Quick PDF Library 7.25 Released

The final version of Quick PDF Library 7.25 has been released and is ready for download from our updates page. This version includes numerous bug fixes, enhancements and new functions. As you can see from the list below, upgrading to version 7.25 will be a great decision for many Quick PDF users, especially those who use our PDF SDK for rendering.

Download 7.25 from our Product Updates page

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
• CMap parser now supports variable length codes
• Memory reduction on image decoding
• Metafile import now compresses images
• RenderPageToDC and DARenderPageToDC now renderer directly to the device context
• DARenderPageToDC now honours the values set using SetRenderDCOffset
• Certain TIFF images are now added directly without needing decompression
• More improvements to accuracy of text extraction
• Image import now includes support for RGB palette LZW TIFF images
• Image import now includes support for RGB palette Packbits TIFF images
• Radio button options can now be deleted Renderer output to EMF+ format now uses CreateCompatibleDC(0)’
• Changed co-ordinate order of GetAnnotQuadPoints and SetAnnotQuadPoints to match GetPageText
• Added support for flate compressed images with /Indexed /DeviceN color space
• GDI+ image smoothing now turned off by default when drawing images
• Metafile import handles all WinAnsi Unicode characters without creating subsetted fonts

New functions

• GetEmbeddedFileID
• NormalizePage
• DARemoveUsageRights
• RemoveUsageRights
• DrawImageMatrix
• SetObjectSource
• SetRenderDCErasePage
• SetMarkupAnnotStyle

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
• NewFormField returns a correct result even for fields with duplicate field names
• Improved error handling during image extraction
• Improved TIFF tag reading
• Renderer handles missing resources during color space lookup
• Improvement to text extraction
• Eliminated a possible divide by zero for DPI values in PNG images
• Renderer checks for /XObject dictionary type now allows an empty value
• HTML text drawing functions now retain list item state between breaks
• Corrected quad points order for text markup annotations
• SetAnnotQuadPoints now correctly sets the values without crashing
• Added support for OpenType fonts with CFF outlines stored in /TrueType font dictionaries

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.