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Gnostice eDocEngine ActiveX/.NET 2 is a generic electronic document creation component suite for Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft Visual Studio .NET and other .NET platforms. eDocEngine enables you to create rich electronic documents in over 18 popular formats, including PDF, RTF, HTML, Excel, TIFF, SVG, PNG, JPEG, Metafile and many more. You can use it as a free-form electronic report writer, to enable mail-merge/document creation, to serve dynamic PDF eForms and to enable many other information delivery functions. eDocEngine provides a rich set of API to easily format any kinds of content elements to enable you to achieve the precise look and feel required of your electronic documents and reports. Created documents can then be automatically delivered directly to users' web browsers, sent as email attachments or saved to disk. Gnostice eDocEngine ActiveX/.NET is currently supported in ActiveX and .NET compliant development platforms, such as Visual Basic, Visual Basic .NET, Visual C#, Visual J#, Visual C++, ASP, ASP.NET, Borland Delphi, Borland C#Builder, and Borland C++Builder.

 

 

 

 

Why use Gnostice eDocEngine as your electronic document creation tool?

 

 

 

round bulletSingle, rich programming interface enables you to create attractive electronic documents using the same set of instructions in over 18 popular formats: PDF, Word RTF, HTML, XHTML, Excel, Text, TIFF, SVG, JPG and more. This not only simplifies programming but also reduces the learning curve and cost of development.

 

 

round bulletGeneric engines give full control to create any kind of document and add custom content to meet any kind of application need.

 

 

round bulletAdvanced features for PDF output include, compression, encryption, TrueType fonts, font embedding, font sub-setting, international characters (European, Chinese, Japanese...), bookmarks, notes annotations and more.

 

 

round bulletPDF AcroForms support enables you to design richly formatted PDF forms with support for buttons, check boxes, lists, edit controls, JavaScript actions and more.

 

 

round bulletVector graphics and Metafile rendering ensures sharp scalable graphics in the generated PDF, RTF or other supported formats. Also ensures files are extremely compact and easy to distribute.

 

 

round bulletConvert RichText to PDF, HTML and other formats making the documents more portable. RichText is rendered as rich, formatted text (not image) in all document formats ensuring crisp documents that can be text searched and enlarged without loss of quality.

 

 

round bulletAdvanced drawing functions include support for drawing tables, paragraphs and text boxes with a single method call.

 

 

round bulletParagraph control enables automatic alignment of multi-line text items. Left, Right, Center or Justify alignment can be achieved just by a single property setting.

 

 

round bulletIn-built Header and Footer control further simplifies document creation, as the task of rendering repeating items can be delegated to the component itself.

 

 

round bulletExtensible, well planned architecture enables speedy and clean implementation of new features and formats.

 

 

round bulletAllows end-user configuration of document output through run-time dialogs.

 

 

round bulletSPEED. All engines of eDocEngine are highly optimized for high-speed rendering of commands and metafiles. Ideal for dynamic Internet and Intranet application development.