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.

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.

Quick PDF Library 7.24 beta 1 has been released and is ready for testing. This new beta is a minor release and includes several bug fixes and enhancements. The 7.24 beta 1 installer can be downloaded from the button below.

Release Notes

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

• ActiveX edition now marked with ‘Safe for initializing’ and ‘Safe for scripting’ flags
• Support for DeviceN color space added
• DrawDataMatrixSymbol now supports rotation
• 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.

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.

Quick PDF Library Lite 7.22, our highly popular free PDF SDK, has been released and is now ready for download. This new release includes two new functions — SetTextUnderline and DrawTextBox — as well as the relevant enhancements and bug fixes from the full Quick PDF Library 7.22 release.

If there are new functions that you think would really enhance Quick PDF Library Lite, post a comment and we’ll see what we can do in the next release.

To find out more about Quick PDF Library Lite visit this link: Free PDF library.

Quick PDF Library 7.22 has been released and is ready for testing. This is the official (and final) build of 7.22 and it is jam-packed with new functions, enhancements and bug fixes. Three major highlights for this release include Delphi XE support, JBIG2 support and improved CMYK rendering.

Release Notes

New functions

• SetImageResolution
• SetOutlineRemoteDestination
• SetRenderDCOffset
• SetOverprint
• CompareOutlines
• GetOutlineObjectNumber
• NewDestination
• AddLinkToDestination
• NewNamedDestination
• GetDestName
• SetOutlineNamedDestination
• SetRenderScale
• GetRenderScale
• SetFindImagesMode

Bug fixes

• Circle co-ordinates in metafile import
• Empty fills in metafile import
• Added support for a text output operator in the renderer
• Alignment calculations for the FitImage function for different measurement units
• Corrected DADrawCapturedPage function
• NewStaticOutline function accepts a ParentID of 0
• LoadFromString correctly sets the SourceFileSize
• Improvements to retrieval of annotation properties (page number)
• Improvements to font name matching for non-embedded fonts
• Improvements to form field appearance stream generation for rotated pages/fields
• Improvements to form field appearance stream generation for fields with auto-size fields
• GetTableColumnCount returns correct result
• Adjustments to EPS output
• Corrected the operation of the DAMovePage function
• Improvements to direct access form field functions
• Protection from divide by zero exceptions in the renderer
• Correct handling of offset CropBox in the renderer
• Direct access image extraction corrected for TIFF images

Enhancements

• Support for rendering images compressed with JBIG2 encoding
• Support for reading PDFs containing malformed (19-byte) xref table entries
• Support for CFF fonts stored in OpenType format
• Support for Format2 charset tables in CFF font data
• Support for remote destination file names in GetOutlineOpenFile
• Added new DLL import for C++ with MFC (CString instead of std::string)
• Added new DLL import for Visual FoxPro
• Added new DLL import for VB.NET
• Support for Delphi XE
• FitTextBox, allow Options = 3
• Improved CMYK to RGB mapping
• Added support for bleed, trim and art box in CapturePageEx
• Added support for bleed, trim and art box in DACapturePageEx
• Improvements to GetNamedDestination
• Upgraded internal ZLib library to version 1.2.5
• Improved loading of documents with data after the %%EOF tag
• Added new DLL import for C++ with MFC (CString instead of std::string)
• Added new DLL import for Visual FoxPro
• Added new DLL import for VB.NET
• Support for Delphi XE
• Direct access image extraction now supports JPEG 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 7.22 beta 3 has been released and is ready for testing. This new beta includes numerous improvements and bug fixes, as well as 8 new functions. The 7.22 beta 3 installer can be downloaded from the button below.

Release Notes

New functions

• SetOverprint
• CompareOutlines
• GetOutlineObjectNumber
• NewDestination
• AddLinkToDestination
• NewNamedDestination
• GetDestName
• SetOutlineNamedDestination

Bug fixes

• GetTableColumnCount updated to use GetColumnCount instead of GetRowCount
• Adjustments to EPS output
• Bug fix in LZW decoding

Enhancements

• FitTextBox, allow Options = 3
• Improved CMYK to RGB mapping
• Added support for bleed, trim and art box in CapturePageEx
• Added support for bleed, trim and art box in DACapturePageEx
• Improvements to GetNamedDestination
• Upgraded internal ZLib library to version 1.2.5
• Improved loading of documents with data after the %%EOF tag

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.