| General Features |
PDF SDK v2.5 |
| Price (US) |
$499 |
| Reader and writer functionalities in one class |
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| Does NOT need Adobe Acrobat or other third-party software |
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| Any objects on any page are available for editing |
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| Functions are very similar to the regular GDI functions |
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| Multilevel functions (support both high and low level functions) |
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| Both OCX and DLL support |
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| Easy integration with other third-party document imaging development kits |
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| Thumbnails |
Coming Soon |
| Bookmarks |
Coming Soon |
| Annotation |
Coming Soon |
| PDF Reader Module |
| Extract text from pages |
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| Extract images |
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| Render PDF pages to DIB or Bitmap |
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| Retrieve document metadata |
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| Support encryption and password protection |
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| PDF Writer Module |
| Easy to learn interface |
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| Metadata that contains the document properties (title, subject, author, keywords) |
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| Security |
| Encryption (40bit) |
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| Owner and user password |
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| Permission setting (modification, copy, printing, fill form/modify comments) |
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| Document manipulation support |
| Insert page |
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| Delete page |
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| Merge and split documents |
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| Change order of the pages |
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| Change document properties |
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| Specify page size |
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| Append new pages to the original document (without change any of the original pages) |
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| Set encryption or add password |
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| Change compression modes |
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| Manipulate page content (add or remove objects) |
| Supported objects: |
| Text (font, color, size, style, alignment) |
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| Line (brush, color, style) |
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| Polygon |
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| Rectangle |
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| Ellipse |
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| Bezier curve |
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| Point (color) |
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| Image (DIB) (position, stretch) |
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| Supported methods: |
| Set the transformation matrix |
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| Set brush |
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| Set font |
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| Set color |
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| Font Embedding |
| TrueType (.ttf) |
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| OpenType TrueType (.ttf) |
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| Open Type Type1 (.otf) |
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| Type1 (.pfb, .pfm) |
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| Sample Applications with source codes |
| PDF Viewer Sample (C++, C#, J#, VB.NET, Delphi) |
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| PDF Writer Sample (C++, C#, J#, VB.NET, Delphi) |
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| PDF Editor Sample (C++, C#, J#, VB.NET, Delphi) |
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| PDF SDK high level interface |
| Fully object oriented wrapper for the PDF Reader and PDF Writer modules. |
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| DLL (for C++) and visual OCX support |
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| Scroll the window horizontally and vertically. |
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| PDF Text Search |
| Supports searching in both directions (forward of backward) |
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| Case sensitivity and/or whole word searching |
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| Search in a page or in the whole PDF document |
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| The search can be continued from the last found word |
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| Allow the user to visually display the found text |
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| Supported Objects |
| PDF version 1.4 format (and previous versions) objects |
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| 14 standard PDF fonts |
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| The following embedded font types (TrueType, Type1 and Type1C (Compact Font Format)) |
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| Paths (draw shapes, diagrams, vector images) |
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| Operator categories: Graphics State, Path, Text, Font, Color |
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| Objects: Path object, Text object, XObject objects (Image object, Form object) |
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| Supported Compression Methods |
| For streams: FlateDecode, LZWDecode, ASCII85Decode |
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| For images: FlateDecode, DCTDecode, CCITTFaxDecode, RunLengthDecode, ASCII85Decode |
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| Supported Operating Systems |
| 32-bit Microsoft Windows® 2003 Server family |
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| 32-bit Microsoft Windows® Vista® |
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| 32-bit Microsoft Windows® XP |
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| Windows 2000 and Windows 2000 Server |
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| Supported Programming Languages |
| C++ |
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| VB |
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| VB.NET |
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| C# |
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| J# |
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| Delphi |
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