PDFtoolkit VCL v4.0.1.293
Edit, enhance, secure, merge, split, view, print, digitally sign PDF and AcroForms documents

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Supported IDEs

Version	Delphi	C++Builder
6	Yes	No
7	Yes	NA
2005	No	NA
2006	No	No
2007	Yes	Yes
2009	Yes	Yes
2010	Yes	Yes
XE	Yes	Yes
XE2	Yes	Yes
XE3	Yes	Yes
XE4	Yes	Yes

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Trial Limitations

Trial versions have the following limitations.

• Expiry of the tool and applications created with it after 30 days from date of install.
• Trial marks.

Features

Features provided by PDFtoolkit VCL are listed here. (For system requirements, click here.)

Feature Matrix

Features By Category
General Features, I/O and Security Support
Document Enhancement
Document Modification and Re-organization
Document Management
Acroforms Processing (PDF eForms)
Document Search and Extraction
Document Viewing, Printing, Searching and Converting
General Features, I/O and Security Support	ProPlus
Load from file and memory stream
Save to file and memory stream
Save to HTTP response
Reset component - Unload document and free all used resources
Run-time setup dialog
Email after saving to file
Use TrueType fonts
Embed TrueType fonts
Subset fonts to reduce file size
Support for all character sets - Eastern Europe, Chinese, Japanese…
Secure with password using 40bit and 128bit Encryption
Read password protected documents (requires password)
Unicode support for Watermarks, document information and bookmarks
Unicode support for text annotations
Document Enhancement	ProPlus
Build document Outline (TOC)
Insert page Header and Footer
Set custom thumbnails for each page
Insert watermarks with text and images [Horizontal and Vertical text]
Page number stamping
Insert Bookmarks in content (Link annotation)
Set various Actions to Bookmarks [URI, GoTo, GoToR, Launch, JavaScript]
Set various Actions to Annotations [URI, GoTo, GoToR, Launch, JavaScript]
Set document and page events
Insert annotations [Text, FreeText, Line, Square, Circle, Highlight, Underline, Squiggly, Strikeout, Stamp, Ink]
Attach files (any file type)
Draw Text on the page [Horizontal and Vertical text]
Draw simple HTML text [Tags supports: <font>, <b>, <i>, <u>, <strikeout>]
Variables support for Watermark and Draw Text [Time, Date, Page number, Total Pages]
Activate links in page content [http://, ftp://, e-mail and file://]
Set presentation features [Page Transition]
Add digital signatures
Document Modification and Re-organization	ProPlus
Merge multiple documents
Insert pages from one document to another
Append pages from one document to end of another
Delete pages from document
Extract pages from documents and create new ones
Insert new blank page
Add and Edit existing Outline items with unlimited nesting levels (TOC)
Delete existing Outline items
Modify document information fields [Author, Subject, Title, Keywords.
Write XMP metadata of document (custom document information)
Mask area on page
Stitch pages [on top, side-by-side]
Document Management	ProPlus
Compress document
Decompress document
ASCII encode document (ASCII85 and ASCIIHex)
Change viewing page layout
Set and edit viewer preferences
Change user permissions (requires owner password)
Acroforms Processing (PDF eForms)	ProPlus
Read and Fill form field values
Full access to form field attributes [Name, Description, Type, Allowed values...]
Edit Form field attributes
Delete form fields
Insert new form fields
Flatten form fields
Document Search and Extraction	ProPlus
Read document information [Author, Subject, Title, Keywords...]
Read XML Metadata of document
Extract Text (plain strings without formatting)
Extract Text Formatted (plain text with basic formatting)
Extract all page content as Text, Graphic, Pattern objects with properties
Extract pages and save as new document
Get page properties [Size, Mediabox, Cropbox, Rotation]
Programmatic text search
Document Viewing, Printing, Searching and Converting	ProPlus
Viewer component
Printer component
Render PDF to Canvas and convert to JPEG, BMP and (single and multi-page) TIFF
Search panel component
Bookmark panel component
(Viewer) Interactive form-filling
(Viewer) User interaction modes - Hand, Select, Zoom, Snapshot and Highlight
(Viewer) Select region and export to clipboard and image formats
(Viewer) User-defined widgets for PDF page elements

System Requirements

Please ensure that your systems meets these requirements.

