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PDFView4NET adds Silverlight Viewer

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 12:10:00 GMT

View PDFs using PDFView4NET.

PDFView4NET WPF & Silverlight Edition is a .NET toolkit for adding PDF render and print support to WPF applications. It includes a PDF viewer control and a library for rendering and printing PDF files. The PDF viewer control includes support for annotating PDF files, bookmark navigation and file attachment capabilities. The toolkit includes its own PDF rendering engine and does not rely on other software for rendering PDF files.

Updates in V4.1

PDF viewer control for Silverlight 4.0

About O2 Solutions

O2 Solutions is a small Romanian based software company focused on developing products for the software industry. It is dedicated to providing the finest components and highest quality support to its customers. The company is committed to supporting the .NET Framework by developing high performance components for all .NET enabled environments.

PDFView4NET supports Annotation Measurement

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:53:58 GMT

Add annotations to a PDF document.

PDFView4NET Windows Forms Edition is a .NET toolkit for displaying and printing PDF files. It includes a PDF viewer control for Windows Forms and a .NET library for rendering and printing PDF files. The PDF viewer control includes support for annotating PDF files, bookmark navigation and adding file attachments. It includes its own PDF rendering engine and does not rely on other software for rendering and printing PDF files.

Updates in V4.1

Added support for measuring annotations.

About O2 Solutions

wpViewPDF V3.0 released

Mon, 31 Oct 2011 11:34:34 GMT

Viewing a PDF in wpViewPDF.

Includes a multi-threaded scrolling window for scroll & zoom commands and an optional thumbnail window.

wpViewPDF allows you to view PDF data that can be loaded from memory, file or stream. wpViewPDF has been developed as a Windows Class which makes it compatible with most Windows based development systems. wpViewPDF can be used to quickly display and print PDF files which were created with wPDF, wPDFControl or wRTF2PDF or with another library. It is directly embedded into your application. It supports ANSI text extraction and text find and highlight functionality.

Updates in V3.0

Multi-threaded scrolling window for fast reaction on scroll and zoom commands
Optional thumbnail window
Completely new rendering based using floating point coordinates
Much improved support for embedded fonts, such as subset fonts
Updated image rendering for faster display of large JPEG images and anti aliased display of monochrome images
Support for Type3 fonts
Support for LAB colors and transparent colors
Improved Acro-field rendering, read and update (with PLUS)
Faster printing with several stretching options
Improved and enhanced PDF to image conversion (BMP, EMF, JPEG)
Improved conversion to Text - now also conversion to RTF and HTML
Exported print, merge and conversion methods now also available as "W" version for Unicode strings
Improved scribed stamping to add page numbers quickly
Add image, text and vector objects, i.e. highlights which can be sized and moved by user or program
Updated search and highlighting functionality
Automatic repair makes reading of PDF files possible which could not be opened otherwise

About WPCubed

WPCubed GmbH is a privately owned company based in Munich, Germany. They have been providing development tools since 1996. Their flagship product is WPTools, a well known and successful word-processing component suite. Their PDF products, which have been available since 2000, are also used by thousands of developers worldwide.

Aspose.Pdf for RS improves report display

Wed, 19 Oct 2011 10:45:07 GMT

A PDF report generated by Aspose.Pdf.

Version 2.3 lets you render SubScript and SuperScript text.

Aspose.Pdf for Reporting Services (SSRS) is a robust .NET solution which allows you to produce PDF reports in Microsoft SQL Server 2000, 2005 and 2008 Reporting Services. Almost all RDL report features are supported by Aspose.Pdf for Reporting Services (SSRS), allowing you to generate high quality PDF reports having tables, charts and images etc. Leveraging from the technology of the Aspose.Pdf component, Aspose.Pdf for Reporting Services (SSRS) is the ideal product for anyone looking to generate PDF reports in Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services.

Updates in V2.3

Display Table Of Contents (TOC) on subsequent pages
Render SubScript and SuperScript text in resultant PDF
Generate reports without the ReportViewer being visible
Support for adding a header before Table Of Contents (TOC)

About Aspose

Aspose is a leading vendor of .NET and Java development components, and rendering extensions for platforms such as Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services and JasperReports. Its core focus is to offer the most complete and powerful set of file management products available. Aspose products support some of the most popular file formats in business, including: Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, PowerPoint presentations, PDF documents, Flash presentations and Project files. While its core focus is on file management products, Aspose's mission is to provide our customers with top quality products complemented by fast and reliable customer support. The company listens to its customers and produces a variety of solutions to meet the complex needs of its global audience.

Rainbow PDF Server Based Converter 3.1 MR1 updated

Thu, 29 Sep 2011 15:49:14 GMT

Converting documents using Rainbow PDF Server Based Converter.

