Quick PDF Library 7.17 has been released and is now ready for download from the updates page. The new version contains a number of significant improvements to unicode support, text extraction, EMF support and much more.

New Features and Improvements

• New GetDocumentFileName function
• Encrypted documents are no longer auto-decrypted in some circumstances (same behaviour as 7.15 and earlier)
• MergeStreams, MergeFiles and MergeFileList functions now merge bookmarks
• FlattenFormField function now works even if the form field does not have a /P (page) entry
• New tags to retrieve the following annotation properties:
  
  Subject (/Subj)
  In reply to (/IRT)
  Unicode filename (/UF)
  Page number of GoTo link

• PDFs with certain malformed stream objects can now be loaded (e.g. Microsoft Reporting Services PDFs)
• Improved text extraction using mode 0
• Improved accuracy and speed for PNG predictors in flate compressed images
• The following code pages are now supported in the AddTrueTypeFont function:
  
  874 THAI_CHARSET
  932 SHIFTJIS_CHARSET
  936 GB2312_CHARSET
  949 HANGEUL_CHARSET
  950 CHINESEBIG5_CHARSET
  1256 ARABIC_CHARSET
  1361 JOHAB_CHARSET

• Improved EMF import functionality
• Improved masked image processing speed
• Added support for malformed stream images with LF starting character
• Added support for optional content groups in the renderer
• XFA form field support now uses “MSXML2.DOMDocument” instead of “MSXML2.DOMDocument.4.0”
• The following functions have been Unicode enabled:
  
  DAGetInformation
  DASetInformation
  SetCustomInformation
  GetCustomInformation
  SetInformationGetInformation
  GetCatalogInformation
  SetCatalogInformation
  RetrieveCustomDataToString
  StoreCustomDataFromString
  GetAnalysisInfo
  NewOutline
  SetOutlineTitle
  OutlineTitle
  NewStaticOutline
  GetOutlineJavaScript
  SetOutlineJavaScript
  AddLinkToJavaScript
  FormFieldJavaScriptAction
  GetFormFieldJavaScript
  SetOpenActionJavaScript
  PageJavaScriptAction
  DocJavaScriptAction
  AddGlobalJavaScript
  GetGlobalJavaScript
  GlobalJavaScriptPackageName
  GetPageJavaScript
  AddPageLabels
  GetPageLabel
  NewOptionalContentGroup
  GetOptionalContentGroupName
  GetDocumentFileName
  DAExtractPageText
  GetPageText
  ExtractFilePageText
  GetAnnotStrProperty
  SetAnnotStrProperty
  

Free Upgrade

Version 7.17 is a minor update and therefore all existing version 7.x license owners are entitled to a free upgrade. Owners of older versions of Quick PDF Library can upgrade online here for $149.40.

Discuss The New Version

We’re proud of the community that has formed around Quick PDF Library, so we’d like to encourage new users to join in the fun and discuss the latest version of Quick PDF Library over at QuickPDF.org.

Evaluating PDF SDKs to find the one that’s right for you is a difficult process. Each SDK is unique and requires a certain amount of learning just in order to be able to get setup with it, never mind the effort required to actually find out if the component will meet all of your requirements.

Quick PDF Library Demo

That’s one of the reasons we’ve created a customizable demo application for Quick PDF Library. A demo application that shows you how to perform a wide range of different tasks — such as split pages by bookmarks, convert PDFs to images, extract text and much more — through customizable scripts.

Download the Quick PDF Library Demo

But to begin with, you don’t have to customize anything, you can just select one of the scripts and click on the Run button to see the library in action. No effort required. Then later, if you want to take the library for a spin, you can either customize an existing script or create a new script of your own and save it within the application for future use.

This demo is for new and existing customers alike. The default scripts provided demonstrate how to perform some of the most common PDF related tasks and will be updated frequently in the future with more useful scripts.

Keep in mind that this is only a beta release of the demo, so if you encounter any issues, please send us a message.

Enjoy!