Development Environments

Version	Delphi	C++Builder
6	Yes	No
7	Yes	NA
2005	No	NA
2006	No	No
2007	Yes	Yes
2009	Yes	Yes
2010	Yes	Yes
XE	Yes	Yes
XE2	Yes	Yes
XE3	Yes	Yes
XE4	Yes	Yes

Other Software Requirements

• Any Windows OS
• gdiplus.dll* in case of the OS is older than Windows XP

* - 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.

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History

Version 4.0.1.293 - May 7, 2013

• Enhanced
  • General
    • Added support for RAD Studio XE4
• Fixed
  • PDF Processing
    • Scrambled output when rendering some documents with JBIG2 images
    • Text extraction issues caused by Truetype fonts with 'Differences' entry
    • Memory leak in TgtPDViewerPref affecting loading and saving PDFs

Version 4.0.1.283 - April 26, 2013

• Fixed
  • PDF Processing
    • Various memory and access violation that occurs when performing page operations on some PDF documents
    • "Index out of bound" error occurs when calling TgtPDFEngine.TextOut with <font> HTML tags.
  • PDF Viewing/Printing
    • Application freezes when rendering PDFs with certain CID fonts
    • "Invalid Integer" exception occurs while rendering some PDFs
    • Viewer hangs in IDEs older than 2010 when TgtPDFViewer.BackgroundRendering is set to true

Version 4.0.1.271 - March 8, 2013

• Enhanced
  • PDF Viewing and Printing
    • Added support for rendering JPX images
• Fixed
  • General
    • Setup bundles LIB and OBJ files for C++Builder-only environments
    • Annotation demo throws "Undeclared identifier SquareInteriorColor" error
  • PDF Processing
    • Memory leaks in page-processing operations
    • Merge and insert page operations produce blank output with some documents
    • Error decoding images when (color depth) BitsPerComponent is missing or -1
  • PDF Viewing
    • Access violation when Viewer component is freed after setting Viewer.Active to false
    • Lines with width 0 are not rendered (unlike Adobe Reader)
    • High CPU usage by background rendering thread
    • Filling checkboxes does not work with some documents
    • Incorrect positioning of form fields when page initially loads in the viewer

Version 4.0.1.235 - December 4, 2012

• Enhanced
  • PDF Viewing
    • Added background rendering for fluid (page) scrolling experience
  • PDF Processing
    • Added new AddAction method for adding multiple PDF actions to a single PDF form field
    • Added support for new PDF actions - TgtPDFFormFieldValidateAction and TgtPDFFormFieldAutoCalcAction
• Resolved
  • General
    • Installation issues with "Without Source" build in RAD Studio XE3
  • PDF Processing
    • Access violation encountered when stitching PDF pages - document does not contain enough font information
    • Newly added signature form fields not visible if document already has form fields
  • PDF Rendering
    • Various memory leaks
    • PDF corruption in some non-English locales - decimals in floating point values get converted to commas

Version 4.0.1.200 - September 27, 2012

• Enhanced
  • General
    • Added support for RAD Studio XE3
  • PDF Content Creation
    • Added new value aatBeforeDocOpen in enumeration TgtDocActionTriggers - add a PDF action for the "document-open" event
• Fixed
  • PDF Processing and Viewing
    • Access violation caused by incorrectly encoded (empty) image stream in the document

Version 4.0.1.169 - July 25, 2012

• Enhanced
  • PDF Viewing and Printing
    • Added new property AllowImageCopy in TgtPDFViewer class
    • Added "tab-key navigation" support for interactive form fields [not available for radio button form fields]
    • Added new events OnFormFieldValueChanged and OnFormFieldFocus in TgtPDFViewer class
    • Support for default appearance specified in the document for interactive form fields - background color, font size and color
• Fixed
  • PDF Viewing and Printing
    • Viewer does not preserve page position when resized
    • "€" character is displayed as "?"
    • "Index out of bound" error may occur when user overrides the viewer's default popup menu
    • Incorrect page scaling when printing from Windows XP
  • PDF Processing
    • "Invalid type cast" error occurs when rendering a document with certain types of form fields
    • "%S is not a valid integer value" error occurs when processing certain types of form fields
    • Access violation occurs when getting the file name of an attachment in the document
    • ReadOnly property does not work with some form fields
    • Page crop box values are not considered when obtaining the location of form fields
    • Some types of form fields cannot be printed in Adobe Reader after their values are modified
    • Some types of form fields lose their original appearance properties after their values are modified
    • Text extracted from a page suffer from incorrect spacing for certain types of text elements
    • Access violation occurs when calling TgtPDFDocument.SaveAsImage() on pages with a particular type of JPEG images
    • "Invalid parameter" error occurs when rendering some pages
    • Pages with inherited resources are blank when extracted to another document

