Build applications supporting PDF file creation and viewing, using licensed Adobe® technology. PDFXpress is delivered as both a Microsoft .NET component and COM control. Read most PDF files that Adobe Acrobat® supports, create new PDF files, and add pages to existing files. PDFXpress empowers developers requiring PDF support within applications.
Features:
- Technical Notes
- Programming environments: Win32 visual development environments
- Sample code is included for: C#, VB.NET, VB 6, Delphi 7/8
- Deploys within .NET as a managed control (see "Building Robust Imaging Components for the Microsoft .NET Platform" white paper )
- Can also be used in any development environment that hosts ActiveX/COM
- Client/Server web development capabilities
- Can be used in a multi-threaded environment
- Customer-acclaimed technical support
- Free full-featured trial version available for immediate download
- PDF Reading Support
- Read single and multi-page PDF files
- Read Post Script-based PDF files
- Read color image PDF files encoded to JPEG (both sequential and progressive), JPEG 2000, GIF, BMP, PNG, and RAW image input
- Render pages to 24-bit color or 1-bit bitonal
- Render (read) the page or specified section of a PDF document
- Specify resolution
- Read Native PDF files
- Read black and white image PDF files encoded to TIFF (CCITT G3-1D, CCITT G3-2D, CCITT G4), and JBIG2
- Will render to a DIB, Bitmap (.NET only), or EPS stream
- Obtain the bookmarks associated with a PDF document
- Configure whole image or rectangle selection viewing
- Specify annotation viewing options (faces of certain PDF annotations only)
- PDF Writing Support
- Create a new PDF document
- Create color image PDF files encoded to JPEG (both sequential and progressive), JPEG 2000, GIF, BMP, PNG, RAW image input
- Add PDF bookmarks to a file, linking to locations within the document that can be displayed to form a document outline in Acrobat Reader
- Add pages made of images to an existing document
- Split a single PDF file into multiple files
- Rotate, scale, or clip imported pages when placing in a new PDF file
- Create black and white image PDF files encoded to TIFF (CCITT G3-1D, CCITT G3-2D, CCITT G4), and JBIG2
- Create files from an image memory stream, no file required
- Specify thumbnail generation and storage with the associated page in the PDF document
- Merge two PDF files into a single PDF file
- Delete pages from a PDF file
- Save a created or modified PDF document with linearization
- Additional File Formats
- Use ImagXpress to support additional file format conversion and compression beyond PDF (more information)