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It just got simpler.
Just a method call now.
Use PDFtoolkit to export PDF pages to images.
Exploiting a rarely used content-creation method.
Also using Erik Van Bilsen's Delphi GDI+ library.
Using eDocEngine VCL and Pbear's THTMLViewer
Using not just fake names and addresses, but also aliens, super heroes and rocks from outer space.
Fun at work with eDocEngine VCL.
Things to look for in a developer tool that generates PDF documents and forms and how eDocEngine measures up to the expectations.
Version 3 is out. Here are some highlights from the release note.
Native support for mixed language text, right-to-left languages and bi-directional writing modes.
Learn to export PDF pages using PDFtoolkit VCL and create multi-page TIFFs using Windows GDI.
Learn to add a signature form field to a PDF document.
About our new PDF to Word RTF conversion tool for Delphi programmers.
Learn about what you can do with PDF and how PDFtoolkit can help you doing that.
Learn how to read and edit document information properties of a PDF file using PDFtoolkit VCL.
Learn the new way of creating and processing bookmarks using PDFtoolkit VCL.
Learn to use placeholders in PDFtoolkit text outs on PDF pages.
… if all that you want to write on those pages is "This page is intentionally left blank." ☺
“I want to save a PDF document to a BLOB (Binary Large Object) field.”
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.
Learn how to use the clipboard engine.
Learn to create a PDF version of your TRichView files in just five lines of code.
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 render HTML-formatted text in PDF using eDocEngine VCL.
Learn how to use methods that return objects in a clean and efficient way.
Using custom placeholders in strings written to documents
Learn how to flatten PDF forms and have them automatically e-mailed.
Do you want to convert image formats such as EMF, WMF, BMP and JPEG to PDF?
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.
Do you want to easily get better Excel output when creating Excel documents using eDocEngine? This article gives you some tips that you can use to make the generated Excel documents look better, be more useable and readable.
"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."
Does your ReportBuilder report contain logos in the page header / footer that repeat on every page? Do you wish to store only a single copy of the logo when you export the report to PDF and greatly reduce your PDF file size? This article will illustrate how to achieve this using Gnostice eDocEngine VCL along with Gnostice ReportBuilder Export Interface.
Would you like to add navigational features to PDF documents exported from your reports? This article will give you a startup on how to do this using eDocEngine VCL.
“I would like to extract text and images from a page in a PDF file and add it to another PDF file as watermarks.”
Are embedded TrueType fonts consuming too much file size in the PDF files you create? How about embedding fonts selectively - only the ones you need to. Here is the trick to do just that!
Want to make instances of a particular text or keyword linked to a destination elsewhere in the document? Read on!
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