Version 4.0.1.145 - April 16, 2012

• Fixed
  • General
    • Package conflict when installing in Delphi 6
    • Compatibility/co-existence issues with XtremePDFConverter on same IDE - now requires identically numbered version of both products
  • PDF Printing
    • Unintended scaling when output paper size is different from original page
  • PDF Processing
    • Performance issues in form processing
    • Encryption corrupts the document in Delphi 7
    • Access violation when setting SetSelectedItemIndex property of TgtPDFFormListBox or TgtPDFFormComboBox instances
    • XFA form field values are visible in TgtPDFViewer but not in Adobe Reader - as a workaround, XFA entry will be removed and the value will be made available in AcroForm dictionary
    • Form field values are not visible in Adobe Reader when Highlight mode is off
    • Newly-created check box form fields show the number 4 instead of check mark in Adobe Reader
    • TgtExPDFDocument.GetFontList() causes access violation with some documents
    • Memory leaks in page reorganization operations

Version 4.0.1.129 - February 17, 2012

• Fixed
  • PDF Rendering
    • All known rendering memory leaks
  • PDF Processing
    • Access violations in C++Builder when merging certain PDF documents

Version 4.0.1.122 - February 7, 2012

• Enhanced
  • General
    • Added support for RAD Studio XE2 Update 3
  • PDF Processing
    • New overloads for methods in TgtPDFDocument class: SaveAsText() and ExtractText()
    • Improved text extraction with better word/line detection and removal of extra spaces and lines
    • Added support for extracting text content of Form XObjects
  • PDF Viewing
    • Support for custom checkbox symbols (cross, circle, star, check) in interactive form filling
• Fixed
  • General
    • RAD Studio XE2 error "Unit gtViewerWidget was compiled with a different version of Vcl.Graphics.dSkyBlue"
  • PDF Rendering
    • "Unable to SetFocus" error when parent form of viewer component is hidden
    • Clipped images in document are rendered without clipping by viewer component and TgtPDFDocument.RenderToDC() method
    • Pages with negative height values cause "Division By Zero" error
  • PDF Processing
    • Memory leak when calling TgtPDFDocument.InsertPagesFrom() method multiple times
    • Page range parsing issues with TgtPDFDocument.InsertPagesFrom() method
    • Incorrect encryption when document has PDF objects with ID tags

Version 4.0.1.97 - November 25, 2011

• Enhanced
  • PDF Processing
    • Improved text extraction from PDF pages
  • PDF Viewing
    • Improved accuracy of "hand tool" and other viewer interaction modes
• Fixed
  • PDF Viewing
    • Freezing when page is zoomed using Ctrl+Mousewheel
    • Access violation when loading certain PDF files
    • Several memory leaks - optimized memory usage
    • Issues affecting popup menu on image widgets
    • Issues with PopupMenu property of viewer in C++Builder XE and XE2
    • Access violation when opening PDF documents with Type 3 fonts
    • Issues with Open standard action
    • Rotated form fields do not appear in correct position
  • PDF Printing
    • Lines rendered with incorrect width
    • Form fields with empty values rendered all black
  • PDF Processing
    • Memory leaks in TIFF processing logic
    • Extra text "_page1" appended to file name when exporting PDF pages to a multi-page TIFF image
    • Several range-check errors
    • Text overlap issues with Textout method and TgtTextwatermark class
    • Document information properties get corrupted after encryption

