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We’re in the process of moving the QuickPDF.org forum to another server, so for the next 24-48 hours it will be closed for maintenance. Please accept our sincere apologies for any inconvenience this may cause.
Estimated downtime period: May 29-31, 2009.
Update: The forum maintenance has been completed and the QuickPDF.org forum is once again open for your questions.
Quick PDF Library 7.14 beta 2 has been released and is ready for testing. This new beta includes a number of new features and bug fixes.
The biggest new feature in this release is the ability to create tables in your PDFs — this will make generating PDF reports from databases using Quick PDF Library a lot easier. We’ve also included enhanced support for XFA PDF forms and will continue to make improvements in this area in the future.
Click on the button below to download the 7.14 beta 2 build:
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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 we’ll get back to you asap.
Important – after May 31st, there’ll be a few changes with the Quick PDF Library licensing. We believe that the new structure will provide a fair match of price to value, and allow us to provide the best service possible to our customers.
The price of Quick PDF Library single-developer license will be increasing to $249 USD, however, we will also be introducing a not-for-profit and educational price at a discounted $149 USD.
At the same time, we will be creating a multi-developer license which will replace the 1-5, and 5-10 licenses. This new license will allow you to have as many people in your team (from a few to 10) work with Quick PDF Library at no extra cost.
The Delphi Source Code price will be dropping to $1299 USD – this gives those who want to get their hands dirty more of a chance to do so.
… And as per usual, all of our products are available at a 40% discount for previous owners.
All of our products come with free “best efforts” support as follows:
For an extra 25% on your purchase price, you can receive premium support which means you get:
We believe in considering the total cost of purchase … including support. At the revised pricing, we can ensure that we have the resources in place to make sure when you ask a question, we’re able to answer it in a timely fashion.
If you have any questions about upgrading please email our sales team at sales@quickpdflibrary.com.
Customers often ask: does Quick PDF Library work with PHP? The answer is yes, and what’s more, it works very well with minimal setup required.
What does this mean? It means that you can use Quick PDF with PHP to build PDF web apps that do things like split and merging PDFs, modify security, etc, but also, it means you can add PDF functionality to your existing online apps. Do you want to generate PDF reports from a database on the fly and serve them up to customers through your website? No problem, Quick PDF Library can do that and much more.
In this example I will show you how to use Quick PDF and PHP with a few simple steps. To demo the library I will be using the ActiveX version of Quick PDF Library and the version of PHP5 and Apache that is bundled with XAMPP. Of course, Quick PDF will also work with PHP and IIS, but I’ll leave that example for another day.
<?php
$fileName = “DrawText.pdf”;
$qp = new COM(“QuickPDFAX0713.PDFLibrary”);
$validKey = $qp->UnlockKey(“…”);
if ($validKey == 1)
{
echo “License validation successful!”;
echo “<br />”;
echo “Valid license key: “;
echo $qp->LicenseInfo;
echo “<br />”;
}
else
{
echo “License validation failed!”;
echo “<br /><br />”;
}
$qp->DrawText(100, 500, “Hello World!”);
$result = $qp->SaveToFile($fileName);
if ($result == 1)
{
echo “File was successfully saved to disk.”;
echo “<br /><br />”;
}
else
{
echo “File could not be saved to disk.”;
echo “<br /><br />”;
}
$qp = null;
?>
// $qp = new COM(“QuickPDFAX0713.PDFLibrary”);
Call the Quick PDF Library COM object that you have previously registered. It shouldn’t matter where the QuickPDFAX0713.dll file is physically located, however, keeping it in the project folder will ensure that you don’t accidentally delete it.
// $result = $qp->SaveToFile($fileName);
By default, when saving files to disk using the Apache service that accompanies XAMPP, the files that are created in this example will automatically be placed in the following directory: c:\xampp. Of course, it’s relatively easy to save the file in a different location with a small few adjustments to the PHP code, but I’ll leave that work for you.
The rest of this code should be quite easy to understand. But if you have any questions, leave a comment.
The example that I’ve used in this sample is quite simple, however, there’s no reason why it couldn’t be far more sophisticated. After all, with over 500 functions in the Quick PDF Library, you could build some pretty powerful PDF web apps.
Quick PDF Library 7.13 is now available for download and purchase.
The new version primarily includes bug fixes and performance improvements that were reported on the QuickPDF.org forum over the past few years — as well as a number of new functions and official support for Delphi 2009.
Behind the scenes we’ve been working on a solution for using Quick PDF Library in a 64-bit environment. We’re excited to say — and we know you will be too, since we’ve been receiving an increasing number of requests for such a solution. If you’re interested in doing some testing with this new version, email us at support@quickpdflibrary.com and we’ll happily send it to you.
UPDATE: There is now a 64-bit compatible version of Quick PDF Library available as part of version 8. Read more here. Native 64-bit support is provided for the DLL, ActiveX and Delphi editions.
The upgrade to 7.13 is free for owners of a 7.x license. Owners of older licenses can purchase an upgrade to the new version for US$89.40.
If you want to keep up-to-date with all things related to Quick PDF Library, we suggest that you subscribe to our weekly Quick PDF Library Newsletter. In each weeks newsletter we try to keep our users informed about the libraries progress, as well as provide various PDF tips and tricks that can help everyone get the most out of the library.
As always, we’d like to hear from you. Feedback, good and bad, is always appreciated. So let us know what you think about Quick PDF Library.