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Article #85ANN: Gnostice PDFtoolkit ActiveX/.NET 2.04 Released - Merge, Split, Overlay, Stamp, View, Print PDF documents and more
From: Girish Patil (Gnostice)
Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 09:23
Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 09:23
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Gnostice PDFtoolkit ActiveX/.NET 2.04 Released -- Gnostice is proud to announce the release of Gnostice PDFtoolkit ActiveX/.NET Version 2.04, a new and enhanced version of our powerful PDF document management, manipulation, viewing, printing and eForms processing component set. Version 2.04 adds a new component for outline (TOC) viewing and several other enhancements to viewing and eForms processing. Version 2.04 is a FREE upgrade to all registered users of version 2.0. For more information on Gnostice PDFtoolkit, please visit: http://www.gnostice.com/pdftoolkit_x.asp http://www.gnostice.com/pdftoolkitFeatures_x.asp For downloading EXE demos and trial versions, please visit: http://www.gnostice.com/pdftoolkitdownload_x.asp To purchase licenses of PDFtoolkit, please visit: http://www.gnostice.com/buynow.asp New in Version 2.04 =================== Enhancements: [ProPlus Edition] - Outline/Bookmark Viewer component introduced. Now the outline (Table of Contents) can be viewed and navigated just by placing a component on your form and setting a few properties. - Searching of text in PDF files with the versatile SearchFirst and SearchNext methods. - Enhanced viewing and printing of PDF path elements. - Support for embedded TrueType fonts, not installed in the target system - if font is embedded it will be -installed and removed after rendering. - Support for Inline Images in the Viewer. - GetInstalledPrinters method introduced in PDF Printer control. - SelectPrinterByIndex method introduced in PDF Printer control. - SelectPrinterByName method introduced in PDF Printer control. - Reset method introduced for PDF Viewer and PDF Printer to unload the document. [Professional Edition] - Properties added to provide an option to hide and not allow printing of FormFields. - Property added to edit the SubmitURL of a Button. - EmbedUsedTrueTypeFonts method introduced to enable greater independence and portability to PDF files. - Get list of fonts used in a PDF with full font details. [Standard Edition] - Filename property added to gtPDFDocumentX component. - Complete support for all methods for use in different locales. Fixes: - Print command issued from gtPDFViewerX when a file is loaded from a stream now prints correctly. - TextOut method now works correctly for different locales. - Addition of FormFields now works correctly when encryption is enabled. - Text color for FormFields are now shown correctly. - PageNo associated with gtPDFFormFieldElementX now returns correct value in GetPDFFormElementAt method. - Title property in gtPDFOutlineX class now returns the correct WideString. - InsertBlankPageAt method now works fine in non-English locale. - ExtractTextFormatted now works fine in the presence of inline Images. - Setup Dialog now applies correct Encryption settings. Changes: - PDF Document / PDF Viewer / PDF Printer/ PDF OutlineViewer 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. - Filename Property removed from the Viewer and Printer component. They connect to gtPDFDocumentX instead. Use gtPDFDocumentX.Filename. - LoadFromStream method removed from Viewer and Printer component. They connect to gtPDFDocumentX instead. Use gtPDFDocumentX.LoadFromStream. - OnPassword event removed from the Viewer and Printer component. Use gtPDFDocumentX.OnPassword instead. - IsEncrypt, IsLoaded and PageCount property removed from PDF Viewer component. + Help file updated with new topics, examples and corrections. + Other optimizations and fixes About Gnostice PDFtoolkit ========================= Gnostice PDFtoolkit is a powerful PDF document management, manipulation, and PDF eForms processing component set. PDFtoolkit supports filling and reading of PDF forms, compressing, securing, appending and merging of multiple PDF documents, stamping, setting bookmarks, and many more functions that can be performed on PDF documents. PDFtoolkit also provides components for viewing and printing PDF documents. PDFtoolkit operates on existing PDF documents and can even create new ones by extracting pages from existing documents. With the help of PDFtoolkit developers can support powerful PDF document management functionality right from the business applications they develop, making the applications more efficient and independent of other external software. For more information, please visit: http://www.gnostice.com/pdftoolkit_x.asp http://www.gnostice.com/pdftoolkitFeatures_x.asp Why use Gnostice PDFtoolkit? ============================ * View and Print PDF documents from within your application, without using any external software. * Convert PDF documents to JPEG, BMP, HTML, RTF, TIFF and other formats using eDocEngine. Useful for imaging and archival needs. * Modify and Re-organize PDF documents by adding new text, images, bookmarks, annotations, delete pages, append page and more. * Enhance PDF documents by activating links in content, inserting headers and footers, stamping page numbers, inserting document events and more. * Automate reading of filled PDF forms and capture data accurately in the format you want, processing thousands of forms in seconds. * Automate filling of PDF forms with constant data or unique data picked up from any data store, and distribute the filled forms in one go. An indispensable feature when you have to process and email thousands of forms to users across the globe. * Stamps and Watermarks - apply markings that can appear on or below document content to indicate specific uses or restrictions on the document such as "Confidential", "Draft", etc or set the company logo as a watermark on all pages or selected pages of the document. * Automate extraction of document metadata (or document information) and save it to a data store, enabling fast searching and retrieval based on document information elements. An extremely useful feature for implementing document archival/retrieval functions in your applications. * Perform any kind of PDF document management, manipulation and reorganization task in batch or real-time from your application to automate document workflows. -- The Gnostice Team Gnostice Information Technologies http://www.gnostice.com
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