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.

We’re (really) excited to announce that we have added Planet PDF, PDF Store and ARTS PDF to the family of Debenu products — which already includes Quick PDF Library, Quick PDF Tools and Benubird.

News about this can be found at Planet PDF and on the Debenu Blog.

What does this mean for Quick PDF Library?

Well it means that Quick PDF Library will be exposed to an even greater number of developers (the Planet PDF Forum is the number #1 forum for PDF users, from beginners to the guys who write the PDF specs) and will have even more resources behind it. It’s an exciting time for the library and a great time to start developing your applications using it.

P.S. Quick PDF Library 7.22 beta 3 is almost ready for release…

Quick PDF Library 7.22 beta 2 has been released and is ready for testing. This new beta includes new import files for the DLL edition, bug fixes and support for Delphi XE. The 7.22 beta 2 installer can be downloaded from the button below.

Release Notes

New functions

• SetRenderDCOffset

Bug fixes

• 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 fonts

Enhancements

• 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
• 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

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 1 has been released and is ready for testing. The 7.22 beta 1 installer can be downloaded from the button below.

Release Notes

New functions

• SetImageResolution
• SetOutlineRemoteDestination

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

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

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.

It’s survey time. A bit like hammer time, but not quite as exciting. But bare with me…

We’ve put together a survey to help us gain a better understanding of how you use Quick PDF Library and how you might use it in the future and we’d really like your feedback.

The survey has 10 multiple choice questions and should only take a few minutes to fill out. Here it is:

Quick PDF Library Survey

We look forward to your feedback. Thanks for your time in advance.

We’re in the process of sprucing up the site for Quick PDF Library and we’d like to add a few customer testimonials, so if you’re a happy Quick PDF customer and would like to send us a testimonial, please email me at rowan.hanna@debenu.com.

Thanks for your support!

More and more PDF files are landing in our inbox that use JBIG2 image compression. We were not planning on adding support for JBIG2 until later in the year, but due to popular demand, we’ve decided to support it much sooner.

So the next version, 7.22, will support JBIG2 compression. We should have a beta ready in 1-2 weeks. Most of the development for this feature has been done and now we’re just testing and optimizing.

If you have any PDF files that use JBIG2 compression please send them to me at rowan.hanna@debenu.com and I will add them to our repository of testing files.

Quick PDF Library Lite 7.21, a free PDF SDK, has been released and is now ready for download. This new release includes a new function, SetBaseURL, as well as all of the bug fixes and enhancements that were included in the full Quick PDF Library 7.21 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.

The final version of Quick PDF Library 7.21 has been released and is ready for download.  This is a big release and includes many new functions (26 to be exact!), bug fixes and enhancements. The release cycle for this version was a little longer than usual, but we think you’ll find it was worth the wait.

Free Upgrade

Version 7.19 is a minor update and therefore all existing version 7.x license owners are entitled to a free upgrade. Owners of older versions of Quick PDF Library can upgrade online here for $149.40.

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 PDF SDK. Don’t be shy, email us at support@quickpdflibrary.com and have your say.