February 28, 2009
We’re happy to announce that Quick PDF Library 7.12 Public Beta has been released and is now ready for download.
The 7.12 beta is the first release of the Quick PDF Library since Debenu acquired the library earlier in the year and marks the beginning of an exciting development period that will see the library updated with new features, bug fixes and general performance improvements on a regular basis.
What’s New
Major new features added to 7.12 include:
- AES 128-bit encryption
- Digital signatures
- PDF slideshow / presentations / page transitions
- Renderer support for gradients
- Import/header files for ActiveX and DLL in C++ and C#
- Implementation of simple TrueType rasterizer
- Embedded file grouping and links
- Improved image parsing
- Noticeable performance increase
- Support for Japanese fonts
- Support for the Turkish codepage (1254)
Special Offer for New Customers
New customers who purchase the Quick PDF Library during the Beta period, before the official 7.12 version has been released, can use this coupon code, QPLBETA, to receive a 20% discount.
Upgrade Offer for Existing Customers
Existing customers are eligible for a 40% discount when purchasing the new version and can do so from this link.
Note: an upgrade license key will automatically be provided after you have successfully purchased. This upgrade license key will need to be combined with your original license key in order to work in the new version successfully.
Download the Beta
The Beta for Quick PDF Library can be downloaded from this button. The download size is 3.15 MB and the download includes the ActiveX, DLL and Delphi versions, as well as the function references for each of this versions.
Feedback, bugs, feature requests
As always, we want to hear feedback from you about the library. We want to hear your feedback, answer your questions, fix the bugs you report and find out what features you want added to the next version of our PDF library.
February 13, 2009
First up, a big thank you to all of the existing Quick PDF Library (formerly known as iSEDQuickPDF and QuickPDF) users who have taken the time to contact us since we announced the acquisition of the iSEDQuickPDF library earlier this month. Your positive feedback and excitement about our acquisition of the library is very much appreciated.
While we continue to work hard behind-the-scenes to prepare the next version of the Quick PDF Library for release — by the way, we’re making great progress, you will be impressed — we want to continue gathering as much information from our users as possible about their thoughts on the state of the current library and what sort of features and improvements they would like to see introduced in the future.
We already think that Quick PDF Library is an excellent and powerful PDF SDK — not to mention extremely cost-effective — but we want to make it even better. We want it to be the number one PDF SDK for developers.
With this in mind, if you have any thoughts about the library that you would like to share with us; or if you have discovered a bug that you would like to report; or if you have a feature suggestion — we’d like to hear from you.
We look forward to working with you to make Quick PDF Library number one.
P.S. If you purchase version 5.11 of the Quick PDF Library now (only $149), then you will be entitled to a free upgrade when the next version is released — with lots of new features and improvements.
February 6, 2009
We’re very pleased to announce that Debenu has acquired the rights to the iSEDQuickPDF library (QuickPDF) from SEDTech (Pty) Ltd. Under Debenu the PDF library will be renamed Quick PDF Library and its new home will be www.quickpdflibrary.com.
Background
iSEDQuickPDF was first released in Q1, 2001 by SEDTech and over the years has become one of the most popular libraries for creating, manipulating, and rendering PDF files.
Whilst development slowed considerably over the past few years, we’re happy to say that it’s now under new management. We’ve been feverishly working on a new and updated Quick PDF Library release “behind-the-scenes” bringing version 5.11 to 7.12
How to purchase
Customers who purchase the existing version 5.11 after Feb 3, 2009, will be entitled to receive a free upgrade to version 7.12 when it is released in mid-to-late Q1. In addition, customers can use this coupon code UNRIVALEDPDF to save US$30 when purchasing a new license.
What’s new
Whilst full details on the 7.12 release are yet-to-follow, a number of the immediate updates are…
Major changes since 5.11:
- support for Japanese fonts
- links to embedded files
- object caching in DA functions
Minor changes:
- content stream parsing changes
- support for color constants in html text
- metafile world scaling
- png transparency
- array parsing improvements
- tiff parsing improvements
- implementation of simple truetype rasterizer
Upgrades
A free upgrade will be provided for all customers who purchase the existing 5.11 version after Feb 3, 2009. Users who purchased the library before this date will be able to upgrade to the latest version for $149.40 USD (40% discount). Upgrades to version 5.11 (which will entitle you to a free upgrade to 7.12) can be purchased from this link (proof of purchase will be required before new serials are sent).
We’d love to hear from you — please send any questions using this contact form.
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Stay tuned, we have some exciting announcements to kick things off.
