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 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.

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 7.13 is now available for download and purchase.

The new version primarily includes bug fixes and performance improvements that were reported on the QuickPDF.org forum over the past few years — as well as a number of new functions and official support for Delphi 2009.

What’s New

• Delphi 2009 support
• New functionality for GetAnnotStrProperty and GetAnnotIntProperty to handle GoToR and Launch annotations and speed improvements
• New EmbeddedFileCount function
• New GetEmbeddedFileStrProperty function
• New GetEmbeddedFileIntProperty function
• New GetEmbeddedFileContentToFile function
• New GetEmbeddedFileContentToString function
• New GetEmbeddedFileContentToStream function
• Improvements to internal outline navigation
• New GetNamedDestination function
• Internal support for name objects directly following the obj keyword
• Bug fix and improvements to encryption fingerprint functions
• Option to load images using GDI+ instead of internal image handling functions
• Support for type 3 functions
• Improvements to image decoding
• Support for inverted JPEG palettes
• Faster page location when page tree is a single array
• Support for loading 8-bit alpha mask from PNG images
• Better rendering of encrypted documents
• Support for alternate ICC based color space in renderer
• Support for W=4 in cross reference stream
• Speed improvements to object decoding
• Bug fix for text extraction with option 4 to return single words

Coming soon: 64-bit support

Behind the scenes we’ve been working on a solution for using Quick PDF Library in a 64-bit environment. We’re excited to say — and we know you will be too, since we’ve been receiving an increasing number of requests for such a solution. If you’re interested in doing some testing with this new version, email us at support@quickpdflibrary.com and we’ll happily send it to you.

UPDATE: There is now a 64-bit compatible version of Quick PDF Library available as part of version 8. Read more here. Native 64-bit support is provided for the DLL, ActiveX and Delphi editions.

Upgrades

The upgrade to 7.13 is free for owners of a 7.x license. Owners of older licenses can purchase an upgrade to the new version for US$89.40.

Quick PDF Library Newsletter

If you want to keep up-to-date with all things related to Quick PDF Library, we suggest that you subscribe to our weekly Quick PDF Library Newsletter. In each weeks newsletter we try to keep our users informed about the libraries progress, as well as provide various PDF tips and tricks that can help everyone get the most out of the library.

Feedback!

As always, we’d like to hear from you. Feedback, good and bad, is always appreciated. So let us know what you think about Quick PDF Library.

After three months of round-the-clock development, we’re excited to announce that Quick PDF Library 7.12 has been released and is now available for download and purchase through our website.

During the development period for the 7.12 release we worked closely with our customer base to ensure that the new version of the PDF SDK would fully meet everyones expectations — and we’re happy to say, that based on feedback from a large number of users, version 7.12 has reached that point.

It’s ready for action.

What’s New

• Specifically targeted for ASP, C++, C#, Delphi, PowerBASIC, PowerBuilder and Visual Basic
• Save-to-stream and Load-from-stream support for web serving
• Advanced PDF rasterizer with RenderPageToDC and gradient support
• Advanced PDF page combining, cloning, extraction, imposition and merging technology
• Advanced PDF encryption, decryption (including 128-bit encryption) and digital signatures
• TrueType font support (including font embedding)
• Support for Japanese fonts and Turkish codepage (1254)
• Comprehensive form field and JavaScript support
• Built-in PDF barcode support
• Advanced drawing, including circles and arcs
• Rotated text, multi-line paragraph text, word-wrapped paragraph text
• Outline and hypertext functions
• Embedded image, file grouping and links
• Blazing performance increase and much more….

Upgrade Offer for Existing Customers

Existing customers are eligible for a 40% discount when purchasing the new version and can do so from this link.

Feedback, bugs, feature requests

As always, we want to hear your feedback, answer your questions, fix the bugs you report and find out what features you want added to the next version of our PDF library.

• General feedback
• Sales support
• Technical support
• Report a bug
• Request a new feature

What’s Next

The work doesn’t stop with the release of 7.12. That’s right, we’ve already begun working on version 7.13 and plan to release the first public beta for the next version in a few weeks time.

Stay tuned, there are more exciting Quick PDF Library announcements just around the corner.

We’re happy to announce that the second beta for Quick PDF Library 7.12 has been released and is now available for download. The new beta includes three new functions and a variety of bug fixes and performance improvements.

What’s New

• New AddU3DAnnotationFromFile function
• New RenderPageToDC function
• New DARenderPageToDC function
• Fixed MD5 hash length
• Combined reference guide for ActiveX, DLL and Delphi versions
• Corrected TIFF in JPEG resolution divide by zero
• Improved EMF/WMF import

Download Beta 2

The Beta for Quick PDF Library can be downloaded from this button. The download size is 2.9 MB and the download includes the ActiveX, DLL and Delphi versions, as well as the function references for each of this versions.

Thanks for your feedback

Finally, thanks to everyone who has been in touch over the past few weeks. We really appreciate your feedback and your desire to see the library do well. We, like you, want to see Quick PDF Library turned into one of the best PDF SDK’s out there — but this won’t be possible without an active user community, which is why in a few days, we’ll be announcing some exciting news.

• General feedback
• Sales support
• Technical support
• Report a bug
• Request a new feature

First up, a big thank you to all of the existing Quick PDF Library (formerly known as iSEDQuickPDF and QuickPDF) users who have taken the time to contact us since we announced the acquisition of the iSEDQuickPDF library earlier this month. Your positive feedback and excitement about our acquisition of the library is very much appreciated.

While we continue to work hard behind-the-scenes to prepare the next version of the Quick PDF Library for release — by the way, we’re making great progress, you will be impressed — we want to continue gathering as much information from our users as possible about their thoughts on the state of the current library and what sort of features and improvements they would like to see introduced in the future.

We already think that Quick PDF Library is an excellent and powerful PDF SDK — not to mention extremely cost-effective — but we want to make it even better. We want it to be the number one PDF SDK for developers.

With this in mind, if you have any thoughts about the library that you would like to share with us; or if you have discovered a bug that you would like to report; or if you have a feature suggestion — we’d like to hear from you.

• Feature requests
• Technical support
• Report a bug

We look forward to working with you to make Quick PDF Library number one.

P.S. If you purchase version 5.11 of the Quick PDF Library now (only $149), then you will be entitled to a free upgrade when the next version is released — with lots of new features and improvements.