Mako 6.3.1 Release Notes
Introduction
This is a maintenance release that includes identifiable support issues, labeled MAKOSUP-XXXXX.
Issues fixed
MAKO-3656 | MAKOSUP-10839 Missing objects when rendering a fileA character was being omitted from the output due to an optimization of ROP (raster operations) code. Now fixed. |
MAKO-3681 | MAKOSUP-10815 Some space characters not extractedIt is usual for text in PDFs to contain no space characters, as spaces between words is created by advancing from the last character in a word a greater distance than that found between characters of the preceding word. Mako 6.3.0 introduced a new API, This change relaxes the range to accept any value for |
MAKO-3721 | MAKOSUP-10858 Object flattening issueThe customer file exhibited incorrect display of someType3 fonts after processing with Mako. The issue was tracked down to an interaction between text knockout and transparency in the Type3 font. Now fixed. |
MAKO-3744 | MAKOSUP-10866 page->getContent() crashes on a certain PDFThe generator of the exhibit PDF seems to have a bug whereby it can write PDF object numbers that are way out of bounds. Found in this job is a Structure entry with the following reference to a page: This causes an overflow error as the value evaluates to a negative integer. This error is now caught and no longer causes an exception during processing by Mako. |
MAKO-3747 | MAKOSUP-10856 ISeparator class not available in C#This class was omitted from the C# build. It is now available. |
MAKO-3717 | MAKOSUP-10785 Mako returns swapped mediabox for some PCL5 documentsThe PCL5 exhibit was converted to PDF with Mako. When viewed, the landscape page appeared is portrait orientation. To fix this, the predominant text orientation is considered to establish the correct orientation of the converted page. |
MAKO-3694 | MAKOSUP-10842 Font encoding error in imported pdfThe customer case uses a The fix required making use of the |
Distribution
MAKO Version 6.3.1 is built for the following platforms:
- iOS
- macOS
- Linux (for Debian-based distributions; for example, Ubuntu, Mint)
- Linux (Centos)
- Linux (for Debian Buster) (ARM32 for Raspberry Pi)
- Linux (for Debian Stretch)
- Linux (for Debian Bullseye)
- Linux (for MUSL distributions; for example, Alpine Linux)
- Linux (for Ubuntu 20.04 LTS)
- Windows (static and dynamic libs, VS 2019 (V142), x86 and x64)
- Windows (static and dynamic libs, VS 2017 (V141), x64)
- Windows UWP (Store apps, Windows 10 IoT)
The Android build has been dropped from this release pending a tooling change. Please contact Mako Support if you need a Mako release for Android later than Mako 6.1.0.
Mako supports the following programming languages:
- C++ (Mako is written in C++)
- C# (.Net Framework and .Net Core)
- Java (built with OpenJDK11)
- Python (v3.8)
The alternatives to C++ are built using SWIG (www.swig.org), which provides a translation to the native libraries, found in these distribution folders:
- Linux_SWIG_(C#-Java-Python)
- Linux_Centos7_SWIG_(C#-Java-Python)
- Linux_Centos8_SWIG_(C#-Java-Python)
- Linux_Ubuntu_SWIG_(C#-Java-Python)
- macOS_SWIG_(C#-Java-Python)
- Windows_SWIG_(C#-Java-Python)