June 13, 2012
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:
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.
June 6, 2012
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.
June 3, 2012
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
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, contact us and have your say.
May 11, 2012
Debenu Quick PDF Library 8.16 beta 1 has been released and is ready for downloading and testing. Version 8.16 beta 1 includes new functions, bug fixes and enhancements. The 8.16 beta 1 installer can be downloaded from the button below.
Release Notes
New functions
- GetOptionalContentConfigLocked
- SetOptionalContentConfigLocked
- AddSWFAnnotationFromFile
- SetAnnotIntProperty
- NewTilingPatternFromCapturedPage
- SetFillTilingPattern
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
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
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 and have your say.
April 19, 2012
The final version of Quick PDF Library 8.15 has been released and is ready for download from our updates page. This new version is primarily a maintenance release 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 8.15 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 and have your say.
April 13, 2012
Quick PDF Library 8.15 beta 2 has been released and is ready for download and testing. Version 8.15 beta 2 includes new functions, bug fixes and enhancements. The 8.15 beta 2 installer can be downloaded from the button below.
Release Notes
New functions
- DrawIntelligentMailBarcode
Bug fixes
- Added protection against out of range exception in SignFile when a new field is added
- AES128 encrypted documents with /EncryptMetadata set to false are now loaded correctly
- GetDefaultPrinterName internal data correctly initialized
- Images with /Indexed/DeviceGray and /Indexed/DeviceRGB now supported
- Eliminated memory leak in code that processes shading patterns
- Memory leak in 64-bit builds fixed using XE2 U4 compiler
- Internal fix for string list adding when the list starts with 0x10
- Fix for character widths when SetOrigin(2) and SetOrigin(3) are used
- Color channel order fix for CMYK JPEG import in 64-bit builds
- Fix for certain encrypted documents loaded into the standalone functions
- Added code to correctly handle negative font sizes in content streams
Enhancements
- Added support for metafile import when font names end with style names like “Bold” or “Italic
- Documents encrypted with 40-bit RC4 using revision 3 are now supported
- Improvements to existing DLL import headers and addition of a C import header
- GIF images with local color tables now supported
- Image extraction of TIFF images maintains image data in original format
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.
April 3, 2012
Quick PDF Library 8.15 beta 1 has been released and is ready for download and testing. Version 8.15 beta 1 includes new functions, bug fixes and enhancements. The 8.15 beta 1 installer can be downloaded from the button below.
Release Notes
New functions
- DrawIntelligentMailBarcode
Bug fixes
- Added protection against out of range exception in SignFile when a new field is added
- AES128 encrypted documents with /EncryptMetadata set to false are now loaded correctly
- GetDefaultPrinterName internal data correctly initialized
- Images with /Indexed/DeviceGray and /Indexed/DeviceRGB now supported
Enhancements
- Added support for metafile import when font names end with style names like “Bold” or “Italic”
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 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.
