Product Updates

Debenu Quick PDF Library 9.13

Enhancements

• Minor changes for Lazarus/FPC compilation
• Performance improvement for changing form field rotations
• Added support for ETO_CLIPPED to metafile import
• Improvements to handling of XFA data
• Improvements to detection of inline image data length
• Better handling of negative font descent values
• New text extraction options to split on double space and to trim characters outside the extraction area
• Limit pattern textures to 3000×3000 pixels
• Improvements to setting field values for checkboxes
• Improvements to text extraction area limit calculations
• New codepage option for directly mapped character codes in TrueType fonts
• Setting a field’s value will repair certain data structures
• New alternative block matching option for text extraction
• Improvements to Japanese font matching
• SetFormFieldValue repairs certain structural elements of fields
• Added support for vertically flipped BMP images (negative height)
• Improvements to SetPageTextExtractionWordGap
• TIFF writer now sets unused data bytes to 0
• Improvements and new functionality in the SetOptionalContentGroupPrintable function
• All standard predefined CMaps are now available, better rendering of CJK and other documents
• MergeFileList and MergeFileListFast now have better handling of files that are open in other processes
• Improved handling of floating point numbers when drawing arcs
• Better protection from crashes during shutdown
• Improvements to OCG view/print handling
• Improvements to xref repair functionality
• Adjustments to checking of a PostName with certain fonts
• Clipping rectangle adustment for certain fonts in metafile import
• Improvements to xref table repair
• Improved handling of invalid xref tables during comment skipping phase
• Detect truncated data in TrueType glyf data
• Consistent rendering even when using a non-English Windows locale
• Improvement to bezier curve importing from metafiles
• Calculate the DPI for EMF images when added with GDI+ using the AddImageFrom* functions
• Improvements to rendering output of axial shading patterns
• SetInformation can be used to set the XMP dc:subject field

New functions

• GetFormFieldCheckStyle
• SetFieldSignatureImage
• GetFormFieldTabOrderEx
• SetSignProcessField
• SetSignProcessInfo
• SetSignProcessPFXFromFile
• NewSignProcessFromFile
• NewSignProcessFromStream
• NewSignProcessFromString
• EndSignProcessToFile
• EndSignProcessToStream
• EndSignProcessToString
• DAExtractPageTextBlocks
• ExtractPageTextBlocks
• ExtractFilePageTextBlocks
• GetTextBlockCount
• GetTextBlockFontName
• GetTextBlockFontSize
• GetTextBlockBound
• GetTextBlockColorType
• GetTextBlockColor
• GetTextBlockText
• GetTextBlockCharWidth
• ReleaseTextBlocks
• DAGetTextBlockCount
• DAGetTextBlockFontName
• DAGetTextBlockFontSize
• DAGetTextBlockBound
• DAGetTextBlockColorType
• DAGetTextBlockColor
• DAGetTextBlockText
• DAGetTextBlockCharWidth
• DAReleaseTextBlocks

Bug fixes

• Improved handling of form field dictionaries that have been merged with an annotation dictionary
• Signature field appearances are no longer affected by changes to the field properties
• Correct glyph index matching for certain TrueType fonts
• DAAppendFile now works with files larger than 2GB
• DAAppendFile once again works with files containing xref streams
• Corrected output of certain negative floating point numbers
• Prevent recursive loop when retrieving certain field names with the direct access functions
• MergeDocument sets the final document version number to the highest of the input documents
• Fix in EMF Import for rotated and aligned text
• Reading/writing XMP metadata is now enabled in the 64-bit builds
• MoveLayer now correctly handles an indirect reference to the page Contents array
• Improved UpdateAppearanceStream for certain field types
• Separated direct access font caching during image extraction from text extraction
• SignFile and DAAppendFile now correctly handle documents with xref streams
• Internal paired integer list fix
• XMP metadata is now generated correctly when there is no timezone offset (also affected PDF/A-1b)
• XMP metadata now contains a valid modification date (also affected PDF/A-1b)
• Better handling of invalid XMP metadata
• Removed double rendering of Type1 glyphs
• Minor fix for encoding issue with Type1 fonts
• Corrected the dictionary used for the MarkInfo entry when calling SetPDFAMode
• NewSignProcessFromStream now works correctly
• Fixed a bug processing certain Type2 fonts
• Corrected page tree algorithm in RemoveSharedContentStreams function
• Changed dc:creator from a Bag to a Seq to match the latest XMP specification (fixes PDF/A-1b compliance)
• OutputIntents array is truncated before adding the new entry for PDF/A-1b compliance

