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C++Builder
Gnostice PDFtoolkit is a comprehensive and versatile PDF component suite for Delphi™ and C++Builder®. PDFtoolkit VCL components come with hundreds of functions and properties that put immense power in the hands of the developer. PDFtoolkit hides the complexity of the PDF format and allows developers to easily create applications that can edit, enhance, secure, merge, split, view, digitally sign, and print PDF documents and process PDF forms. PDFtoolkit can extract text, export to images, and also add digital signatures. PDFtoolkit does not require PDF software such as Adobe PDF library, Adobe Acrobat Professional, Adobe PDF Reader or GhostScript.
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Features provided by PDFtoolkit VCL are listed here. (For system requirements, click here.)
| Features By Category | ||
| General Features, I/O and Security Support | ||
| Document Enhancement | ||
| Document Modification and Re-organization | ||
| Document Management | ||
| Acroforms Processing (PDF eForms) | ||
| Document Search and Extraction | ||
| Document Viewing, Printing, Searching and Converting | ||
| General Features, I/O and Security Support | ProPlus | |
| Email after saving to file |  |
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| Embed TrueType fonts | |
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| Load from file and memory stream | |
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| Read password protected documents (requires password) | |
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| Reset component - Unload document and free all used resources | |
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| Run-time setup dialog | |
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| Save to file and memory stream | |
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| Save to HTTP response | |
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| Secure with password using 40bit and 128bit Encryption | |
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| Subset fonts to reduce file size | |
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| Support for all character sets - Eastern Europe, Chinese, Japanese… | |
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| Unicode support for text annotations | |
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| Unicode support for Watermarks, document information and bookmarks | |
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| Use TrueType fonts | |
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| Document Enhancement | ProPlus | |
| Activate links in page content [http://, ftp://, e-mail and file://] | |
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| Add digital signatures | |
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| Attach files (any file type) | |
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| Build document Outline (TOC) | |
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| Draw simple HTML text [Tags supports: <font>, <b>, <i>, <u>, <strikeout>] | |
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| Draw Text on the page [Horizontal and Vertical text] | |
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| Insert annotations [Text, FreeText, Line, Square, Circle, Highlight, Underline, Squiggly, Strikeout, Stamp, Ink] | |
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| Insert Bookmarks in content (Link annotation) | |
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| Insert page Header and Footer | |
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| Insert watermarks with text and images [Horizontal and Vertical text] | |
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| Page number stamping | |
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| Set custom thumbnails for each page | |
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| Set document and page events | |
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| Set presentation features [Page Transition] | |
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| Set various Actions to Annotations [URI, GoTo, GoToR, Launch, JavaScript] | |
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| Set various Actions to Bookmarks [URI, GoTo, GoToR, Launch, JavaScript] | |
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| Variables support for Watermark and Draw Text [Time, Date, Page number, Total Pages] | |
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| Document Modification and Re-organization | ProPlus | |
| Add and Edit existing Outline items with unlimited nesting levels (TOC) | |
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| Append pages from one document to end of another | |
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| Delete existing Outline items | |
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| Delete pages from document | |
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| Extract pages from documents and create new ones | |
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| Insert new blank page | |
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| Insert pages from one document to another | |
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| Mask area on page | |
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| Merge multiple documents | |
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| Modify document information fields [Author, Subject, Title, Keywords. | |
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| Stitch pages [on top, side-by-side] | |
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| Write XMP metadata of document (custom document information) | |
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| Document Management | ProPlus | |
| ASCII encode document (ASCII85 and ASCIIHex) | |
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| Change user permissions (requires owner password) | |
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| Change viewing page layout | |
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| Compress document | |
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| Decompress document | |
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| Set and edit viewer preferences | |
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| Acroforms Processing (PDF eForms) | ProPlus | |
| Delete form fields | |
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| Edit Form field attributes | |
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| Flatten form fields | |
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| Full access to form field attributes [Name, Description, Type, Allowed values...] | |
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| Insert new form fields | |
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| Read and Fill form field values | |
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| Document Search and Extraction | ProPlus | |
| Extract all page content as Text, Graphic, Pattern objects with properties | |
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| Extract pages and save as new document | |
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| Extract Text (plain strings without formatting) | |
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| Extract Text Formatted (plain text with basic formatting) | |
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| Get page properties [Size, Mediabox, Cropbox, Rotation] | |
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| Programmatic text search | |
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| Read document information [Author, Subject, Title, Keywords...] | |
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| Read XML Metadata of document | |
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| Document Viewing, Printing, Searching and Converting | ProPlus | |
| (Viewer) Interactive form-filling | |
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| (Viewer) Select region and export to clipboard and image formats | |
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| (Viewer) User interaction modes - Hand, Select, Zoom, Snapshot and Highlight | |
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| (Viewer) User-defined widgets for PDF page elements | |
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| Bookmark panel component | |
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| Printer component | |
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| Render PDF to Canvas and convert to JPEG, BMP and (single and multi-page) TIFF | |
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| Search panel component | |
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| Viewer component | |
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The following IDEs are supported.
