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Gnostice PDFtoolkit ActiveX is a powerful component suite for VB, VC++, and ASP programmers to edit, enhance, secure, merge, split, view, print, PDF documents and and also process AcroForms documents. PDFtoolkit does not use PDF software such as Adobe® PDF library, Adobe Acrobat® Professional or Ghostscript.
* - Professional edition has been discontinued in v3.0. Professional edition users who have been promised free/discounted upgrade to v3.0 of Professional editon will instead be given to v3.0 of ProPlus edition.
Note: Gnostice PDFtoolkit ActiveX works on existing PDF documents. To create new PDF documents, you can use eDocEngine ActiveX or Print2eDoc SDK. For other platforms, we have PDFOne .NET and PDFOne for Java™ platform, which can create new PDF documents from scratch as well as modify existing PDF documents. For Delphi/C++Builder platform, we have a similar product called Gnostice PDFtoolkit VCL, which can do everything that Gnostice PDFtoolkit ActiveX does.
You can download any of the files listed in the box below free of charge. Please provide your name and e-mail address so that we can send you information related only to your download. You will not be contacted for any other purpose. We will not give your e-mail address to anyone else in any situation.
Trial versions have the following limitations.
Features provided by various editions of Gnostice PDFtoolkit ActiveX are listed here. (For system requirements, click here.)
| Features By Category | ||
| General Features, I/O and Security Support | ||
| Document Enhancement | ||
| Document Modification and Re-organization | ||
| Document Management | ||
| Acroforms Processing (PDF eForms) | ||
| Document Extraction | ||
| Document Viewing, Printing and Converting | ||
| General Features, I/O and Security Support | ProPlus | |
| Save to HTTP response |  |
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| Reset component - Unload document and free all used resources | |
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| Run-time setup dialog | |
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| Email after saving to file | |
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| Use TrueType fonts | |
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| Embed TrueType fonts | |
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| Subset fonts to reduce file size | |
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| Support for all character sets – Eastern Europe, Chinese, Japanese… | |
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| Secure with password using 40bit and 128bit Encryption | |
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| Read password protected documents (requires password) | |
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| Unicode support for Watermarks, document information and bookmarks | |
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| Unicode support for text annotations | |
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| Load from file and memory stream | |
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| Save to file and memory stream | |
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| Document Enhancement | ProPlus | |
| Build document Outline (TOC) | |
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| Insert page Header and Footer | |
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| Set custom thumbnails for each page | |
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| Insert watermarks with text and images [Horizontal and Vertical text] | |
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| Page number stamping | |
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| Insert Bookmarks in content (Link annotation) | |
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| Set various Actions to Bookmarks [URI, GoTo, GoToR, Launch, JavaScript] | |
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| Set various Actions to Annotations [URI, GoTo, GoToR, Launch, JavaScript] | |
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| Set document and page events | |
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| Insert annotations [Text, FreeText, Line, Square, Circle, Highlight, Underline, Squiggly, Strikeout, Stamp, Ink] | |
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| Attach files (any file type) | |
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| Draw Text on the page [Horizontal and Vertical text] | |
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| Draw simple HTML text [Tags supports: <font>, <b>, <i>, <u>, <strikeout>] | |
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| Variables support for Watermark and Draw Text [Time, Date, Page number, Total Pages] | |
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| Activate links in page content [http://, ftp://, e-mail and file://] | |
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| Set presentation features [Page Transition] | |
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| Document Modification and Re-organization | ProPlus | |
| Merge multiple documents | |
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| Insert pages from one document to another | |
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| Append pages from one document to end of another | |
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| Delete pages from document | |
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| Extract pages from documents and create new ones | |
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| Insert new blank page | |
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| Rotate page | |
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| Add and Edit existing Outline items with unlimited nesting levels (TOC) | |
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| Delete existing outline items | |
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| Modify document information fields [Author, Subject, Title, Keywords...] | |
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| Write XMP metadata of document (custom document information) | |
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| Mask area on page | |
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| Stitch pages [on top, side-by-side] | |
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| Document Management | ProPlus | |
| Compress document | |
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| Decompress document | |
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| ASCII encode document (ASCII85 and ASCIIHex) | |
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| Change viewing page layout | |
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| Change viewing page mode | |
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| Set and edit viewer preferences | |
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| Change user permissions (requires owner password) | |
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| Acroforms Processing (PDF eForms) | ProPlus | |
| Read and Fill form field values | |
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| Full access to form field attributes [Name, Description, Type, Allowed values...] | |
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| Edit Form field attributes | |
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| Delete form fields | |
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| Insert new form fields | |
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| Flatten form fields | |
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| Document Extraction | ProPlus | |
| Read document information [Author, Subject, Title, Keywords...] | |
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| Read XML Metadata of document | |
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| Extract Text (plain strings without formatting) | |
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| Extract Text Formatted (plain text with basic formatting) | |
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| Extract all page content as Text, Graphic, Pattern objects with properties | |
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| Extract pages and save as new document | |
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| Get page properties [Size, Mediabox, Cropbox, Rotation] | |
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| Document Viewing, Printing and Converting | ProPlus | |
| Viewer component | |
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| Printer component | |
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Please ensure that your systems meets these requirements.