Debenu Quick PDF Library 9.12

Enhancements

• Delphi XE3 support
• HTML text containing tags are now supported
• SetupCustomPrinter option 5 expanded to allow any DPI value
• Speed improvement converting CMYK JPEG images
• ReplaceFonts function improved to support more than just Helvetica
• Improvements to determination of stream length in certain corrupt documents
• Various internal optimizations to improve rendering speed
• Speed improvements to DeviceN and Separation color calculations
• Out of memory exceptions are better handled during image decoding
• Document creation and modification date can now be set by the user
• Removed certain limitations from text extraction mode 8
• Annotation JavaScript can now be set/retrieved
• Better font matching for non-embedded fonts ending with the -Regular suffix
• New options added to NormalizePage to maintain existing content stream structure
• Appearance streams for checkboxes and radio buttons are now correctly generated
• Added support for tiled TIFF images
• Speed improvements due to optimization of internal floating point to string conversion
• Added text extraction options to ignore overlapping characters/words
• Improvements to generated form field appearance streams
• Improvements to performance of executing PDF functions
• Optimized reading and writing of XMP metadata and XFA form fields
• Optimized conversion of strings to floats
• Better handling of OCGs during printing
• Fixed image offsets for certain tiling patterns
• Improvements to internal string list searching
• Improvements to image decoding speed
• Improvements to importing TIFF images containing JPEG data
• Optimized speed of the DeleteField/FlattenFormField functions
• Improvements to NormalizePage to correctly process more annotation types
• Improvements to XFA field name list and values of multi-select lists

New functions

• SetOptionalContentGroupName
• RemoveOpenAction
• RemoveFormFieldBackgroundColor
• GetFormFieldBorderColorType
• GetFormFieldBackgroundColorType
• SetFormFieldBackgroundColorGray
• SetFormFieldBorderColorGray

Bug fixes

• Font parsing matches all versions of Adobe-Japan1 encoding
• PNG writer updated to prevent a possible invalid memory access
• Fixed decoding of certain single octal characters
• Prevent a crash by creating the /Fields array if it doesn’t already exist
• Fix in GetFormFieldPage to prevent possible memory leak
• NormalizePage now handles annotations with invalid /Rect entries
• Fixed rendering of certain Type1 font glyphs (misaligned subpaths) by not resetting the hint stack
• Fixed a problem loading documents larger than 2GB
• Certain invalid Type1 fonts are now correctly replaced with Helvetica
• Outlines linked to pages deleted using DeletePages now have their actions disabled
• SetOptionalContentGroupVisible correctly sets the /OFF array
• HTML text drawing functions now have better checks for content too large for the available area
• Fixed font metrics stored in PDF with call to AddTrueTypeSubsettedFont
• ExtractFilePages function now supports encrypted documents
• Fix for 180 degree rotated annotations in NormalizePage
• Fix for bug in DeletePages that was introduced in 9.12 Beta 1
• Annotation cache is now correctly reset when moving to a new page
• SetLineWidth uses the absolute value of the width
• SetOpenActionDestination now correctly handles the rotation of the target page

Debenu Quick PDF Library 9.11

Enhancements

• Added support for code page 1256
• Improved handling of character codes not found in CMaps
• Detection of invalid CCITT EOL markers with fallback to GDI+
• Dynamic replacement of invalid page dictionaries
• Speed improvements for DAFindPage function
• Speed improvements for ExtractFilePages function
• Added support for files larger than 2GB
• SetAnnotStrProperty can now set an annotation’s Contents property
• Gracefully handle root outline nodes with incorrect dictionary type
• Speed improvements for text extraction and text rendering
• Support for images with flate compression using a predictor with BitsPerComponent other than 8
• Speed improvements for text extraction on documents with many inline images
• Direct access and regular functions now use the same xref table/stream parsing code
• Improved the AddLinkToEmbeddedFile function for better control over transparency
• Improved documentation of DASetTextExtractionArea and SetTextExtractionArea
• GetXFAFormFieldValue and SetXFAFormFieldValue now support Unicode characters
• Link annotations without appearance streams are now rendered
• Certain malformed PDFs can now be repaired dynamically as they are loaded
• Added support for Korean CJK font HYGothic-Medium to AddCJKFont
• Added support for Japanese CJK font HeiseiKakuGo-W5 during field flattening
• Improved text extraction color values
• Internal string comparison optimizations
• Standard rubber stamp annotations are now rendered
• Vertical text mode is supported by the renderer
• begin/end cidchar/range added to CMap parsing
• NormalizePage(1) will balance the save/restore state stack
• FlattenFormField no longer calls UpdateAppearanceStream
• NormalizePage updates the /Matrix entry for all annotations on the page
• Form fields are reloaded after calling NormalizePage
• Values 1, 2 and 3 for the TilingType entry in pattern dictionaries are now accepted

New functions

• SetAnnotDblProperty
• TransformFile
• SetAnnotRect
• AddStampAnnotation
• GetDocumentRepaired
• CopyPageRangesEx
• UpdateAndFlattenFormField
• BalanceContentStream
• AddFormFieldChoiceSub
• GetFormFieldSubDisplayName