Rainbow PDF Server Based Converter will convert your files on demand or in a batch operation at high speed whether used in a Web environment or called from an internal company server. Shortened development time makes it the favored solution of Network application service providers. Rainbow PDF Server Based Converter converts documents even in environments where Microsoft Office is not installed or operating. As all file conversions are performed entirely within Antenna House's direct creation engine, there is no need for Adobe or Microsoft licenses.

Updates in V3.1 MR1

Corrections: Conversion from Word

When the header or footer contained a tab, text decorations were not processed.
Images in the header were not output correctly.
When page breaks were inserted continuously, some pages were not outputted.
When a bookmark's starting position was set outside a table and ended inside a table, hyperlinks were not converted correctly.
Center aligned or right aligned auto shapes were not placed correctly.
Flame layouts with no text wrapping were not processed correctly.
When the table style was specified, the conversion finished by outputting only the first single character.
When the border was arranged in the layout frame, the left end of the border inside the frame was hidden.
The underline was not converted when it was specified to the page break code.
Line numbers set to the captions were not outputted correctly.
Text with a hyperlink in the hierarchical table was not converted.
When the paragraph style was specified, the font specification did not convert correctly.

Corrections: Conversion from Excel

When only the cell field with valid data was specified as the print range and fit-to-page option was selected, the layout collapsed.
When specifying fit-to-option and using the default print scaling ratio, the same content was extended over two pages depending on the environment.
The gradation of the text box did not convert correctly.
The space between dots differed from the original file.
The text in the shape was displayed with zero width.
When slicers were added in Excel 2010, the figure displayed was all black.

Corrections: Conversion from PowerPoint

When the OLE data was arranged as an object in Powerpoint 2010, it was not converted and was missing.
When there was white space at the end of a line, the layout collapsed.
The arrangement and the margin in a cell were not correctly processed.
When a line break occurred, the layout of the border collapsed.
When the figure was arranged just before the end of the page, it was not converted correctly.
The layout of the vertical writing text in the text box collapsed.

Corrections: Conversion from PDF

Failing to read the font information, font sizes were increased.
Images in the file were not converted and were missing.
The conversion failed when JBIG2 images were included in the file.
The color space was not processed correctly and it failed to display.

Corrections: Conversion to Flash

Bold and italic specifications were not outputted correctly.
A white border, which was not in the original layout, was outputted.

Corrections: Conversion to images

The background color became black after converting to TIFF.
JPEG compression was invalid when outputting to CMYK TIFF.
The file was outputted in reverse when converting from EMF.

Corrections: Conversion to INX

The stream output failed.

Corrections: Other

The conversion from the text file failed.
When deleted data in the graph was read, a memory shortage occurred.
When # was included in the file name, the conversion failed.

About Antenna House

Antenna House, Inc. (Headquartered in Tokyo, Japan) has been developing computer software since 1984 under the slogan of 'data usability.' In addition to providing proven software for formatting XML to PDF, print and screen (XSL Formatter) Antenna House also offers advanced document conversion and file viewing software. Antenna House XSL Formatter is the most compliant software available and is used in hundreds of installations worldwide. PDF output, multilingual support (including Chinese, Japanese, Hebrew, Arabic Thai), SVG support and much more are all standard features of Antenna House XSL Formatter.

O2 Solutions adds PDF viewer for .NET and WPF

Fri, 02 Sep 2011 13:06:57 GMT

Zoom and page layout and PDF Viewer demos in PDFView4NET Full .NET Edition.

PDFView4NET Full .NET Edition V4.0 allows you to add PDF render and print support to .NET and WPF applications.

PDFView4NET Full .NET Edition includes both Windows Forms and WPF components. It is a .NET toolkit for displaying, viewing and printing PDF files in .NET applications. O2 Solutions PDFView4NET .NET Full Edition includes a PDF viewer control and a .NET library for rendering and printing PDF files from any .NET application. The PDF viewer control includes support for annotating PDF files, bookmarks navigation, adding and removing file attachments and other features. O2S PDFView4NET .NET Full Edition includes it's own PDF rendering engine and it does not rely on any other software for rendering and printing PDF files. O2S PDFView4NET toolkit has been developed entirely in C#, being 100% managed code. Buy PDFView4NET .NET Full Edition with 1 Year Support Subscription to obtain all PDFView4NET .NET Full Edition upgrades, updates and priority support for 1 year. O2S PDFView4NET .NET Full Edition is Runtime Royalty free. Subscription Renewals also available.

