PyMuPDF-1.24.8 released

[julian-smith-artifex-com]

PyMuPDF-1.24.8 has been released.

Wheels for Windows, Linux and MacOS, and the sdist, are available on pypi.org and can be installed in the usual way, for example:

python -m pip install --upgrade pymupdf

[Linux-aarch64 wheels will be built and uploaded later.]

Changes in version 1.24.8 (2024-07-22)

• Fixed issues:

  • Fixed API documentation for the open function is not obvious to find. #3636
  • Fixed docx parsing was broken in 1.24.7 #3654
  • Fixed Unable to extract subset font name using the newer versions of PyMuPDF : 1.24.6 and 1.24.7.  #3677
  • Fixed Page.get_text results in AssertionError for epub files #3687

Other:

• Fixed various spelling mistakes spotted by codespell.
• Improved how we modify MuPDF's default configuration on Windows.
• Make text search to work with ligatures.

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This discussion was created from the release PyMuPDF-1.24.8 released.

[julian-smith-artifex-com]

Linux-aarch64 wheels are now available; install in the usual way with pip.