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A whitepaper on font rendering for both .NET and Java developers.
Learn to access PDF page elements such as text, images, shapes, and Form XObjects.
Removing unwanted text from a document.
Learn to search and extract text from PDF documents.
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.
Learn to use PDFOne (for Java) in a Java Server Page web application running on a Apache Tomcat server.
No need for an assembler/linker program. Any Windows* computer will do.
Learn how to split and reorganize PDF documents.
Learn about the many ways you can use fonts in PDF documents.
Learn to export each page in a PDF document as a frame in a multi-page TIFF image.
A personal account of the sessions from Day 2.
Use watermark annotations to create different content for viewing screen and printing on paper.
Learn to provide substitute fonts when rendering PDF documents.
Bypass patchy support for page parameters in HTML links to PDF pages.
Learn to create PDF content that will be available only when the document is printed.
Render each frame of the TIFF image on a PDF page.
Using eDocEngine VCL and Pbear's THTMLViewer
Learn to use PDFOne .NET to merge PDF documents.
Using not just fake names and addresses, but also aliens, super heroes and rocks from outer space.
Use PDFOne to export PDF pages to image formats.
Set up local Javadocs for JRE and external JAR components.
Create a list, give it an ID, and set this event handler on the list.
Learn to process a PDF document stored on the Net.
Fun at work with eDocEngine VCL.
Hint: There is probably nothing wrong with [component name].
Learn to render individual pages of multipage TIFF image on PDF pages.
Learn to export PDF pages as raster images.
Learn to use the new AddPageBreak method introduced in v3.0.4.
Descriptions for commonly occurring terms when dealing with PDF and related software.
Native support for mixed language text, right-to-left languages and bi-directional writing modes.
Version 3 is out. Here are some highlights from the release note.
Showcasing an online PDF web viewer built using Gnostice PDFOne, our PDF component suite for Java™ developers.
Learn to create file attachments in PDF documents using PDFOne (for Java™).
Learn to export PDF pages using PDFtoolkit VCL and create multi-page TIFFs using Windows GDI.
Learn to generate PDF documents in a Web application.
Improve readability of text displayed on your XP desktop.
Learn to convert PDF pages to metafiles.
Learn to add a signature form field to a PDF document.
Learn how to print a PDF document in .NET.
Learn how to render PDF pages on a Graphics object.
About our new PDF to Word RTF conversion tool for Delphi programmers.
Create PDF forms that accept data entry using regular fonts but subsequently display data using barcode fonts.
Using Ubuntu as the example, this article shows you how to install and use Free PDF Reader in GNU/Linux.
A streaming video demo of the latest version of PDFOne .NET
Learn how to read and edit document information properties of a PDF file using PDFtoolkit VCL.
Learn to convert text, shapes, and images in a PDF page as a single graphic item using PDFOne .NET.
Learn how to generate PDF forms in Web applications using PDFOne .NET.
Learn the new way of creating and processing bookmarks using PDFtoolkit VCL.
Learn to convert text, shapes, and images in a PDF page as a single graphic item in PDFOne (for Java).
Learn to use placeholders in PDFtoolkit text outs on PDF pages.
Learn to remove Print2eDoc menu and toolbar from Office products manually.
Tested successfully with French, Cyrillic (Russian), Japanese, Mandarin (Chinese), Kannada, and Devanagri (Hindi).
Gnostice presentations scheduled for September 10 and 11.
Learn about the new OffsetHardMargins property introduced in Version 2.1.2 of PDFOne .NET.
Using some registry tricks and clipboard utilities. Full source code included.
For 2009 and Beyond
… 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 to print PDF documents asynchronously.
Allow users to drag and drop PDF files on the PDFViewer component.
Never create code that takes everything for granted.
Learn about PDF printing in Java.
Create a PDF viewer application in 5 minutes flat.
Have fun with this lean mean PDF viewer.
Autopagination has seen some improvements in PDFOne Java. Learn more about it.
Learn to create a PDF that will display the print dialog when the document is opened.
Learn how to provide an option to cancel a text search operation in the middle.
Failsafe methods that work.
Baby steps to PDFOne Java nirvana.
Learn how to create PDFOne Java programs in the most popular Java IDE.
Learn to automate your PDFOne Java applications.
Extract meta data that others might miss.
“I have two pdf documents - one contains my company's letterhead template and the other has letters addressed to our customers. I would like to know how I can use the letterhead in each of those letters?”
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 what web applications can and cannot do.
Learn how to use PDFtoolkit VCL to quickly add bookmarks to a document.
