Quick PDF Library 7.21 beta 4 has been released and is ready for testing. The 7.21 beta 4 installer can be downloaded from the button below.

Release Notes

This is in addition to the new features, bug fixes and enhancements from beta 1, beta 2 and beta 3. This will be the final beta for 7.21 and the final release version will be made public in a few days.

• Inherited page properties are correctly handled during document merging
• DeleteAnnotation returns correct result even if there is only a
• single annotation
• Correct font metrics added when using NewTrueTypeFont for all editions of QPL
• FindFonts now only finds fonts that are not already in the
• document’s font list
• Improved handling of predictor codes in images compressed with the
• Flate filter
• Corrected the handling of font flags for non-embedded TrueType font

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’ve just added two new tutorials for using C# and Delphi with Quick PDF Library. The tutorials cover the basics of using Quick PDF Library in these programming environments and include a simple demonstration of the SDKs functionality.

1. Delphi and Quick PDF Library
2. C# and Quick PDF Library

There are also tutorials available for VB6 and VBScript.

If you would like to see beginner tutorials added for any other programming languages, please leave a comment and we’ll add it.

Quick PDF Library 7.21 beta 3 has been released and is ready for testing. The 7.21 beta 3 installer can be downloaded from the button below.

Release Notes

This is in addition to the new features, bug fixes and enhancements from beta 1 and beta 2.

Bug fixes

• Handling of out of range values in font CMaps
• Handling of out of range value returned by the Win32 API GetFontData function
• Rendering fill color for Type3 fonts
• Handling of empty streams in the QPL painter
• Corrected the rebuilding of the object index during merging
• Improvements to the LoadFromFile/SaveToFile optimizations added in 7.21 Beta 2
• Improvements to the parsing and handling of PDF array objects
• Improvements to the handling of indirect objects in inherited page properties during merging

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 7.21 beta 2 has been released and is ready for testing. The 7.21 beta 2 installer can be downloaded from the button below.

Release Notes

This is in addition to the new features, bug fixes and enhancements from beta 1.

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 7.21 beta 1 has been released and is ready for testing. This beta includes 13 new functions, performance improvements and bug fixes.

The 7.21 beta 1 installer can be downloaded from the button below.

Release Notes

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 tip: a useful tool for analyzing TIFF images is tiffinfo.exe. It’s part of the LibTIFF library and the Windows binaries for the tool are available from the GnuWin32 project. Once installed you can access the tiffinfo.exe command line tool from it’s default installation location:

C:\Program Files\GnuWin32\bin\tiffinfo.exe

And then use something like the below to run a test against one of your TIFF images.

tiffinfo -D “C:\Temp\example.tif”

The tool will attempt to read the data from the TIFF image and will report the image width, resolution, compression and so on, as well as any errors. The example below shows that the tiffinfo.exe tool picked up a problem with the TIFF image that was causing subsequent problems (after the image had been added to a PDF) in Adobe Reader 9:

Does anyone else have any useful tools for analyzing TIFF images or other image types?

Quick PDF Library 7.19 has been released and is now ready for download from the updates page. The new version contains a number of significant performance improvements, new functions and much more.

The Quick PDF Library Demo has also been updated to work with version 7.19.

