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v3.1

General

Acquisition

PDF generation

PDF importer Mac OS X/Windows

QPix 3 included a custom PDF importer that was based on the QuickTime/Mac movie importer. Although the QPix graphic importer was much better than the one built into QuickTime, there was not enough room for improvement because the base (the PDF movie importer) was very limiting.

In QPix 3.1 a new PDF importer was written from scratch. The new importer calls directly into Core Graphics, the system-wide PDF engine of Mac OS X. With the new importer it is now possible to specify through plug-in options the rendering resolution of PDF images, and also the PDF rectangle that constitutes the page bounds. The old PDF importer is still available, but disabled by default (can be enabled through a plug-in option).

QPix 3.1 also includes a PDF importer for the Windows platform. The Windows PDF importer uses AFPL Ghostscript, an open-source postscript interpreter. Because of this, the Windows PDF importer is not enabled by default. To enable the importer, two things must be done:

New plug-in options related to the PDF importers:

Custom Icons

There are new commands for working with custom file icons (Mac only):

QPx_SetCustomIcon
Sets the custom icon of a file.
QPx_GetCustomIcon
Retrieves the custom icon of a file.
QPx_ClearCustomIcon
Clears the custom icon of a file.

Other enhancements

Bug fixes