PDFOne v3.3
Create, edit, view, print & enhance PDF documents and forms on Java™ platform

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Trial Limitations

Trial versions of all editions will cause trial marks in generated documents, viewers, and printers. The Trial version can only be used for an evaluation period of 90 days on a computer.

Differences Between Editions

Please read the article Gnostice Gnostice PDFOne Editions - Professional, Free and GPL.

Free Edition Registration

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Features

Gnostice PDFOne for the Java™ platform supports the following features. (For system requirements, click here.)

Feature Matrix By Edition

Features By Category
General Features, I/O and Security Support
Document Creation (new documents)
Document Modification (existing documents)
Document Re-organization
Acroforms Processing (PDF eForms)
Document Viewing and Printing
General Features, I/O and Security Support	Professional	Free
Load from file and memory stream
Save to file and memory stream
Full support for reading PDF version 1.3 through 1.6 (Acrobat 4 through 7) files
Support for TrueType, OpenType and TTC (TrueType Collections) fonts
Support for Full Embedding of TrueType, OpenType and TTC (TrueType Collections) fonts
Support for Subset Embedding of TrueType, OpenType and TTC (TrueType Collections) fonts
Unicode support for text rendering. Support for all character sets – Eastern Europe, Chinese, Japanese...
Specify watermarks, document information properties, bookmarks and text annotations in Unicode
Secure PDF document with 40-bit and 128-bit encryption
Read encrypted PDF document with given password
Read XML metadata of PDF document
Read and modify document information properties such as Title, Author, Subject, Keywords…
Set document viewer preferences
Add and modify page thumbnails
Render several types of images including JPEG, BMP (v1.0 through v4.0) including indexed BMP, and PNG formats
Compress/decompress document using Flate Encode/Decode, ASCII85 Encode/Decode, ASCIIHex Encode/Decode, RunLength Encode/Decode, and LZW Encode/Decode
Document Creation (new documents)	Professional	Free
Advanced drawing functions – Header/Footer, Paragraph, Table, Textbox, Watermark/Stamping and Auto Pagination for text and images
Insert Annotations - Text, Link, FreeText, Line, Square, Circle, Highlight, Underline, Squiggly, StrikeOut, Stamp, Ink, Caret and more
File Attachments
Add actions to links and annotations - URI, go-to, remote go-to, launch, JavaScript, and named
Add document-level and page-level actions
Add actions to bookmarks [URI, go-to, remote go-to, launch, JavaScript, and named]
Add page-level and document-level file attachments
Document Modification (existing documents)	Professional	Free
Add watermarks and stamps with text and images
Add, edit, and delete annotations
Add actions to bookmarks [URI, go-to, remote go-to, launch, JavaScript, and named]
Add actions to annotations [URI, go-to, remote go-to, launch, JavaScript, and named]
Insert page-level and document-level attachments
Add page headers and footers
Add, modify, and delete page thumbnails
Draw shapes such as circles, ellipses, squares, rectangles, lines, polylines, polygons…
Write formatted text with various fonts
Place autotext in rendered text [page number, total page count, time, and date]
Enable a PDF document to be used as a presentation slide with various transition effects
Change page layout
Change document viewer settings
Change document viewer window settings
Modify and delete actions assigned to a bookmark
Modify and delete actions assigned to a annotation
Add, modify, and delete bookmarks
Change owner and user passwords
Change document restrictions
Document Re-organization	Professional	Free
Merge several documents into one
Copy pages from one document and append or insert them in to another document
Split a document into several new documents
Include/exclude bookmarks, annotations, form-fields, page-level actions, document-level actions from page reorganization operations
Acroforms Processing (PDF eForms)	Professional	Free
Create new PDF form fields
Edit and fill existing form fields
Flatten existing form fields to make them non-interactive
Delete form field
Clone form field
Import form field values from an FDF file
Export form field values to an FDF file
Edit form fields with XFA data
Document Viewing and Printing	Professional	Free
PDF viewer component
PDF printer component
Font types - embedded Type 0, Type 1, Type 3, and TrueType
Image encoding - CCITT Fax and DCT
Image colorspaces - Device (RGB, CMYK and grayscale), CIE-based (RGB, grayscale, and ICC), and special (Indexed, Separation* and DeviceN*)
Image bits per color component - 1, 4, and 8
Ordinary and flattened form fields
Page view options - fit, zoom, and rotation
Viewer navigation options - first page, last page, next page, previous page, and custom (manual input by user)
Options for specifying printer, printer page size, page range, number of copies, and automatic page resizing, rotation and centering.
Export to image formats (supported by the installed JRE version and Java Advanced Imaging Image I/O Tools API)