Features

PDFView4NET .NET Full provides support for the following features when displaying and printing PDF files:

PDF Rendering:

Separate class library for converting PDF files to images and for printing PDF files to any Windows printer without any user interface
Render PDF files to BMP, GIF, JPEG, TIFF or any System.Drawing.Graphics object
Render PDF files to multipage B/W TIFF with CCITT FAX compression
Filters and compression: FlateDecode, LZWDecode, ASCII85Decode, ASCIIHexDecode, DCTDecode, CCITTFaxDecode, JPXDecode, JBIG2Decode.
Images: RAW, CCITT, DCT, JPEG 2000, JBIG2, Inline, Soft masks, Image masks, Chroma key masks
Fonts: standard PDF fonts, embedded fonts, CID keyed fonts, TrueType fonts, Type 1 fonts (CFF and Postscript)
Colorspaces: DeviceRGB, DeviceCMYK, DeviceGray, CalGray, CalRGB, Lab, ICC, Separation, DeviceN
Printing: print to any Windows printer, print page content and/or annotations and/or form fields, auto-rotate and center, print custom page range, multiple print scaling options, print multiple pages per sheet

PDF View controls:

All the above rendering features
6 controls: document, pages viewer, bookmarks viewer, page thumbnails viewer, annotations viewer and attachments viewer
Navigation: zoom (absolute, fit width, fit height, fit visible, zoom in, zoom out, dynamic zoom, marquee zoom), rotate pages, PDFBookmarksView control for displaying bookmarks and navigating within the document, PDFPageThumbnailView control for displaying page thumbnails and navigating within the document, active links, multiple page display layouts
Annotations: display all annotations, standard and owner draw annotation tooltips, popup windows, add/edit text, free text, ellipse, file attachment, ink, line, link, rectangle, stamp, highlight, strikeout and underline annotations, active links to other pages or web, PDFAnnotationsView control for displaying all the annotations in a document
Forms: user interactive form design, add, edit and remove form fields, user interactive form filling with support for saving filled forms; textbox, checkbox, radio button, pushbutton, dropdown list and list box fields.
Text: extract text from pages, search text and highlight search results, select and copy text.
Document attachments: add/edit/delete file attachments, PDFFileAttachmentsView control for displaying all the attachments in a document
Save the modified files to file or stream

The install package includes a MSDN style help file, several samples both in C# and VB.NET and support PDF files for the samples. The evaluation version is includes all the features but prints an evaluation message on document's pages. The library is licensed per developer and can be distributed royalty free.

About O2 Solutions

O2 Solutions is a small Romanian based software company focused on developing products for the software industry. At O2 Solutions we are dedicated to providing the finest components and highest quality support to our customers and to the worldwide developers' community. O2 Solutions is committed to supporting the .NET Framework in the present and future by developing high performance components for all .NET enabled environments.

PDFView4NET WPF Edition V4.0 launched

Thu, 01 Sep 2011 14:28:58 GMT

Zoom and page layout demo using PDFView4NET WPF Edition.

Add PDF render and print support to your WPF applications.

PDFView4NET WPF Edition is a .NET toolkit for adding PDF render and print support to your WPF applications. It includes a PDF viewer control and a library for rendering and printing PDF files from any .NET application. The PDF viewer control includes support for annotating PDF files, bookmarks navigation, adding and removing file attachments and other features. The toolkit includes its own PDF rendering engine and it does not rely on any other software for rendering and printing PDF files. PDFView4NET WPF Edition toolkit has been developed entirely in C#, being 100% managed code.

Features

Supports .NET Framework 3.5 and 4.0
Load files from file or stream, with support for RC4/AES encrypted files

PDF Rendering

Separate class library for converting PDF files to images and for printing PDF files to any Windows printer without any user interface
Render PDF files to BMP, GIF, JPEG, TIFF
Render PDF files to multipage B/W TIFF with CCITT FAX compression
Filters and compression: FlateDecode, LZWDecode, ASCII85Decode, ASCIIHexDecode, DCTDecode, CCITTFaxDecode, JPXDecode, JBIG2Decode.
Images: RAW, CCITT, DCT, JPEG 2000, JBIG2, Inline, Soft masks, Image masks, Chroma key masks
Fonts: standard PDF fonts, embedded fonts, CID keyed fonts, TrueType fonts, Type 1 fonts (CFF and Postscript)
Colorspaces: DeviceRGB, DeviceCMYK, DeviceGray, CalGray, CalRGB, Lab, ICC, Separation, DeviceN
Printing: print to any Windows printer, print page content and/or annotations and/or form fields, auto-rotate and center, print custom page range, multiple print scaling options, print multiple pages per sheet