Bug fixes

• Invalid characters excluded from text extraction
• Improvements to handling of non-breaking spaces
• Fixed JBIG2 decoding bug
• JPEG images containing TIFF data with invalid pages correctly handled
• Fixed file attachment sort order
• Fixed character widths for subsetted fonts
• Fixed non-breaking spaces for DrawText related functions
• DPLReleaseBuffer DLL function returns correct result on success
• GetParentOutline function now returns 0 for root outline items
• Improved handling of errors encountered while adding images
• Original document is removed from memory after call to ExtractPages
• Fixed buffer out of range error in text extraction
• Correct page width now used in certain text extraction calls
• Attempts to load an empty file are handled gracefully
• MergeDocument correctly merges encrypted files
• Output file is removed if DecryptFile/EncryptFile fails
• Buffer overflow fix in CCITT decoding
• Fixed a possible range check error in EMF import with bezier curves
• Improved character widths for text extraction using composite fonts
• Corrected handling of XObjects linked to optional content groups
• Correction to bounding info returned from text extraction for certain documents
• Fix font descriptor structure for the AddCJKFont function
• Improved bounds checking in GetCharWidth
• Corrected TIFF decoding with predictors
• Fixed memory allocation bug in font parsing during field flattening
• Better handling of missing files during file stream embedding
• Fix intialization difference in 32-bit and 64-bit rendering
• Default font missing width entry to zero
• End of data marker detection in ASCII85 decoder
• Improved handling of inline images
• Fixed bug in text box layout with certain text sizes
• Adjustments to get/set OCG visible state
• DBCS code page support deprecated in the AddTrueTypeFont function
• Improvements to nested XObject and Marked Content visible state rendering

Quick PDF Library 8.16

The installer for Quick PDF Library 8.16 can be downloaded from here.

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
• Documents with non-embedded fonts using GBK-EUC-H encoding now rendered correctly
• Documents with non-embedded fonts using UniGB-UCS2-H encoding now rendered correctly
• Documents with non-embedded fonts using UniCNS-UCS2-H encoding now rendered correctly
• Improved text size reported during text extraction of Type3 fonts
• Improved the accuracy of the font bounding box reported during text extraction
• Improved the accuracy of ascent/descent values read from certain fonts
• Implemented support for XFA template data with namespace versions from 2.1 up to 3.3
• Generated form field appearance stream borders now more closely match Acrobat
• Improvements to non-embedded font matching for font names containing dashes
• Type1 fonts incorrectly marked as TrueType now processed correctly
• Invalid characters found during text extraction converted to spaces instead of being dropped
• Support for TIFF images containing combined image and alpha channels
• Performance improvements to TIFF processing
• Minor changes to prevent Win64 compilation warnings
• Enhancements to SetPageLayout and GetPageLayout

New functions

• GetOptionalContentConfigLocked
• SetOptionalContentConfigLocked
• AddSWFAnnotationFromFile
• SetAnnotIntProperty
• NewTilingPatternFromCapturedPage
• SetFillTilingPattern
• GetXFAToString
• SetXFAFromString
• GetFormFieldObjectNumber
• SetTextExtractionScaling
• DASetTextExtractionScaling

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
• Symbol fonts added with AddTrueTypeFont now correctly mapped
• Metafile import with symbol fonts now correctly mapped
• Improved alignment of TA_BOTTOM and TA_TOP text in metafile import
• Non-embedded fonts with Adobe-Japan1 ordering are now rendered
• Further improvements to page extraction
• Correct font widths now returned for subsetted fonts
• SetImageMask improved to work with different image formats
• Prevention of memory leak fixed in GetFormFieldActionID when accessing sub-fields
• Prevention of memory leak in GetPageText, ExtractFilePageText and DAExtractPageText with mode 7
• NewRGBAxialShader now returns 1 to indicate success as per the documentation
• Fixed bug introduced in 8.15 for matching of standard font names
• Fixed state save/restore in EPS output
• HTML measuring functions no longer add phantom links to the page

Quick PDF Library 8.15

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
• 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

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
• Fixed importing packbits compressed TIFF images with palettes
• Improved the C++ DLL sample and corrected the version number reference in the vcproj file
• Fixed bug in Win64 when enumerating the list of system fonts
• Fixed memory leak in dynamic link to Cairo DLL
• Fixed possible attempt to access released memory when deleting/flattening form fields
• /Matrix entry removed when flattening or generating appearance streams for fields
• Annotations with /Matrix entries are correctly rendered
• Fixed a problem calling SetPDFAMode from the LIB edition
• Win64 pointer cast fix in certain HTML, Barcode and metafile import functions
• Fixed a bug saving encrypted documents containing compressed object streams
• Only appropriate form fields are copied when using the ExtractPages function

Quick PDF Library 8.14

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
• Support for OCG membership dictionaries

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
• Inline images with palette data in string format are now correctly decoded
• CCITT images with CMYK indexed color space are not correctly decoded
• HTML lists are now indented by an amount relative to the font size
• NormalizePage and SetPageBox functions both change the page boundary box locally, not inherited
• Support for masked images with DeviceGray color space

Quick PDF Library 8.13

Enhancements

• GetLatestPrinterNames
• GetPageImageList
• GetImageListCount
• GetImageListItemIntProperty
• GetImageListItemDblProperty
• GetImageListItemDataToString
• GetImageListItemDataToVariant
• SaveImageListItemDataToFile
• DASetTextExtractionWordGap
• DASetTextExtractionOptions
• DASetTextExtractionArea
• GetPageViewPortID
• GetPageViewPortCount
• GetViewPortMeasureDict
• GetViewPortName
• GetViewPortPtDataDict