System Requirements

Please ensure that your systems meets these requirements.

Minimum Software Requirements

• Common for all PDFOne Java components
  • JDK 1.4 or above
• For PDF Viewer and PDF Printer components alone
  • Windows, Linux or Mac

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New Licenses

If you are a new customer, you can purchase these licenses. If you are an existing customer of this product, please click here.

Professional Edition

License	Software Assurance	Price (US$)	Buy from Plimus
Single-Developer License	(Add $135)		Buy Now
Site License	(Add $3368)		Buy Now
Single-Internet Server Deployment License	Not Applicable		Buy Now

GPAD License

License	Software Assurance	Price (US$)	Buy from Plimus
Here is an extract from our registered software license agreement. OTHER RIGHTS AND LIMITATIONS You may NOT use the SOFTWARE PRODUCT or any part of the source code contained in the SOFTWARE PRODUCT to develop or assist in the development of a general purpose software product(s) or an integrated work(s) or product suite(s) whose sole purpose is to work with and/ or a considerable and critical portion of the software you are developing is related to documents including but not limited to creating, producing, converting or transforming documents from any format to PDF, HTML, RTF, Excel, text or other formats supported by the SOFTWARE PRODUCT. Some examples of the these types of software are general purpose reporting software, business intelligence software, document management software, web services, virtual printer driver software, and PDF viewing/printing/ converting software. To use the SOFTWARE PRODUCT to develop a general purpose software product, you require an GPAD (General Purpose Application Developer) License. GPAD License? For unlimited deployments Please read GPAD Licence Agreement before buying.	Not Applicable		Buy Now
Here is an extract from our registered software license agreement. OTHER RIGHTS AND LIMITATIONS You may NOT use the SOFTWARE PRODUCT or any part of the source code contained in the SOFTWARE PRODUCT to develop or assist in the development of a general purpose software product(s) or an integrated work(s) or product suite(s) whose sole purpose is to work with and/ or a considerable and critical portion of the software you are developing is related to documents including but not limited to creating, producing, converting or transforming documents from any format to PDF, HTML, RTF, Excel, text or other formats supported by the SOFTWARE PRODUCT. Some examples of the these types of software are general purpose reporting software, business intelligence software, document management software, web services, virtual printer driver software, and PDF viewing/printing/ converting software. To use the SOFTWARE PRODUCT to develop a general purpose software product, you require an GPAD (General Purpose Application Developer) License. GPAD License? For up to 1000 deployments Please read GPAD Licence Agreement before buying.	Not Applicable		Buy Now

Purchasing Guide

To develop, deploy, or sell an unlimited number of permitted royalty-free desktop and Intranet applications created using this developer tool, you need to purchase either:

• a Single-Developer License, one for each developer who will use the developer tool, or
• a Site License, one for every campus where the developer tool will be used.

To deploy permitted Internet applications (not including Intranet applications) created using this developer tool, you need to obtain a Single-Internet-Server Deployment License, one for each deployment server.

Development and deployment of some applications, such as those whose functionality closely resemeble the developer tool, and also certain other types of products, are not permitted. To develop, deploy or sell such products, you need to obtain an individual OEM/GPAD license.

For complete details, please read the license agreements.