Version 4.0.1.89 - October 13, 2011

• Enhanced
  • General
    • New demo demonstrating how to interactively add an annotation and display it in the viewer using a custom annotation widget
    • New demo demonstrating how to read all form field properties from a PDF document
  • PDF Processing
    • New property Opacity in TgtPDFAnnotation class
  • PDF Viewing
    • New properties SelectedRegionColor and HighlightRegionColor to specify default color for selected and highlighted regions on the viewer
    • New methods ScrollDown, ScrollLeft, ScrollRight and ScrollUp to programmatically scroll displayed content
    • New method GetOriginalRect to obtain actual location and dimensions of a selected page region after correcting for rotation and zoom changes set by the end-user
    • New method SaveToFile saves the displayed document to specified file and loads it into the viewer
    • Added keyboard support for page navigation
    • Support for printing the displayed document (along with form field values entered by the end-user) without having to save the document first
    • Automatic creation of the appearance stream whenever form field value is updated
    • Improved Highlight tool operation
• Fixed
  • General
    • Image export demo throws LoadAfterSave property error
  • PDF Viewing and Printing
    • Horizontal scrolling is disabled when Hand tool is used
    • Zoom-mode cursor resets while holding down Ctrl key
    • Radio buttons are not positioned correctly
  • PDF Processing
    • Image processing creates stray files on hard drive
    • Temporary files created by image export to multi-page TIFF are not deleted

Version 4.0.0.77 - October 7, 2011

• Enhanced
  • General
    • Support for RAD Studio XE2 (both 32-bit and 64-bit Windows)
    • Support for C++Builder 2007 to XE2
    • Updated demos
  • PDF Viewing
    • Interactive form filling
    • Context menu options to change viewer interaction modes and save current page as BMP, JPEG, EMF or TIFF images
    • Automatic reloading of document after changes are saved
    • Extendable widgets for page elements
    • Base class for annotation widgets added for future built-in or user-defined annotation rendering
    • Default page context menu can be replaced with custom popup menu
    • User interaction modes - Hand, Select, Zoom, Snapshot, Highlight
    • Built-in widgets for form fields and image elements
    • Event to track mouse activity on form fields
    • Context menu options for selected image element - Copy image and Save image
    • New GetScrollPosFromPageIndex function for getting maximum scroll bar position that can be set for specified page
    • OnMarqueeSelect event handler has a new parameter for page number
    • Zoom-in and zoom-out operations automatically skip to standard page zoom levels if it is within range
    • API to register custom widgets for form fields, text, and image elements
    • Faster rendering of embedded fonts
    • Added several standard actions (TAction) for PDF viewer component - File Open, File Save As, Print Document, Zoom Actual Size, Zoom Fit Width, Zoom Fit Page, First , Prior, Next, Last, Zoom in, Zoom out, Rotate clockwise, Rotate Anti-Clockwise, Select Mode, Hand Mode, Zoom Mode, Snapshot Mode, Highlight Mode - build a PDF viewer application without writing any code
    • Added resource for Hand, Select, Zoom, Snapshot and Highlight viewer mode cursors
  • PDF Processing
    • More options to retrieve bookmarks (as Strings, TreeNodes)
    • API to export PDF to image files
    • Customizable image properties (JPEG quality, Pixel format, Smoothing, Monochrome, etc)
    • Event to customize name, prefix of image to be exported. Also accepts parameter to skip current page or break the entire operation
    • Ability to save changes to loaded document
    • New and improved form processing APIs
    • API to copy page content to Windows Clipboard
    • Document merge operations also merges bookmarks
    • OnBookmarkMerge event to customize the default behaviour of bookmark merging
    • HTML submit method for AcroForms changed to POST
    • New optional argument AutoReload in SaveToFile and SaveChanges methods to keep the updated document remain loaded in memory
• Fixed
  • PDF Viewing and Printing
    • Scaling problems occur when document is printed
    • Invalid bitmap error occurs when rendering some documents
    • Access violation are encountered when rendering masked images
    • Viewer freezes when opening PDFs created using Amyuni Converter
    • Generic error occurs when document contains no cropbox entry
    • Rounded bullets appear as square bullets
  • PDF Processing
    • TgtPDFDocument object does not fire OnBeginRead and OnEndRead events correctly
    • Inability to set value for radio/checkbox form fields
    • Angled watermarks do not appear at center
    • Inability to set values for form fields that have the same name
    • Invalid pointer error occurs when calling ExtractPagesTo method with some documents
    • Crashes occurs when saving certain encrypted documents
    • Images are misplaced after merging

