Quick PDF Library 7.25 Beta 3 Released
Quick PDF Library 7.25 beta 3 has been released and is ready for download and testing. This new beta includes updates to the CMap parser, improved memory handling for image decoding and various other updates to the library.
This beta release also includes the new Quick PDF Library Developer Guide that we mentioned a couple of weeks ago.
The 7.25 beta 3 installer can be downloaded from the button below.
Release Notes
Enhancements
- Added support for CCITT images with /Indexed color space
- Improvements to EMF import font scaling
- Improved reading of CID font encoding
- Documents with malformed trailers are now handled gracefully
- Reduced memory consumption with CanvasDC functions
- Added support for CCITT images with EncodedByteAlign encoding
- Documents with malformed page tree nodes are now processed
- Improvements to accuracy of text extraction
- Image resolution can now be read from certain BMP images
- Improved text alignment with certain CFF fonts
- Added support for CCITT images with the EndOfLine flag
- New Quick PDF Library Developer Guide
- CMap parser now supports variable length codes (beta 3)
- Memory reduction on image decoding (beta 3)
- Metafile import now compresses images (beta 3)
New functions
- GetEmbeddedFileID
- NormalizePage
- DARemoveUsageRights
- RemoveUsageRights
- DrawImageMatrix (beta 3)
Bug fixes
- ExtractPages, CopyPageRanges and ExtractPageRanges now handle inherited resources
- DrawDataMatrixSymbol now defaults to black if the fill color has not been set
- DrawDatamatrixSymbol correctly encodes double digits
- Resources are correctly freed during EMF+ output
- Corrected page indexing for DAFindPage
- Outlines are correctly appended during document merging
- Annotations now drawn independently of page transformation matrix
- Improvements to image decoding to prevent inverted images
- Image indexing bug removed from the renderer image caching system (beta 3)
- NewFormField returns a correct result even for fields with duplicate field names (beta 3)
- Improved error handling during image extraction (beta 3)
Feedback! Any feedback large or small is appreciated. We’ll shortly be planning the next round of exciting new features for Quick PDF Library, so we’d really like to know what you want to see added to the SDK. Don’t be shy, email us at support@quickpdflibrary.com and have your say.