History

Version 3.3 - April 30, 2009

• Enhancements
  • in PDF Viewer & PDF Printer components
    • Apple Macintosh OS X support
    • Support for rendering of CMYK images and masked images
    • Printer options for specifying paper trays, paper collation, and paper sides
    • Support for string localization in printer dialog using PdfPrintDialogLabelResources.properties file
    • Introduced PdfPrintPageHandler to pre-process the page contents before it is actually sent to printer
    • Introduced PdfPrintPageHandler.cancelPrinting to cancel the current print job
  • in PDF Document component
    • Optimized document loading performance
• Fixes
  • in PDF Document component
    • File release by PdfReader.dispose() method
    • File release by PdfDocument.merge() methods
    • Form field rotation by PdfFormField.setRotation(int) method
    • PdfDocument.saveAsImage() when null is passed as image name prefix - used to cause NullPointerException
    • PdfDocument.saveAsImage() overload with imageWidth and imageHeight parameters - clipped images fixed
  • in PDF Viewer & PDF Printer components
    • Rendering of Type 0 Fonts (CID Fonts)

Version 3.2 - March 16, 2009

• Enhancements
  • in Viewer & Printer components
    • Interactivity links in viewer - support for link annotation actions (go-to, named, and URI actions)
    • Support for rendering of masked images in viewer
    • New printing options to specify custom page size, margins, and orientation
    • Support for printing to file
    • New page-level events - before, after and while a page is printed
    • New overloaded saveAsImage and saveDocAsTiffImage methods with arguments for specifying image DPI
  • in Document component
    • New overloaded DrawImage() method to take a RenderedImage instance as argument
    • New overloaded DrawImage() method to downsize an image to fit inside a smaller page
    • New overloaded addPageBreak() method to quickly add a new page after the default page of a PDFDocument (created for a new blank document)
    • New PdfAutoPageCreationHandler event to set page size and margins for the pages created by autopagination and the new addPageBreak() method
• Fixes
  • in Viewer component
    • Several bug fixes for Viewer
    • Decompression issues with FlateDecode filter
    • Inability to show the rotated PDF Page with CropBox
  • in Document component
    • Returning annotation's location in proper user-equivalent coordinates in relation to page's rotation

Version 3.1 - February 2, 2009

• Enhancements
  • Updated viewer component
    • Support for rendering of text using embedded/non-embedded identity/non-identity-encoded Type 0 fonts
    • Support for rendering of text using Type 3 fonts
    • Optimized rendering of images using CCITTFax encoding
    • Optimized rendering of all supported image formats
    • Support for Separation, DeviceN colorspaces that use RGB or CMYK colors with Type 0 or Type 2 functions
• Fixes
  • Decompression issues with LZW Filter

Version 3.0 - November 28, 2008

• Enhancements
  • Updated viewer component
    • Optimized rendering of documents
    • Added support for
      • Type 1 fonts
      • TrueType fonts
      • Type 0 fonts
    • Added support for
      • Images with the following colorspaces
        • DeviceRGB
        • DeviceGray
        • DeviceCMYK
        • CalRGB
        • CalGray
        • ICCBased
        • Indexed
      • Images with 1, 4, and 8 bits per color component
  • Updated printer component
    • Optimized printing of documents
    • Introduced methods to
      • Set and get page range subsets
      • Set and get page scaling
      • Get and set page auto-rotation and centering
      • Print pages in reverse order
  • Updated document component
    • Added support for exporting specified pages as a multi-page TIFF (requires Java Advanced Imaging Image I/O Tools API in the build path)
    • Introduced methods for
      • Adding file attachments using a byte array
      • Getting file attachments
      • Removing file attachments
      • Obtaining other attachemnts-related information
      • Removing embedded fonts in a PDF
      • Replacing an existing font with another font
  • Introduced bookmark panel (outline viewer) component
• Fixes
  • Inability to add new-line characters while setting value for multi-line text field.
  • After merging documents, bookmarks originally from the second document link to pages originally from the first document.
  • A blank page is created when a loaded document containing no pages is saved.
  • If more than nine attachments are added, viewer applications are unable to open attachments #9 and those after it.
  • Unexpected behaviour with NoToggleToOff and RadioInUnison properties of PdfRadioButton.
  • Inability to load the document using PdfReader.fileReader(File file) overloaded method in certain cases.
  • Inability to load document because of invalid objects.

