Planet PDF On The Move (To A New Server), Minor Disruption To Your PDF Reading Habits Possible

Posted on December 8, 2010 by Rowan Hanna

We’re currently in the process of moving the Planet PDF website to a brand new server. This new server will improve site performance and uptime. This process will take approximately 72 hours, so during this time you may notice a few minor issues with the site.

We apologies for any inconvenience caused by this maintenance work, but you’ll be pleased to know that Planet PDF Q&A will not be affected by the move, so you can continue asking your PDF questions and providing expert PDF answers to other users.

Thank you for your understanding.

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Introducing Planet PDF Q&A, A Great Place To Ask Your PDF Questions

Posted on December 8, 2010 by Rowan Hanna

We recently acquired Planet PDF, the home of the PDF user community, and have begun making some changes to the site. We’re freshening things up a bit with new features, more fresh content and a cleaner interface.

Last week we announced Planet PDF Q&A, the latest addition to the number #1 site for PDF news and resources:

PDF files are ubiquitous. Pay slips, bills, reports, newsletters, brochures, bank statements, calendars, forms, manuals and maps are just a few examples of how we interact with PDF files everyday. Simply put, they are everywhere, whether you like it or not.

And it’s only natural that with frequent use of PDFs you’ll inevitably end up having a few questions about how to perform certain tasks, how to fix annoying problems or even which tools your peers recommend for your PDF-related projects.

That’s why we’re launching a new question and answer site, using an exciting new platform that is optimized explicitly for this purpose. In other words, we are launching a site that is designed to answer all of your PDF related questions.

Check it out for yourself at Planet PDF Q&A.

This is an exciting new addition to Planet PDF and we’re sure that it’s going to become a great resource for PDF experts and beginners alike. Enjoy.

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Update to our Free PDF Library: Quick PDF Library Lite 7.22

Posted on December 8, 2010 by Rowan Hanna

Quick PDF Library Lite 7.22, our highly popular free PDF SDK, has been released and is now ready for download. This new release includes two new functions — SetTextUnderline and DrawTextBox – as well as the relevant enhancements and bug fixes from the full Quick PDF Library 7.22 release.

If there are new functions that you think would really enhance Quick PDF Library Lite, post a comment and we’ll see what we can do in the next release.

To find out more about Quick PDF Library Lite visit this link: Free PDF library.

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Quick PDF Library 7.22 Released

Posted on November 25, 2010 by Rowan Hanna

Since August we’ve been working hard on the best version of Quick PDF Library yet. It’s got a ton of new features, bug fixes and enhancements. Highlights in this new release include Delphi XE support, JBIG2 rendering support, greatly improved CMYK rendering and more import files for various programming languages for the DLL edition.

You can download the latest version of Quick PDF from its updates page.

We’ll soon be updating Quick PDF Tools and Benubird so that they use the latest version of Quick PDF Library.

If you’re a Quick PDF Library user, or if you are just interested in programming with PDF, then I highly recommend that you check out version 7.22.

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Quick PDF Tools and Quick PDF Tools Pro 2.1.6.1 Released

Posted on October 28, 2010 by Rowan Hanna

New updates are available for Quick PDF Tools and Quick PDF Tools Pro 2.1.6.1.

This is a minor update and was primarily released to fix a bug when merging PDF files on certain platforms. The PDF engine was also updated to use the latest version of Quick PDF Library.

We’re thinking about what features we’ll add in the next version, so if you have any suggestions, please leave a comment.

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A very special price for Quick PDF Tools Pro today only at Bits du Jour

Posted on October 25, 2010 by Rowan Hanna

For today only you can buy Quick PDF Tools Pro for 29.99 at Bits du Jour.

This is really good value. Quick PDF Tools Pro includes a ton of features:

  • Advanced PDF Preview
  • Edit PDF properties (Title, Author, Subject, and Keywords)
  • Edit PDF layout, magnification and viewer preferences
  • Add/Edit Custom Metadata
  • View document security restrictions summary
  • Add/remove passwords for PDF
  • Convert (almost) any image to PDF, PDF to image, and PDF to text
  • Convert and combine multiple images into one PDF
  • Extract bookmarks to a text file
  • Remove all bookmarks from a PDF
  • View document fonts
  • Merge selected PDF files into one PDF
  • Split PDF files (various options available)
  • Edit Attachments (Attach, Remove, Edit)
  • Add, edit and remove JavaScript from PDF files
  • Insert, extract, delete, rotate and crop pages in a PDF
  • Extract CSV formatted text with data
  • Extract embedded images to disk
  • Extract form fields and form field data
  • Flatten PDF form fields
  • Remove all annotations including sticky notes and markup
  • Add new bookmarks and edit existing bookmark actions
  • Apply digital signatures to PDF files

This special price is available for another 17 hours. Enjoy!

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Debenu has acquired ARTS PDF, Planet PDF and PDF Store

Posted on October 21, 2010 by Rowan Hanna

I mentioned in an earlier blog post that we had some exciting news on the horizon. Well, this is it:

Debenu has acquired ARTS PDF, Planet PDF and PDF Store from Nitro PDF Software. There is a brief news article at Planet PDF which covers the acquisition.

With this acquisition we’re cementing our position as one of the world’s leading PDF and document manage software providers.

We’ll be making a more formal announcement of the acquisition shortly, but I just wanted to give visitors to our site a heads up and some sort of explanation as to why we’ve now got logos for ARTS PDF, Planet PDF and PDF Store in a few different locations.

Stay tuned for more news soon…

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New Debenu Website Launched

Posted on October 7, 2010 by Rowan Hanna

Introducing the new Debenu website:

New Design

We’ve been working on this new update for a while now and we’re pretty happy with it. There are a few minor modifications that we’ll be making over the next few weeks, but for the most part, the changes are finished. If you have any feedback on the new design we’d love to hear from you.

Consolidating Sites

With the launch of the new Debenu site we’re also consolidating a few of our other websites into the Debenu website. Specifically Quick PDF Tools and Quick PDF Tools Pro are now housed on the Debenu website instead of having their own unique sites.

In addition we’re discontinuing our PDF Properties Changer product as all of its functionality exists in Quick PDF Tools.

The Future

We have some pretty exciting announcements coming up soon — you may be able to work out what they are by looking at the header image in this blog! — that we’ll be talking about in the next few weeks. Stay tuned!

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Quick PDF Library 7.22 Beta 2 Released

Posted on October 6, 2010 by Rowan Hanna

We’re happy to announce the release of Quick PDF Library 7.22 Beta 2. This new release includes a bunch of bug fixes, enhancements and support for Delphi XE.

Download 7.22 Beta 2 from here

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New Website Coming Soon

Posted on September 29, 2010 by Rowan Hanna

Just a quick note to let all site visitors know that we’ll be upgrading the Debenu site on the 1st of October, 2010. The site will only be down for a short period of time, so disruption should be minimal. We’ll also be making an exciting new announcement on the same date, so stay tuned!

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