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PDFtoolkit VCL V4 Preview 4 Released

We are pleased to release a fourth preview of PDFtoolkit V4, our PDF component suite for Delphi/C++Builder.

The following enhancements have been made to the PDF viewer component.

• Interactive form filling
• Ability to select and copy images
• Support for custom widgets to enhance viewer's interactivity
• APIs for exporting page content to image formats (BMP, EMF, JPEG, single-page and multi-page TIFF)
• Five viewer interactivity modes

This update adds support for RAD Studio XE2 (both 32-bit and 64-bit Windows). It also supports C++Builder versions 2007 to XE2.

Support for 64-bit OS has limitations related to:

• JBIG2 image rendering
• Loading documents with certain special characters causes "$ is not a valid Integer" error

Several other enhancements and fixes are included. For a complete list, please refer the download release note.

Downloads

• Trial Setup
  • http://www.gnostice.com/downloads/PDFtoolkit_v4_trial.exe
• Viewer EXE Demo
  • http://www.gnostice.com/downloads/PDFtoolkit_v4_ViewerDemo.exe

Highlights

• General
  • Support for RAD Studio XE2 (both 32-bit and 64-bit Windows)
  • Support for C++Builder 2007 to XE2
• PDF Viewing
  • Interactive form filling
  • Ability to select and copy images interactively
  • Automatic reloading of document after changes are saved
  • Extendable widgets for page elements
  • User interaction modes - Hand, Select, Zoom, Snapshot, Highlight
  • Built-in widgets for form fields and image elements
  • Event to track mouse activity on form fields
  • Context menu options for selected image element - Copy image and Save image
  • Default page context menu can be replaced with custom popup menu
  • Context menu options to change viewer interaction modes and save current page as BMP, JPEG, EMF or TIFF images
  • Zoom-in and zoom-out operations automatically skip to standard page zoom levels if it is within range
  • API to register custom widgets for form fields, text, and image elements
  • Faster rendering of embedded fonts
  • Added several standard actions (TAction) for PDF viewer component - File Open, File Save As, Print Document, Zoom Actual Size, Zoom Fit Width, Zoom Fit Page, First , Prior, Next, Last, Zoom in, Zoom out, Rotate clockwise, Rotate Anti-Clockwise, Select Mode, Hand Mode, Zoom Mode, Snapshot Mode, Highlight Mode - build a PDF viewer application without writing any code
• PDF Processing
  • More options to retrieve bookmarks (as Strings, TreeNodes)
  • API to export PDF to image files
  • Customizable image properties (JPEG quality, Pixel format, Smoothing, Monochrome, etc)
  • Event to customize name, prefix of image to be exported. Also accepts parameter to skip current page or break the entire operation
  • Ability to save changes to loaded document
  • New and improved form processing APIs
  • API to copy page content to Windows Clipboard
  • Document merge operations also merges bookmarks