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

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 at support@quickpdflibrary.com and have your say.

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 0×10
• 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

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

Enhancements

• Added support for metafile import when font names end with style names like “Bold” or “Italic”

Upgrading To Version 8

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This offer is available to owners of a version 8 license of Quick PDF Library. If you own a version 7 license you must first upgrade to version 8 before you can take advantage of this offer.

This version includes numerous enhancements to the library including improved support for rendering via Cairo instead of GDI+, improved rendering of PDFs which use transparency groups and shading,  text extraction accuracy and numerous other changes. Visit the product updates page to download this new version and see a full list of the changes.

Download 8.14 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 at support@quickpdflibrary.com and have your say.

Release Notes

New functions

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

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
• Corrected font metrics calculations when font size is negative
• NormalizePage function now works with any prior Origin setting
• CCITT EncodedByteAlign fixed for certain images
• AddTrueTypeFont fixed with a /Differences array for code page 874
• Rendering with Cairo now correctly strokes paths that are also filled
• Content stream parts are combined with whitespace during rendering
• Corrected position and size of EMF images drawn to the page
• GetXFAFormFieldCount now correctly returns 0 instead of 1 if there are no XFA fields
• Corrected the handling of a null encryption dictionary

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
• GDI+ and Cairo renderer now support linear gradients
• Added option to ignore font descenders during text extraction
• Annotation enumeration uses cached results where possible
• Added support for RC4 encrypted documents with encryption strength between 40 and 128
• SecurityInfo returns information about which password was used to open the document
• Added code to handle integer overflow in PNG unfiltering
• Cairo support for RenderPageToFile, RenderPageToStream, RenderPageToString and RenderPageToVariant
• Improvements to font name matching during rendering
• Improvements to text extraction for complicated character placements
• ClosePath removed from EmfPolyLine16 in metafile import
• Support for certain accented characters in metafile import

Upgrading To Version 8

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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
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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.

Release Notes

New functions

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

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
• Corrected font metrics calculations when font size is negative
• NormalizePage function now works with any prior Origin setting
• CCITT EncodedByteAlign fixed for certain images
• AddTrueTypeFont fixed with a /Differences array for code page 874
• Rendering with Cairo now correctly strokes paths that are also filled

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
• GDI+ and Cairo renderer now support linear gradients
• Added option to ignore font descenders during text extraction
• Annotation enumeration uses cached results where possible

Upgrading To Version 8