Release Notes

New functions

• GetViewPortBBox
• SetOptionalContentConfigState
• SetCapturedPageTransparencyGroup
• SetTableThinBorders
• SetTableThinBordersCMYK
• RemoveFormFieldBorderColor
• SetTextUnderlineCustomDash
• SetTextUnderlineWidth
• SetTextUnderlineDistance
• DrawRotatedBox
• DrawRotatedMultiLineText
• GetPrinterMediaTypes

Bug fixes

• Corrected page height related issues with direct access text extraction
• Shading patterns are removed from the page correctly with SplitPageText
• Corrected Index parameter offsets in geospatial PDF functions
• Corrected handling of symbolic TrueType fonts
• Improved metafile import (non-breaking spaces and rotated text)
• Added range checks to Type1 charstring lookup
• NewNamedDestination now updates multilevel name trees correctly
• Intermediate form field nodes updated correctly when child nodes are flattened or deleted
• Added preliminary support for CalGray colorspace
• Fixed word spacing bug during rendering in 64-bit mode
• ToUnicode cmaps for TrueType subsetted fonts are now correctly split into ranges
• Dash patterns and zero length lines improved to match Acrobat
• Form field borders are suppressed when there is no border color entry
• Multiple HTML text wrapping bug fixed
• Fixed bug when extracting text from a page after rendering it
• Imported metafiles containing patterns now result in properly formatted pattern objects

Enhancements

• GetDefaultPrinterName function returns correct result even after printing to a different printer
• DPI of certain images extracted using direct access function are now set
• DPI of certain images generated by the renderer are now set
• Files with a datetime earlier than the year 1900 can now be opened
• Added support for incorrect AcroForm spelling (Acroform)
• Added G4 TIFF output to the renderer (not supported in Windows XP and earlier)
• HTML5 renderer output added to documentation and enabled in all rendering functions
• QPL base class now internally calls CoInitialize and CoUninitialize in a safe way
• Better support for single pixel masked images
• Improvements to line styles in metafile import
• Improvements to text extraction word splitting
• Added support for importing 8-bit paletted TIFF images
• Added support for importing TIFF images with SamplesPerPixel greater than 4
• Improvements to text alignment in the metafile import
• Improved text extraction from PDFs without explicit space characters
• Added support for UTF-16LE strings in PDF text string objects
• Improvements to widths array for TrueType subsetted fonts
• Added support for flate compressed TIFF images
• Added support for multipage TIFF image loading via GDI+
• Improvements to table border lines in EMF import
• Simple transparency groups rendered with Cairo
• Better handling of TIFF images with missing BitsPerSample/RowsPerStrip tags

Upgrading To Version 8

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Release Notes

New functions

• GetViewPortBBox
• SetOptionalContentConfigState
• SetCapturedPageTransparencyGroup

Bug fixes

• Corrected page height related issues with direct access text extraction
• Shading patterns are removed from the page correctly with SplitPageText
• Corrected Index parameter offsets in geospatial PDF functions
• Corrected handling of symbolic TrueType fonts
• Improved metafile import (non-breaking spaces and rotated text)
• Added range checks to Type1 charstring lookup
• NewNamedDestination now updates multilevel name trees correctly
• Intermediate form field nodes updated correctly when child nodes are flattened or deleted
• Added preliminary support for CalGray colorspace
• Fixed word spacing bug during rendering in 64-bit mode

Enhancements

• GetDefaultPrinterName function returns correct result even after printing to a different printer
• DPI of certain images extracted using direct access function are now set
• DPI of certain images generated by the renderer are now set
• Files with a datetime earlier than the year 1900 can now be opened
• Added support for incorrect AcroForm spelling (Acroform)
• Added G4 TIFF output to the renderer (not supported in Windows XP and earlier)
• HTML5 renderer output added to documentation and enabled in all rendering functions
• QPL base class now internally calls CoInitialize and CoUninitialize in a safe way
• Better support for single pixel masked images
• Improvements to line styles in metafile import
• Improvements to text extraction word splitting
• Added support for importing 8-bit paletted TIFF images
• Added support for importing TIFF images with SamplesPerPixel greater than 4
• Improvements to text alignment in the metafile import
• Improved text extraction from PDFs without explicit space characters
• Added support for UTF-16LE strings in PDF text string objects

Upgrading To Version 8

The change means that for two months after the date that you purchase our software you will be eligible for a free upgrade in the event that we release a major new version, but outside of this two month window you will need to pay for an upgrade.

The change applies to upgrades from version 8 to version 9. Customers who purchased version 7 are still eligible for the old Standard Upgrade Protection 90 day period for the version 7 to version 8 upgrade.

The change only applies to major version upgrades (i.e. version 8.x to 9.x), minor version releases are still free (8.15 to 8.16, etc).

Release Notes

New functions

• GetViewPortBBox
• SetOptionalContentConfigState

Bug fixes

• Corrected page height related issues with direct access text extraction
• Shading patterns are removed from the page correctly with SplitPageText
• Corrected Index parameter offsets in geospatial PDF functions
• Corrected handling of symbolic TrueType fonts
• Improved metafile import (non-breaking spaces and rotated text)
• Added range checks to Type1 charstring lookup
• NewNamedDestination now updates multilevel name trees correctly

Enhancements

• GetDefaultPrinterName function returns correct result even after printing to a different printer
• DPI of certain images extracted using direct access function are now set
• DPI of certain images generated by the renderer are now set
• Files with a datetime earlier than the year 1900 can now be opened
• Added support for incorrect AcroForm spelling (Acroform)
• Added G4 TIFF output to the renderer (not supported in Windows XP and earlier)
• HTML5 renderer output added to documentation and enabled in all rendering functions
• QPL base class now internally calls CoInitialize and CoUninitialize in a safe way

