eDocEngine ActiveX
Create documents and reports in 18 formats

Downloads

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 Limitations

Trial versions have the following limitations.

• Only 5 pages of the created document will be rendered.
• Trial marks will be rendered on the created document.

Features

Gnostice eDocEngine ActiveX Professional edition supports the following features. (For system requireemnts, click here.)

Feature Matrix By Edition

Features By Category
General Features and I/O Support
Advanced Features / Generic Document Creation Support
File Formats Support
PDF Document Creation Support / PDF Forms Creation Support
RTF, HTML, XHTML Creation Support
Excel, Spreadsheet Creation Support
General Features and I/O Support	Professional
100% support for Windows® GDI functions
Include all content element types [Text, Image, Shape…] (where supported)
Add rotated text and Images (where supported)
Save to file and memory
Set master unit of measurement [inch, cm…]
Automatically open document after creation
Automatically email document after creation
Convert metafiles retaining vector graphics
Save and Restore engine settings
Page setup
Choose from pre-defined paper
Set custom paper sizes
Advanced Features / Generic Document Creation Support	Professional
Run-time Setup Dialogs enhanced for greater ease of use and appearance.
Email options in setup dialog and accessible from Object Inspector for one-step export-email.
Output whole paragraphs with single command
Include RichText as RichText
RichText rendering support as a standard procedure (DrawRichText).
Unicode support added for text rendering
Table drawing functions, with full control
Table drawing - word wrap support for Title Row for each column
Auto pagination for text output as single line and paragraphs
Support for Variables / Place holders for Text rendering. Built-in and user-defined variables supported. Built-in variables include Page#, Total Pages, Date and Time.
Automatically parse and activate URLs: ftp://, http://, email, file://
Header/Footer control
Store document information (where supported)
Insert backgrounds - image and text
Insert watermarks and stampings (insert any type of content element - metafile, image, text, including combination of elements)
File Formats Support	Professional
PDF
Other Document Formats: RTF, HTML, XHTML
Excel
Other Spreadsheet and Text Formats: Quattro Pro, Lotus 1-2-3, DIF, SYLK, Text and CSV
TIFF, PNG, SVG
Other Graphic Formats: JPEG, GIF, BMP, EMF, WMF
Windows® Clipboard
PDF Document Creation Support / PDF Forms Creation Support	Professional
JavaScript Actions
Set viewer preferences
Interactive Forms creation (also known as AcroForms)
Interactive Forms - button actions for Submit and Reset
Interactive Forms - custom JavaScript button actions
Interactive Forms - submission format as HTML, FDF, XML
Vertical Text rendering
Insert large JPEG image files directly into the PDF document
Unicode support for Document Information and Bookmarks
Store images as zipped bitmap and JPEG
Use Compression
Use TrueType fonts
Embed TrueType fonts
Subset fonts to reduce file size
Support for all character sets - Eastern Europe , Chinese, Japanese…
Optimized font subset embedding and Unicode characters support. Reduces file size to nearly 1/10 the original size.
Insert all types of Annotations: FreeText, Line, Square, Circle, Highlight, Underline, Squiggly, StrikeOut, Stamp, Ink.
File Attachment: Support for attaching any type of external file to the created PDF.
Set any type of Action to links/annotations: GoToR, Launch, Named, JavaScript.
Support for inserting Custom Document Information. Write XMP metadata of document to insert custom document information and make it accessible to applications that support XMP.
Support for actions on Document and Page events. JavaScript actions can be associated with document and page events such as Open, Close, Print, Save.
Support for associating all actions with annotations, bookmarks, and document and page events.
Secure with password using 40-bit and 128-bit Encryption
Set bookmarks with unlimited nesting levels
Add Text Note, Link and Widget Annotations
Add thumbnails
RTF, HTML, XHTML Creation Support	Professional
RTF: Store images as PNG, JPEG, Metafile and BMP
HTML, XHTML: Store images as PNG, JPEG, GIF and BMP
Set tabs and output text at tab positions
Automatically parse and hyperlink URLs
Include images in binary encoding to reduce file size
HTML, XHTML: Build Table of Contents page
HTML, XHTML: Include page navigator with First, Prior, Next, Last and TOC links
HTML, XHTML: Set graphic and text based navigator buttons
HTML, XHTML: Set page to AutoScroll
Excel, Spreadsheet Creation Support	Professional
Formula support (in Excel)
Store images as Metafile and BMP
Access individual cells to place content
Create workbooks with unlimited worksheets
Set row spacing and column spacing
Set individual column widths

System Requirements

Please ensure that your systems meets these requirements.

Development Environments

• Microsoft Visual Studio 6

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These purchases are covered by a 30-day money-back guarantee. One-year Software Assurance (SA) includes at least one major upgrade. For a purchase guide, click here.

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 $105)		Buy Now
Site License	(Add $2618)		Buy Now
Single-Internet Server Deployment License	Not Applicable		Buy Now

PDFtoolkit + eDocEngine ActiveX Bundle ¹

License	Software Assurance	Price (US$)	Buy from Plimus
Single-Developer License	(Add $225)		Buy Now
Site License	(Add $5610)		Buy Now

1 - Includes PDFtoolkit ActiveX ProPlus and eDocEngine ActiveX Professional.

PDF ActiveX Bundle ²

License	Software Assurance	Price (US$)	Buy from Plimus
Single-Developer License	(Add $225)		Buy Now
Site License	(Add $5610)		Buy Now

2 - Includes eDocEngine ActiveX Professional, PDFtoolkit ActiveX ProPlus, PDF2Many ActiveX Standard and Many2PDF ActiveX Standard

.NET Professional Subscription ³

License	Software Assurance	Price (US$)	Buy from Plimus
Single-Developer License	Not Applicable		Buy Now
Site License	Not Applicable		Buy Now

3 - Includes PDFOne .NET ProPlus, eDocEngine ActiveX Professional and Print2eDoc SDK + Print2eDoc Professional.

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

For a history of eDocEngine ActiveX releases, please click here.

Licenses

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FAQs

For answers to frequently asked questions about eDocEngine ActiveX, click here.

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.

August 2008
Using eDocEngine ActiveX/.NET in a Managed C++ Console Application

Learn to use eDocEngine ActiveX/.NET with a CLR console application in Microsoft Visual Studio 2005.

May 2008
Converting RTF Files to PDF On An Intranet Server

Learn to leverage eDocEngine's conversion capabilities.

October 2006
How To Selectively Embed Fonts When Creating PDF Files

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!