Technical Notes |
- Programming environments: Win32 visual development environments including Visual Studio 2008
- Sample code is included for: VB.NET, C#, VB, VC++, Delphi
- Deploys within .NET as a managed component and is fully compliant with .NET Framework 2.0 and above
- Can also be used in any development environment that hosts ActiveX or COM components
- Support user-specified debug logging levels
- Suitable for client/server Web applications
- Can be used in a multi-threaded environment and perform synchronous thread-safe processing (more).
- Free full-featured trial version available for immediate download
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Edition Descriptions |
Reader Edition Read PDF documents (including the associated annotations and bookmarks), render pages, and extract content from PDFs. (The Reader Edition contains a subset of Professional Edition features.)
Professional Edition Create PDF documents, including PDF/A, and modify the PDF content, plus all of the Reader Edition features. |
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PDF Reading Support |
- Read all PDF documents, including PDF/A and any version PDF through 1.7
- Load PDF documents from file or memory
- Extract text from searchable PDF documents and return location and context of search results for a given string
- Export PDF annotations to XFDF (XML)
- Access document metadata, bookmarks, and thumbnails
- Render pages to Bitmap, DIB, EPS, RAW or Device Context.
- Specify render options, including portion of page to render, target resolution, and bit depth
- Render large pages to higher resolution (e.g. for optimized display of large engineering drawings)
- Render copy-protected PDF documents where content copying and extraction is not allowed (commonly produced by legal and financial institutions)
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PDF Writing Support |
- Create a new PDF document (version 1.6)
- Create PDF/A–1b compliant image-only PDFs
- Add images to a PDF page:
- TIFF (CCITT G3 1D, G3 2D, and G4)
- JBIG2
- PNG
- JPEG (sequential or progressive)
- JPEG 2000
- GIF
- BMP
- RAW
- Add text objects to a PDF page
- Append, insert, move, or delete pages within a PDF document (e.g. to split one PDF file into multiple files, or merge two PDFs together.)
- Linearize PDF documents for rapid display
- Add, modify, and delete PDF bookmarks, linking to locations within the document that can be displayed as an outline
- Modify and write document metadata
- Import PDF annotations from XFDF (XML) into PDF document
- Add watermarks to a PDF page
- Delete watermarks created by Adobe or PDF Xpress from a PDF page
- Add, replace, or delete thumbnails associated with a page in a PDF document
- Render pages directly to Device Context for rapid printing and display
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Additional File Formats |
- Use ImagXpress to support additional file format conversion and compression beyond PDF (more information)
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