Upgrading To Version 8

Release Notes

New functions

• GetViewPortBBox

Bug fixes

• Corrected page height related issues with direct access text extraction
• Shading patterns are removed from the page correctly with SplitPageText
• Corrected Index parameter offsets in geospatial PDF functions

Enhancements

• GetDefaultPrinterName function returns correct result even after printing to a different printer
• DPI of certain images extracted using direct access function are now set
• DPI of certain images generated by the renderer are now set
• Files with a datetime earlier than the year 1900 can now be opened
• Added support for incorrect AcroForm spelling (Acroform)
• Added G4 TIFF output to the renderer

Upgrading To Version 8

Release Notes

New functions

• GetLatestPrinterNames
• GetPageImageList
• GetImageListCount
• GetImageListItemIntProperty
• GetImageListItemDblProperty
• GetImageListItemDataToString
• GetImageListItemDataToVariant
• SaveImageListItemDataToFile
• DASetTextExtractionWordGap
• DASetTextExtractionOptions
• DASetTextExtractionArea

Bug fixes

• SecurityInfo function now returns correct values for owner and user password
• PrintDocument, GetPrinterBins and GetPrinterDevModeToString fixed in Delphi 4-2005 and LIB edition
• Fixed rendering issues with certain fonts containing a FontMatrixScaling value
• Fixed issue with DrawHTMLTextBox stack unwinding
• Fixed error in IsAnnotFormField if the document doesn’t have any form fields
• Added support for cross reference streams containing a /W entry greater than 4
• Fixed rendering of inverted CMYK JPEG images in 64-bit builds
• Fixed VB.NET Import definitions
• Corrected handling of Type1 fonts with non-sequential /Subrs ordering
• Added code to support CIDToGID maps that are too short
• SetTextExtractionArea function corrected
• Right aligned comb fields are now drawn correctly
• Trailing slash bug fix for embedding file streams
• AddTrueTypeFontFromFile function now returns a valid FontID
• Correct handling of BoldItalic fonts in metafile import

Enhancements

• Improved text extraction speed when PDF contains bitmaps
• Improved text extraction accuracy
• Comb fields are now drawn with vertical lines

Upgrading To Version 8

Release Notes

New functions

• GetLatestPrinterNames
• GetPageImageList
• GetImageListCount
• GetImageListItemIntProperty
• GetImageListItemDblProperty
• GetImageListItemDataToString
• GetImageListItemDataToVariant
• SaveImageListItemDataToFile

Bug fixes

• SecurityInfo function now returns correct values for owner and user password
• PrintDocument, GetPrinterBins and GetPrinterDevModeToString fixed in Delphi 7 and LIB edition
• Fixed rendering issues with FontMatrixScaling
• Finally fixed DrawHTMLTextBox
• Fix A/V error in IsAnnotFormField
• Fixed bug in DAOpenFile with Compressed Content Streams
• Improved text extraction speed when PDF contains bitmaps
• Rendering of images CYMK images in 64-bit version
• Fixed VB.NET Import definitions

Upgrading To Version 8

Download 8.12 from our Product Updates page

Highlights

• 64-bit compatibility for the ActiveX, DLL and Delphi editions of Quick PDF Library
• Delphi XE2 support
• Embed OpenType fonts
• Updated import files for Visual FoxPro and PowerBASIC
• 30+ bug fixes and enhancements, plus 5 new functions

Special note: you may notice that the installer size for Quick PDF Library 8.12 at 25.2 MB is larger than previous versions. The increase in the installer size is due to the addition of the files required for 64-bit support. For example, for the ActiveX edition, while previously there was just a 2.32 MB DLL called QuickPDFAX0812.dll now there is an additional DLL called QuickPDF64AX0812.dll. Luckily you don’t need to distribute the full 25.2 MB with your applications, you just take out the individual files that you need and distribute those with your applications.

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.

Version 8.12 includes native 64-bit support for the Delphi, ActiveX and DLL editions of Quick PDF Library. It also includes numerous enhancements, new functions, bug fixes and support for Delphi XE2.

If all goes well and no show-stopping issues are found this will be the final beta release of version 8.12 so we strongly encourage all developers who are interested in 64-bit support to test this latest beta release.

The 8.12 beta 2 installer can be downloaded from the button below.

Release Notes

Enhancements

• Adjustments for compilation on Delphi XE2 (Win32 and Win64)
• Win64 versions of the DLL, ActiveX and Lite editions
• Graceful handling of zlib streams with incorrect checksums
• Added support for OpenType fonts that use CFF outlines
• Improvements to text extraction, including better handling of Unicode characters
• Support for retrieving/setting the printer DEVMODE structure
• Text extraction data now optionally reports the original CMYK color of text
• Optimizations to memory usage during rendering
• Integration of a new AES encryption library
• Optimization of CMap parsing
• Added Ansi function aliases to the DLL edition

New functions

• SetTextExtractionArea
• GetPrinterDevModeToString
• SetPrinterDevModeFromString
• AddOpenTypeFontFromFile
• SetAnsiMode

Bug fixes

• Bug fix in DrawHTMLText function, return characters in correct MSB/LSB order
• Memory usage reduction for certain mono images
• Bug fix in handling of CCITT image data (widths less than 8 )
• Drawing of wrapped text corrected
• Restored image extraction functionality for certain image types
• Corrected character widths for TrueType fonts added with a codepage
• Bug fix in DrawHTMLText function, high order bytes of Unicode characters now correct
• Corrected handling of form field fonts
• Improvements to word wrapping, multiple spaces no longer collapsed into a single space

Upgrading To Version 8