Version 3.4.8.240 - April 12, 2011

• Enhanced
  • PDF Rendering and Processing
    • Added support for rendering rotated text
    • Added support for performing page operations, digital signing, and encryption on documents with JPX and JBIG2 images
• Fixed
  • PDF Rendering and Processing
    • Memory leak experienced if RenderToDC method is called repeatedly
    • Incorrect coordinates in TgtFormField.FieldRect property for form fields that have same name
    • "Out of memory" error when saving PDFs with JPX images
    • "Font family not found" error when rendering documents that have fonts that are neither embedded in the document nor installed on the client computer. (All such fonts will henceforth be substituted with Arial.)

Version 3.4.8.235 - March 28, 2011

• Enhanced
  • PDF Processing
    • Highly improved PDF text extraction
• Fixed
  • PDF Processing
    • Access violation when merging certain types of PDF documents
    • "EC is not valid integer" error when processing some types of form fields (special characters in properties)

Version 3.4.8.233 - March 11, 2011

• Enhanced
  • PDF Viewing and Printing
    • Support for rendering JBIG2 images with color map (Color Inversion)
    • Support for rendering of CID fonts with embedded CMAP
  • PDF Processing
    • Optimized output PDF size after page-level operations
• Fixed
  • PDF Viewing and Printing
    • Fixed rendering of CJK CID fonts
    • JBIG2Decode.hpp 'PCardinal Not found' error in C++Builder 2007
  • PDF Processing
    • Access violation when flattening form fields
    • Access violation when digitally signing PDFs
    • "$ - EConvertError" when saving or rendering PDF documents with special characters
    • TgtPDBookmark.GetChild(AIndex: Integer) does not return bookmark specified by index
    • Issue with missing/corrupt signature details when digitally signing PDFs
    • Issues when retrieving values with special characters from form fields
    • Memory leaks with text search and page-related functions
    • Access violation when performing page operations with documents containing empty annotation entries
    • IsLoaded property incorrectly returns true when document load operation failed due to wrong password
    • Invalid pointer operation error on application close

Version 3.4.8.228 - February 22, 2011

• Enhanced
  • General
    • New PDF viewer component demo for interactively inserting watermarks on PDF pages
  • PDF Processing
    • Support for rendering PDF with JBIG2 images
• Fixed
  • General
    • Ambiguity between PDFtoolkit and eDocEngine enumeration constants
  • PDF Processing
    • Access violation issues encountered during merging and page operations
    • All known memory leaks
    • Incorrect setting of Indy component properties (for EmailAfterSave)
    • "List index out of bounds" error during page-level operations

Version 3.4.7.207 - October 29, 2010

• Fixed
  • PDF Content Creation
    • Incorrect positioning of watermarks on rotated pages
    • Error creating (internal) PDF name objects with special characters in the names
  • General
    • Code Insight incorrectly shows SaveToFile method as as deprecated

Version 3.4.7 - September 6, 2010

• Enhanced
  • PDF Processing
    • Enhanced support for Chinese fonts
  • General
    • Support for RAD Studio XE
    • Reorganized shared sources and packages for cleaner installation and compatibility with XtremePDFConverter
• Fixed
  • PDF Processing
    • LoadFromStream method locks input stream
    • Some watermarks added by PDFDocument could not be exported
    • Issues with filling newly-added form fields
    • Issues with reading existing form fields
  • PDF Viewing [ProPlus edition only]
    • Some watermarks added by PDFDocument were not displayed
    • Issues with PDF documents generated by Crystal reports
    • Generic Error encountered when rendering blank pages
  • General
    • C++Builder 2010/2009/2007/2006 compatibility issues
    • Scrolling issue affecting Delphi IDE in Windows 7
    • Conditional compilation issue in Jedi unit (gtWinCrypt.pas)
    • PDFtoolkit DEBUG compiler directive interferes with use of standard DEBUG directive - now renamed

