Late last year we released the first release candidate of a new product called Debenu PDF Maximus.

Maximus is an industrial-strength solution for automating your PDF workflows. It removes the need to perform manual operations on PDF files by instead using Action Lists to apply predefined actions on PDF files in a step wise fashion.

Processing of a single or multiple PDF files using standardized Action Lists increases productivity and improves consistency by removing manual labor and human error from the equation.

The release candidate of Maximus is free to use and functional until the end of this month. For all customers who provide us with some feedback we’ll automatically enter your names into a draw to win one of five eBooks of PDF Explained, an easy to understand book about the low levels of PDF.

Quick PDF Library 8.14 beta 3 has been released and is ready for download and testing. Version 8.14 beta 3 includes new functions, bug fixes and enhancements. The 8.14 beta 3 installer can be downloaded from the button below.

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

With the release of Quick PDF Library 8 we have changed the Standard Upgrade Protection period to 60 days to be inline with the rest of Debenu’s products.

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).