Debenu PDF Maximus offers unrivaled PDF productivity gains for businesses and individuals by allowing the creation of Action Lists to control the simplest or most complex PDF workflows in an easy and standardized way.

Action Lists are made up of ‘Actions’ such as Image to PDF, PDF to Text or Digital Signatures, and can applied to single documents in Windows Explorer or Debenu PDF Reader. Capable of batch processing thousands of documents in Debenu PDF Maximus or even in automated workflows with Watched Folders.

“Our goal with Debenu PDF Maximus has always been to remove the wasted time and costliness of inefficient workflows that involve PDF. With the release of version 2.0 our goal was to take things to the next level. With the productivity gains built in we’ve done this using new features such as Digital Signatures, Windows Exporer integration, a completely re-designed user interface and a new Server version, to name just a few improvements. ” said Debenu’s CEO, Karl De Abrew.

New Features

• Silent PDF printing enables you to completely automate workflows by having PDF files printed to a named printer.
• Automatically Build Bookmarks based on heading styles, text masks or a keyword list.
• Digital Signature support enables you to add visual signatures to PDF files on the page or as document level signatures. Sign an unlimited number of files without human interaction.
• Password Security enables you to add an Open password to a PDF or add a Master password with documents permissions such as no printing, no copying text and so on.
• Windows Explorer support means that you can just right-click on a PDF in Windows Explorer and use any of the Actions or Action Lists in Debenu PDF Maximus to process the selected files.
• JavaScript support includes the ability to add Document JavaScript Actions (Will close, Will save, etc.) as well as global JavaScript functions for use with other action events in the document.
• Attach Files to your PDF files. These files are embedded inside the PDF and can be access via the attachments Panel in Adobe Reader when the PDF is opened.
• Set a Base URL in your PDF files so that you can use relative links inside the document.

Enhancements

• New user interface completely changes the look and feel of PDF Maximus and adds a massive again in ease of use and general user experience. Intuitive dialogs, built-in help files and touch screen optimized.
• Speedy PDF Viewer with continuous page viewing, bookmark navigation and text selection. Apply Actions and Actions Lists while viewing PDF files.
• General stability and performance enhancements across most areas of Debenu PDF Maximus, including text extraction, page extraction, rendering and more.
• Bookmarks support has been enhanced include the ability to add, edit and remove bookmarks from a PDF. Additionally, you can save a list of bookmarks to a text file.
• File Syncing Services can be given a dose of PDF processing power by creating Watched Folders in PDF Maximus and pointing them at folders in Dropbox, SkyDrive and other services.
• Watched Folders now includes a periodic background checker to ensure that Watched Folders don’t support working if an issue is encountered.

Server Version

• Web server support means that you can install Debenu PDF Maximus on your Windows Server to help automate your PDF jobs.
• Network server support means that you can install Debenu PDF Maximus on your network server and use the Watched Folders to give your users access to powerful automated PDF processing.

Availability

Debenu PDF Maximus 2.0 is available for immediate download and purchase from the Debenu website.

Upgrade

Customers who purchased version 1 of Debenu PDF Maximus are eligible for a discounted upgrade to version 2. Customers who purchased a Single User License can upgrade for $99 and users who purchased a Multiple User License can upgrade for $320. The upgrade can be purchased from here:

• Buy Debenu PDF Maximus 2 Upgrade
  

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Release Notes

New functions

• SetFormFieldSubmitActionEx
• SetFormFieldResetAction
• DAShiftedHeader
• GetFormFieldRichTextString
• SetFormFieldRichTextString
• GetObjectDecodeError
• SetRenderOptions
• BalancePageTree

Bug fixes

• Allow the image extraction routines to process various ColorSpace options before exporting
• Corrected /Filter/FlateDecode in DAAppendFile and digital signature output
• Generate more correct text extraction bounding boxes for rare PDF’s with Type3 fonts
• Fix rendering of Type3 fonts which use inline images
• Fixed a EMF font issue when a negative lfWidth value was specified
• Fixed a minor regression in XFA formfield processing
• Metafile fixes for PolyPolygon rendering errors
• Minor CIDFontType2 rendering fix
• Fix minor issue when calling RenderPageToDC under some rare circumstances
• Improvements to handling of malformed xref tables
• ExtractFilePagesEx now removes the OpenAction dict if it it exists to prevent linking to a non existent page
• SelectPage now returns 0 when the page node is null
• Added code to check for simple recursion in the page tree
• ExtractFilePagesEx now removes the StructTreeRoot dict if it it exists to prevent linking to a non existent page
• Replaced {$IFDEF DEBUG} with {$IFDEF HEBREW_DEBUG} in TMetaFile.pas to prevent compilation issues
• Added code to improve locking with multi-threaded printing
• Small fix for AddEmbdeddedFile, EmbedFile