PDF View WPF controls

All the above rendering features
3 controls: pages viewer, bookmarks viewer and attachments viewer
Navigation: zoom (absolute, fit width, fit height, fit visible, zoom in, zoom out, dynamic zoom, marquee zoom), rotate pages, PDFBookmarksView control for displaying bookmarks and navigating within the document, active links, multiple page display layouts
Annotations: display all annotations, standard and owner draw annotation tooltips, popup windows, add/edit text, free text, ellipse, file attachment, ink, line, link, rectangle, stamp, highlight, strikeout and underline annotations, active links to other pages or web
Forms: user interactive form design, add, edit and remove form fields; textbox, checkbox, radio button, pushbutton, dropdown list and list box fields
Text: extract text from pages
Document attachments: add/edit/delete file attachments, PDFFileAttachmentsView control for displaying all the attachments in a document
Save the modified files to file or stream

The install package includes 2 PDFView4NET assemblies, a MSDN style help file, several samples both in C# and VB.NET and support PDF files for the samples. The evaluation version includes all the features but prints an evaluation message on the document pages. The library is licensed per developer and can be distributed royalty free.

About O2 Solutions

PDFView4NET improves display of PDF files

Tue, 30 Aug 2011 10:59:55 GMT

Adding annotations to a PDF document.

Version 4.0 includes faster loading and display of PDF files and a new multithreaded PDF rendering engine.

PDFView4NET Windows Forms Edition is a .NET toolkit for displaying and printing PDF files in .NET applications. It includes a PDF viewer control for Windows Forms and a .NET library for rendering and printing PDF files from any .NET application. The PDF viewer control for Windows Forms includes support for annotating PDF files, bookmarks navigation, adding and removing file attachments and other features. It includes its own PDF rendering engine and it does not rely on any other software for rendering and printing PDF files.

Updates in V4.0

Faster loading and display of PDF files
New multithreaded PDF rendering engine
Async page rendering with progress display

About O2 Solutions

O2 Solutions is a small Romanian based software company focused on developing products for the software industry. It is dedicated to providing the finest components and highest quality support to its customers and to the worldwide developer community. The company is committed to supporting the .NET Framework in the present and future by developing high performance components for all .NET enabled environments.

PDFlib 8.0.3 released

Thu, 25 Aug 2011 15:06:10 GMT

A PDF merge example in PDFlib.

Adds support for generating barcode fields, plus support for 3D models in PRC format.

PDFlib is a component that allows you to programmatically create PDF files from within your own server-side or client-side software. PDFlib doesn't make use of third-party software for generating PDFs, nor does it require any other tools. It offers a variety of new and improved functions, including a new table formatter, PDF/A output for longtime archiving, AES encryption, integrated pCOS analyzing tools, a repair and optimization mode for input PDFs, and numerous other new features. PDFlib+PDI includes all PDFlib functions, plus the PDF Import Library (PDI) for including existing PDF pages in the generated output and PDFlib Personalization Server (PPS) includes PDFlib+PDI, plus additional functions for automatically filling PDFlib blocks. PPS also includes the PDFlib Block plugin for creating blocks interactively. PDFlib is available for all major operating environments and development environments.

The following editions are available:

Updates in 8.0.3

Support for generating barcode fields (barcode fields don't work with Adobe Reader, but require Acrobat Professional)
Support for 3D models in the PRC format (in addition to U3D)
Adjust the size of imported PDF pages to work around problems with pages which contain content outside of all page boxes
The PDFlib Block plugin included with PDFlib Personalization Server (PPS) has been updated to version 4.3. It includes a redesigned user interface and offers Acrobat X compatibility on Windows and Mac OS X. The Japanese user interface is now also supported on the Mac.

About PDFlib

Munich-based PDFlib GmbH, founded in 2000, develops and sells leading edge components for server-centric generation and processing of PDF documents. PDFlib customers use the software for automated and high volume generation and processing of PDF documents in business and prepress workflows or for online billing systems. The components produced by PDFlib GmbH are readily available for all common environments (operating systems and programming languages) as commercial versions and partially as open source. PDFlib GmbH sells worldwide with main markets in North America, Germany and Japan.

PdfCreative joins ComponentSource

Wed, 15 Jun 2011 11:56:00 GMT

Render a table with auto-size columns with PDF Graphics .NET.

PDF Graphics .NET 1.1 is an easy-to-use, fast and scalable PDF document creator.

PDF Graphics .NET is an easy-to-use, fast and scalable PDF document creator. Designed to allow developers to create PDF documents as easily as possible, its API closely follows that of the .NET graphics namespace - System.Drawing.

Easy to use - With PDF Graphics .NET, you create PDF documents the way you paint .NET graphics on Windows Forms or printer output. The API closely follows that of the .NET graphics namespace - System.Drawing.

