Debenu Quick PDF Library 8.16 beta 2 has been released and is ready for downloading and testing. Version 8.16 beta 2 includes new functions, bug fixes and enhancements. The 8.16 beta 2 installer can be downloaded from the button below.

Release Notes

New functions

• GetOptionalContentConfigLocked
• SetOptionalContentConfigLocked
• AddSWFAnnotationFromFile
• SetAnnotIntProperty
• NewTilingPatternFromCapturedPage
• SetFillTilingPattern
• GetXFAToString
• SetXFAFromString
• GetFormFieldObjectNumber
• SetTextExtractionScaling
• DASetTextExtractionScaling

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
• Symbol fonts added with AddTrueTypeFont now correctly mapped
• Metafile import with symbol fonts now correctly mapped
• Improved alignment of TA_BOTTOM and TA_TOP text in metafile import
• Non-embedded fonts with Adobe-Japan1 ordering are now rendered
• Further improvements to page extraction
• Correct font widths now returned for subsetted fonts
• SetImageMask improved to work with different image formats
• Prevention of memory leak fixed in GetFormFieldActionID when accessing sub-fields
• Prevention of memory leak in GetPageText, ExtractFilePageText and DAExtractPageText with mode 7
• NewRGBAxialShader now returns 1 to indicate success as per the documentation

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
• Documents with non-embedded fonts using GBK-EUC-H encoding now rendered correctly/li>
• Documents with non-embedded fonts using UniGB-UCS2-H encoding now rendered correctly/li>
• Documents with non-embedded fonts using UniCNS-UCS2-H encoding now rendered correctly/li>
• Improved text size reported during text extraction of Type3 fonts/li>
• Improved the accuracy of the font bounding box reported during text extraction/li>
• Improved the accuracy of ascent/descent values read from certain fonts/li>
• Implemented support for XFA template data with namespace versions from 2.1 up to 3.3/li>
• Generated form field appearance stream borders now more closely match Acrobat/li>

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

A few days ago Embarcadero released Delphi XE2 Update 4 and due to some changes to signatures for certain functions some Quick PDF Library DCU files are unable to be compiled. We have put in a place a hot fix for this issue while we wait on further information from Embarcadero.

Customers using Delphi XE2 update 3 or earlier can continue using the DCUs provided with the main version of Quick PDF Library, available from the updates page. Customers using Delphi XE2 update 4 will need to use these special DCUs:

• QuickPDF0814DelphiXE2U4Win32.zip — Quick PDF Library 8.14 Beta for Delphi XE2 Update 4, 32-bit
• QuickPDF0814DelphiXE2U4Win64.zip — Quick PDF Library 8.14 Beta for Delphi XE2 Update 4, 64-bit

This hot fix is only available for version 8.14 beta of Quick PDF Library. We will not be providing this hot fix for version 8.13.

Depending on whether this is an accidental or intentional change by Embarcadero we’ll make changes to the installer to accommodate all Delphi XE2 updates with the release of 8.14 in a few weeks.

Quick PDF Library 8.14 beta 4 has been released and is ready for download and testing. Version 8.14 beta 4 includes new functions, bug fixes and enhancements. The 8.14 beta 4 installer can be downloaded from the button below.

Release Notes

New functions

• GetViewPortBBox
• SetOptionalContentConfigState
• SetCapturedPageTransparencyGroup
• SetTableThinBorders
• SetTableThinBordersCMYK
• RemoveFormFieldBorderColor
• SetTextUnderlineCustomDash
• SetTextUnderlineWidth
• SetTextUnderlineDistance
• DrawRotatedBox
• DrawRotatedMultiLineText
• GetPrinterMediaTypes