Enhancements

• Internal GDI+ interface optimizations to increase rendering speed
• Direct access functions can now open PDFs that are shifted with leading whitespace
• DAAppendFile now prevents appending to a malformed input file
• Speed and stability improvements in TransformFile function
• Objects that are shifted by a single byte are now loaded if possible
• Improvements to handling of malformed xref streams

Upgrading To Version 9

If you are still using version 7 or 8 and would like to upgrade visit this page:

• Upgrade to Debenu Quick PDF Library 9

Feedback! Any feedback large or small is appreciated. We’ll shortly be planning the next round of exciting new features for Debenu 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 and have your say.

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Release Notes

New functions

• SetFormFieldSubmitActionEx
• SetFormFieldResetAction
• DAShiftedHeader
• GetFormFieldRichTextString
• SetFormFieldRichTextString

Bug fixes

• Allow the image extraction routines to process various ColorSpace options before exporting
• Corrected /Filter/FlateDecode in DAAppendFile and digital signature output
• Generate more correct text extraction bounding boxes for rare PDF’s with Type3 fonts
• Fix rendering of Type3 fonts which use inline images
• Fixed a EMF font issue when a negative lfWidth value was specified
• Fixed a minor regression in XFA formfield processing

Enhancements

• Internal GDI+ interface optimizations to increase rendering speed
• Direct access functions can now open PDFs that are shifted with leading whitespace
• DAAppendFile now prevents appending to a malformed input file

Upgrading To Version 9

If you are still using version 7 or 8 and would like to upgrade visit this page:

• Upgrade to Debenu Quick PDF Library 9

Feedback! Any feedback large or small is appreciated. We’ll shortly be planning the next round of exciting new features for Debenu 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 and have your say.

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This new version is full of new functions, enhancements and bug fixes and we recommend that all customers upgrade to it to take advantage of the improvements. Visit the product updates page to download this new version and see a full list of the changes.

Download 9.14 from our Product Updates page

Version 9.14 Highlights

• XE4 support
• Improved digital signatures
• Speed and accuracy improvements to rendering
• Improved metafile import
• Improved form field flattening
• Better stability, eliminated memory leaks
• AES-256 encryption
• Enhanced embedded files support
• 16 new functions, 77 bug fixes and 19 enhancements

Upgrading To Version 9

If you are still using version 7, 8 or an earlier version and would like to upgrade visit this page:

• Upgrade To Debenu Quick PDF Library 9

Feedback! Any feedback large or small is appreciated. We’ll shortly be planning the next round of exciting new features for Debenu 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 and have your say.

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Release Notes

New functions

• ReleaseStringList
• ExtractFilePagesEx
• AddBoxToPath
• SetSignProcessFieldImageFromFile
• SetSignProcessBounds
• GetAnnotSoundToFile
• GetAnnotSoundToString
• GetFontFlags
• GetPageMetricsToString
• SetSignProcessSubFilter
• GetSignProcessResult
• ReleaseSignProcess