Fast - Creating PDF documents has never been faster - even large documents with embedded fonts render in no time. A sample document with a 100-page table rendered in seconds using PDF Graphics .NET, as opposed to over 10 minutes with a competing product.

Scalable - Unlike other PDF creators, PDF Graphics .NET does not store a large model of the document in memory - it is fast-forward, write-only. That means it doesn't matter if your document has one page, ten pages or hundreds - the last page will render as fast as the first.

Features

RGB and CMYK pens and brushes
Rectangles, Ellipses and composite shapes
Fully justified text
Character, word, and line spacing
Linear and radial gradients
Patterns, line joins and line caps
Clipping paths
Re-usable stencils
Scaling, rotating or free-transform
Embed fonts in documents
Embed existing PDF documents
Easy to use
Fast and scalable

About PDFCreative

PDFCreative was born out of sheer necessity. Unhappy with PDF creation tools available, they set of to create their first product - PDF Graphics .NET. PDF Creative believe that software tools should be powerful, easy to use and fun.

Create PDFs with AES-128bit/AES-256bit encryption

Mon, 13 Jun 2011 10:49:24 GMT

Converting documents using Rainbow PDF Server Based Converter.

Rainbow PDF Server Based Converter V3.1 MR1 also adds PDF/A-1b:2005 output support.

Updates in V3.1 MR1

PDF Output: AES-128bit/AES-256bit encryption output
PDF Output: PDF/A-1b:2005 output
Supports MS Word 2010 conversions
Supports MS Excel 2010 conversions
Supports MS PowerPoint 2010 conversions
Progressive JPEG output
Interlace PNG output
256 tone grayscale output
256 color output
GdiPlus smoothing
TIFF/CMYK output
TIFF Compression output with the following: LZW, JPEG, DEFLATE, RUNLENGTH, CCITT Group 4, CCITT Group 3
Allows users to use ActionScript 1.0 to stop random pages, disable page navigation button or links etc.
Each individual page from the original file can be outputted to a separate file
Allows users to downsample raster images with arbitrary sizes
Enhanced text manipulation including search, select or reverse display etc. through the text output method

About Antenna House

ExpertPDF Toolkit patched

Wed, 01 Jun 2011 10:23:59 GMT

Exporting PDF files.

ExpertPDF Toolkit includes ExpertPDF SplitPDF, ExpertPDF Pdf Creator, ExpertPDF MergePDF and ExpertPDF HtmlToPdf Converter. ExpertPDF SplitPDF allows you to extract a range of pages from a PDF document. You can also split the PDF document into a number of chunks, each chunk containing a specified number of pages. ExpertPDF MergePDF lets you easily combine your existing documents and images into a single PDF file. It allows you to specify the merge elements in any order with a simple syntax. ExpertPDF HtmlToPdf Converter is a .NET library that offers the ability to convert HTML pages to PDF on the fly. If you need PDF reports you don't have to use complex report generators anymore. Just create a simple ASP.NET page and export it to PDF with the ExpertPDF HtmlToPdf Converter. You can set PDF page margins, change page orientation (portrait, landscape), customize headers and footers (add images, change height, change fonts, colors), add page numbers, set compression level and more.

Updates in V7.0

Performance improvements
Bug fixes

About Outside Software

Outside Software Inc. is a Romanian software company created with the intention of providing reliable, high-quality IT services. The members of the team have years of experience in developing complete web applications, fully scalable database solutions, complex Windows based applications, great developer components and tools.

ExpertPDF HtmlToPdf Converter patched

Tue, 31 May 2011 12:13:07 GMT

Converting a Web page to PDF using ExpertPDF HtmlToPdf Converter.

ExpertPDF HtmlToPdf Converter is a .NET library that offers the ability to convert HTML pages to PDF on the fly. If you need PDF reports you don't have to use complex report generators anymore. Just create a simple ASP.NET page and export it to PDF with the ExpertPDF HtmlToPdf Converter. You can set PDF page margins, change page orientation (portrait, landscape), customize headers and footers (add images, change height, change fonts, colors), add page numbers, set compression level and more.

Updates in V7.0

Performance improvements
Bug fixes

About Outside Software

Outside Software Inc. is a Romanian software company created with the intention of providing reliable, high-quality IT services. The members of the team have years of experience in developing complete Web applications, fully scalable database solutions, complex Windows based applications, great developer components and tools.

Rainbow PDF Server Based Converter updated

Tue, 17 May 2011 11:14:30 GMT

Converting documents using Rainbow PDF Server Based Converter.

