March 5, 2011
Quick PDF Library 7.24 beta 4 has been released and is ready for testing. This new beta includes several bug fixes, enhancements and new functions. The 7.24 beta 4 installer can be downloaded from the button below.
Release Notes
New functions
- GetFormFieldNoExport
- GetFormFieldRequired
- SetFormFieldNoExport
- SetFormFieldRequired
- GetFormFieldChoiceType
- SetAnnotBorderStyle
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
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
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 26, 2011
Quick PDF Library 7.24 beta 3 has been released and is ready for testing. This new beta includes several bug fixes, enhancements and new functions. The 7.24 beta 3 installer can be downloaded from the button below.
Release Notes
New functions
- GetFormFieldNoExport
- GetFormFieldRequired
- SetFormFieldNoExport
- SetFormFieldRequired
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
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
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 23, 2011
A quick heads up to any customers who are currently evaluating Quick PDF Library.
As of the 1st of March, 2011, we will be increasing the price of our SDK by US$100 across the board.
This means that for a single developer license with standard upgrade protection the price will change from $249 to $349 and for a multiple developer license with standard upgrade protection the price will change from $489 to $589 and so on.
We understand that no one likes a price increase but we think most Quick PDF Library customers will agree that our PDF SDK offers fantastic value at an unbeatable price, and even with the price increase, it’s still an amazing deal.
The library will of course remain royalty-free meaning that you can distribute compiled applications that you build using our library to as many desktops and servers as you like with no additional cost. You just pay a one off fee for the developer license. That’s all.
If you have any questions about this change to our pricing please contact us at sales@quickpdflibrary.com and we’ll be happy to answer any questions that you have.
February 21, 2011
We’ve made the decision to end official support for Windows 2000 effective immediately as this operating system has reached the end of its livecycle and is no longer being supported by Microsoft.
Please note that there are no Windows 2000 specific hacks in the Quick PDF Library code base, so we will not be “removing” support as such. All this decision really means in real-terms is that Windows 2000 is no longer listed as a supported operating system on our website.
A quick tip for anyone who is going to continue developing applications for Windows 2000 is that if you’re using Visual Studio 2010 with runtime 10.0 this may cause issues on Windows 2000. Specifically, this error message:
“The procedure entry point EncodePointer could not be located in the dynamic link library KERNEL32.DLL”
Head on back to Visual Studio 2008 with runtime 9.0 or earlier and this error message will disappear.
Sayonara Windows 2000, it was nice knowing you.
February 16, 2011
Instructions on how to get your free license of Quick PDF Tools Pro are at the bottom of this blog post.
Do you get tired of having to open a PDF in Acrobat or your PDF editor of choice just so that you can edit its document properties, split it into multiple documents or retrieve data from PDF forms? For many actions it’s not actually necessary to open and visually view the PDF. Unfortunately to access 99% of Acrobat’s features it is necessary.
But not if you’re using Quick PDF Tools Pro. This handy PDF utility, built using Quick PDF Library, lets you work with PDF files directly in Windows Explorer. Just right-click on a PDF and select the action you want to perform. No waiting required.
Quick PDF Tools Pro is jam-packed with features. Here’s a few:
- Advanced PDF Preview
- Edit PDF properties (Title, Author, Subject, and Keywords)
- Edit PDF layout, magnification and viewer preferences
- Add/Edit Custom Metadata
- View document security restrictions summary
- Add/remove passwords for PDF
- Convert (almost) any image to PDF, PDF to image, and PDF to text
- Convert and combine multiple images into one PDF
- Extract bookmarks to a text file
- Remove all bookmarks from a PDF
- View document fonts
- Merge selected PDF files into one PDF
- Split PDF files (various options available)
- Edit Attachments (Attach, Remove, Edit)
- Add, edit and remove JavaScript from PDF files
- Insert, extract, delete, rotate and crop pages in a PDF
- Extract CSV formatted text with data
- Extract embedded images to disk
- Extract form fields and form field data
- Flatten PDF form fields
- Remove all annotations including sticky notes and markup
- Add new bookmarks and edit existing bookmark actions
- Apply digital signatures to PDF files
All of these features were built using Quick PDF Library, but they do not represent all of the features available in our PDF SDK, not even close.