Bug fixes

• Fix for flattening of checkbox based formfields with existing appearance streams
• Fix for NormalizePage when SetMeasurementUnit is set to something other than the default of points
• Fix DPI for BMP and JPG output when using RenderDocumentToFile
• RemoveDocument no longer crashes when the library is unlocked
• Reverted previous bug fix for RemoveSharedContentStreams (9.13.BF.24)
• Turn off inline images when TIFF compression is LZW based
• Fix to GetOpenActionDestination to allow for either an Array or a Dict
• DebenuPDFLibraryCMap fix and improvements for handling ligatures
• Fix compilation issues in release builder with D4-D7
• Fix compilation issues in release builder with D4-D7 #2
• Fix for SetFormFieldValue with some CheckBox fields
• Type 4 PDF functions using “atan” and “eq” operators are now correctly processed
• Fixed the GDI+ import of GdipClosePathFigure and GdipAddPathBezier for 64-bit builds
• Type 3 PDF functions now use an improved interpolation routine, similar results on 32-bit and 64-bit builds
• Issues with Delphi 2005 builds fixed by disabling the use of inline functions
• Allows Korean font to render correctly in Lang.pdf test file
• Fix for rendering of CIDFontType2 that uses a ToUnicode entry
• Fix return value of TQuickPDF.AddFormFieldSub function
• SetAnnotRect now correctly handles the Index parameter
• AddImageFromFile now handles compressed LZW TIFF images from libTiff
• Correctly returns DPI for JPEG encoded TIFF’s
• Minor CCITT compile warning removed
• Floating point error during XPS generation fixed using default PNG DPI value
• Fixes for SetFormFieldCheckStyle and GetFormFieldCheckStyle
• UpdateAppearanceStream defaults to Helv if the specified font is not found or invalid
• DrawHTMLText now renders justified text with composite fonts
• Normalise the return string for ModDate and CreationDate for DAGetInformation and GetInformation functions
• Allow rendering of 8bit CCITT encoded images
• Fixed rare rendering issue with some images where ImageMask is used
• GetFormFieldTitle now returns ‘on’ value for RadioButton formfield kid/sub indexes
• GetFileMetadata and GetDocumentMetadata return correctly encoded Unicode
• Fixed a rare decoding issue for some flate encoded images
• Text Extraction now checks the ToUnicode entry for simple fonts
• Type1 fonts that use unixxxx encoding names are now rendered correctly
• SetDocumentMetadata stores XMP in UTF-8 format and correctly updates internally
• Fixed a Range check overflow during rendering of a particular font
• DrawHTMLTextBox now matches the actual height returned from GetHTMLTextHeight
• Minor tweak for form field AppearanceStream’s for checkboxes that use the Cross style
• Fix UpdateAppearanceStream to draw left, right, centre aligned choice fields
• Allow SetFormFieldValue to select multiple values in a multi select choice field
• Corrected import path of libz.dylib on Mac builds
• Improved handling of flate stream errors in 64-bit builds
• Removed threadvar variable from interface section of Flate unit
• Improved Unicode text extraction
• Tweaked based line position in the appearance stream for multiline form fields
• Add a fix to process a broken Pages dictionary for some malformed PDF files
• Turn off inline images when TIFF compression is using EncodedByteAlign for problem TIFF’s
• Fixed G4 CCITT output in 64-bit builds
• Fix TransformFile to return 1 on success as per the documentation
• Various text extraction improvements for CIDFontType2, CJK and character widths
• NewPageFromCanvasDC – add workaround to allow specify a floating point dpi value
• Metafile functions SaveDC / RestoreDC now work with font orientation values
• Metafile rotated text now takes the absolute value of lfOrientation to match GDI+
• Invisible text no longer causes a memory leak
• Fix a small issue in setup of custom printers
• Metafile processing improvements for rotated text and stretched text
• Small text rendering fix for embedded CIDFontType2 fonts
• Rendering improvements for fonts with a negative fontsize / height
• EndSignProcessToString now returns valid data

Enhancements

• Added Hebrew support to TMetaFile EMF import
• Minor changes to eliminate compiler warnings for the Mac edition
• Minor changes to eliminate (internal build) compiler warnings for the Windows editions
• Added support for RenderCropType to RenderPagetoDC type functions
• Generated cross reference streams are now compressed to reduce file size
• Allow SetupCustomPrinter to work with SetPrinterDevModeFromString
• AES-256 encryption (Acrobat X and later) now supported
• Moved GDI+ interface into a class for better control over DLL linking
• Improvements to GDI+ loading sequence
• Changes to allow compiling with Delphi XE4
• Add option to use GDI+ to import BMP files for rare upsidedown images

Upgrading To Version 9

If you are still using version 7 or 8 and would like to upgrade visit this page:

• Upgrade to Debenu Quick PDF Library 9

Feedback! Any feedback large or small is appreciated. We’ll shortly be planning the next round of exciting new features for Debenu 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 and have your say.

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This new release of Debenu PDF Aerialist 11 is primarily a maintenance release but it does include some useful improvements to the Mail Merge functionality and some minor improvements in the overall architecture of the application.

Release Notes

• Minor enhancements to Mail Merge feature
• Issue with Print Records in Mail Merge fixed
• Issue with JavaScript Debugger popping up during Mail Merge fixed
• Issue with Import Page Marks and extra spaces fixed

Debenu PDF Aerialist Lite has also been updated. Download the latest version from the Debenu PDF Aerialist Lite product updates page.