New functions

• Improved text extraction speed when PDF contains bitmaps
• Improved text extraction accuracy
• Comb fields are now drawn with vertical lines
• Added support for incorrectly named JPEG image filters
• GetAnnotIntProperty returns action’s NewWindow property (tag 133)
• Added support for stream lengths that are one byte too large
• DPI information is stored in TIFF output from the renderer
• Added option 8 to text extraction routines for unformatted human readable output

Bug fixes

• SecurityInfo function now returns correct values for owner and user password
• PrintDocument, GetPrinterBins and GetPrinterDevModeToString fixed in Delphi 4-2005 and LIB edition
• Fixed rendering issues with certain fonts containing a FontMatrixScaling value
• Fixed issue with DrawHTMLTextBox stack unwinding
• Fixed error in IsAnnotFormField if the document doesn’t have any form fields
• Added support for cross reference streams containing a /W entry greater than 4
• Fixed rendering of inverted CMYK JPEG images in 64-bit builds
• Fixed VB.NET Import definitions
• Corrected handling of Type1 fonts with non-sequential /Subrs ordering
• Added code to support CIDToGID maps that are too short
• SetTextExtractionArea function corrected
• Right aligned comb fields are now drawn correctly
• Trailing slash bug fix for embedding file streams
• AddTrueTypeFontFromFile function now returns a valid FontID
• Correct handling of BoldItalic fonts in metafile import
• Added support for text objects with bounds in metafile import
• Added support for large xref stream dictionaries
• RetrieveCustomDataToFile now returns 1 on success
• DeleteContentStream now works correctly for indirect /Contents array

Quick PDF Library 8.12

The installer for Quick PDF Library 8.12 can be downloaded from here.

Enhancements

• Adjustments for compilation on Delphi XE2 (Win32 and Win64)
• Win64 versions of the DLL, ActiveX and Lite editions
• Graceful handling of zlib streams with incorrect checksums
• Added support for OpenType fonts that use CFF outlines
• Improvements to text extraction, including better handling of Unicode characters
• Support for retrieving/setting the printer DEVMODE structure
• Text extraction data now optionally reports the original CMYK color of text
• Optimizations to memory usage during rendering
• Integration of a new AES encryption library
• Optimization of CMap parsing
• Added Ansi function aliases to the DLL edition
• Added support for /Launch /F to annotation reading
• Removed LIB Edition’s dependency on msvcrt.lib
• MergeFileList and MergeFileListFast now succeed even if the list contains a single file

New functions

• SetTextExtractionArea
• GetPrinterDevModeToString
• SetPrinterDevModeFromString
• AddOpenTypeFontFromFile
• SetAnsiMode

Bug fixes

• Bug fix in DrawHTMLText function, return characters in correct MSB/LSB order
• Memory usage reduction for certain mono images
• Bug fix in handling of CCITT image data (widths less than 8)
• Drawing of wrapped text corrected
• Restored image extraction functionality for certain image types
• Corrected character widths for TrueType fonts added with a codepage
• Bug fix in DrawHTMLText function, high order bytes of Unicode characters now correct
• Corrected handling of form field fonts
• Improvements to word wrapping, multiple spaces no longer collapsed into a single space
• Improvements to form field appearance stream generation with Unicode characters
• Parsing fix where string objects begin immediately after the “obj” keyword
• Correct handling of TIFF paletted images without compression
• GetPrevOutline function was returning the next outline now returns the correct outline
• Bug fix in DrawHTMLTextBox function, returns correct stack
• Corrected handling of CCITT images with widths that are not a multiple of 8
• Fixed bug introduced in Beta 2 in the GetFirstOutline function
• Fixed crash with data containing unexpectedly formatted XMP metadata

Quick PDF Library 8.11

The installer for Quick PDF Library 8.11 can be downloaded from here.

Enhancements

• 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
• Improved font matching for CJK fonts
• XMP metadata is automatically updated after calls to SetInformation
• Control over page boundary used for clipping purposed by the renderer
• Improvements to EMF importing
• Visible signature form fields can now be flattened
• SecurityInfo function improved to report AES-256 encryption
• AddNoteAnnotation allows Unicode strings for Contents and Title

