May 4, 2009
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.
March 20, 2009
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.
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.
March 6, 2009
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.
February 28, 2009
We’re happy to announce that Quick PDF Library 7.12 Public Beta has been released and is now ready for download.
The 7.12 beta is the first release of the Quick PDF Library since Debenu acquired the library earlier in the year and marks the beginning of an exciting development period that will see the library updated with new features, bug fixes and general performance improvements on a regular basis.
What’s New
Major new features added to 7.12 include:
- AES 128-bit encryption
- Digital signatures
- PDF slideshow / presentations / page transitions
- Renderer support for gradients
- Import/header files for ActiveX and DLL in C++ and C#
- Implementation of simple TrueType rasterizer
- Embedded file grouping and links
- Improved image parsing
- Noticeable performance increase
- Support for Japanese fonts
- Support for the Turkish codepage (1254)
Special Offer for New Customers
New customers who purchase the Quick PDF Library during the Beta period, before the official 7.12 version has been released, can use this coupon code, QPLBETA, to receive a 20% discount.
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.
Note: an upgrade license key will automatically be provided after you have successfully purchased. This upgrade license key will need to be combined with your original license key in order to work in the new version successfully.
Download the Beta
The Beta for Quick PDF Library can be downloaded from this button. The download size is 3.15 MB and the download includes the ActiveX, DLL and Delphi versions, as well as the function references for each of this versions.
Feedback, bugs, feature requests
As always, we want to hear feedback from you about the library. 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.
February 13, 2009
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.
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.