| Version | Delphi | C++Builder | ||
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| 32-bit | 64-bit | 32-bit | 64-bit | |
| 6 | Yes | NA | No | NA |
| 7 | Yes | NA | NA | NA |
| 2005 | No | NA | NA | NA |
| 2006 | No | NA | No | NA |
| 2007 | Yes | NA | Yes | NA |
| 2009 | Yes | NA | Yes | NA |
| 2010 | Yes | NA | Yes | NA |
| XE | Yes | NA | Yes | NA |
| XE2 | Yes | Yes | Yes | NA |
| XE3 | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| XE4 | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| XE5 | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| XE6 | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| XE7 | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| XE8 | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| 10 Seattle | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| 10.1 Berlin | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| 10.2 Tokyo | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| 10.3 Rio | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| 10.4 Sydney | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| 11.x | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| 12.x | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
* - In case gdiplus.dll file is already present, do not attempt to overwrite it, as this action will conflict with Windows system file protection feature.
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HighlightRegionShape property.TgtPDFDocument.MaskRect() also automatically masks the region if it
is displayed in the viewer.TgtPDFDocument.SaveFileAttachmentTo() saves file attachments and file
attachment annotations.TgtPDFAnnotation.BorderWidth property has no effect.TgtRect memory leak when adding a new form field.FormHighlightColor in TgtPDFViewer.FormTextColor in TgtPDFViewer.TgtPDFDocument.GetText() will interpret the coordinates of
the TRect passed to it in terms of pixels, instead of points, as was
earlier. This makes it easy to work with the rectangle returned by
TgtPDFViewer.GetOriginalRect() method, which is used to obtain
a region selected by the end-user on a page displayed the viewer component.TgtPDFFormPushButton class.TgtPDFFormField.ReadOnly
property is set to true.TgtPDFDocument class:
TgtPDFDocument.SearchFirst() method searches
entire document if 0 (zero) is
specified for PageNum parameter.Input property of user-derived form widget classes
has been made "protected" to provide better input control.
TgtEdit.Input of type TgtEditInput(TMemo)TgtListBox.Input of type TgtListInput(TListBox)TgtCheckbox.Input of type TgtCheckInput(TCustomControl)TgtRadioGroup.Input of type Input: array of TgtRadioItem(TgtViewerFormWidget)TgtComboBox.Input of type TgtComboInput(TComboBox)TgtPDFDocument.SaveChanges() throws exception when input
document is loaded from a stream.TgtPDFDocument.InsertBlankPage method sets page size to crop box
instead of media box.TgtPDFFormCheckBoxField.ReadOnly to true does not make
the field read-only in the document.PDFUtils.CPixelsPerInch variable can be changed to override system's DPI,
as Screen.PixelsPerInch cannot be read on Windows 8.1.PDFDocument property of
PDFPrinter to Nil.TgtPDFSearchPanel component.SaveToStream to TgtPDFFileAttachment
class.TgtPDFDocument.Encryption property can be used to read existing
encryption settings.SelectedItemIndex property wrongly
defaults to 0 (first one) instead of -1 (no selection).Destination property for link annotations
(linking to targets within the same document).Password parameter for
TgtPDFDocument.LoadFromFile and TgtPDFDocument.LoadFromStream
methods.InteriorColor transparent for circle,
square and line annotation classes by setting it to ClNone.TgtPDFDocument.OnPassword event is not called if password
provided to LoadFromFile() or LoadFromStream() does not work.TgtPDFDocument.MergeDocs() method.TgtPDFDocument.SaveAsText() method does not fully consider its
page range parameter.TgtPDFDocument instance.TgtPDFPrinter.ShowSetupDialog() property is set to false.ToUnicode entry does not
contain any character codes - not falling back to the CID font.MovePage(PageToMove: Integer; MoveToPageNumber: Integer)
in TgtPDFDocument class.