New functions

• AddTrueTypeSubsettedFont
• SetLineDashEx
• GetStringListCount
• GetStringListItem
• CheckFileCompliance
• SetRenderCropType
• SetContentStreamFromString
• GetContentStreamToString
• SetContentStreamFromVariant
• GetContentStreamToVariant
• GetPageContentToVariant
• SetPageContentFromVariant
• SetPDFAMode
• DrawPDF417Symbol
• SetTextExtractionOptions
• GetImageMeasureDict
• GetImagePtDataDict
• SetMeasureDictCoordinateSystem
• GetMeasureDictCoordinateSystem
• SetMeasureDictBoundsCount
• GetMeasureDictBoundsCount
• SetMeasureDictBoundsItem
• GetMeasureDictBoundsItem
• SetMeasureDictPDU
• GetMeasureDictPDU
• GetMeasureDictGCSDict
• GetMeasureDictDCSDict
• SetMeasureDictGPTSCount
• GetMeasureDictGPTSCount
• SetMeasureDictGPTSItem
• GetMeasureDictGPTSItem
• SetMeasureDictLPTSCount
• GetMeasureDictLPTSCount
• SetMeasureDictLPTSItem
• GetMeasureDictLPTSItem
• GetCSDictType
• SetCSDictType
• GetCSDictEPSG
• SetCSDictEPSG
• GetCSDictWKT
• SetCSDictWKT
• GetUnicodeCharactersFromEncoding

Bug fixes

• PDF parsing fix for objects with zero size (duplicate object positions)
• PDF parsing fix for stream objects with incorrect stream size
• Annotation drawing fix for different bounding box values
• Bug fix in CID to GID character code mapping
• SecurityInfo function returns valid information documents with cross reference streams
• LZW compressed TIFF images are now correctly added
• Fix for stencil mask images

Quick PDF Library 7.26

Enhancements

• Improved handling of unexpected CCITT data streams
• Elimination of invalid character codes in text extraction
• Improvements to accuracy of text extraction
• GetFormFieldSubName changed to return UTF-8 text for all field types
• Type library files included with ActiveX (special version for VB6)
• Added options 5 and 6 (character width output) to GetPageText function
• Better handling of malformed TrueType font data
• Added support for CMYK JPEG2000 images
• NormalizePage function now adjusts annotations
• Handle missing endbfchar token from malformed CMaps
• Malformed xref tables (shifted object numbers) now handled correctly

New functions

• CreateNewObject
• GetOptionalContentGroupPrintable
• GetOptionalContentGroupVisible
• GetBaseURL

Bug fixes

• Parsing of strings containing invalid reverse solidus codes corrected
• Reduced inconsistencies of internal image conversions
• Corrected image reversal for CCITT mask images
• LIB Edition of QPL now built with FastMM4 memory manager
• ServiceUnit.dfm correctly generated as part of source code release
• Corrected the direction rectangle paths are drawn
• Corrections to the way parent form fields are created
• Internal parent/child relationship corrected with NewChildFormField
• JPEG images with DeviceN color space now rendered correctly
• NormalizePage function correctly handles rotated annotations

Quick PDF Library 7.25

The installer for Quick PDF Library 7.25 can be downloaded from here.

Enhancements

• 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

New functions

• GetEmbeddedFileID
• NormalizePage
• DARemoveUsageRights
• RemoveUsageRights
• DrawImageMatrix
• SetObjectSource
• SetRenderDCErasePage
• SetMarkupAnnotStyle

Bug fixes

• ExtractPages, CopyPageRanges and ExtractPageRanges now handle inherited resources
• DrawDataMatrixSymbol now defaults to black if the fill color has not been set
• DrawDatamatrixSymbol correctly encodes double digits
• Resources are correctly freed during EMF+ output
• Corrected page indexing for DAFindPage
• Outlines are correctly appended during document merging
• Annotations now drawn independently of page transformation matrix
• Improvements to image decoding to prevent inverted images
• Image indexing bug removed from the renderer image caching system
• NewFormField returns a correct result even for fields with duplicate field names
• Improved error handling during image extraction
• Improved TIFF tag reading
• Renderer handles missing resources during color space lookup
• Improvement to text extraction
• Eliminated a possible divide by zero for DPI values in PNG images
• Renderer checks for /XObject dictionary type now allows an empty value
• HTML text drawing functions now retain list item state between breaks
• Corrected quad points order for text markup annotations
• SetAnnotQuadPoints now correctly sets the values without crashing
• Added support for OpenType fonts with CFF outlines stored in /TrueType font dictionaries

Quick PDF Library 7.24

The installer for Quick PDF Library 7.24 can be downloaded from here.

Enhancements

• 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

New functions

• GetFormFieldNoExport
• GetFormFieldRequired
• SetFormFieldNoExport
• SetFormFieldRequired
• GetFormFieldChoiceType
• SetAnnotBorderStyle
• IsTaggedPDF
• DAEmbedFileStreams
• RemoveCustomInformation

Bug fixes

• Range check improvements to Type1 decoding
• Corrected missing letters in form field annotations
• Rendering and extraction of direct font dictionaries
• ToUnicode CMaps handled for non-CID fonts
• MissingWidth font metric used instead of DW
• Consistent handling of CCITT images on various operating systems
• Improvements to nested CID font widths structures
• Improvements to parsing of various destination structures
• Improvements to parsing of comments and whitespace
• Inline image resource stream improvements
• Memory allocation fix in JBIG2 decoder
• Bitmaps row access fix in JBIG2 decoder
• Appearance stream generation for auto-size fields now handles alignment correctly
• Resource names are now correctly normalized in the renderer
• Infinite loop in xref processing of small files eliminated
• Process DPI tags in TIFF images correctly (AP1 marker)
• Aspect ratio of canvas corrected
• EPS output bug fixes (miter limit and image references)

Quick PDF Library 7.23

The installer for Quick PDF Library 7.23 can be downloaded from here.