New Features and Improvements

• Improved object parsing speed and handling of malformed data
• DAAppendFile, DASaveAsFile and DASaveToStream functions now set the document’s modification date
• Added usage rights functionality to the AnalyseFile function
• New! RemoveEmbeddedFile function
• Added EMF+ output to the renderer
• New! AddLinkToLocalFile function
• Added support for image ICC profiles to the renderer
• New! RequestPrinterStatus function
• Bug fix for return value of DrawTableRows function
• New! SetCompatibility function
• Improvements to /ICCBased color spaces in the renderer
• Improvements to handling of buffer overruns in ASCII85 encoded data
• Added support for miter limit to the renderer
• Bug fix in decompressing flate data with a /Predictor value of 1
• Bug fix in TrueType parser with composite characters (alignment of diacritical marks)
• Optimizations to font handling in renderer and text extraction
• Improved handling of Type3 fonts
• Added support for handling of MMType1 fonts Optimizations to clipping paths in the renderer
• Speed optimizations in the renderer with improved stack system
• Improvements to the rendering of annotations with referenced resources
• Improved speed of loading objects from source PDF documents
• Improved speed of Type1 CFF conts Improvements to GetPageMode function
• New! RemoveGlobalJavaScript function
• New! SetEmbeddedFileStrProperty function
• Improved parsing of empty array and dictionary objects
• Improvements to accuracy of DrawTableRows
• Added support for arrays to CMap parsing
• Bug fix for rendering of large CCITT encoded images
• Optimized adding of certain PNG images to PDF documents
• Improved merging of documents with form fields
• New! GetImagePageCountFromString function
• Improvements to font substitution matching system in the renderer
• Bug fix handling certain inline images
• Improvements to adding EMF images to PDF documents
• DASaveAsFile function maintains the original PDF version settings
• Bug fix for underlines and highlights in center and right aligned text

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.

Discuss The New Version

We’re proud of the community that has formed around Quick PDF Library, so we’d like to encourage new users to join in the fun and discuss the latest version of Quick PDF Library over at QuickPDF.org.

Quick PDF Library Lite 7.19, your favorite free PDF Library, has been released and is now ready for download. This is a relatively minor release but includes several important performance improvements relating to image handling and a couple of new functions (NewPage and SetOrigin) to make working with the library easier.

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

Quick PDF Library 7.19 beta 8 has been released and is ready for testing. This beta version contains a number of significant performance improvements, new functions and much more.

The 7.19 beta 8 installer can be downloaded from the button below.

Release Notes

• Improved object parsing speed and handling of malformed data
• DAAppendFile, DASaveAsFile and DASaveToStream functions now set the document’s modification date
• Added usage rights functionality to the AnalyseFile function
• New! RemoveEmbeddedFile function
• Added EMF+ output to the renderer
• New! AddLinkToLocalFile function
• Added support for image ICC profiles to the renderer
• New! RequestPrinterStatus function
• Bug fix for return value of DrawTableRows function
• New! SetCompatibility function
• Improvements to /ICCBased color spaces in the renderer
• Improvements to handling of buffer overruns in ASCII85 encoded data
• Added support for miter limit to the renderer
• Bug fix in decompressing flate data with a /Predictor value of 1
• Bug fix in TrueType parser with composite characters (alignment of diacritical marks)
• Optimizations to font handling in renderer and text extraction
• Improved handling of Type3 fonts
• Added support for handling of MMType1 fonts Optimizations to clipping paths in the renderer
• Speed optimizations in the renderer with improved stack system
• Improvements to the rendering of annotations with referenced resources
• Improved speed of loading objects from source PDF documents
• Improved speed of Type1 CFF conts Improvements to GetPageMode function
• New! RemoveGlobalJavaScript function
• New! SetEmbeddedFileStrProperty function
• Improved parsing of empty array and dictionary objects
• Improvements to accuracy of DrawTableRows
• Added support for arrays to CMap parsing
• Bug fix for rendering of large CCITT encoded images
• Optimized adding of certain PNG images to PDF documents
• Improved merging of documents with form fields
• New! GetImagePageCountFromString function
• Improvements to font substitution matching system in the renderer
• Bug fix handling certain inline images
• Improvements to adding EMF images to PDF documents
• DASaveAsFile function maintains the original PDF version settings
• Bug fix for underlines and highlights in center and right aligned text

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 excited to announce the release of Quick PDF Library Lite.

Quick PDF Library Lite offers a subset of the functionality found in Quick PDF Library — a powerful royalty-free PDF developer SDK used by thousands of developers for working with PDFs on all levels — for free!

That’s right. Add functionality to your applications — such as the ability to convert images to PDF, add links to the web, get and set document properties, rotate pages, analyze document security and add images and text to documents — to your applications for free.

Quick PDF Library Lite is available as an ActiveX component and works with C, C++, C#, Delphi, PHP, Visual Basic, VB.NET, ASP, PowerBASIC, Pascal or any other language that supports ActiveX.

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