Learn about the latest feature addition in Print2eDoc
Learn about securing and restricting the use of a PDF document in Java.
“We have purchased a license... I moved the application to a network folder and started receiving this error message... trial license expired."
Learn to extract text, fill form field, and add attachments.
Learn to do it in .NET using PDFOne .NET.
Get right down to the metal and write code that will accomplish your PDF-related needs.
Learn how to use the clipboard engine.
And learn about the new object inspector in the Preview/Designer window.
Learn how auto-pagination works in PDFOne .NET
Learn to track Windows messages generated by Print2eDoc application.
Should I use newline or carriage return in my string values?
Learn to create a PDF version of your TRichView files in just five lines of code.
Create bookmarks that tell which bookmark belongs to which document.
PDFOne .NET sure generates PDF forms documents but how do you send them to a browser?
Learn how to render tables on a PDF document.
Learn to deploy your PDFOne .NET applications without compromising your license key.
PDFOne .NET now supports embedding fonts both in creation mode as well as reading mode.
Learn to create, edit, and delete bookmarks in a PDF document.
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.
Easy steps towards creating a PDF viewer application in NetBeans.
Learn how to move pages around in a PDF document using PDFtoolkit VCL.
Learn how to create, edit, fill, and save PDF form fields using PDFOne .NET.
Learn how to create and edit annotations in PDF documents.
Easy steps towards creating a PDF viewer application in Visual Studio 2005.
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 create multiple pages and render text, shapes, images, and watermarks over page ranges.
Learn how to use PDFOne .NET to add headers and footers to new and existing PDF documents.
Learn how to render HTML-formatted text in PDF using eDocEngine VCL.
Learn how to create, read, and write to PDF documents using PDFOne Java.
Render text, shapes, and images in PDF with varying levels of transparency.
Learn how to read and edit document information properties of a PDF file using PDFOne .NET.
To facilitate backward and forward compatibility, PDFOne .NET allows you to convert existing PDF documents to another PDF version.
Learn how to use methods that return objects in a clean and efficient way.
Learn about securing and restricting the use of a PDF document.
Using custom placeholders in strings written to documents
Learn how to use Print2eDoc's Preview-Designer feature to add forms to your PDF documents.
“I have two pdf documents - one contains my company's letterhead template and the other has letters addressed to our customers. I would like to know how I can use the letterhead in each of those letters?”
Learn how to merge several PDF documents into a single document. Also, learn how to split a single PDF document into several PDF documents.
Learn how to optimize PDF file size by specifying CCITT3 compression for monochrome images.
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?
Multiple images in a PDF document can greatly increase file size. See an example of how PDFOne .NET implements intelligent PDF file optimization.
How to add rubber-stamp annotations and text/image watermarks to PDF documents.
“Is there a way to add a form field to all pages in a PDF document so that updating the field in any one page automatically gets reflected in all other pages?”
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.
A novel way of designing PDF documents with Visual Studio, using Windows forms as document pages and Windows controls as PDF form fields.
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.
One of our customers wrote: “I want to inspect each link annotation, find out its type and destination and edit only those annotations pointing to a remote document.”
This is an introduction to a function-specific edition of Gnostice PDFOne .NET devoted solely for the management of bookmarks in PDF documents.
"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."
Render text, shapes, and images in PDF with varying levels of transparency.
This article demonstrates the ability of PDFOne Java to implement mail-merge function in your Java applications and create professional looking PDF documents with dynamic content in headers and footers. Dynamic content such as the 'Page X of Y' construct and more.
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.”
This article demonstrates the use of PDF appearance streams (Form XObjects) to create and specify custom appearances for PDF form fields.
PDFOne .NET offers a very simple method to read XML data and render it in PDF files. Using it, you can convert XML data to PDF easily.
Converting documents from one format to another need not be a hassle. Gnostice Print2eDoc gets you the desired results in a few short snappy steps.
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!
Print2eDoc is more than just a software printer driver. What makes it different is the vast array of output formats it supports - PDF, BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG and TIFF - and the special format-specific features such as adding watermark, bookmarks, and annotations. A Software Development Kit (SDK) for programmatic control of Print2eDoc is also available.
Get to know what's inside PDFtoolkit
Capturing PDF form field data over the Web and storing it in a database is a tame affair. How about creating new PDF files containing the original form fields but with the captured information as the new default values?
This article demonstrates how to use PDF appearance streams (Form XObjects) to create and specify custom appearances for PDF annotations with PDFOne Java.
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