v1.22.0

multimodal-art-projection/YuEv1.22.0Sep 20, 2026by abimaelmartell

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AI Summary

A feature release introducing Right-to-Left text support, symbolic font decoding, and enhanced font metadata tracking.

Key Highlights

  • Implemented full Right-to-Left text support using the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm.
  • Added support for Symbol and ZapfDingbats built-in encodings.
  • Added `bold_source` and `fixed_pitch` to text items for better font classification.
  • Fixed tracked display text to remain whole when letter spacing is used.

Breaking Changes

  • Rust literals for `TextItem` must now include the new fields `bold_source` and `fixed_pitch`.

New Features

  • Right-to-Left text processing and presentation form normalization.
  • Symbol and ZapfDingbats font encoding support.
  • New font metadata fields (`bold_source`, `fixed_pitch`, `bold_weight_threshold`).
  • Function `widen_degenerate_form_bboxes_mem` for Rust.

Full Release Notes

Changes since 1.21.0:

- Read right-to-left lines back through the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm: Hebrew and Arabic text stored in visual order comes out in reading order even when the line holds numbers, Latin phrases or punctuation; glyph-by-glyph positioned words cluster into words by the line's own gaps; presentation forms normalize to their letters once the text is in reading order (#552).
- Decode simple fonts through their `/BaseEncoding`, the Symbol and ZapfDingbats built-in encodings and their glyph names — Adobe Glyph List, `uniXXXX` and numbered `gNN`/`cidNN` names resolved against the embedded program — so symbol bullets, arrows and math operators read as the glyphs they are. A code the `/Differences` array names but cannot map reads as nothing, and a Type3 font's glyph-procedure names are never taken for glyph indexes (#553).
- Keep tracked display text whole when its letter spacing is written as `TJ` offsets, so a spaced-out title reads as words rather than one letter per word (#548).
- Add `bold_source` (where `is_bold` came from) and `fixed_pitch` to text items, and `bold_weight_threshold` to the positioned-text options; with `bold_from_weight` adjacent runs merge by the bold verdict; `is_bold_font` recognises Demi, Semibold, Ultra, Heavy and Black faces and the foundry abbreviations (#547).
- Widen the zero-area `/BBox` of Form XObjects at load so their text is extracted and the page renders; Rust gains `widen_degenerate_form_bboxes_mem(bytes)` for the repaired document (#550).
- Judge a CID-keyed font page's text decoded before calling it vector text, and bound Form XObject content inflation (#551).
- Regression fixtures for the boxes of text drawn with a reflected matrix (#549).

`bold_from_weight` and `bold_weight_threshold` stay opt-in; the default `is_bold` now also reads the weight names above as bold.

**Rust migration:** `TextItem` literals need the new `bold_source` and `fixed_pitch` fields.

Release preparation: #556.

[Full changelog](https://github.com/firecrawl/pdf-inspector/compare/v1.21.0...v1.22.0)

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