Version 3.4.6 - January 29, 2010

• Enhanced
  • PDF Content Creation
    • Unicode support and font rendering optimizations for TgtPDFDocument.TextOut method and TgtTextWatermarkTemplate class.
  • PDF Processing
    • New TgtWideStringList.SaveToStreamA method, an ANSI alternative for the return type of the ExtractText method - to support old IDEs
• Resolved
  • PDF Processing
    • Access violaton in CCITTFaxDecode
  • PDF Viewing
    • "Font Family Not Found" error for some documents with Type1 non-embedded fonts
    • Improper or blank output for some documents with Type1 non-embedded fonts
    • Incorrect rendering of documents with embedded TrueType fonts with MacRoman and Custom encoding
  • PDF Forms Processing
    • Form fields without appearance stream did not render properly

Version 3.4.5 - December 23, 2009

• Enhanced
  • PDF Enhancement
    • Support for text appearance in digital signature form fields.
• Resolved
  • General
    • Installation fails to add PDFtoolkit components on C++Builder tool palette

Version 3.4.4 - November 20, 2009

• Resolved
  • PDF Processing
    • Access violation in MergeDocs method.
    • Some pages were blank after merging.
    • Merge operations sometimes created corrupt files.
    • MergeDocs failed with documents that have only images.
    • Access violation in ExtractPageTo method.
    • Access violation in FlattenFormFieldsOnPage method.
    • GetPageElements returned text elements incompatible with v2.5 - now returns individual text outs as it did in version v2.5.
    • Access violation when SaveToStream is called after FlattenFormFieldsOnPage.
    • Incorrect text content extraction caused by incomplete processing of font encoding.
  • PDF Viewing
    • Some images rendered black.
    • Some special characters (for example ü) not displayed.

Version 3.4.2 - October 29, 2009

• Enhancements
  • PDF Viewing and Printing
    • Optimized rendering of softmasked images.
    • New TgtPrinterCapabilities.PaperSize property to set custom page size.
  • PDF Content Creation & Processing
    • Bookmark creation and bookmark tree traversal overhauled.
      • Added new
        • GetByTitle method
        • LastChild property
        • BookmarkIndex property
        • Level property
      • Changed: GetBookmarkRoot returns root bookmark for creating new bookmarks, regardless whether PDF contains bookmarks or not. Redundant and unused method CreateNewBookmark removed.
      • Changed: Deprecated GetFirstChild, GetNextNode, GetPrevNode and AppendChild to avoid confusion with other existing methods for similar functionality
• Resolved
  • Overall
    • Conflicts with IGDI+ if IGDI+ already exists on the development system.
    • Issues in manual compilation of PDFtoolkit components.
    • Access violation with SearchFirst method.
    • Linker error in C++Builder 2009.
    • Corrupted resource file.
    • Index used by GetFormField and GetFieldIndexOf methods did not match.
    • Issue with loading PDFs with malformed XRef tables - enhanced fault tolerance.
  • PDF Viewing and Printing
    • Issue with receiving mousewheel messages when viewer is not focused.
    • Issue with auto-rotation.
    • Print output was stretched.

Version 3.4 - September 25, 2009

• Enhanced
  • PDF Viewing and Printing
    • Rendering optimizations and speed improvements
    • Support for rendering images with explicit mask
    • Optimized image processing
  • PDF Enhancement
    • Adding blank signature fields
    • Filling blank signature fields
• Resolved
  • Overall
    • Conflicts with Delphi's Vector.pas
    • Issues in manual compilation of PDFtoolkit components
  • PDF Viewing and Printing
    • Incorrect rendering of some masked images
    • Large size of (metafile) file sent to printer when printing
    • Printer prints blank pages for some documents
    • GetPageElements returning incorrect coordinates
    • Form fields that do not contain font resources not rendered

Version 3.3 - September 3, 2009

• Enhanced
  • Overall
    • Support for Delphi 2010
  • PDF Document Processing
    • Add digital signatures
    • Support for Delphi 2010
  • PDF Viewing [ProPlus edition only]
    • Optimized image rendering performance - in terms of speed
• Resolved in v3.3
  • Overall
    • C++Builder 2009 - Link error
    • Delphi 2009 - Building and installing PDFtoolkit VCL from source
    • Custom icon for host application could not be added
  • PDF Document Processing
    • GetPageElements returns wrong coordinates of page elements
    • Page extraction causes invalid pointer error
  • PDF Viewing [ProPlus edition only]
    • Access violation affecting some PDF documents
  • PDF Printing [ProPlus edition only]
    • Host application freezes for a short time (approximately one minute)