Bug fixes

• Corrected page height related issues with direct access text extraction
• Shading patterns are removed from the page correctly with SplitPageText
• Corrected Index parameter offsets in geospatial PDF functions
• Corrected handling of symbolic TrueType fonts
• Improved metafile import (non-breaking spaces and rotated text)
• Added range checks to Type1 charstring lookup
• NewNamedDestination now updates multilevel name trees correctly
• Intermediate form field nodes updated correctly when child nodes are flattened or deleted
• Added preliminary support for CalGray colorspace
• Fixed word spacing bug during rendering in 64-bit mode
• ToUnicode cmaps for TrueType subsetted fonts are now correctly split into ranges
• Dash patterns and zero length lines improved to match Acrobat
• Form field borders are suppressed when there is no border color entry
• Multiple HTML text wrapping bug fixed
• Fixed bug when extracting text from a page after rendering it
• Imported metafiles containing patterns now result in properly formatted pattern objects

Enhancements

• GetDefaultPrinterName function returns correct result even after printing to a different printer
• DPI of certain images extracted using direct access function are now set
• DPI of certain images generated by the renderer are now set
• Files with a datetime earlier than the year 1900 can now be opened
• Added support for incorrect AcroForm spelling (Acroform)
• Added G4 TIFF output to the renderer (not supported in Windows XP and earlier)
• HTML5 renderer output added to documentation and enabled in all rendering functions
• QPL base class now internally calls CoInitialize and CoUninitialize in a safe way
• Better support for single pixel masked images
• Improvements to line styles in metafile import
• Improvements to text extraction word splitting
• Added support for importing 8-bit paletted TIFF images
• Added support for importing TIFF images with SamplesPerPixel greater than 4
• Improvements to text alignment in the metafile import
• Improved text extraction from PDFs without explicit space characters
• Added support for UTF-16LE strings in PDF text string objects
• Improvements to widths array for TrueType subsetted fonts
• Added support for flate compressed TIFF images
• Added support for multipage TIFF image loading via GDI+
• Improvements to table border lines in EMF import
• Simple transparency groups rendered with Cairo
• Better handling of TIFF images with missing BitsPerSample/RowsPerStrip tags

Upgrading To Version 8

Quick PDF Library 8.14 beta 2 has been released and is ready for download and testing. Version 8.14 beta 2 includes new functions and bug fixes. The 8.14 beta 2 installer can be downloaded from the button below.

Release Notes

New functions

• GetViewPortBBox
• SetOptionalContentConfigState

Bug fixes

• Corrected page height related issues with direct access text extraction
• Shading patterns are removed from the page correctly with SplitPageText
• Corrected Index parameter offsets in geospatial PDF functions
• Corrected handling of symbolic TrueType fonts
• Improved metafile import (non-breaking spaces and rotated text)
• Added range checks to Type1 charstring lookup
• NewNamedDestination now updates multilevel name trees correctly

Enhancements

• GetDefaultPrinterName function returns correct result even after printing to a different printer
• DPI of certain images extracted using direct access function are now set
• DPI of certain images generated by the renderer are now set
• Files with a datetime earlier than the year 1900 can now be opened
• Added support for incorrect AcroForm spelling (Acroform)
• Added G4 TIFF output to the renderer (not supported in Windows XP and earlier)
• HTML5 renderer output added to documentation and enabled in all rendering functions
• QPL base class now internally calls CoInitialize and CoUninitialize in a safe way

Upgrading To Version 8

Quick PDF Library 8.14 beta 1 has been released and is ready for download and testing. Version 8.14 beta 1 includes new functions and bug fixes. The 8.14 beta 1 installer can be downloaded from the button below.

Release Notes

New functions

• GetViewPortBBox

Bug fixes

• Corrected page height related issues with direct access text extraction
• Shading patterns are removed from the page correctly with SplitPageText
• Corrected Index parameter offsets in geospatial PDF functions

Enhancements

• GetDefaultPrinterName function returns correct result even after printing to a different printer
• DPI of certain images extracted using direct access function are now set
• DPI of certain images generated by the renderer are now set
• Files with a datetime earlier than the year 1900 can now be opened
• Added support for incorrect AcroForm spelling (Acroform)
• Added G4 TIFF output to the renderer

Upgrading To Version 8

Quick PDF Library 8.13 beta 2 has been released and is ready for download and testing. Version 8.13 beta 2 includes new functions and bug fixes. The 8.13 beta 2 installer can be downloaded from the button below.

