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Quick PDF Library V8.15 - Single Developer

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What's new in Quick PDF Library V8.15?

• 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
• PowerBASIC 10 import header updated to use BYREF WSTRINGZ
• LIB edition updated to include Ansi versions of functions that return/accept Unicode strings
• Improvements to conversion of DeviceN with CMYK colorants to RGB
• New options for AddLinkToEmbeddedFile to set the icon transparency and title

New functions

• DrawIntelligentMailBarcode
• ReleaseImage
• ReleaseImageList
• DAReleaseImageList

What's new in Quick PDF Library V8.11?

• PDF/A-1b compliant output
• Support for AES-256 encryption
• TrueType font subsetting
• HTML5 renderer output
• New plain text extraction with natural reading order
• Support for PDF417 stacked linear barcode symbology
• Changed API for full Unicode string support

What's new in Quick PDF Library V7.25?

• Added support for CCITT images with /Indexed color space
• Improvements to EMF import font scaling
• Improved reading of CID font encoding
• Documents with malformed trailers are now handled gracefully
• Reduced memory consumption with CanvasDC functions
• Added support for CCITT images with EncodedByteAlign encoding
• Documents with malformed page tree nodes are now processed
• Improvements to accuracy of text extraction
• Image resolution can now be read from certain BMP images
• Improved text alignment with certain CFF fonts
• Added support for CCITT images with the EndOfLine flag
• CMap parser now supports variable length codes
• Memory reduction on image decoding
• Metafile import now compresses images
• RenderPageToDC and DARenderPageToDC now renderer directly to the device context
• DARenderPageToDC now honours the values set using SetRenderDCOffset
• Certain TIFF images are now added directly without needing decompression
• More improvements to accuracy of text extraction
• Image import now includes support for RGB palette LZW TIFF images
• Image import now includes support for RGB palette Packbits TIFF images
• Radio button options can now be deleted
• Renderer output to EMF+ format now uses CreateCompatibleDC(0)
• Changed co-ordinate order of GetAnnotQuadPoints and SetAnnotQuadPoints to match GetPageText
• Added support for flate compressed images with /Indexed /DeviceN color space
• GDI+ image smoothing now turned off by default when drawing images
• Metafile import handles all WinAnsi Unicode characters without creating subsetted fonts

What's new in Quick PDF Library V7.24?

• DataMatrix 2D barcodes can be rotated
• Support for GS1-128 (EAN-128) barcodes
• Support for DeviceN color spaces
• Faster direct access page searching for very large documents
• DrawDataMatrixSymbol allows the fill color to be set
• Memory optimizations for ICC based images
• Get/set embedded file description
• CFF font data in OpenType fonts enabled for non-embedded fonts
• More options for getting/setting choice form field flags
• Added an option to retrieve an annotation's border width
• Added support for B/W LZW images
• SetCustomInformation now allows empty values

What's new in Quick PDF Library V7.23?

• First release of Quick PDF Library LIB Edition (static link .lib)
• Improvements to exception handling while accessing file streams
• Renderer handles images and vector graphics using the /Lab color space
• LoadFromCanvasDC allows control over which fonts are embedded
• Documentation improved for NewChildFormField function

What's new in Quick PDF Library V7.21?

New functions

• GetDocumentFileSize
• GetMaxObjectNumber
• GetOptionalContentConfigCount
• GetOptionalContentConfigState
• GetActionDest
• ClearImage
• ImportEMFFromStream
• AddTextMarkupAnnotation
• GetAnnotDest
• SetAnnotQuadPoints
• GetAnnotQuadPoints
• GetAnnotQuadCount
• DAGetAnnotationCount
• RemoveXFAEntries
• DASetPageBox
• SetTextExtractionWordGap
• GetFormFieldActionID
• GetActionURL
• SetActionURL
• GetOptionalContentConfigOrderCount
• GetOptionalContentConfigOrderItemID
• GetOptionalContentConfigOrderItemLabel
• GetOptionalContentConfigOrderItemLevel
• GetOptionalContentConfigOrderItemType
• GetInstalledFontsByCharset
• GetInstalledFontsByCodePage