Updates in V3.0 MR5

Conversion from Word Corrections

The text box in an anchored paragraph in the table cell was not correctly arranged or dropped with Word 2007/2010 conversions.
The height of the margin was not correctly reflected even if the output position was specified to the figure or the text box with Word 2007/2010 conversions.
Figures with insufficient attribute information were not outputted correctly with Word 2007/2010 conversions.
When the text was added between parentheses, it overlapped with Word 2007/2010 conversions.
Grouped shapes in header/footer were not always positioned correctly with Word 97-2003 conversions.
When there was a problem in the calculation of the number of lines in one page, the page position would shift with Word 97-2003 conversions.
Table titles were not effective with Word 97-2003 conversions.
Unnecessary work files were created with Word 97-2003 conversions.
Tab positions in header/footer were not correctly positioned with Word 97-2003 conversions.
Problems with processing occurred when the minimum value was specified for line spacing, which resulted in wide spaces between lines with Word 97-2003 conversions.
Characters were squeezed together and overlapped with Word 97-2003 conversions.
When problems with the character-code output for symbol fonts occurred, it resulted in garbled numbers and circles with Word 97-2003 conversions.
The space between lines changed when the OLE object had been inserted with Word 97-2003 conversions.
The table of contents was not outputted with Word 97-2003 conversions.
When multiple bookmarks were set to the same position their hyperlinks were lost with Word 97-2003 conversions.
The position of ruled lines around characters in a table shifted with Word 97-2003 conversions.
The character attribute settings in Style was not correctly reflected with Word 97-2003 conversions.
Problems with the default table border occurred so borders were not correctly outputted with Word 97-2003 conversions.
The header and the body text overlapped with Word 97-2003 conversions.

Conversion from Excel Corrections

Unnecessary text box background was outputted.
The magnification of the worksheet display in print settings was not reflected, the stroke width was not correctly outputted.
The magnification of the worksheet display in print settings was not reflected when the font size in header/footer was changed.
When the number of pages for either width or height were specified, Fit to Page settings in Page Setup were ignored, but now it outputs with the specified page number.
When the number of pages for both width and height were not specified, Fit to Page settings in the Scale in Page Setup were ignored. Therefore, the width and height values for only the first page was outputted by default.
The cell border specified to the row title was outputted to the cell below it.

Conversion from PowerPoint Corrections

Support for the setting of the slide beginning number with PowerPoint 2007/2010.
Vertical writing in the text box did not rotate when it was specified to rotate by certain degrees.
When symbols were specified for the bullets in a list, it would result in garble.
Figures and text with a hidden attribute were outputted and shown.
The fixed-pitch font was allocated to the alternative font of the variable-pitch font which increased the width of the text.
Some figures were not able to correspond to the vertical and horizontal flips.
If the system color was set to a fill color, an invalid color would be outputted. It can now be outputted by setting the color value with the fixed table.
There was a problem in calculation of the distance between text area and images causing the text to shift.

Other Corrections

The conversion terminated abruptly when -GDI Smooth was specified with the image output.
There was a problem in detecting file formats, causing text file conversions to fail.
Sometimes font sizes decreased because the selector of the tagname.classname was not supported with SVG conversions.
XPS would not convert with the NET Interface. It is fixed now. (XPS output is only available for SBC Plus)
The conversion failed if # was included in the target file name.
The default value of 100% when neither width nor height were specified in SVG was applied to the default A4 size with the conversion from SVG. Now it is made available to output the % size as the height and width of viewBox if viewBox is effective when directly converting SVG.

About Antenna House

Use a proxy when converting Web pages to PDFs

Tue, 03 May 2011 17:01:00 GMT

Converting Web pages to PDF files using EVO HTML to PDF Converter for .NET.

EVO HTML to PDF Converter for .NET V2.3 now lets you use a proxy when accessing Web pages to convert to a PDF file.

EVO HTML to PDF Converter for .NET includes built-in support for converting SVG which helps create high quality vector graphics and text rendering effects in PDF. EVO HTML to PDF Converter for .NET has full support for HTML tags and CSS, SVG, page breaks control with CSS styles, repeating HTML table headers on each PDF page, live URLs and internal links, bookmarks and more. EVO HTML to PDF Converter library for .NET can be easily integrated into any type of .NET application, either ASP.NET Web sites, Windows Forms, WPF or Windows Azure Cloud applications to convert URLs, HTML strings and streams, SVG vector graphics to a PDF document or to an image. EVO HTML to PDF Converter for .NET does not use the Internet Explorer Web browser or any third party tools and no special settings are necessary on the server in order to use it. The same assembly works both in 32-bit and 64-bit environments and xcopy deployment on the server is supported.