TgtPDFDocument.SetXMLMetadata(AXMLMetaData: String) to set XML metadata for a documentSubmitURL propertyReadOnly propertyTgtPDFDocument.GetText() method returns string with every line prefixed with the previous lineTgtPDFDocument.InsertBlankPagesAt methodTgtPDFViewer.Active to true returns control to program
only after rendering first pageTgtPDFDocument.InsertBlankPageAt() method does not work
with Delphi/C++Builder versions newer than 2009TgtPDFViewer.Active to true returns control to program
only after rendering first pageTgtPDFDocument.InsertBlankPageAt() method does not work
with Delphi/C++Builder versions newer than 2009GetDocumentHash method in TgtPDFDocument componentTgtPDFViewer.Caching to
specify how PDF resources are cached by the viewerTransparent (default is
true) to TgtPDFViewer.HighlightRegion methodSetEditFocus method to set focus on the search text entry edit boxInteractiveForms
property is set to falseAdvancedPrinterSettings.Color
does not workTgtPDFEngine.TextOut with <font> HTML tags.TgtPDFViewer.BackgroundRendering is set to trueTgtPDFFormFieldValidateAction and
TgtPDFFormFieldAutoCalcAction
aatBeforeDocOpen
in enumeration TgtDocActionTriggers - add a PDF action
for the "document-open" eventAllowImageCopy in
TgtPDFViewer classOnFormFieldValueChanged
and OnFormFieldFocus
in TgtPDFViewer classReadOnly property does not work with some form
fieldsTgtPDFDocument.SaveAsImage() on pages with a particular
type of JPEG imagesSetSelectedItemIndex property
of TgtPDFFormListBox or TgtPDFFormComboBox instancesTgtPDFViewer but not in
Adobe Reader - as a workaround, XFA entry will be removed and
the value will be made available in AcroForm dictionaryTgtExPDFDocument.GetFontList() causes access violation with
some documentsTgtPDFDocument class: SaveAsText() and ExtractText()TgtPDFDocument.RenderToDC() methodTgtPDFDocument.InsertPagesFrom() method
multiple timesTgtPDFDocument.InsertPagesFrom() methodOpacity in TgtPDFAnnotation classSelectedRegionColor and HighlightRegionColor to specify
default color for selected and highlighted regions on the viewerScrollDown, ScrollLeft, ScrollRight and ScrollUp to programmatically
scroll displayed contentGetOriginalRect to obtain actual location and dimensions of a
selected page region after correcting for rotation and zoom changes set by the
end-userSaveToFile saves the displayed document to specified file
and loads it into the viewerIsLoaded property incorrectly returns true when document
load operation failed due to wrong passwordTgtPDFDocument.TextOut method and TgtTextWatermarkTemplate class.TgtWideStringList.SaveToStreamA method, an ANSI alternative for the return type of the ExtractText method - to support old IDEsFor older releases of PDFtoolkit VCL, please click here.
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The installer application will also create a local copy in your computer
when you run it.
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Edit, enhance, secure, merge, split, view, print, digitally sign PDF & AcroForms documents
Just a method call now.
It just got simpler.
Use PDFtoolkit to export PDF pages to images.
Exploiting a rarely used content-creation method.
Learn to export PDF pages using PDFtoolkit VCL and create multi-page TIFFs using Windows GDI.
Learn to add a signature form field to a PDF document.
Learn how to read and edit document information properties of a PDF file using PDFtoolkit VCL.
Learn the new way of creating and processing bookmarks using PDFtoolkit VCL.
Learn to use placeholders in PDFtoolkit text outs on PDF pages.
… 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 how to provide an option to cancel a text search operation in the middle.
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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.
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Learn to extract text, fill form field, and add attachments.
Get right down to the metal and write code that will accomplish your PDF-related needs.
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Learn how to use methods that return objects in a clean and efficient way.
Learn how to flatten PDF forms and have them automatically e-mailed.
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Use PDFtoolkit VCL to extract text data occurring in specific locations in a PDF document.
"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."
“I would like to extract text and images from a page in a PDF file and add it to another PDF file as watermarks.”
Learn to use the TgtPDFDocument.SearchAll() method.
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