Version 3.2.1 - July 28, 2009

• Enhanced
  • Overall
    • Restored support for Delphi 5
    • Restored support for all C++Builder versions except C++Builder 6 and C++Builder 2006
  • PDF Document Processing
    • Document merging supports annotations including form fields and file attachments
• Resolved
  • PDF Document Processing
    • Rendering of group form fields or form fields with children form fields
    • Exception after saving PDF and accessing form fields with GetFormField method
    • "Invalid File ID in Trailer" error occurring in some documents
    • Rendering to canvas in Delphi 7
    • Merging documents - several issues
  • PDF Viewing (ProPlus edition only)
    • Rendering of XObjects in form fields.
    • Rendering of form field values - getting displayed more than once in some documents
    • Display of documents loaded from stream - access violations
    • All pages blanked out in some documents
  • PDF Printing (ProPlus edition only)
    • Blank printouts in some documents

Version 3.2 - June 23, 2009

• Enhanced
  • Overall
    • Speed improvements and optimizations
  • PDF Viewing (ProPlus edition only)
    • Mouse wheel support for scrolling and zooming
    • Ability to set custom or system DPI
    • Mouse support for scrolling pages by holding and dragging
    • Mouse support for pan and zoom
  • PDF Printing (ProPlus edition only)
    • Improved speed and accuracy of rendering
  • PDF Content Extraction (ProPlus edition only)
    • Improved quality of formatted text extraction
  • PDF Document Processing
    • GetPageElements method redesigned for greater control and accuracy
  • PDF Form Field Processing
    • New IsComb property for text form field (useful for entering dates and other pre-formatted numbers and text)
    • New PageNum property in TgtFormField class for obtaining number of the page that contains the form field
    • New Orientation property in TgtPDFFormField class for rendering rotated formfields.
• Resolved Issues
  • Overall
    • Installation of visual components in Delphi 7
    • Installation of PDFtoolkit in RAD Studio 2009, which affected certain other applications
  • PDF Document Processing
    • Access violation when adding text watermarks in Delphi 6 and 7
    • Access violation with FlattenFormFields and FlattenFormFieldsOnPage methods in Delphi 6 and 7
    • Access violation when adding form fields in Delphi 7
    • Access violation when adding a text watermark to a page created by the "InsertBlankPageAt" method
    • InsertBlankPageAt method when using measurement units other than points
    • Character overlap in text watermarks
    • Rendering of text watermarks that had escape strings, line-feed and carriage-return character, and vertical and horizontal alignment settings
    • Flattening of multi-line text field
    • Rendering by StitchSideBySide method
    • Access violation while spliting certain documents
    • Adding of shared PDF elements when spliting documents
    • Filling of certain types of form fields - affecting some documents that lacked important form field information
    • Some other reported memory leaks
  • PDF Viewing and Printing (ProPlus edition only)
    • Access violation in viewer in Delphi 6 and 7
    • Access violation in printer in Delphi 6 and 7
    • Rendering of certain types of form fields - affecting some documents that lacked important form field information
    • Rendering of contents of rotated PDF pages in viewer in Delphi 6 and 7
    • Error message "MetaFile is not valid" and subsequent printing of a blank page

