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Welcome to Gnostice PDFtoolkit ActiveX/.NET 2.50. The Gnostice PDFtoolkit ActiveX/. NET 2.50 is a versatile PDF document management component suite for Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft Visual Studio .NET, Microsoft Visual FoxPro, Borland Delphi 8 .NET, Borland Delphi 2005, Borland C#Builder, and other ActiveX and .NET compliant development platforms. This latest version of Gnostice PDFtoolkit ActiveX/. NET, brings with it an assorted array of features that makes it more serviceable than its predecessor.
Gnostice PDFtoolkit ActiveX/. NET 2.50 includes the following updates:
Support for individual character spacing (ProPlus Edition)
Enhanced rendering of PDF elements in viewer (ProPlus Edition)
Support for custom appearance streams for form fields (ProPlus Edition)
Support for extracting/saving attachments (Professional & ProPlus Editions)
Support for latest zlib compression/decompression technique (Professional & ProPlus Editions)
Support for exporting forms data in FDF format (Professional & ProPlus Editions)
Gnostice PDFtoolkit ActiveX/. NET 2.43 includes the following updates:
Optimized implementation of CCITT 4 compression technique (ProPlus Edition).
Support for forced e-mail authentication (Professional and ProPlus Edition).
Tolerance for reading stream objects with incorrect "Length" entries (Professional and ProPlus Edition).
Gnostice PDFtoolkit ActiveX/. NET 2.42 includes the following new interesting features:
Support for adding transparent watermarks. (Professional and ProPlus Edition)
Support for files using LZW compression technique. (ProPlus Edition)
New Search method in gtPDFSearchPanelX to programmatically search text strings and list results in the search panel. (ProPlus Edition)
Gnostice PDFtoolkit ActiveX/. NET 2.4 includes the following new interesting features:
Additional Attributes/Preferences options for form fields.
Support for files referring to standard CMap files.
Gnostice PDFtoolkit ActiveX/. NET 2.3 includes the following new interesting features:
Adding shapes as Watermark.
Auto orientation in PDFPrinter.
Rotation of Pages in PDFViewer/PDFPrinter.
Support for Form XObject in PDFViewer.
Support for Differential Encoding in PDFViewer.
Gnostice PDFtoolkit ActiveX/. NET 2.2 includes the following new interesting features:
Support for Adobe 7 Forms.
Support for CCITT4 compressed images.
Support for BDS 2006.
Gnostice PDFtoolkit ActiveX/. NET 2.1 includes the following new interesting features:
Support for PDF Version 1.5 and 1.6 files.
gtPDFSearchPanelX component introduced (ProPlus Edition) Text in PDF documents can be searched using this component, it can also be linked to the gtPDFViewerX component to view the searched text.
Properties PrinterCapabilities and AdvancedPrinterSettings added to gtPDFPrinterX to retrieve and set various printer capabilites and settings, such as Duplex, Color, Orientation, PrintQuality etc...
Highly enhanced rendering of PDF documents in gtPDFViewerX with increased precision for text rendering and improved rendering of images with support for indexed and DeviceGray color space, and CCITT3 1D compressed images.
Version 2.04
PDFOutlineViewer ActiveX Control introduced (ProPlus Edition)
Now the outline (Table of Contents) can be viewed and navigated just by placing a component on your form and setting a few properties.
gtPDFDocumentX/ViewerX/PrinterX/OutlineX interaction and connection architecture modified for greater reuse, elegance and performance. Now the document is read only once for viewing, printing, outline display and manipulation.
GetInstalledPrinters (ProPlus Edition)
This function returns a list of installed printers.
SelectPrinterByIndex and SelectPrinterByName (ProPlus Edition)
These methods allow to programmatically select the printer to be used for printing.
EmbedUsedTrueTypeFonts (Professional Edition)
This method allows embedding of used true type fonts to enable greater independence and portability to the PDF document.
SearchFirst , SearchNext , SearchFirstOnPage and SearchNextOnPage(ProPlus Edition)
These functions searches for the occurrence of a text in a PDF document.
GetPDFFontObjectAtIndex and GetTotalPDFFontsInPage (Professional Edition)
These function can be used to obtain a complete list of all the fonts used in the PDF document.
Version 2.0
This function extracts text from a PDF document. The extracted text retains the formatting as close to that of the source PDF document. The function receives Page number as its argument and returns a string list that contains almost the same format as that specified in the PDF document.
Get Page Elements (ProPlus Edition)
A set of functions are introduced which return the contents of a specified page as objects of text, image and shapes containing full information. See GetPDFTextElementAt.
Form Fields (Professional and ProPlus Editions)
Support for editing the full set of form field attributes. Editing is supported for form fields of type: Text box, check box, radio buttons, combo box, list box, Push Buttons (Submit, Reset, JavaScript). New function 'FlattenFormFields' is introduced to flatten the existing form fields in PDF document.
Page Stitching (Professional and ProPlus Editions)
'Stitch' and 'StitchSideBySide' methods associates content stream of a page to another. The contents can be overlapped by calling Stitch method and the contents can be placed side by side by calling 'StitchSideBySide' method.
Annotations (Professional and ProPlus Editions)
'gtPDFAnnotationX' class incorporates new annotations types - Line, Link, Text, Free-Text, Poly line, Polygon, Caret, Ink, Markup, Circle, Stamp and Square annotation.
Watermarks (Stamping) (All Editions) 1. WritingMode property is used to create vertical text watermark in the PDF document.
2. Variables / Place holders (Professional and ProPlus Editions)
Support for Variables / Place holders for Text rendering using TextOut and watermark functions. This feature can be used in many ways, such as for mail-merging, page numbering, defining headers/footers... See OnCalcVariables event.
InsertBlankPageAt (Professional and ProPlus Editions)
New blank pages can be inserted to PDF documents.
TextOut (Professional and ProPlus Editions)
HTML styled text formats can be inserted into PDF documents by passing HTML styled text as strings to the TextOut function. HTML styled text gets added to the PDF document. For examples, see 'Tutorial - HTML Formatted TextOut'.
ActivateLinks (ProPlus Edition)
Parse PDF documents for text starting with ftp://, http://, mail@, www. and file:// (for example c:\) and activate them appropriately.
MergeOptions (All Editions)
This property configures merging of documents. The merging options include settings to merge bookmarks, outlines and rename duplicate field names.
Runtime Setup Dialogs (All Editions)
For the ease of setting the output document properties, a 'Document Settings and Preferences' dialog is invoked at runtime. Using this dialog, users can set various properties for the output PDF document.
Document and Page Events (Professional and ProPlus Editions)
An array of assorted functions(See AddPageLevelJavaScriptAction) and a new class gtPDFDocumentLevelActionX are introduced to set various Document and Page events.
InsertFileAttachment (Professional and ProPlus Editions)
Any file can now be attached into the PDF document.
AddCustomPDFInfo (Professional and ProPlus Editions)
Storing of custom metadata in Extensible Metadata Platform (XMP) is now supported. You can extract the custom metadata stream from a PDF document.
gtPDFPrinterX (ProPlus Edition)
A new Printer component is introduced to print PDF documents. Using printer component and by providing the file to be printed, can print the PDF documents.
gtPDFViewerX (ProPlus Edition)
A new Viewer component has been introduced to view, navigate and print pages of PDF documents. Using Viewer component, set the viewer properties to view the PDF documents.
Unicode Support
Professional and ProPlus editions provide Unicode support for Annotations, Bookmarks, Watermark texts and Document Information. Standard edition provides Unicode support for Bookmarks, Watermark text and Document Information. See topics HTML Formatted Text and Watermark/Stamping.
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