The final version of Debenu Quick PDF Library 8.16 has been released and is ready for download from our product updates page.

This new version is full of new functions, enhancements and bug fixes and we recommend that all customers upgrade to it to take advantage of the improvements. Visit the product updates page to download this new version and see a full list of the changes.

Download 8.16 from our Product Updates page

Version 8.16 Highlights

• Improved rendering of annotations with transformation matrices
• Enhancements to metafile (EMF/WMF) import
• New support for rendering tiling patterns
• 64-bit version now renders JPEG2000 images
• Better support for Japanese/Chinese font encodings
• Improvements to page extraction
• Various memory, stability and performance improvements

Upgrading To Version 8

If you are still using version 7 and would like to upgrade visit this page:

• Upgrade To Debenu Quick PDF Library 8

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 and have your say.

Over the past few months you may have noticed some Debenu Quick PDF Library links pointing to www.debenu.com. That is because in April we launched a new website for Debenu. You can read about it here and see a screenshot of the homepage below.

For a number of years we’ve run multiple websites, each with different products, but all owned by Debenu. We have now decided to take a different path and combine all of our sites into one Debenu site, as well as consolidate the different branding used for different products.

We’re going to slowly move Quick PDF Library over to the Debenu website as well. As you may have seen, the transition has already started to take place in some areas. Over the next 6 months we’ll continue to move the content over to the new site with the goal of completing the move of Quick PDF Library on the Debenu website by the start of 2013.

Nothing about the Quick PDF Library product itself is changing, just the website that it calls home.  At some stage we’ll redirect the www.quickpdflibrary.com homepage to www.debenu.com, but not until the end of the year, once every has gotten used to the change.

Oh, and if you have any questions about the new site, please let us know by leaving a comment on this page.

Debenu Quick PDF Library 8.16 beta 2 has been released and is ready for downloading and testing. Version 8.16 beta 2 includes new functions, bug fixes and enhancements. The 8.16 beta 2 installer can be downloaded from the button below.

Release Notes

New functions

• GetOptionalContentConfigLocked
• SetOptionalContentConfigLocked
• AddSWFAnnotationFromFile
• SetAnnotIntProperty
• NewTilingPatternFromCapturedPage
• SetFillTilingPattern
• GetXFAToString
• SetXFAFromString
• GetFormFieldObjectNumber
• SetTextExtractionScaling
• DASetTextExtractionScaling

Bug fixes

• Encryption keys for EncryptFile with 128-bit RC4 or 128-bit AES corrected
• AES padding checks
• Correctly generate appearance streams for fields using simple TrueType fonts
• Disabled decryption of metadata streams when necessary and all XRef streams
• GetAnalysisInfo now correctly returns 13 for documents encrypted with AES-256
• Corrected widths of fonts with a /Differences array
• Corrected character widths returned for different font types
• MergeDocument correctly merges /AcroForm resource dictionaries
• FontMatrixScaling taken into account for word and character spacing
• CopyPagesFromDoc correctly handles form fields in source and target documents
• AttachAnnotToForm returns 1 on success
• Added code to prevent memory access violation when processing CMaps
• Check for valid annotations array when enumerating annotation properties
• The annotation property cache is reset after a call to SetAnnotStrProperty
• Fixed bug processing separation color spaces introduced in 8.15
• TrueType fonts with more entries in the “post” table than numGlyphs now correctly handled
• Annotations with zero width/height are not rendered to prevent a divide by zero
• Added range checking to CIDToGIDMap lookups
• Symbol fonts added with AddTrueTypeFont now correctly mapped
• Metafile import with symbol fonts now correctly mapped
• Improved alignment of TA_BOTTOM and TA_TOP text in metafile import
• Non-embedded fonts with Adobe-Japan1 ordering are now rendered
• Further improvements to page extraction
• Correct font widths now returned for subsetted fonts
• SetImageMask improved to work with different image formats
• Prevention of memory leak fixed in GetFormFieldActionID when accessing sub-fields
• Prevention of memory leak in GetPageText, ExtractFilePageText and DAExtractPageText with mode 7
• NewRGBAxialShader now returns 1 to indicate success as per the documentation

Enhancements

• Support for JPEG2000 (JPXDecode) images on Win64
• Support for malformed PDFs with missing /Type /Pages entry
• Generated form field appearances now default to a 2pt border to match Acrobat
• Rendering to JPEG sets the image DPI
• Support for text extraction with fonts without ascent and descent metrics
• Support for documents with deleted /AcroForm objects
• Documents with non-embedded fonts using 90ms-RKSJ-H encoding now rendered correctly
• SetAnnotStrProperty can now set the subject, name and title properties
• Updated documentation for SetAnnotStrProperty to show tag 110 (author property)
• Documents containing TrueType fonts with invalid indexToLocFormat values now supported
• Added support for tiling patterns
• Documents with non-embedded fonts using GBK-EUC-H encoding now rendered correctly/li>
• Documents with non-embedded fonts using UniGB-UCS2-H encoding now rendered correctly/li>
• Documents with non-embedded fonts using UniCNS-UCS2-H encoding now rendered correctly/li>
• Improved text size reported during text extraction of Type3 fonts/li>
• Improved the accuracy of the font bounding box reported during text extraction/li>
• Improved the accuracy of ascent/descent values read from certain fonts/li>
• Implemented support for XFA template data with namespace versions from 2.1 up to 3.3/li>
• Generated form field appearance stream borders now more closely match Acrobat/li>

Upgrading To Version 8