Bug fixes

• Corrected processing of dictionaries inside content streams
• Corrected handling of inherited page rotation
• Added support for font dictionaries directly inside resource dictionaries
• Fixed miter limit handling in metafiles
• Added support for nested page labels
• Corrected handling of PostScript names in TrueType fonts
• Corrected out of range error on array decoding
• Handling of out of range values in font CMaps
• Handling of out of range value returned by the Win32 API GetFontData function
• Rendering fill color for Type3 fonts
• Handling of empty streams in the QPL painter
• Corrected the rebuilding of the object index during merging
• Improvements to the parsing and handling of PDF array objects
• Improvements to the handling of indirect objects in inherited page properties during merging
• 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 fonts
• Inline images used as masks are correctly set to /DeviceGray color space
• Improvements to parsing of page range lists

Enhancements

• Added support for JPEG2000 images with separate indexed color space
• Added support for certain DeviceN color spaces
• Improved memory usage and speed of processing/drawing CCITT images and stencil mask images
• Major optimizations in document loading and saving
• Enhanced handling of malformed stream objects
• New options for embedding and compressing fonts with the LoadFromCanvasDC function
• Improvements to handling of CCITT images

What's new in Quick PDF Library V7.19?

• 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
• 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
• 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

What's new in Quick PDF Library V7.18?

• Improvements to cross reference table parsing
• Improvements to decryption (permissions key encoding)
• Improvements to random object names
• Improvements to UTF-8 encoding and decoding
• Bug fix in handling of read only files
• Bug fix in parsing of Type 4 Functions
• Bug fix in AddLinkToFile function for Unicode file names
• DAOpenFile sets LastErrorCode values
• Bug fix in processing of objects stored in object streams
• Bug fix in DAOpenFileReadOnly function
• DocJavaScriptAction supports “WC” rather than “DC”
• Added 411 (File not found) to LastErrorCode
• Added return code 2 to LoadFrom* functions (for detecting encrypted cross reference streams)

Quick PDF Library is available in ActiveX, DLL and Delphi editions, and is .NET Ready, which means that it can be used in a wide variety of programming languages, such as Delphi, C, C++, C#, PHP, Visual Basic, VB.NET, VB6, VBScript, ASP, PowerBasic, Pascal and any other languages which support COM/ActiveX technology or DCUs (Delphi Compiled Units).

Quick PDF Library Key Features

• Create, render and print PDFs
• Secure, sign and protect PDFs
• Create, fill and edit PDF forms
• Split, merge, append and combine PDFs
• Extract text and images from PDFs
• Edit PDFs initial view and document properties
• Add text, images and barcodes to PDFs
• Advanced support for JavaScript, bookmarks, vector graphics
• Direct access functionality (load files from disk, not memory)
• Plus many more features for working with PDF on all levels

Quick PDF Library Features in-depth

PDF Creation

• Create PDFs programmatically from scratch
• Generate PDF reports from databases
• Create PDF documents on a Web server in real time

PDF Conversion

• Convert TIFF images to PDF
• Convert JPG, GIF, BMP and PNG to PDF
• Convert WMF and EMF to PDF
• Convert PDFs to text files

PDF Viewing / PDF Rendering

• PDF to image rasterization BMP, JPEG, WMF, EMF, EPS, PNG and GIF)
• View PDFs in your applications

PDF Printing

• Control Printing of PDFs programatically
• Printing options (Page Scaling, Auto Rotate Center, Title, Page Range and Copies)
• Create custom printers (page size, copies, quality, color, duplex, collate, etc)
• Utility functions dealing with printer setup

PDF Security

• Digitally sign PDFs (digital signatures)
• Encrypt and decrypt PDFs
• Encrypt PDFs with a fingerprint
• Encryption level: 40-bit RC4, 128-bit RC4 and 128-bit AES
• Control document permissions (allowing printing, copying, modification, etc)
• Set or remove open passwords

PDF Forms (interactive forms)

