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:

• Upgrade To Quick PDF Library 8

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.

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

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:

• Upgrade To Quick PDF Library 8

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.

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

A few days ago Embarcadero released Delphi XE2 Update 4 and due to some changes to signatures for certain functions some Quick PDF Library DCU files are unable to be compiled. We have put in a place a hot fix for this issue while we wait on further information from Embarcadero.

Customers using Delphi XE2 update 3 or earlier can continue using the DCUs provided with the main version of Quick PDF Library, available from the updates page. Customers using Delphi XE2 update 4 will need to use these special DCUs:

• QuickPDF0814DelphiXE2U4Win32.zip — Quick PDF Library 8.14 Beta for Delphi XE2 Update 4, 32-bit
• QuickPDF0814DelphiXE2U4Win64.zip — Quick PDF Library 8.14 Beta for Delphi XE2 Update 4, 64-bit

This hot fix is only available for version 8.14 beta of Quick PDF Library. We will not be providing this hot fix for version 8.13.

Depending on whether this is an accidental or intentional change by Embarcadero we’ll make changes to the installer to accommodate all Delphi XE2 updates with the release of 8.14 in a few weeks.

Quick PDF Library 8.14 beta 5 has been released and is ready for download and testing. Version 8.14 beta 5 includes new functions, bug fixes and enhancements. The 8.14 beta 5 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

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

Upgrading To Version 8

Quick PDF Library 8.14 beta 4 has been released and is ready for download and testing. Version 8.14 beta 4 includes new functions, bug fixes and enhancements. The 8.14 beta 4 installer can be downloaded from the button below.

Release Notes

New functions

• GetViewPortBBox
• SetOptionalContentConfigState
• SetCapturedPageTransparencyGroup
• SetTableThinBorders
• SetTableThinBordersCMYK
• RemoveFormFieldBorderColor
• SetTextUnderlineCustomDash
• SetTextUnderlineWidth
• SetTextUnderlineDistance
• DrawRotatedBox
• DrawRotatedMultiLineText
• GetPrinterMediaTypes

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

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

Upgrading To Version 8

The final version of Quick PDF Library 8.13 has been released and is ready for download from our updates page. This version includes numerous enhancements to the library including improved text extraction accuracy, rendering, security handling and 64-bit support. Visit the product updates page to download this new version and see a full list of the changes.

Download 8.13 from our Product Updates page

Highlights

• Improved text extraction accuracy
• Fixed rendering of inverted CMYK JPEG images in 64-bit builds
• DPI information is stored in TIFF output from the renderer
• PrintDocument, GetPrinterBins and GetPrinterDevModeToString fixed in Delphi 4-2005 and LIB edition
• And much more…

Upgrading To Version 8

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

• Upgrade To Quick PDF Library 8

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.

Quick PDF Library 8.13 beta 2 has been released and is ready for download and testing. Version 8.13 beta 2 includes new functions and bug fixes. The 8.13 beta 2 installer can be downloaded from the button below.

Release Notes

New functions

• GetLatestPrinterNames
• GetPageImageList
• GetImageListCount
• GetImageListItemIntProperty
• GetImageListItemDblProperty
• GetImageListItemDataToString
• GetImageListItemDataToVariant
• SaveImageListItemDataToFile
• DASetTextExtractionWordGap
• DASetTextExtractionOptions
• DASetTextExtractionArea

Bug fixes

• SecurityInfo function now returns correct values for owner and user password
• PrintDocument, GetPrinterBins and GetPrinterDevModeToString fixed in Delphi 4-2005 and LIB edition
• Fixed rendering issues with certain fonts containing a FontMatrixScaling value
• Fixed issue with DrawHTMLTextBox stack unwinding
• Fixed error in IsAnnotFormField if the document doesn’t have any form fields
• Added support for cross reference streams containing a /W entry greater than 4
• Fixed rendering of inverted CMYK JPEG images in 64-bit builds
• Fixed VB.NET Import definitions
• Corrected handling of Type1 fonts with non-sequential /Subrs ordering
• Added code to support CIDToGID maps that are too short
• SetTextExtractionArea function corrected
• Right aligned comb fields are now drawn correctly
• Trailing slash bug fix for embedding file streams
• AddTrueTypeFontFromFile function now returns a valid FontID
• Correct handling of BoldItalic fonts in metafile import

Enhancements

• Improved text extraction speed when PDF contains bitmaps
• Improved text extraction accuracy
• Comb fields are now drawn with vertical lines

Upgrading To Version 8

Quick PDF Library 8.13 beta 1 has been released and is ready for download and testing. Version 8.13 beta 1 includes new functions and bug fixes. The 8.13 beta 1 installer can be downloaded from the button below.

Release Notes

New functions

• GetLatestPrinterNames
• GetPageImageList
• GetImageListCount
• GetImageListItemIntProperty
• GetImageListItemDblProperty
• GetImageListItemDataToString
• GetImageListItemDataToVariant
• SaveImageListItemDataToFile

Bug fixes

• SecurityInfo function now returns correct values for owner and user password
• PrintDocument, GetPrinterBins and GetPrinterDevModeToString fixed in Delphi 7 and LIB edition
• Fixed rendering issues with FontMatrixScaling
• Finally fixed DrawHTMLTextBox
• Fix A/V error in IsAnnotFormField
• Fixed bug in DAOpenFile with Compressed Content Streams
• Improved text extraction speed when PDF contains bitmaps
• Rendering of images CYMK images in 64-bit version
• Fixed VB.NET Import definitions

Upgrading To Version 8