March 27, 2012
For the next 5 days you can up-size from a Single Developer License to a Multiple Developer or Source Code license and save 20% off the upgrade price. This special offer ends at midnight on the 31st of March, 2012. So act quickly!
Click on one of the links below to up-size today:
This offer is available to owners of a version 8 license of Quick PDF Library. If you own a version 7 license you must first upgrade to version 8 before you can take advantage of this offer.
March 22, 2012
The final version of Quick PDF Library 8.14 has been released and is ready for download from our updates page.
This version includes numerous enhancements to the library including improved support for rendering via Cairo instead of GDI+, improved rendering of PDFs which use transparency groups and shading, text extraction accuracy and numerous other changes. Visit the product updates page to download this new version and see a full list of the changes.
Download 8.14 from our Product Updates page
Upgrading To Version 8
If you are still using version 7 and would like to upgrade visit this page:
More information on upgrading to version 8 can be found online here.
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.
March 15, 2012
Quick PDF Library 8.14 beta 6 has been released and is ready for download and testing. Version 8.14 beta 6 includes new functions, bug fixes and enhancements. The 8.14 beta 6 installer can be downloaded from the button below.
Release Notes
New functions
- GetViewPortBBox
- SetOptionalContentConfigState
- SetCapturedPageTransparencyGroup
- SetTableThinBorders
- SetTableThinBordersCMYK
- RemoveFormFieldBorderColor
- SetTextUnderlineCustomDash
- SetTextUnderlineWidth
- SetTextUnderlineDistance
- DrawRotatedBox
- DrawRotatedMultiLineText
- GetPrinterMediaTypes
- GetPageColorSpaces
- SetDestProperties
- SetDestValue
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
- ToUnicode cmaps for TrueType subsetted fonts are now correctly split into ranges
- Dash patterns and zero length lines improved to match Acrobat
- Form field borders are suppressed when there is no border color entry
- Multiple HTML text wrapping bug fixed
- Fixed bug when extracting text from a page after rendering it
- Imported metafiles containing patterns now result in properly formatted pattern objects
- Corrected font metrics calculations when font size is negative
- NormalizePage function now works with any prior Origin setting
- CCITT EncodedByteAlign fixed for certain images
- AddTrueTypeFont fixed with a /Differences array for code page 874
- Rendering with Cairo now correctly strokes paths that are also filled
- Content stream parts are combined with whitespace during rendering
- Corrected position and size of EMF images drawn to the page
- GetXFAFormFieldCount now correctly returns 0 instead of 1 if there are no XFA fields
- Corrected the handling of a null encryption dictionary
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
- Improvements to widths array for TrueType subsetted fonts
- Added support for flate compressed TIFF images
- Added support for multipage TIFF image loading via GDI+
- Improvements to table border lines in EMF import
- Simple transparency groups rendered with Cairo
- Better handling of TIFF images with missing BitsPerSample/RowsPerStrip tags
- GDI+ and Cairo renderer now support linear gradients
- Added option to ignore font descenders during text extraction
- Annotation enumeration uses cached results where possible
- Added support for RC4 encrypted documents with encryption strength between 40 and 128
- SecurityInfo returns information about which password was used to open the document
- Added code to handle integer overflow in PNG unfiltering
- Cairo support for RenderPageToFile, RenderPageToStream, RenderPageToString and RenderPageToVariant
- Improvements to font name matching during rendering
- Improvements to text extraction for complicated character placements
- ClosePath removed from EmfPolyLine16 in metafile import
- Support for certain accented characters in metafile import
Upgrading To Version 8
If you are still using version 7 and would like to upgrade visit this page:
More information on upgrading to version 8 can be found online here.
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.
March 6, 2012
We’re excited to announce the release of Debenu PDF Maximus, built using the power of Quick PDF Library.
Debenu PDF Maximus is an industrial-strength solution for automating your PDF workflows when you need to split or merge PDFs, convert images to PDF, stamp text or watermarks on PDFs, extract text, control metadata and much more in a batch process or silently via watched folders.
The PDF batch processing features in Debenu PDF Maximus let you process one or thousands of files at the same time and the watched folder functionality lets you take the automation even further by removing the need for manual input and output entirely.
We’re keen for feedback on Debenu PDF Maximus so if you provide some feedback you will go into the draw to win a special prize.
March 3, 2012
A few days ago Embarcadero released Delphi XE2 Update 4 and due to some changes to signatures for certain functions some Quick PDF Library DCU files are unable to be compiled. We have put in a place a hot fix for this issue while we wait on further information from Embarcadero.
Customers using Delphi XE2 update 3 or earlier can continue using the DCUs provided with the main version of Quick PDF Library, available from the updates page. Customers using Delphi XE2 update 4 will need to use these special DCUs:
This hot fix is only available for version 8.14 beta of Quick PDF Library. We will not be providing this hot fix for version 8.13.
Depending on whether this is an accidental or intentional change by Embarcadero we’ll make changes to the installer to accommodate all Delphi XE2 updates with the release of 8.14 in a few weeks.