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This video tutorial shows you how to convert page numbers (GoTo Page actions in PDF lingo) to named destinations in a PDF file using Debenu PDF Aerialist. Using GoTo Page actions for links in PDF files with lots of pages and lots of links is an issue because deleting one page will break all links to subsequent pages. If you use named destinations instead of page numbers, then this is no longer an issue because the link is to a unique destination associated with the page object rather than the page number and this does not change when the total number of pages in the PDF changes.

Don’t forget, there’s a 14 day free trial of Debenu PDF Aerialist. Enjoy the video tutorial:

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Royalty free is not an anti-monarchy campaign that Debenu has instigated against the head of the British Monarchy. Nor is it a pro-monarchy campaign. To be honest we don’t want to delve into the realm of rhetoric around politics, we make and distribute software so we will stick to that. What we are doing is so far removed from The Royal Family that it is just funny, a bit of a laugh. Royalty Free is our way of saying that Debenu will not charge you for functionality that you build into your software using Debenu Quick PDF Library.

At some stage in the future (sooner rather than later because things must move forward) the Union Jack will be removed from the background, the royalty free will be replaced and something new, focusing on the next product in the cycle. This is not in any way to suggest that Debenu Quick PDF Library is going to change the terms of it’s stance on Royalty Free, Debenu Quick PDF Library is always going to remain a royalty free product. It is one of the core benefits that we offer the developers who use the product.

Why the imagery?
When thinking of Royalty there are a number of images that are evoked within the minds eye. One of the most common is that of the British Monarchy and the Queen of England. This is represented easily with the Union Jack. Drawing inspiration from that and the Sex Pistols album, Anarchy In The U.K the images were created by a marketing agency we engaged. Not to compare ourselves to a punk rock band too much, we had removed royalties from products because we think they can be unfair and this was what inspired their creative. We like things to have a proper place and file to be honest. We’re organized.

Debenu splits up the old way of doing things, developing and paying Royalties after wards. We want a new model, a better model and we are emancipating ourselves from that. If you want to come for the ride amazing and if not, that’s ok as well.

Understandably it may be a slightly confusing concept at first, so we made a page to explain Royalty Free software easily.

We haven’t received any specific comment about the campaign neither positive nor negative but if you have some feedback, a question or anything thing else to comment about please let us know

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Release Notes

New functions

• ReleaseStringList
• ExtractFilePagesEx
• AddBoxToPath
• SetSignProcessFieldImageFromFile
• SetSignProcessBounds
• GetAnnotSoundToFile
• GetAnnotSoundToString
• GetFontFlags
• GetPageMetricsToString

Bug fixes

• Fix for flattening of checkbox based formfields with existing appearance streams
• Fix for NormalizePage when SetMeasurementUnit is set to something other than the default of points
• Fix DPI for BMP and JPG output when using RenderDocumentToFile
• RemoveDocument no longer crashes when the library is unlocked
• Reverted previous bug fix for RemoveSharedContentStreams (9.13.BF.24)
• Turn off inline images when TIFF compression is LZW based
• Fix to GetOpenActionDestination to allow for either an Array or a Dict
• DebenuPDFLibraryCMap fix and improvements for handling ligatures
• Fix compilation issues in release builder with D4-D7
• Fix compilation issues in release builder with D4-D7 #2
• Fix for SetFormFieldValue with some CheckBox fields
• Type 4 PDF functions using “atan” and “eq” operators are now correctly processed
• Fixed the GDI+ import of GdipClosePathFigure and GdipAddPathBezier for 64-bit builds
• Type 3 PDF functions now use an improved interpolation routine, similar results on 32-bit and 64-bit builds
• Issues with Delphi 2005 builds fixed by disabling the use of inline functions
• Allows Korean font to render correctly in Lang.pdf test file
• Fix for rendering of CIDFontType2 that uses a ToUnicode entry
• Fix return value of TQuickPDF.AddFormFieldSub function
• SetAnnotRect now correctly handles the Index parameter
• AddImageFromFile now handles compressed LZW TIFF images from libTiff
• Correctly returns DPI for JPEG encoded TIFF’s
• Minor CCITT compile warning removed
• Floating point error during XPS generation fixed using default PNG DPI value
• Fixes for SetFormFieldCheckStyle and GetFormFieldCheckStyle
• UpdateAppearanceStream defaults to Helv if the specified font is not found or invalid
• DrawHTMLText now renders justified text with composite fonts
• Normalise the return string for ModDate and CreationDate for DAGetInformation and GetInformation functions
• Allow rendering of 8bit CCITT encoded images
• Fixed rare rendering issue with some images where ImageMask is used
• GetFormFieldTitle now returns ‘on’ value for RadioButton formfield kid/sub indexes
• GetFileMetadata and GetDocumentMetadata return correctly encoded Unicode
• Fixed a rare decoding issue for some flate encoded images
• Text Extraction now checks the ToUnicode entry for simple fonts
• Type1 fonts that use unixxxx encoding names are now rendered correctly
• SetDocumentMetadata stores XMP in UTF-8 format and correctly updates internally
• Fixed a Range check overflow during rendering of a particular font
• DrawHTMLTextBox now matches the actual height returned from GetHTMLTextHeight
• Minor tweak for form field AppearanceStream’s for checkboxes that use the Cross style
• Fix UpdateAppearanceStream to draw left, right, centre aligned choice fields
• Allow SetFormFieldValue to select multiple values in a multi select choice field
• Corrected import path of libz.dylib on Mac builds
• Improved handling of flate stream errors in 64-bit builds
• Removed threadvar variable from interface section of Flate unit
• Improved Unicode text extraction
• Tweaked based line position in the appearance stream for multiline form fields
• Add a fix to process a broken Pages dictionary for some malformed PDF files
• Turn off inline images when TIFF compression is using EncodedByteAlign for problem TIFF’s
• Fixed G4 CCITT output in 64-bit builds

