Pyxpdf

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- Config: make :any:`Config.cfg_path` public attribute
- Document: add support for :class:`~pathlib.Path` for loading pdf
- pyxpdf_data: add 35 base Postscript fonts from ghostscript

**Bugs Fixed**

- Fix 9: segfault using :meth:`~pyxpdf.xpdf.Document.text()`
- Fix 8: add checks for file in :any:`Config.add_font_file()`

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- Config: add function to add missing fonts :any:`Config.add_font_file()`
- Introduce :class:`~pyxpdf.xpdf.PDFImage` to represent a PDF Image.
- PDFImageOutput: :meth:`~pyxpdf.xpdf.PDFImageOutput.get` returns :class:`~pyxpdf.xpdf.PDFImage`
instead of Pillow :class:`Image`

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**Bugs Fixed**

- fix all direct memory leaks
- Config: fix :any:`Config.text_encoding` setter, encodings with lowercase
characters were not able to set.
- fix weird bytes encoding problem in python debug builds

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- Python 2.7 support dropped
- 2 optional dependencies (`Pillow <https://pillow.readthedocs.io/>`_,
`pyxpdf_data <https://github.com/ashutoshvarma/pyxpdf_data>`_)
introduced

**New Features**

- Introduce (optional) package
`pyxpdf_data <https://github.com/ashutoshvarma/pyxpdf_data>`_ which
add more encoding support.
- API: add specialised classes for pdf outputs,
`PDFOuputDevice <https://pyxpdf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/api/pdfoutputdevice/index.html>`_.

- **TextOutput** - For Text extraction
- **RawImageOutput** - Render PDF Page as Image
- **PDFImageOutput** - Extract images from PDF

- Config: add new global settings:
- :any:`Config.anti_alias`
- :any:`Config.enable_freetype`
- :any:`Config.vector_anti_alias`

**Bugs Fixed**

- pdftotext: extracted text contains clipped text even when explictly
discarding it.

- Config: fix loading of external xdfrc with :any:`Config.load_file()`

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- FIX: default :any:`Config.text_encoding` value i.e UTF-8
does not persist :any:`Config.reset()` and changes to Latin1.

- pdftotext: remove all parameters that change global :data:`~pyxpdf.xpdf.Config`
properties.

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Initial stable release.

.. end changelog