The final version of Quick PDF Library 7.25 has been released and is ready for download from our updates page. This version includes numerous bug fixes, enhancements and new functions. As you can see from the list below, upgrading to version 7.25 will be a great decision for many Quick PDF users, especially those who use our PDF SDK for rendering.

Download 7.25 from our Product Updates page

Release Notes

Enhancements

• Added support for CCITT images with /Indexed color space
• Improvements to EMF import font scaling
• Improved reading of CID font encoding
• Documents with malformed trailers are now handled gracefully
• Reduced memory consumption with CanvasDC functions
• Added support for CCITT images with EncodedByteAlign encoding
• Documents with malformed page tree nodes are now processed
• Improvements to accuracy of text extraction
• Image resolution can now be read from certain BMP images
• Improved text alignment with certain CFF fonts
• Added support for CCITT images with the EndOfLine flag
• CMap parser now supports variable length codes
• Memory reduction on image decoding
• Metafile import now compresses images
• RenderPageToDC and DARenderPageToDC now renderer directly to the device context
• DARenderPageToDC now honours the values set using SetRenderDCOffset
• Certain TIFF images are now added directly without needing decompression
• More improvements to accuracy of text extraction
• Image import now includes support for RGB palette LZW TIFF images
• Image import now includes support for RGB palette Packbits TIFF images
• Radio button options can now be deleted Renderer output to EMF+ format now uses CreateCompatibleDC(0)’
• Changed co-ordinate order of GetAnnotQuadPoints and SetAnnotQuadPoints to match GetPageText
• Added support for flate compressed images with /Indexed /DeviceN color space
• GDI+ image smoothing now turned off by default when drawing images
• Metafile import handles all WinAnsi Unicode characters without creating subsetted fonts

New functions

• GetEmbeddedFileID
• NormalizePage
• DARemoveUsageRights
• RemoveUsageRights
• DrawImageMatrix
• SetObjectSource
• SetRenderDCErasePage
• SetMarkupAnnotStyle

Bug fixes

• ExtractPages, CopyPageRanges and ExtractPageRanges now handle inherited resources
• DrawDataMatrixSymbol now defaults to black if the fill color has not been set
• DrawDatamatrixSymbol correctly encodes double digits
• Resources are correctly freed during EMF+ output
• Corrected page indexing for DAFindPage
• Outlines are correctly appended during document merging
• Annotations now drawn independently of page transformation matrix
• Improvements to image decoding to prevent inverted images
• Image indexing bug removed from the renderer image caching system
• NewFormField returns a correct result even for fields with duplicate field names
• Improved error handling during image extraction
• Improved TIFF tag reading
• Renderer handles missing resources during color space lookup
• Improvement to text extraction
• Eliminated a possible divide by zero for DPI values in PNG images
• Renderer checks for /XObject dictionary type now allows an empty value
• HTML text drawing functions now retain list item state between breaks
• Corrected quad points order for text markup annotations
• SetAnnotQuadPoints now correctly sets the values without crashing
• Added support for OpenType fonts with CFF outlines stored in /TrueType font dictionaries

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.

We have just updated the samples page with a package of Perl samples to use with the ActiveX edition of Quick PDF Library.

Perl will only work with Quick PDF Library on Windows, though we hope to provide a cross-platform solution in the future.

If there are any other programming languages that you would like to see some samples for, leave a comment!

Quick PDF Library 7.25 beta 3 has been released and is ready for download and testing. This new beta includes updates to the CMap parser, improved memory handling for image decoding and various other updates to the library.

This beta release also includes the new Quick PDF Library Developer Guide that we mentioned a couple of weeks ago.

The 7.25 beta 3 installer can be downloaded from the button below.