Enhancements

• Added Hebrew support to TMetaFile EMF import
• Minor changes to eliminate compiler warnings for the Mac edition
• Minor changes to eliminate (internal build) compiler warnings for the Windows editions
• Added support for RenderCropType to RenderPagetoDC type functions
• Generated cross reference streams are now compressed to reduce file size
• Allow SetupCustomPrinter to work with SetPrinterDevModeFromString
• AES-256 encryption (Acrobat X and later) now supported
• Moved GDI+ interface into a class for better control over DLL linking
• Fixed memory leak when GDI+ DLL already attached

Upgrading To Version 9

If you are still using version 7 or 8 and would like to upgrade visit this page:

• Upgrade to Debenu Quick PDF Library 9

Feedback! Any feedback large or small is appreciated. We’ll shortly be planning the next round of exciting new features for Debenu 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 and have your say.

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The key advantage that PDF documents have is that users perceive PDF documents as a more valuable entity, and hence are more likely to interact positively with a site’s PDF documents. This results in a better user experience, heavily tying back into a websites search engine ranking. If users have high value on content they are also much more likely to share that content – earning backlinks for the webpage! Companies that have a lot of documents in PDF format can then upload these to increase their page count, domain authority etc.

When creating PDF documents that are going to be hosted on a website or even taking existing PDF documents and hosting them on your website there are a number of things that can be done to help improve how search engines find and rank pages.

A quick scan of the internet will lead to an abundance of information that is often surmised into a continually varying set of checklists for PDF optimisation. Some of the things that keep popping up are below but I do encourage you to read a number of articles to come to your own conclusions on what is best for you.

Checklist for PDF Optimization:

• Keyword-optimized titles
• Key world-optimized metadata
• Add tags and accessibility options to your document
• Correct alt tags for images
• Back links to relevant pages within the main website
• Offer text version of the document
• Keep the file size light
• Avoid duplicate content
• Don’t save as the latest Acrobat version
• Write-protect the document
• Above all quality content

Depending on what you want to do, a number of Debenu’s programs can assist in optimising PDF documents.

For uniform changes to documents Maximus will batch edit as many files as required for metadata and a range of other things.  Aerialist will also be able to edit the documents and this is a program that will work within Adobe Acrobat itself. If you are thinking of creating a program that will allow another program to help optimise the PDF documents Quick PDF Library is the SDK for the job and will be able to build in certain aspects within other programs.

In conclusion, PDF documents are definitely something that you want to ensure is optimized for search. There a number of reasons both as the file creator and also as a way to boost the sites ranking that hosts your documents. There is a diverse range of articles that are surfaced through a simple Google search of ‘SEO for PDF’ garnering terrific results, and many helpful guides and checklists. Scrolling through Everything out there can be a chore and ultimately leads to a similar string of information as to what to do for SEO on PDF. Debenu’s tools gives you the ability to actually do it what has been recommended allowing you create the best possible documents.

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