Version 3.1 - April 30, 2009

• Enhanced
  • Overall
    • Has no external DLLs - create single EXE apps
  • PDF Viewer (ProPlus edition only)
    • Interactivity features for developing sophisticated document retrieval, reviewing and processing apps
      • New HighlightRegion method to highlight specific regions on the viewer - includes support for hint text, custom object association and mouse activity events.
      • Visual selection of multiple regions by user with support for dynamic labeling and coloring of regions
      • New methods (HighlightRegion, ClearHighlightRegions, and ClearSelectedRegions), properties and events for retrieving, adding, deleting and clearing of highlighted and user-selected regions
    • Page scrolling by specifying thumb tab position in scrollbar - VScrollPos and HScrollPos
    • OnHScroll and OnVScroll events to monitor changes to scrollbar thumb tab position - useful for implementing synchronized split-pane document comparison
  • PDF Printer
    • Detection of physical printer DPI
  • PDF Document
    • New CMapPath property to specify folder containing external CMAP files
  • Content Extraction
    • Improved formatted text extraction
• Resolved Issues in v3.1
  • Overall
    • GDI+ intialization
  • PDF Document
    • Rendering text watermarks containing escape strings and line feed/carriage return characters
    • Placeholders substitution and rendering of text watermarks
    • Rendering and positioning of image watermarks in all locales
    • Some issues in form field processing, rendering, and flattening
    • Resource handling in page overlay operations
    • Saving PDF documents with JavaScript
    • Processing of PDF NULL objects when saving files
    • Rendering of PDF inline images
    • JPEG thumbnail rendering
    • Processing documents that have PDF Form XObjects with inherited properties
    • DPI awareness when rendering to DC
  • Document Reorganization
    • Merging encrypted documents
  • PDF Viewer & PDF Printer (ProPlus edition only)
    • Access violation when closing viewer in certain scenarios
    • Reuse of viewer to load several documents
    • (Delphi 2009 only) Dropping printer component on a form
    • Barcodes printing
  • PDF Search Panel (ProPlus edition only)
    • Formatting of search results

Version 3.0.2 - March 10, 2009

• [ProPlus] Enhanced: Image masking
• [ProPlus] Fix: Dragging and dropping printer component in RAD Studio 2009
• [ProPlus] Fix: Adding watermarks
• [ProPlus] Added: Formatted text extraction (as in v2.5)
• Fix: License activation
• Fix: Check box form field value
• Fix: Escape characters in text watermarks
• Fix: Load from stream
• Fix: Text and image watermarks in different locales

Version 3.0.1 - February 27, 2009

• [ProPlus] Added: Support for JPX encoded images
• [Pro] Fixed: Minor issues
• [Pro] Updated: FAQ topics in help file

Version 3.0 - February 20, 2009

• [ProPlus] Enhanced: Robust, completely re-designed, extensible core engine, which will be continuously enhanced
• [ProPlus] Added: Support for all versions of PDF
• [ProPlus] Enhanced: Optimized memory use
• [ProPlus] Added: Support for Type 1 with full and subset embedding
• [ProPlus] Added: Support for Standard Type 1 fonts (14 standard Type 1 fonts are supported without requiring font embedding)
• [ProPlus] Added: Support for subset embedded fonts
• [ProPlus] Added: Support for CID fonts (Will be substituted when font used is not embedded and not found on system)
• [ProPlus] Added: Multipage viewer (Multiple and continuous page display)
• [ProPlus] Added: New viewer events to track changes in current page, zoom, etc.
• [ProPlus] Added: Facility to get selected region or a point on the viewer (useful while adding watermarks, stamps, etc)
• [ProPlus] Added: Viewer can zoom pages up to 3200%
• [ProPlus] Enhanced: Fault-tolerant loading by viewer (Small PDF errors will not halt rendering)
• [ProPlus] Fixed: Issues related to text extraction solved
• [ProPlus] Enhanced: Clean formatted extraction of text from pages
• [ProPlus] Fixed: Issues related to GDI+ solved for C++ Builder
• [ProPlus] Enhanced: Fast, accurate vector printing of PDF files(Printer component)
• [ProPlus] Enhanced: Support for automatic rotation and centering of pages in printer component
• [ProPlus] Enhanced: Bin selection in printer component
• [Pro] Fixed: All issues related to filters are solved
• [Pro] Enhanced: Highly enhanced CCITT decode
• [Pro] Enhanced: Faster flate encode/decode with support for all predictors
• [Pro] Added: Supports all colorspaces for image, shape, and text elements
• [Pro] Enhanced: Fault tolerance for "cross reference stream" errors
• [Pro] Fixed: Merging certain types of documents
• [Pro] Enhanced: Super-fast merging of PDFs with any number of pages
• [Pro] Enhanced: Support for RAD 2009
• [Pro] Added: On-demand loading of PDF data
• [Pro] Added: Comprehensive PDFtoolkit 3.0 demo included

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