Enhancements

• 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

New functions

• NoEmbedFontListCount
• NoEmbedFontListAdd
• NoEmbedFontListGet
• NoEmbedFontListRemoveIndex
• NoEmbedFontListRemoveName
• NoEmbedFontListRemoveAll
• NewPageFromCanvasDC
• SaveImageToString
• SaveImageToVariant
• DAHasPageBox
• DASetPageBox
• DADrawRotatedCapturedPage

Bug fixes

• Dingbats font is rendered correctly when drawn multiple times
• DASetPageBox supports Options = 3, 4 and 5 in accordance with the documentation
• DADrawCapturedPage handles direct page contents array
• SignFile handles encrypted files and files with cross reference streams
• DAAppendFile handles files with cross reference streams
• AddSubsettedFont and GetSubsetString functions handle character codes less than U+0100
• Pixel size of renderer output is now consistent with the DPI, page dimensions and SetRenderScale

Quick PDF Library 7.22

The installer for Quick PDF Library 7.22 can be downloaded from here.

New functions

• Circle co-ordinates in metafile import
• Empty fills in metafile import
• Added support for a text output operator in the renderer
• Alignment calculations for the FitImage function for different measurement units
• Corrected DADrawCapturedPage function
• NewStaticOutline function accepts a ParentID of 0
• LoadFromString correctly sets the SourceFileSize
• Improvements to retrieval of annotation properties (page number)
• Improvements to font name matching for non-embedded fonts
• Improvements to form field appearance stream generation for rotated pages/fields
• Improvements to form field appearance stream generation for fields with auto-size fields
• GetTableColumnCount returns correct result
• Adjustments to EPS output
• Corrected the operation of the DAMovePage function
• Improvements to direct access form field functions
• Protection from divide by zero exceptions in the renderer
• Correct handling of offset CropBox in the renderer
• Direct access image extraction corrected for TIFF images

Enhancements

• Support for rendering images compressed with JBIG2 encoding
• Support for reading PDFs containing malformed (19-byte) xref table entries
• Support for CFF fonts stored in OpenType format
• Support for Format2 charset tables in CFF font data
• Support for remote destination file names in GetOutlineOpenFile
• Added new DLL import for C++ with MFC (CString instead of std::string)
• Added new DLL import for Visual FoxPro
• Added new DLL import for VB.NET
• Support for Delphi XE
• FitTextBox, allow Options = 3
• Improved CMYK to RGB mapping
• Added support for bleed, trim and art box in CapturePageEx
• Added support for bleed, trim and art box in DACapturePageEx
• Improvements to GetNamedDestination
• Upgraded internal ZLib library to version 1.2.5
• Improved loading of documents with data after the %%EOF tag
• Added new DLL import for C++ with MFC (CString instead of std::string)
• Added new DLL import for Visual FoxPro
• Added new DLL import for VB.NET
• Support for Delphi XE
• Direct access image extraction now supports JPEG images

Quick PDF Library 7.21

The installer for Quick PDF Library 7.21 can be downloaded from here.

New functions

• 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

Quick PDF Library 7.19

New Features and Improvements:

General

• 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
• Bug fix in decompressing flate data with a /Predictor value of 1
• Bug fix in TrueType parser with composite characters (alignment of diacritical marks)
• 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
• Bug fix for rendering of large CCITT encoded images
• 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

Quick PDF Library 7.18

New Features and Improvements:

General

• 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)

<pPage and document manipulation

• Improvements to ExtractPageRanges function
• Improvements to ExtractPages function
• Improvements to CopyPageRanges function
• New! SetPageBox function
• Added options 4 and 5 to SetPageMode function (OCG and Attachments)

Fonts

• Bug fix in AddTrueTypeFont* functions allowing text extraction from non-English code pages
• Improvements to AddTrueTypeFont* functions, fonts in TrueType collections now supported
• Bug fix parsing Type 1 fonts

Form Fields and Annotations

• Support for adding choice fields
• Bug fix in GetAnnot*Property retrieving annotation page number
• New! IsAnnotFormField function
• New! AttachAnnotToForm function
• New! NewChildFormField function
• Added tag 131 to GetAnnotIntProperty for page number of GoTo link
• NewFormField can create parent form fields

Text extraction and rendering

• Improvements to handling pages with inline images
• Added support for composite fonts with variable-length encoding
• Added support for predefined CMaps
• Improved handling of 8-bit CMaps
• Bug fix for handling of paths in Winding mode
• Improvements to alpha transparency masks
• Added support for named color spaces
• Bug fix for text extraction CSV output with properly quoted strings
• Bug fix in Type 1 font rasterizer
• New! PrintDocumentToFile function

Images

• Bug fix handling inverted Packbits TIFF images
• Added support for rendering JPEG2000 images (not available in Delphi 4 and Delphi 5 Editions)
• Added support for CalGray color space
• Optimized handling of 1-bit mono image data
• Added support for LZW predictors

