Of course ARTS PDF Workshop is still free, so go ahead and download version 4.5.1 right now, you won’t regret it!

This is a maintenance release which includes the following changes:

• Updated with adjusting library panels size
• Updated with rendering pdf preview with Quick PDF Library
• Updated forum url (http://forums.debenu.com/benubird_forum1.html)
• Updated with support chm and djvu file types
• Fixed import file changing filename case issue
• Fixed copy & paste on filelist issue
• Updated QuickPDFAX0719 to QuickPDFAX0813
• Updated BCGSoft professional library 16
• Updated with Nova PV 7.5
• Updated with SQLite 3.7.9

New versions of Benubird will be released in the following months which include more enhancements and exciting new features. Please let us know what you think about Benubird and this new version in the Benubird forum.

Over on the Quick PDF Library blog we’ve released version 8.14 beta 3. This new beta release includes new functions, bug fixes and lots of enhancements. There will be one more beta release after this one before the final 8.14 release.

Any feedback or comments, leave a comment. Cheers!

We’re excited to announce the preview release of our newest product: Debenu PDF Maximus.

Maximus is an industrial-strength solution for automating your PDF workflows. It removes the need to perform manual operations on PDF files by instead using Action Lists to apply predefined actions on PDF files in a step wise fashion.

Processing of a single or multiple PDF files using standardized Action Lists increases productivity and improves consistency by removing manual labor and human error from the equation.

Workflows can be fully automated with the use of Watched Folders to apply Action Lists to files placed in the active input folder. Processed files are saved to the output folder.

Features include:

• Split and Merge PDF files
• Convert Images to PDFs
• Convert PDFs to Images
• Remove Annotations, Attachments, Bookmarks and JavaScript
• Crop, Rotate, Delete, Extract and Insert Pages
• Extract Text and Images from PDF files
• Extract Embedded Fonts
• Extract PDF Form Data
• Flatten PDF Forms
• Edit Initial View Settings
• Control Document Metadata

Debenu PDF Maximus Release Candidate 1 is available for testing purposes only until the 31st of January, 2012. It cannot be used in a production environment. The final version of Maximus will be released in early 2012.

Win a Prize: Customers who provide feedback by way of a comment on this blog post or by emailing us at support@debenu.com by the 31 of January, 2012, will go into a draw to win a copy (eBook) of PDF Explained, a new book about PDF from O’Reilly Media. Five winners will be drawn randomly from those who submit feedback. Make sure your blog comment includes a valid email address.

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
• 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

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

Download 8.13 from our Product Updates page

Highlights

• Improved text extraction accuracy
• Fixed rendering of inverted CMYK JPEG images in 64-bit builds
• DPI information is stored in TIFF output from the renderer
• PrintDocument, GetPrinterBins and GetPrinterDevModeToString fixed in Delphi 4-2005 and LIB edition
• And much more…

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.

Read the the press release for all of the details or go straight to the Aerialist Lite product page to download.

Already we’re getting great feedback fro our customers on this new plug-in and coverage on the Acrobat for Legal Professionals blog.

By the way, if you like free PDF products you might also like Quick PDF Tools.

Version 8.12 also includes Delphi XE2 support.

Head on over to the Quick PDF Library blog to download beta 2 of version 8.12 and try it out for yourself. The final release of 8.12 will be in approximately a week, so get your feedback in quick.

Version 8.12 beta 1 includes support for 64-bit in the Delphi, ActiveX and DLL editions, as well as support for Delphi XE2.

Now that we have 64-bit support in Quick PDF Library we’ll soon be releasing a 64-bit version of ARTS PDF Workshop and updating Quick PDF Tools to use this improved method of 64-bit support.

Stay tuned for more product updates shortly!