Monthly Archives: September 2012

Qoppa’s PDF reader app for Android hits 100,000 downloads!

Qoppa Software is happy to announce that qPDF Viewer – its PDF reader app for Android – has reached the milestone of 100,000 downloads on Google Play this week!

“We’re glad that so many Android users have elected qPDF Viewer as their favorite app to read PDF documents on Android phones and tablets. But this is only the beginning! We’re in the process of finalizing a major release of our app with many exciting new features that we expect will please our users even more!” says Gerald Holmann, Qoppa Software’s president.

qPDF Viewer is a free, high-fidelity rendering PDF app that offers sophisticated reading and navigation capabilities such as:

Marking preferred passages with personal bookmarks inside a PDF document.
Easily navigating through PDFs using the documents’ table of contents, hyperlinks or added comments / annotations.
Efficiently searching text through PDF documents using the advanced search feature.

qPDF Viewer – Qoppa’s FREE PDF reader app– is available for all Android phones and tablets 2.1 or above* as well as the Blackberry Playbook, in the following languages: English, French, Italian and Spanish. It can be installed from the following markets:

Google Play – Download

Amazon Appstore – Download

BlackBerry PlayBook – Download

For those who need to do more with PDFs, qPDF Notes – Qoppa’s app to annotate PDF documents and fill interactive forms, is offered at an unbeatable price of $4.99:

Google Play – Download

Amazon Appstore – Download

BlackBerry PlayBook – Download

* Phone and tablets supported include: Nexus 7, Samsung Galaxy S2 and Galaxy S3, Asus Transformer Prime, Acer Iconia, Samsung Galaxy Tab, Samsung Galaxy Note, Motorola XOOM, Lenovo Thinkpad, Kindle Fire, Nook Color, Sony Xperia, devices with custom ROMs.

Qoppa Software’s fall release of Java PDF libraries and components improves PDF text extraction and rendering performance

Atlanta – September 12 2012 – Qoppa Software, a leading provider of PDF solutions, releases newly improved versions of all of their Java PDF library products.

Qoppa’s Java PDF class libraries are enhanced with a new powerful algorithm for text extraction.

“The order and organization of text objects in a PDF document do not necessarily correspond to the logical reading order. We have developed a new text extraction algorithm which detects the natural flow of even structured PDF documents such as research or newspaper articles. We’re very happy with the results when compared with other PDF tools.” says Gerald Holmann, Qoppa President.

The new release also adds enhanced memory management so the PDF libraries can handle rendering and printing of very large CCITT fax images (200Mb and above).

In this fall release, Qoppa’s Java PDF visual components benefit from a new tile-based rendering approach which splits each page of a PDF document into multiple tiles that can be rendered and cached independently. This new strategy enables implementing out of thread rendering and improving image caching and memory usage, which makes it easier to work with intensive PDF documents in 3 areas:

Faster rendering
Smoother drawing of annotations
Better GUI responsiveness

Also new in this release is Qoppa’s pan and zoom tool which will allow users to zoom in and out of high-resolution pages and move around a page (“pan”) while also displaying a larger view of a page. This new tool should greatly benefit professionals working in the media, print, and graphics industries.

Thanks to the revision of Qoppa’s text extraction algorithm, text selection and highlight is also greatly improved in the visual components. Now cursor based, it follows the logical reading order of structured documents and allows marking up text across columns.

“The new release brings our Java PDF rendering components to a whole new level, delivering one of the best user experiences available on the market when it comes to viewing, marking up and scrolling through PDF documents.” – Gerald Holmann, Qoppa President

For additional details, change logs are published on Qoppa’s Knowledge Base:

Full Change Log for Java PDF Library 2012-09 Release

Full Change Log for Java PDF Component 2012-09 Release