* - In case gdiplus.dll file is already present, do not attempt to overwrite it, as this action will conflict with Windows system file protection feature.
All products will be delivered electronically. Products can be purchased from our online store on Plimus.com.
With your purchase, you get the following benefits.
The following discounts wil be automatically applied for volume purchases of Single-Developer Licenses.
| Volume | Discount |
| 2-4 | 25% |
| 5-24 | 35% |
| >= 25 | 50% |
For volume purchases of over five Single-Internet-Server Deployment Licenses, a flat discount of 10% will be available.
We provide special OEM, Enterprise, Government and Educational purchase options. Please email sales@gnostice.com with the type of purchase you are interested in and we will contact you with more information.
These purchases are covered by a 30-day money-back guarantee. One-year Software Assurance (SA) includes at least one major upgrade.
If you are a new customer, you can purchase these licenses. If you are an existing customer of this product, please click here.
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1 - Includes PDFtoolkit ActiveX ProPlus and eDocEngine ActiveX Professional.
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2 - Includes eDocEngine ActiveX Professional, PDFtoolkit ActiveX ProPlus, PDF2Many ActiveX Standard and Many2PDF ActiveX Standard
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Here is an extract from our registered software license agreement.
For unlimited deployments Please read GPAD Licence Agreement before buying. |
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For up to 1000 deployments Please read GPAD Licence Agreement before buying. |
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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:
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.
For older history of Gnostice PDFtoolkit ActiveX releases, please click here.
To see a copy of the license agreements, click here.
For answers to frequently asked questions about PDFtoolkit ActiveX, please click here.
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 both Gnostice PDFtoolkit ActiveX and a similar product, Gnostice PDFtoolkit VCL.
More cool than “Look ma, no hands!”
Learn how to provide an option to cancel a text search operation in the middle.
Extract meta data that others might miss.
In the first part of this article, we saw how PDFtoolkit could meet your PDF-related needs. In the second part of this article, we will see what improvements users will see when Gnostice PDFtoolkit VCL v3.0 comes out.
In the first part of this article, originally published on Codegear.com last month, we will see what Gnostice PDFtoolkit VCL can do for you. We will be using code examples to illustrate the ease with which PDFtoolkit will help you accomplish your PDF-related tasks.
Learn how to use PDFtoolkit VCL to quickly add bookmarks to a document.
Learn to extract text, fill form field, and add attachments.
Get right down to the metal and write code that will accomplish your PDF-related needs.
Get to know about the latest version of PDFtoolkit and its new PDF processor, and also try out an EXE demo created using the new version.
Learn how to move pages around in a PDF document using PDFtoolkit VCL.
If a PDF documents has several chapters and each chapter has a bookmark, then how would you split the document by chapter?
Learn how to use methods that return objects in a clean and efficient way.
Learn how to flatten PDF forms and have them automatically e-mailed.
PDFtoolkit VCL 2.5 has introduced a new method that will help you extract attachments from a PDF document.
Use PDFtoolkit VCL to extract text data occurring in specific locations in a PDF document.
"I have a list of URLs that need to be added to a set of images that repeat in every page of a PDF document."
Merging several PDF files is fine. How about adding bookmarks that point to the first page of each one of those input documents?
"How can I determine if a particular page in a PDF file has a corresponding bookmark that provides a navigation link to the page?"
Need to find a bookmark identified only by its title?
“I would like to extract text and images from a page in a PDF file and add it to another PDF file as watermarks.”
How to check if a document has bookmarks? And, how to create a bookmark without a defined destination - a bookmark whose destination you would like to specify later on when it is ready?
Want to make instances of a particular text or keyword linked to a destination elsewhere in the document? Read on!
Get to know what's inside PDFtoolkit
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