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Licenses

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FAQs

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Articles

Gnostice Newsletter articles are published every month. It contains technical articles related to Gnostice developer tools and office productivity applications. To subscribe to the newsletter, send a blank e-mail to info@gnostice.com with the "SUBSCRIBE" in the subject line.

The following articles have been published for Gnostice PDFOne Java.

May 2009
Free PDF Viewer - A Portable PDF Viewer for Windows, Linux and Mac

Have fun with this lean mean PDF viewer.

May 2009
How to Print a PDF Document in Java

Learn about PDF printing in Java.

April 2009
AutoPagination in PDFOne Java

Autopagination has seen some improvements in PDFOne Java. Learn more about it.

December 2008
How to Create, Compile, and Execute a PDFOne Java Program

Baby steps to PDFOne Java nirvana.

December 2008
Using PDFOne Java in an Eclipse Project

Learn how to create PDFOne Java programs in the most popular Java IDE.

December 2008
Deploying Your PDFOne Java Applications With Ant

Learn to automate your PDFOne Java applications.

October 2008
Gnostice PDFOne Java Editions - Professional, Free and GPL

Professional is commercial. Free is gratis. GPL is open source.

September 2008
Encrypting and Decrypting PDF Documents Using PDFOne Java

Learn about securing and restricting the use of a PDF document in Java.

August 2008
Capturing the Image of a Page in a PDF Document

Using the PdfDocument.saveAsImage() function on PDF pages.

June 2008
How to add Multi-Line Text to Fields in a PDF Forms Document

Should I use newline or carriage return in my string values?

June 2008
Merge PDF Documents and Create Bookmarks for Each Document

Create bookmarks that tell which bookmark belongs to which document.

May 2008
How to Read and Write PDF Files in Java (Part-6)

Learn how to render tables on a PDF document.

April 2008
How to Read and Write PDF Files in Java (Part-5)

Learn to create, edit, and delete bookmarks in a PDF document.

March 2008
How To Create a Java PDF Viewer In A Snap

Easy steps towards creating a PDF viewer application in NetBeans.

February 2008
How to Read and Write PDF Files in Java (Part-3)

Learn how to create and edit annotations in PDF documents.

January 2008
How to Read and Write PDF Files in Java (Part-2)

Learn how to create multiple pages and render text, shapes, images, and watermarks over page ranges.

December 2007
How to Read and Write PDF Files in Java (Part-1)

Learn how to create, read, and write to PDF documents using PDFOne Java.

November 2007
How To Set Transparency Levels For PDF Elements

Render text, shapes, and images in PDF with varying levels of transparency.

September 2007
PDF Overlay - Stitching PDF Pages Together

“I have two pdf documents - one contains my company's letterhead template and the other has letters addressed to our customers. I would like to know how I can use the letterhead in each of those letters?”

August 2007
Merging And Splitting PDF Documents Using PDFOne Java

Learn how to merge several PDF documents into a single document. Also, learn how to split a single PDF document into several PDF documents.

April 2007
How To Create and Modify Links (Link Annotations) In A PDF Document

One of our customers wrote: “I want to inspect each link annotation, find out its type and destination and edit only those annotations pointing to a remote document.”

February 2007
Implement mail-merge function and create PDF files with dynamic content

This article demonstrates the ability of PDFOne Java to implement mail-merge function in your Java applications and create professional looking PDF documents with dynamic content in headers and footers. Dynamic content such as the 'Page X of Y' construct and more.

December 2006
Defining Custom Appearances For PDF Form Fields (AcroForms)

This article demonstrates the use of PDF appearance streams (Form XObjects) to create and specify custom appearances for PDF form fields.

September 2006
Defining Custom Appearances for PDF Annotations

This article demonstrates how to use PDF appearance streams (Form XObjects) to create and specify custom appearances for PDF annotations with PDFOne Java.