Updates in V2.3

Now includes PdfConverter.ProxyOptions property which offers the possibility to use a proxy when accessing the web page to convert

About Outside Software

EVO HTML to PDF improves language support

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 18:58:00 GMT

Converting HTML to PDF using EVO HTML to PDF Converter for .NET.

Version 2.2 improves support for converting Chinese, Japanese and Korean HTML documents.

Updates in V2.2

Includes improved support for converting Chinese, Japanese and Korean HTML documents

About Outside Software

EVO HTML to PDF Converter V2.1 released

Thu, 24 Mar 2011 17:11:00 GMT

A PDF converted with EVO HTML to PDF Converter for .NET.

Now includes the ability to send HTTP cookies when a Web page is requested.

Updates in V2.1

Now includes the ability to send HTTP cookies when a Web page is requested
Several bug fixes

About Outside Software Inc.

Outside Software Inc. is a Romanian software company created with the intention of providing reliable, high-quality IT services. The members of the team have years of experience in developing complete Web applications, fully scalable database solutions, complex Windows based applications, great developer components and tools.

MergeSplit PDF launched

Tue, 22 Mar 2011 17:22:00 GMT

Splitting a PDF using MergeSplit PDF.

Merge several PDF documents or split a PDF document into several parts.

MergeSplit PDF can be used to merge several PDF documents or split a PDF document into several parts. MergeSplit PDF includes a pure managed .NET API that provides complete functionality for merging and splitting PDF files. Developed in pure C#, it provides complete compatibility with the .NET framework and can be easily embedded into any .NET-based solution and used inside custom workflows.

Features

Altsoft MergeSplit PDF key features - PDF Merging

Efficient and quick access to electronic data
Compact data storing
Merge several PDF documents into a single document
Electronic digital signatures
Easy document management
Supervision of a folder's content
Friendly user interface

Altsoft MergeSplit PDF key features - PDF Splitting

Productive usage of electronic data
Storage of only needed information, not whole documents
Splitting a document according to pages needed
Electronic digital signatures
Saving time for data interchange
Friendly user interface

About Altsoft

Altsoft is a software company that provides solutions for XML publishing, font management and computer graphics. Most of their products are Microsoft .NET based, however they present multiplatform solutions as well. The team consists of motivated, dynamic and highly talented developers, testers and managers. Among them are professionals in computer graphics, specialists in object-oriented programming languages and analysts with strong mathematical background. They always press on developing innovating solutions and learning new technologies.

Convert HTML to PDF without IE

Thu, 20 Jan 2011 17:15:00 GMT

A PDF converted with EVO HTML to PDF Converter for .NET.

EVO HTML to PDF Converter for .NET converts Web pages, HTML strings and streams to printer friendly PDFs or images.

Features

Easy integration, no installation or setup is required on server
Does not require IE Web browser or any third party tools
Compatible with .NET 2.0, .NET 3.5 and .NET 4.0 frameworks
Compatible with Windows Azure Cloud applications
Can be deployed on the server by simple xcopy deployment
Works both in 32-bit and 64-bit environments
Convert Web pages, HTML strings to PDF files or in memory
Convert Web pages, HTML strings to raster image formats
Convert HTML with SVG (Scalar Vector Graphics) to PDF
Convert multiple web pages into the same PDF document
Place and resize the HTML content anywhere in a PDF page
Designed and tested for multithreaded environments
Generate PDF documents compliant with PDF/A, PDF/X
Full support for Unicode and right to left languages
Set PDF page size to a standard (A4, etc.) or a custom size
Set PDF page orientation and PDF document margins
Set PDF streams compression level to reduce PDF size
Set JPEG compression level for images in PDF document
Add HTML content and page numbers in header and footer
Show or hide header and footer on odd or even pages
Control the page breaks in PDF using standard CSS styles
'Keep Together' feature with page-break-inside:avoid
Option to avoid cutting off texts between PDF pages
Option to avoid cutting off images between PDF pages
Repeat the table header with display:table-header-group
Exclude HTML regions from the rendered PDF document
Shrink or stretch the HTML content to fit the PDF page
Automatically resize the PDF page to fit the HTML content
Convert HTTP links from HTML to HTTP links in PDF
Convert internal links from HTML to internal links in PDF
Generate bookmarks for a set of selected HTML elements
Get the location in PDF for a set of selected HTML elements
Embed true type fonts into the rendered PDF for portability
Append or prepend external PDF files to conversion result
Password protect and set permissions of the PDF document
Set the PDF document properties like title, subject, etc.
Enable or disable JavaScript during conversion
HTTP authentication support (IIS Windows Authentication)
Custom HTTP headers when converter (e.g. cookies)
C# / VB.NET samples for ASP.NET, Windows Forms, Azure

About Outside Software Inc.

