostScript output did not work on some printers
  • The GUI did not use the first page header

Changes in HTMLDOC v1.8.25

  • Added "--overflow" and "--no-overflow" command-line options to show or hide the content-too-large errors; the default is "--no-overflow".
  • Added "--header1" command-line option and "HEADER1" page comments to set the page header for the first page of each chapter.
  • Added "timing" and "remotebytes" debug data generation.
  • Added DejaVu font collection to better support Cyrillic and Greek text; the new fonts are available under the generic names "monospace", "sans", and "serif".
  • Added "--referer" command-line option and corresponding CGI-mode support to pass Referer: information in HTTP requests
  • On Windows, HTMLDOC now logs CGI mode errors to a file called "htmldoc.log" in the Windows temporary directory.
  • HTMLDOC no longer uses Base-85 encoding for image data when producing Level 2 and 3 PostScript output. It appears that many printers and PostScript interpreters cannot properly decode this data when the original image data is not a multiple of 8 bits.
  • HTMLDOC now renders STRONG elements in boldface instead of bold-italic to match the W3C recommendations.
  • HTMLDOC now automatically inserts a TR element before a TD or TH element as needed to improve web site compatibility; this also triggers a HTML error in --strict mode.
  • "$HFIMAGEn" didn't work in a header/footer string.
  • HTMLDOC could crash when rendering a table.
  • Book files were not used in CGI mode
  • Cookies were not sent in HTTP requests
  • Table cells were not aligned properly when the ROWSPAN attribute was set to 1
  • HTMLDOC crashed when rendering unresolved hyperlinks in aligned images
  • Documented the HTMLDOC_NOCGI environment variable
  • HTMLDOC sometimes crashed when rendering tables with background colors
  • HTMLDOC would crash when writing encrypted strings longer than 1024 bytes
  • HTMLDOC didn't set the data directory when running in CGI mode on Windows.
  • HTMLDOC could crash when loading the Symbol.afm file
  • HTMLDOC did not always honor HEIGHT attributes in table rows.
  • Tables with a mix of colspan and rowspan sometimes caused cells to be moved vertically outside the cell.