Release Notes

Enhancements

• Added support for CCITT images with /Indexed color space
• Improvements to EMF import font scaling
• Improved reading of CID font encoding
• Documents with malformed trailers are now handled gracefully
• Reduced memory consumption with CanvasDC functions
• Added support for CCITT images with EncodedByteAlign encoding
• Documents with malformed page tree nodes are now processed
• Improvements to accuracy of text extraction
• Image resolution can now be read from certain BMP images
• Improved text alignment with certain CFF fonts
• Added support for CCITT images with the EndOfLine flag
• New Quick PDF Library Developer Guide
• CMap parser now supports variable length codes (beta 3)
• Memory reduction on image decoding (beta 3)
• Metafile import now compresses images (beta 3)
  

New functions

• GetEmbeddedFileID
• NormalizePage
• DARemoveUsageRights
• RemoveUsageRights
• DrawImageMatrix (beta 3)

Bug fixes

• ExtractPages, CopyPageRanges and ExtractPageRanges now handle inherited resources
• DrawDataMatrixSymbol now defaults to black if the fill color has not been set
• DrawDatamatrixSymbol correctly encodes double digits
• Resources are correctly freed during EMF+ output
• Corrected page indexing for DAFindPage
• Outlines are correctly appended during document merging
• Annotations now drawn independently of page transformation matrix
• Improvements to image decoding to prevent inverted images
• Image indexing bug removed from the renderer image caching system (beta 3)
• NewFormField returns a correct result even for fields with duplicate field names (beta 3)
• Improved error handling during image extraction (beta 3)
  

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.

Quick PDF Library 7.25 beta 2 has been released and is ready for testing. This new beta includes several exciting bug fixes for the renderer related to CCITT images and JBIG2 compression, plus new functions and many other enhancements and bug fixes.

This beta release also includes the new Quick PDF Library Developer Guide that we mentioned here yesterday.

The 7.25 beta 2 installer can be downloaded from the button below.

Release Notes

Enhancements

• Added support for CCITT images with /Indexed color space
• Improvements to EMF import font scaling
• Improved reading of CID font encoding
• Documents with malformed trailers are now handled gracefully
• Reduced memory consumption with CanvasDC functions
• Added support for CCITT images with EncodedByteAlign encoding
• Documents with malformed page tree nodes are now processed
• Improvements to accuracy of text extraction
• Image resolution can now be read from certain BMP images
• Improved text alignment with certain CFF fonts
• Added support for CCITT images with the EndOfLine flag
• New Quick PDF Library Developer Guide

New functions

• GetEmbeddedFileID
• NormalizePage
• DARemoveUsageRights
• RemoveUsageRights

Bug fixes

• ExtractPages, CopyPageRanges and ExtractPageRanges now handle inherited resources
• DrawDataMatrixSymbol now defaults to black if the fill color has not been set
• DrawDatamatrixSymbol correctly encodes double digits
• Resources are correctly freed during EMF+ output
• Corrected page indexing for DAFindPage
• Outlines are correctly appended during document merging
• Annotations now drawn independently of page transformation matrix
• Improvements to image decoding to prevent inverted images

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.

Quick PDF Library has an extensive function reference but we’ve received quite a few requests for a developer guide that provides details on how all of the functions work together. So we have written a Developer Guide for Quick PDF Library. The first public draft of the Developer Guide can be downloaded from here:

• Quick PDF Library 7 Developer Guide

We will update the Developer Guide based on your feedback — so let us know what is missing and what you think could be improved. We’re hoping to release the final version of the Developer Guide with version 7.25 (beta 2 should be out any day now).

Quick PDF Library 7.25 beta 1 has been released and is ready for testing. This new beta includes several bug fixes, enhancements and new functions. The 7.25 beta 1 installer can be downloaded from the button below.

Release Notes

New functions

• GetEmbeddedFileID

Bug fixes

• ExtractPages, CopyPageRanges and ExtractPageRanges now handle inherited resources
• DrawDataMatrixSymbol now defaults to black if the fill color has not been set
• DrawDatamatrixSymbol correctly encodes double digits
• Resources are correctly freed during EMF+ output
• Corrected page indexing for DAFindPage
• Outlines are correctly appended during document merging

Enhancements

• Added support for CCITT images with /Indexed color space
• Improvements to EMF import font scaling
• Improved reading of CID font encoding
• Documents with malformed trailers are now handled gracefully
• Reduced memory consumption with CanvasDC functions
• Added support for CCITT images with EncodedByteAlign encoding
• Documents with malformed page tree nodes are now processed

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.