Release Notes

New functions

• GetLatestPrinterNames
• GetPageImageList
• GetImageListCount
• GetImageListItemIntProperty
• GetImageListItemDblProperty
• GetImageListItemDataToString
• GetImageListItemDataToVariant
• SaveImageListItemDataToFile
• DASetTextExtractionWordGap
• DASetTextExtractionOptions
• DASetTextExtractionArea

Bug fixes

• SecurityInfo function now returns correct values for owner and user password
• PrintDocument, GetPrinterBins and GetPrinterDevModeToString fixed in Delphi 4-2005 and LIB edition
• Fixed rendering issues with certain fonts containing a FontMatrixScaling value
• Fixed issue with DrawHTMLTextBox stack unwinding
• Fixed error in IsAnnotFormField if the document doesn’t have any form fields
• Added support for cross reference streams containing a /W entry greater than 4
• Fixed rendering of inverted CMYK JPEG images in 64-bit builds
• Fixed VB.NET Import definitions
• Corrected handling of Type1 fonts with non-sequential /Subrs ordering
• Added code to support CIDToGID maps that are too short
• SetTextExtractionArea function corrected
• Right aligned comb fields are now drawn correctly
• Trailing slash bug fix for embedding file streams
• AddTrueTypeFontFromFile function now returns a valid FontID
• Correct handling of BoldItalic fonts in metafile import

Enhancements

• Improved text extraction speed when PDF contains bitmaps
• Improved text extraction accuracy
• Comb fields are now drawn with vertical lines

Upgrading To Version 8

Quick PDF Library 8.13 beta 1 has been released and is ready for download and testing. Version 8.13 beta 1 includes new functions and bug fixes. The 8.13 beta 1 installer can be downloaded from the button below.

Release Notes

New functions

• GetLatestPrinterNames
• GetPageImageList
• GetImageListCount
• GetImageListItemIntProperty
• GetImageListItemDblProperty
• GetImageListItemDataToString
• GetImageListItemDataToVariant
• SaveImageListItemDataToFile

Bug fixes

• SecurityInfo function now returns correct values for owner and user password
• PrintDocument, GetPrinterBins and GetPrinterDevModeToString fixed in Delphi 7 and LIB edition
• Fixed rendering issues with FontMatrixScaling
• Finally fixed DrawHTMLTextBox
• Fix A/V error in IsAnnotFormField
• Fixed bug in DAOpenFile with Compressed Content Streams
• Improved text extraction speed when PDF contains bitmaps
• Rendering of images CYMK images in 64-bit version
• Fixed VB.NET Import definitions

Upgrading To Version 8

The final version of Quick PDF Library 8.12 has been released and is ready for download from our updates page. This version includes 64-bit compatibility for the Delphi, ActiveX and DLL editions of our PDF SDK, as well as Delphi XE2 support and much more. Visit the product updates page to download this new version and see a full list of the changes.

Download 8.12 from our Product Updates page

Highlights

• 64-bit compatibility for the ActiveX, DLL and Delphi editions of Quick PDF Library
• Delphi XE2 support
• Embed OpenType fonts
• Updated import files for Visual FoxPro and PowerBASIC
• 30+ bug fixes and enhancements, plus 5 new functions

Special note: you may notice that the installer size for Quick PDF Library 8.12 at 25.2 MB is larger than previous versions. The increase in the installer size is due to the addition of the files required for 64-bit support. For example, for the ActiveX edition, while previously there was just a 2.32 MB DLL called QuickPDFAX0812.dll now there is an additional DLL called QuickPDF64AX0812.dll. Luckily you don’t need to distribute the full 25.2 MB with your applications, you just take out the individual files that you need and distribute those with your applications.

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.