Unicode support

• AddFormField – SubName parameter
• DAGetFormFieldTitle – return string
• DAGetFormFieldValue – return string
• DAOpenFileReadOnly – FileName parameter
• ExtractFilePages – InputFileName parameter (previously only in Delphi/DLL Edition)
• ExtractFilePages – OutputFileName parameter (previously only in Delphi/DLL Edition)
• FileListItem – return string (previously only in Delphi/DLL Edition)
• FindFormFieldByTitle – Title parameter
• GetAnnotStrProperty – return string (previously only for two tags)
• GetFormFieldCaption – return string
• GetFormFieldChildTitle – return string
• GetFormFieldDefaultValue – return string
• GetFormFieldDescription – return string
• GetFormFieldTitle – return string
• GetFormFieldValue – return string
• GetFormFieldValueByTitle – return string
• GetFormFieldValueByTitle – Title parameter
• GetTempPath – return string (previously only for Delphi/DLL Edition)
• NewFormField – Title parameter
• SaveToFile – FileName parameter (previously only in Delphi/DLL Edition)
• SetFormFieldCaption – NewCaption parameter
• SetFormFieldTitle – NewTitle parameter
• SetFormFieldDefaultValue – NewDefaultValue parameter
• SetFormFieldDescription – NewDescription parameter
• SetFormFieldValue – NewValue parameter
• SetFormFieldValueByTitle – Title parameter
• SetFormFieldValueByTitle – NewValue parameter
• SetGDIPlusFileName – DLLFileName parameter (previously only in Delphi/DLL Edition)
• SetTempFile – FileName parameter (previously only in Delphi/DLL Edition)
• SignFile – InputFileName parameter (previously only in Delphi/DLL Edition)
• SignFile – SignatureFieldName parameter
• SignFile – OutputFileName parameter (previously only in Delphi/DLL Edition)
• SignFile – PFXFileName parameter (previously only in Delphi/DLL Edition)
• StoreCustomDataFromFile – FileName parameter (previously only in Delphi/DLL Edition)

Quick PDF Library 7.17

New Features and Improvements:

• New GetDocumentFileName function
• Encrypted documents are no longer auto-decrypted in some
  circumstances (same behaviour as 7.15 and earlier)
• MergeStreams, MergeFiles and MergeFileList functions now merge
  bookmarks
• FlattenFormField function now works even if the form field does
  not have a /P (page) entry
• New tags to retrieve the following annotation properties:
  Subject (/Subj)In reply to (/IRT)

  Unicode filename (/UF)

  Page number of GoTo link

• PDFs with certain malformed stream objects can now be loaded
  (e.g. Microsoft Reporting Services PDFs)
• Improved text extraction using mode 0
• Improved accuracy and speed for PNG predictors in flate
  compressed images
• The following code pages are now supported in the
  AddTrueTypeFont function:874 THAI_CHARSET932 SHIFTJIS_CHARSET

  936 GB2312_CHARSET

  949 HANGEUL_CHARSET

  950 CHINESEBIG5_CHARSET

  1256 ARABIC_CHARSET

  1361 JOHAB_CHARSET

• Improved EMF import functionality
• Improved masked image processing speed
• Added support for malformed stream images with LF starting
  character
• Added support for optional content groups in the renderer
• XFA form field support now uses “MSXML2.DOMDocument” instead of
  “MSXML2.DOMDocument.4.0″
• The following functions have been Unicode enabled:DAGetInformationDASetInformation

  SetCustomInformation

  GetCustomInformation

  SetInformation

  GetInformation

  GetCatalogInformation

  SetCatalogInformation

  RetrieveCustomDataToString

  StoreCustomDataFromString

  GetAnalysisInfo

  NewOutline

  SetOutlineTitle

  OutlineTitle

  NewStaticOutline

  GetOutlineJavaScript

  SetOutlineJavaScript

  AddLinkToJavaScript

  FormFieldJavaScriptAction

  GetFormFieldJavaScript

  SetOpenActionJavaScript

  PageJavaScriptAction

  DocJavaScriptAction

  AddGlobalJavaScript

  GetGlobalJavaScript

  GlobalJavaScriptPackageName

  GetPageJavaScript

  AddPageLabels

  GetPageLabel

  NewOptionalContentGroup

  GetOptionalContentGroupName

  GetDocumentFileName

  DAExtractPageText

  GetPageText

  ExtractFilePageText

  GetAnnotStrProperty

  SetAnnotStrProperty

Quick PDF Library 7.16

New Features and Improvements:

• New GetObjectCount function
• New GetObjectSource function
• New DAOpenFromStream function
• New DASaveToStream function
• New DAGetObjectCount function
• New DAGetObjectSource function
• New DAGetFormFieldCount function
• New DAGetFormFieldValue function
• New AppendTableRows function
• New AppendTableColumns function
• New InsertTableRows function
• New InsertTableColumns function
• New FontFamily function
• New DeleteAnnotation function
• New GetTableRowCount function
• New GetTableColumnCount function
• New AppendTableRows function
• New function AppendTableColumns
• New CloneOutlineAction function
• New GetActionType function
• New GetOutlineActionID function
• New GetAnnotActionID function
• TIFF images optionally loaded using GDI+
• TIFF output added to renderer
• File names in link annotations (eg. AddLinkToFile) can now be
  Unicode (/UF key used in file spec dictionary)
• NewCustomPrinter bug fix
• HTML text font size bug fix
• Delphi 2009 string cast bug fix
• Fixed bug signing a PDF produced by Word 2007
• Fixed bug with RenderDocumentToFile page number
  substitution
• New pixel offset mode for rendering images to eliminate white
  lines
• C# DLL wrapper handles unicode filenames correctly
• Fixed memory leak bug: rendering documents with many large
  images
• Fixed memory leak bug in DLL allocation
• Bug fix for PDFs with comments in the cross reference
  stream
• Improvements to GetPageLGIDictContent
• Bug fix AddSubsettedFont
• AddToFileList now supports Unicode file names

Quick PDF Library 7.15

New Features and Improvements:

• Unicode support for filenames
• New SetBaseURL function
• GeoPDF
  support. New related functions: AddLGIDictToPage,
  GetPageLGIDictCount, GetPageLGIDictContent and
  DeletePageLGIDict
• New ImportEMFFromFile function
• New SetAnnotStrProperty function
• Renderer allows fonts to be direct objects as well as indirect
  objects
• Improved font matching in renderer
• Implemented Deflate on image data with predictor and
  BitsPerComponent = 4

Quick PDF Library 7.14

New Features and Improvements:

• Delphi 2009 improvements
• Fixed CFF font decoding bug
• Bug fix for fonts with /Differences array and no /ToUnicode
  entry
• Bug fix for non-embedded fonts with slightly different standard
  font names
• Bug fix for matching fonts characters with capital letters
• New GetCanvasDC and LoadFromCanvasDC functions
• New GetXFAFormFieldNames function
• New GetXFAFormFieldName function
• New GetXFAFormFieldCount function
• Updated the docs for the XFA functions
• New GetFontObjectNumber function
• New SetAdvancePassword function
• New CreateTable function
• New SetTableColumnWidth function
• New SetTableRowHeight function
• New SetTableCellBorderColor function
• New SetTableCellBorderColorCMYK function
• New SetTableCellBorderWidth function
• New SetTableCellBackgroundColor function
• New SetTableCellBackgroundColorCMYK function
• New SetTableCellPadding function
• New SetTableCellAlignment function
• New SetTableCellContent function
• New SetTableCellTextColor function
• New SetTableCellTextColorCMYK function
• New SetTableCellTextSize function
• New SetTableBorderColor function
• New SetTableBorderColorCMYK function
• New SetTableBorderWidth function
• New MergeTableCells function
• New DrawTableRows function
• New GetTableLastDrawnRow function
• New GetTableCellStrProperty function
• New GetTableCellIntProperty function
• New GetTableCellDblProperty function

Quick PDF Library 7.13

New Features and Improvements:

• Delphi 2009 support
• New functionality for GetAnnotStrProperty and
  GetAnnotIntProperty to handle GoToR and Launch annotations and
  speed improvements
• New EmbeddedFileCount function
• New GetEmbeddedFileStrProperty function
• New GetEmbeddedFileIntProperty function
• New GetEmbeddedFileContentToFile function
• New GetEmbeddedFileContentToString function
• New GetEmbeddedFileContentToStream function
• Improvements to internal outline navigation
• New GetNamedDestination function
• Internal support for name objects directly following the obj
  keyword
• Bug fix and improvements to encryption fingerprint
  functions
• Option to load images using GDI+ instead of internal image
  handling functions
• Support for type 3 functions
• Improvements to image decoding
• Support for inverted JPEG palettes
• Faster page location when page tree is a single array
• Support for loading 8-bit alpha mask from PNG images
• Better rendering of encrypted documents
• Support for alternate ICC based color space in renderer
• Support for W=4 in cross reference stream
• Speed improvements to object decoding
• Bug fix for text extraction with option 4 to return single
  words

Quick PDF Library 7.12

New Features and Improvements:

• Specifically targeted for ASP, C++, C#, Delphi, PowerBASIC,
  PowerBuilder and Visual Basic
• Save-to-stream and Load-from-stream support for web
  serving
• Advanced PDF rasterizer with RenderPageToDC and gradient
  support
• Advanced PDF page combining, cloning, extraction, imposition
  and merging technology
• Advanced PDF encryption, decryption (including 128-bit
  encryption) and digital signatures
• TrueType font support (including font embedding)
• Support for Japanese fonts and Turkish codepage (1254)
• Comprehensive form field and JavaScript support
• Built-in PDF barcode support
• Advanced drawing, including circles and arcs
• Rotated text, multi-line paragraph text, word-wrapped paragraph
  text
• Outline and hypertext functions
• Embedded image, file grouping and links
• Blazing performance increase and much more…