• Create, modify and fill PDF forms
• Read values from PDF form fields
• Form field support for text, pushbutton, checkboxe, radiobutton, choice, and signature
• XFA support (fill and read values from XFA forms)
• Advanced control of form field appearance
• Flatten form fields in PDFs
• Extensive support for JavaScript in form fields

PDF JavaScript

• Add/Edit/Remove document level JavaScript
• Add/Edit/Remove global level JavaScript
• JavaScript support for form fields
• JavaScript support for document events
• PDF actions support for JavaScript (links, bookmarks, etc)

PDF Layers / PDF Optional Content Groups (OCGs)

• Create new layers (OCG)
• Edit, move, combine and delete existing layers (OCG)
• Combine, enscapsulate and edit content streams

PDF Extraction / Page Extraction / Text Extraction

• Extract single pages or page ranges from a document
• Extract text from a document (without formatting)
• Extract text from a document (font, color, size and position of each piece of text)
• Extract all images from a document

PDF Color

• RGB/CMYK/Gray color modes
• Support for separation colors

Fonts

• Standard fonts
• CJK (Chinese Japanese Korean) fonts
• Subsetted fonts
• Control fonts in form fields
• TrueType fonts
• Type1 fonts
• Powerful utility functions required for working with fonts

Vector graphics in PDF

• Lines, arcs, bezier curves, ellipses, rectangles, circles,rounded rectangles
• Full control over color, shading, blend modes andtransparency
• Full support for graphics state (load state and savestate)
• Clipping regions
• Support for adding Barcodes to documents

PDF Compression

• Compress fonts
• Compress images
• Compress content

PDF Document Manipulation

• Extract ranges of pages from a document
• Merge documents together in memory or on disk
• Merge a list of documents together
• Combine and appends PDFs together
• Split PDFs into multiple documents

PDF Page Manipulation

• Create new blank pages
• Insert pages, append pages, move pages, reorder pages, clonepages and rotate pages
• Crop pages, split pages, delete pages, hide pages and extractpages
• Set page thumbnail
• Split the text and graphics on the current page into twolayers
• Adjust page dimensions
• Imposition support (merge several source pages into a masterpage)

PDF Document Properties

• Document properties (filename, title, author, subject, keywords, pdf producer, pdf version, etc)
• Initial view preferences (page layout, page mode, magnification)
• Security information
• Count pages in a document
• Embed files in PDFs
• Add files attachments to PDFs
• Measurement and coordinate units
• Set measurement units to be used in document
• Get/Set Origin
• Retrieve coordinates from text and images

PDF Bookmarks (outlines)

• Create and modify bookmarks
• Edit style of bookmarks
• Set bookmark destination and action (JavaScript, Open File,etc)
• Uility functions for working with bookmarks

Barcodes

• Add barcodes (Code 39, EAN-13, Code128, PostNet, Interleaved 2of 5)

Annotations and hotspot links (hyperlinks)

• Add links to embedded files and external files
• Add links to JavaScript, pages and websites
• Get destination and named destinations
• Add note annotations
• Get/set contents of annotations
• Utility functions for working with links and annotations

Images

• Add images from a file or memory
• Compress images
• Draw images onto documents
• Find images in documents
• Retrieve image height and width
• Retrieve image type
• Count images, replace images and reverse images
• Extract images to disk or memory
• Utility functions for working with images

Text and HTML Text

• Draw text on documents
• Draw text boxes
• Draw multiline and wrapped text boxes
• Control over text size, font, color and position
• Utility functions for working with text

Page layout

• Precisely control the layout and style of new pages
• Draw tables, shapes, text and images onto pages
• Get page dimensions, page size and page content (text, images,objects)
• Utility functions for working with the page layout

Direct Access

• Direct access functionality can be used with large PDFs.Operations are carried out on the file on the disk, instead of loading the file into memory.

Misc

• Convert a Unicode string to a special format as required by PDF specification
• Full Unicode support
• Create list of files to be merged
• Retrieve last error message
• Save-to-stream and Load-from-stream support for web serving