Quick PDF Library 7.24 beta 2 has been released and is ready for testing. This new beta includes several bug fixes, enhancements and new functions. The 7.24 beta 2 installer can be downloaded from the button below.

Release Notes

New functions

• GetFormFieldNoExport
• GetFormFieldRequired
• SetFormFieldNoExport
• SetFormFieldRequired

Bug fixes

• Bug fix for handling of choice form fields
• Bug fix for processing of Separation color space
• Bug fix for duplicate rendering of image

Enhancements

• Range check improvements to Type1 decoding
• Support for GS1-128 (EAN-128) barcodes
• DataMatrix 2D barcodes can be rotated
• ActiveX edition now marked with ‘Safe for initializing’ and ‘Safe for scripting’ flags
• Support for DeviceN color spaces
• Minor documentation updates

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 7.19 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 7.17 has been released and is now ready for download from the updates page. The new version contains a number of significant improvements to unicode support, text extraction, EMF support and much more.

New Features and Improvements

• New GetDocumentFileName function
• Encrypted documents are no longer auto-decrypted in some circumstances (same behaviour as 7.15 and earlier)
• MergeStreams, MergeFiles and MergeFileList functions now merge bookmarks
• FlattenFormField function now works even if the form field does not have a /P (page) entry
• New tags to retrieve the following annotation properties:
  
  Subject (/Subj)
  In reply to (/IRT)
  Unicode filename (/UF)
  Page number of GoTo link

• PDFs with certain malformed stream objects can now be loaded (e.g. Microsoft Reporting Services PDFs)
• Improved text extraction using mode 0
• Improved accuracy and speed for PNG predictors in flate compressed images
• The following code pages are now supported in the AddTrueTypeFont function:
  
  874 THAI_CHARSET
  932 SHIFTJIS_CHARSET
  936 GB2312_CHARSET
  949 HANGEUL_CHARSET
  950 CHINESEBIG5_CHARSET
  1256 ARABIC_CHARSET
  1361 JOHAB_CHARSET

• Improved EMF import functionality
• Improved masked image processing speed
• Added support for malformed stream images with LF starting character
• Added support for optional content groups in the renderer
• XFA form field support now uses “MSXML2.DOMDocument” instead of “MSXML2.DOMDocument.4.0”
• The following functions have been Unicode enabled:
  
  DAGetInformation
  DASetInformation
  SetCustomInformation
  GetCustomInformation
  SetInformationGetInformation
  GetCatalogInformation
  SetCatalogInformation
  RetrieveCustomDataToString
  StoreCustomDataFromString
  GetAnalysisInfo
  NewOutline
  SetOutlineTitle
  OutlineTitle
  NewStaticOutline
  GetOutlineJavaScript
  SetOutlineJavaScript
  AddLinkToJavaScript
  FormFieldJavaScriptAction
  GetFormFieldJavaScript
  SetOpenActionJavaScript
  PageJavaScriptAction
  DocJavaScriptAction
  AddGlobalJavaScript
  GetGlobalJavaScript
  GlobalJavaScriptPackageName
  GetPageJavaScript
  AddPageLabels
  GetPageLabel
  NewOptionalContentGroup
  GetOptionalContentGroupName
  GetDocumentFileName
  DAExtractPageText
  GetPageText
  ExtractFilePageText
  GetAnnotStrProperty
  SetAnnotStrProperty
  

Free Upgrade

Version 7.17 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.

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.

Note to Delphi users:

Thanks for your patience while waiting for the Delphi 2009 DCU files. We’re happy to announce that the D2009 DCU files are now available for testing, and providing there are no show-stopping issues uncovered in the testing period, will be included with the next official release of Quick PDF Library.

If you would like to test the Delphi 2009 DCU files, please send us an email at support@quickpdflibrary.com and we’ll happily provide them to you.

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

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.

• 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.