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🆕 Changes in this release:

• Added Bounding_Box method for texts written with standard fonts.
  It allows for predicting the room each chunk of text will require on the page.
  Further development of that could be to output a text on multiple lines within a rectangle, with hyphenation, flexible spacing, ...

🆕 Changes in this version:

• Vector graphics: added Arc and Circle.
• Navigation: added Hyperlink methods for producing links within or outside the document.

The main demo (pdf_out_demo.adb) includes now some pie charts and hyperlink examples.
An additional demo shows graphically various steps of the k-means data clustering / unsupervised machine learning method.

Changes are around text output (Put, Put_Line):

• line feed special character is converted correctly
• characters that are part of the PDF syntax are preceded by the foreseen escape code
• minimal support for unicode UTF-16 and UTF-32 strings

Change: integrated a fix by Giuseppe Cannone to pass a PDF validation test (link here ).

• ISO Latin-1 character support
• Image dimensions can be queried
• Added tool: img2pdf
• Improved demo - vector graphics with the Ada Mascot!

The standard fonts now support the ISO Latin-1 encoding.

First release, with full sources and a demo.