Quick PDF end of life

 Foxit PDF SDK

This situation we had already up to 2007.
Kevin Newman was the only developer and publisher of QuickPDF.
His limited resources as a one-man-company (i think so) leads into a lack of support. In the end he completely stopped further developement and stopped answering questions.
We were a small group of developers using QuickPDF in our own projects.
From 2007 on we've tried to get in contact in many ways with Kevin to buy the library rights from him but he never answered.
From 2006 up to 2009 we've adapted more and more new functionalities into this library.
Each developer with a proof of purchase for the original compiled or the source version got the new version from us.
On this website www.quickpdf.org we offered support by our own (from users to users).
In the end of 2008 we've got messages from Karl de Abrew (R.I.P) and Rowan Hanna - well known pdf-pioneers. They've established a new company (Debenu) and bought the complete rights of the library from Kevin (we all were wondering how they managed it cause we hadn't success in doing the same for a long time).
Our small group got a lifetime source license from Debenu - that was all.
Debenu hired a developer team from Czechoslovakia, take over our further developement and began publishing the library.
Years ago most of the initial Debenu-team like Karl, his wife and Rowan changed with QuickPDF under the roof of the Foxit company... This was the reason slow down for support and further developement and leads to the actual situation.
It is a shame about this extensive yet slim library - the stroke of fate a second time now :(
A month ago i've made a complete copy of this website with all pdf-resources and reference guide and so on. So we'll look forward to December, 2022...
I'm very dissapointed but... Maybe some things can be repeated several times... ;-)
 


Edited by Ingo - 13 Dec 21 at 11:15PM

Hi Martin,

seems that even using the wayback machine there isn't any forgotten link for buying the library now.
The other things were things from the past - i don't wanna do it again... it's a lot of work and we've stopped in 2009 ;-)
But further things shouldn't be discussed here (there's no problem to find me on the web ;-)

I remember that when chilkat gave up his own forum, he switched to stack sites.

Maybe we create new tag in 

https://stackoverflow.com/
?

Did you have any joy from Foxit, it would appear every department has been closed between 05:00 and 16:00 UTC today. As the HQ is California we will keep trying until UTC 20:00

We also have users with a source license - due to this a compile job for the owners of a compiled version shouldn't be a problem ;-)
I've described what we can do.
In the moment this website suddenly dissapears i'll start a new forum/community and let you know where to find and there we'll maintain the library by ourselves for ourselves.

Hi Ulrich,

As I said somewhere else here, we have licenced QPDF source and I test-built the DCUs with Delphi 11.  BUT (a) our source is only 16.11, not 18.11, and Foxit have not responded to two requests I have made to supply an upgrade; (b) I have not had time to do any serious testing, only enough to make sure it works in some simple checks; and (c) I believe that sharing the DCU and all the OBJ files (for which there is no source supplied) would be a breach of the licence. So sorry, I cannot risk doing what you ask at this stage, and I feel that even discussing this type of action here might not be welcomed by Foxit. Of course this might change if the product has become abandonware.

reallyethical chased for contact details over the holiday for our company.

I think they are only working off certain companies or programmers that could not be a threat to them as a competitor in the long term. If reallyethical was lucky here too, that doesn't seem to apply to many others (including me). Therefore, contacting Leonardo from FoxIt is probably not an option in the long run. I did that too, without success...so it coincides with the experience of swb1 ...

Hi Russel,

but that's not the same like being here in the community and forum?
I'm gathering all contact data of the interesting users of the library and if THIS forum here dissapears i'll open a new forum for us sending info-emails to the usrs.
But as far as this forum hr is online i think w should stay her. New users of th library will googel for resources and they will land here - so i think we should stay as long as possible.

Hey guys, does anybody have a valid support mail from FoxIt?

You could try Leonardo Martello <leonardo_martello@foxitsoftware.com>. He has published his e-mail address in this forum in the past as a contact point.  His title was still "Renewals Account Manager" in January this year, but I guess the concept of renewals for QPDF is no more.  If you are in Europe I have a couple of other names from Foxit's Ireland and Germany offices, but they are 'Foxit people' who gave the impression of not knowing much about QPDF.

Edited by carriola5 - 24 May 22 at 10:42AM

carriola5 wrote: Good morning, I wanted to know if there is any hope of having the QuickPDf 18.11 libraries compiled for Delphi 11 Alexandria. Or if is there a chance to buy the sources from someone? I am very desperate as it is not possible to use it in with the latest version of delphi. This is very sad and unfair :( thanks

Hi :)

Perhaps you'l find a QuickPDF-user with a source license and Delphi 11 Alexandria.
Who's reading here...?
Give yourself a kick and help ;-)

Cheers and welcome here,
Ingo

Sure it would be... but if the publisher stops support "help yourself" should be the first choice!
That wouldn't happen now if Debenu hadn't snatched the fate of the library out of my community's hands back then!
But this is how business works... Rough...

From the Debenu license: b. Ceases Operations. In the event that DEBENU ceases product support or business operations and no surviving entity owns the rights to the source code, then you may retain and continue to use the Code only under the terms outlined in this EULA. 

Hi Stefano :)

You're on my list and i'll call you if this forum gives you a 404 ;-)

Cheers and welcome here,
Ingo

Hi Pieter,

you're on my list now.
Thanks.