ARTS PDF Workshop, a Microsoft Excel add-on that lets you retrieve, manipulate, and print PDF information quickly and easily, has been upgraded to use Quick PDF Library as its core PDF engine. In addition the add-on is now also 100% free.
ARTS PDF Workshop lets you view and update the properties of batches of PDF documents, including document info (title, author, subject and keywords), as well as document open options and security. It is a great tool for batch updating multiple PDF files at once.
March 25, 2011
The official version of Quick PDF Library 7.24 has been released and is ready for download from our updates page. This version includes numerous bug fixes, enhancements and new functions. The 7.24 installer can also be downloaded from the button below.
Release Notes
New functions
- GetFormFieldNoExport
- GetFormFieldRequired
- SetFormFieldNoExport
- SetFormFieldRequired
- GetFormFieldChoiceType
- SetAnnotBorderStyle
- IsTaggedPDF
- DAEmbedFileStreams
- RemoveCustomInformation
Bug fixes
- Range check improvements to Type1 decoding
- Corrected missing letters in form field annotations
- Rendering and extraction of direct font dictionaries
- ToUnicode CMaps handled for non-CID fonts
- MissingWidth font metric used instead of DW
- Consistent handling of CCITT images on various operating systems
- Improvements to nested CID font widths structures
- Improvements to parsing of various destination structures
- Improvements to parsing of comments and whitespace
- Inline image resource stream improvements
- Memory allocation fix in JBIG2 decoder
- Bitmaps row access fix in JBIG2 decoder
- Appearance stream generation for auto-size fields now handles alignment correctly
- Resource names are now correctly normalized in the renderer
- Infinite loop in xref processing of small files eliminated
- Process DPI tags in TIFF images correctly (AP1 marker)
- Aspect ratio of canvas corrected
- EPS output bug fixes (miter limit and image references)
Enhancements
- DataMatrix 2D barcodes can be rotated
- Support for GS1-128 (EAN-128) barcodes
- Support for DeviceN color spaces
- Faster direct access page searching for very large documents
- DrawDataMatrixSymbol allows the fill color to be set
- Memory optimizations for ICC based images
- Get/set embedded file description
- CFF font data in OpenType fonts enabled for non-embedded fonts
- More options for getting/setting choice form field flags
- Added an option to retrieve an annotation’s border width
- Added support for B/W LZW images
- SetCustomInformation now allows empty values
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.
February 6, 2009
We’re very pleased to announce that Debenu has acquired the rights to the iSEDQuickPDF library (QuickPDF) from SEDTech (Pty) Ltd. Under Debenu the PDF library will be renamed Quick PDF Library and its new home will be www.quickpdflibrary.com.
Background
iSEDQuickPDF was first released in Q1, 2001 by SEDTech and over the years has become one of the most popular libraries for creating, manipulating, and rendering PDF files.
Whilst development slowed considerably over the past few years, we’re happy to say that it’s now under new management. We’ve been feverishly working on a new and updated Quick PDF Library release “behind-the-scenes” bringing version 5.11 to 7.12
How to purchase
Customers who purchase the existing version 5.11 after Feb 3, 2009, will be entitled to receive a free upgrade to version 7.12 when it is released in mid-to-late Q1. In addition, customers can use this coupon code UNRIVALEDPDF to save US$30 when purchasing a new license.
What’s new
Whilst full details on the 7.12 release are yet-to-follow, a number of the immediate updates are…
Major changes since 5.11:
- support for Japanese fonts
- links to embedded files
- object caching in DA functions
Minor changes:
- content stream parsing changes
- support for color constants in html text
- metafile world scaling
- png transparency
- array parsing improvements
- tiff parsing improvements
- implementation of simple truetype rasterizer
Upgrades
A free upgrade will be provided for all customers who purchase the existing 5.11 version after Feb 3, 2009. Users who purchased the library before this date will be able to upgrade to the latest version for $149.40 USD (40% discount). Upgrades to version 5.11 (which will entitle you to a free upgrade to 7.12) can be purchased from this link (proof of purchase will be required before new serials are sent).
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