Free Quick PDF Tools Pro License
Normally Quick PDF Tools Pro is $59, but until the end of the month we’re offering all Quick PDF Library customers a free license, to say thanks for being a Quick PDF customer and to show the power of our SDK.
All you have to do to obtain your free license is to leave a comment on this blog post and include your email address in the email field. Don’t worry, your email address isn’t publish on the blog — it’s only the admins who can see it. We’ll follow up with you directly after you’ve posted your comment with your new license key.
We look forward to sending you a free license of Quick PDF Tools Pro. Hurry, only 2 weeks left.
February 7, 2011
Quick PDF Library 7.24 beta 2 has been released and is ready for testing. This new beta includes several bug fixes, enhancements and new functions. The 7.24 beta 2 installer can be downloaded from the button below.
Release Notes
New functions
- GetFormFieldNoExport
- GetFormFieldRequired
- SetFormFieldNoExport
- SetFormFieldRequired
Bug fixes
- Bug fix for handling of choice form fields
- Bug fix for processing of Separation color space
- Bug fix for duplicate rendering of image
Enhancements
- Range check improvements to Type1 decoding
- Support for GS1-128 (EAN-128) barcodes
- DataMatrix 2D barcodes can be rotated
- ActiveX edition now marked with ‘Safe for initializing’ and ‘Safe for scripting’ flags
- Support for DeviceN color spaces
- Minor documentation updates
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.
December 21, 2010
As some of you may have noticed, Christmas is a few days away, so the team at Debenu will be taking a short break from the 24th of December until the 2nd of January to unwind and freshen up for the exciting year ahead. Of course by “break” we mean we’ll be checking our email every other minute as opposed to every minute. But, you get the idea.
A skeleton crew will be on hand to assist should you have any urgent issues that need to be dealt with prior to the end of the holiday period.
From everyone here at Debenu, we’d like to wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
Happy holidays!
December 20, 2010
Quick PDF Library 7.23 has been released and is ready for download.
This new version is a relatively minor release in comparison to 7.22 but it does include some exciting new additions — specifically a LIB edition of the SDK for C/C++ developers — and some important bug fixes and enhancements for digital signatures and font handling.
Release Notes
Enhancements
- First release of Quick PDF Library LIB Edition (static link .lib)
- Improvements to exception handling while accessing file streams
- Renderer handles images and vector graphics using the /Lab color space
- LoadFromCanvasDC allows control over which fonts are embedded
- Documentation improved for NewChildFormField function
New functions
- NoEmbedFontListCount
- NoEmbedFontListAdd
- NoEmbedFontListGet
- NoEmbedFontListRemoveIndex
- NoEmbedFontListRemoveName
- NoEmbedFontListRemoveAll
- NewPageFromCanvasDC
- SaveImageToString
- SaveImageToVariant
- DAHasPageBox
- DASetPageBox
- DADrawRotatedCapturedPage
Bug fixes
- Dingbats font is rendered correctly when drawn multiple times
- DASetPageBox supports Options = 3, 4 and 5 in accordance with the documentation
- DADrawCapturedPage handles direct page contents array
- SignFile handles encrypted files and files with cross reference streams
- DAAppendFile handles files with cross reference streams
- AddSubsettedFont and GetSubsetString functions handle character codes less than U+0100
- Pixel size of renderer output is now consistent with the DPI, page dimensions and SetRenderScale
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.
December 17, 2010
Exciting news for all of our C/C++ customers: we’ve just finished creating a statically linked version of Quick PDF Library.
The LIB Edition of Quick PDF Library is generated automatically by converting the DLL Edition into a static link library. The static link library file is called QuickPDFLIB0723.lib and a header file called QuickPDFLIB0723.h is included.
The new .LIB version will be included with the 7.23 release which will be made public very soon.
Make sure you read the getting started guide for the new .LIB version when you get it for some information on link dependencies and initializing/releasing the library.
December 5, 2010
A few months ago PicaJet, a happy customer of Quick PDF Library, wrote a review of the SDK on their website:
It took us about six months of experimenting before finally selecting Quick PDF Library from among all the other PDF libraries. Quick PDF Library is not 100% pure .NET code, but it still renders PDF documents with maximal speed and quality; it supports CMYK images; it quickly extracts native PDF properties; it sells for a reasonable price. And it is backed by a company with a solid reputation and history of excellence.
You can read the full review on PicaJet.com.
