Over the past few months you may have noticed some Debenu Quick PDF Library links pointing to www.debenu.com. That is because in April we launched a new website for Debenu. You can read about it here and see a screenshot of the homepage below.

For a number of years we’ve run multiple websites, each with different products, but all owned by Debenu. We have now decided to take a different path and combine all of our sites into one Debenu site, as well as consolidate the different branding used for different products.

We’re going to slowly move Quick PDF Library over to the Debenu website as well. As you may have seen, the transition has already started to take place in some areas. Over the next 6 months we’ll continue to move the content over to the new site with the goal of completing the move of Quick PDF Library on the Debenu website by the start of 2013.

Nothing about the Quick PDF Library product itself is changing, just the website that it calls home.  At some stage we’ll redirect the www.quickpdflibrary.com homepage to www.debenu.com, but not until the end of the year, once every has gotten used to the change.

Oh, and if you have any questions about the new site, please let us know by leaving a comment on this page.

Debenu Quick PDF Library 8.16 beta 1 has been released and is ready for downloading and testing. Version 8.16 beta 1 includes new functions, bug fixes and enhancements. The 8.16 beta 1 installer can be downloaded from the button below.

Release Notes

New functions

• GetOptionalContentConfigLocked
• SetOptionalContentConfigLocked
• AddSWFAnnotationFromFile
• SetAnnotIntProperty
• NewTilingPatternFromCapturedPage
• SetFillTilingPattern

Bug fixes

• Encryption keys for EncryptFile with 128-bit RC4 or 128-bit AES corrected
• AES padding checks
• Correctly generate appearance streams for fields using simple TrueType fonts
• Disabled decryption of metadata streams when necessary and all XRef streams
• GetAnalysisInfo now correctly returns 13 for documents encrypted with AES-256
• Corrected widths of fonts with a /Differences array
• Corrected character widths returned for different font types
• MergeDocument correctly merges /AcroForm resource dictionaries
• FontMatrixScaling taken into account for word and character spacing
• CopyPagesFromDoc correctly handles form fields in source and target documents
• AttachAnnotToForm returns 1 on success
• Added code to prevent memory access violation when processing CMaps
• Check for valid annotations array when enumerating annotation properties
• The annotation property cache is reset after a call to SetAnnotStrProperty
• Fixed bug processing separation color spaces introduced in 8.15
• TrueType fonts with more entries in the “post” table than numGlyphs now correctly handled
• Annotations with zero width/height are not rendered to prevent a divide by zero
• Added range checking to CIDToGIDMap lookups

Enhancements

• Support for JPEG2000 (JPXDecode) images on Win64
• Support for malformed PDFs with missing /Type /Pages entry
• Generated form field appearances now default to a 2pt border to match Acrobat
• Rendering to JPEG sets the image DPI
• Support for text extraction with fonts without ascent and descent metrics
• Support for documents with deleted /AcroForm objects
• Documents with non-embedded fonts using 90ms-RKSJ-H encoding now rendered correctly
• SetAnnotStrProperty can now set the subject, name and title properties
• Updated documentation for SetAnnotStrProperty to show tag 110 (author property)
• Documents containing TrueType fonts with invalid indexToLocFormat values now supported
• Added support for tiling patterns

Upgrading To Version 8

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 2 has been released and is ready for download and testing. Version 8.15 beta 2 includes new functions, bug fixes and enhancements. The 8.15 beta 2 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
• Eliminated memory leak in code that processes shading patterns
• Memory leak in 64-bit builds fixed using XE2 U4 compiler
• Internal fix for string list adding when the list starts with 0x10
• Fix for character widths when SetOrigin(2) and SetOrigin(3) are used
• Color channel order fix for CMYK JPEG import in 64-bit builds
• Fix for certain encrypted documents loaded into the standalone functions
• Added code to correctly handle negative font sizes in content streams

Enhancements

• Added support for metafile import when font names end with style names like “Bold” or “Italic
• Documents encrypted with 40-bit RC4 using revision 3 are now supported
• Improvements to existing DLL import headers and addition of a C import header
• GIF images with local color tables now supported
• Image extraction of TIFF images maintains image data in original format

Upgrading To Version 8

ARTS PDF Workshop, a Microsoft Excel add-on that lets you retrieve, manipulate, and print PDF information quickly and easily, has been upgraded to use Quick PDF Library as its core PDF engine. In addition the add-on is now also 100% free.

ARTS PDF is a sister business division of Quick PDF, which are both owned by Debenu.

ARTS PDF Workshop lets you view and update the properties of batches of PDF documents, including document info (title, author, subject and keywords), as well as document open options and security. It is a great tool for batch updating multiple PDF files at once.

The Excel add-on can be downloaded from the ARTS PDF Workshop page on www.artspdf.com.

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