Outside Software Inc. is a Romanian software company created with the intention of providing reliable, high-quality IT services. The members of the team have years of experience in developing complete Web applications, fully scalable database solutions, complex Windows based applications, great developer components and tools.

activePDF Toolkit 2011 with new .NET API

Mon, 20 Dec 2010 17:25:00 GMT

activePDF Toolkit product datasheet.

PDF creation and manipulation for .NET with full 64-bit support, AES encryption and enhanced image handling.

activePDF Toolkit is a COM and .NET component that can append and extract PDF Pages, stamp text & images, PDF form filling, Stitching and more. activePDF Toolkit also offers PDF Encryption and Decryption. Both versions of activePDF Toolkit, activePDF Toolkit Standard and activePDF Toolkit Professional permit stamping, appending and form-filling of existing PDF files. activePDF Toolkit Professional includes support for stitching, text to pdf, linearization and encryption and decryption. Additionally, activePDF Toolkit Professional permits stamping and form filling with over 40 image types. If you don't require any of those features activePDF Toolkit Standard is the recommended activePDF Tookit edition to buy.

Updates in 2011

Managed .NET API - Toolkit now includes a managed .NET API (1.1 and 2.0) for .NET implementations.
64 bit support - Toolkit can now be called directly from both 32-bit and 64-bit applications.
AES-128 Encryption and Output Security - Toolkit now provides the AES 128-bit encryption standard, which is used by the US Government.
Text and Header Transparency support - New calls were added to support the manipulation of header and text transparency.
Performance enhancements - Toolkit includes several enhancements to improve speed and performance, including:
- Font caching for Base14 fonts.
- Bypass font loading when performing functions (such as NumPages) that do not require fonts.
- Fonts are loaded only when necessary.
Improved Image Handling - Image masking for transparencies.
Enhanced barcode support - Toolkit now supports over 100 barcode formats, including:
- Quick Response (QR) Barcodes - QR barcodes are two-dimensional codes that can be read by QR scanners, smart phones, or other mobile devices equipped with a camera.
- HIBC Barcodes - Toolkit supports an expanded set of Health Industry Bar Codes (HIBC).
- Postal Codes - Toolkit supports an expanded set of postal codes, including those for Japan, Korea, Italy and Australia.
- GS1 DataBar Codes - Toolkit supports the GS1 DataBar symbology (also known as Reduced Space Symbology).
Simplified installation - Toolkit's installation process has been greatly simplified, eliminating the need for multiple installers and enabling you to switch between versions without requiring reinstallation.

About activePDF

activePDF is a leading provider of PDF converter, PDF creator, and PDF manipulation software and development tools, catering to the increasing demand for high-quality, automated PDF document management within today's key vertical markets. Whether you need to deploy PDF creation across the enterprise, add 'print to PDF' capabilities to your server-side application, create PDF reports on the fly, dynamically form-fill PDF, or batch convert to PDF, activePDF offers scalable solutions to meet your needs.

Aspose.Pdf.Kit adds regular expressions

Mon, 22 Nov 2010 16:58:00 GMT

A sample PDF created by Aspose.Pdf.Kit.

Aspose.Pdf.Kit for .NET V5.0 allows you to replace text based on regular expressions and easily identify watermark text.

Aspose.Pdf.Kit for .NET is a non-graphical PDF document manipulation component that enables developers to manage existing PDF files or manage form fields embedded within a PDF files. Aspose.Pdf.Kit for .NET allows developers to create .NET applications that merge data directly into PDF documents. Aspose.Pdf.Kit for .NET also provides functions to update and manage PDF documents. Aspose.Pdf.Kit for .NET integrates perfectly with all other Aspose Pdf products. Aspose.Pdf.Kit is written in fully managed C#. Aspose.Pdf.Kit for .NET functionality includes: add, remove, replace or extract images and text from PDF files, Convert a PDF file to an image. Aspose.Pdf.Kit for .NET you can also encrypt, decrypt and secure PDF files with passwords.

Updates in V5.0

Allows you to replace text based on regular expressions
Now you can identify watermark text and remove it
GetDocumentPrivilege does not return correct values - fixed
File is rendered corrupt when header is added - fixed
FlattenAllFields method is corrupting the field appearance - fixed
Memory issues while extracting attachments - fixed
Exception on deleting bookmarks from invalid PDF file - fixed
Text Blocks are missing when converting PDF to image file - fixed

About Aspose

PDFlib pCOS adds Acrobat X support

Wed, 17 Nov 2010 17:05:00 GMT

Retrieving PDF information with PDFlib pCOS.

PDFlib pCOS V3.0 supports the latest PDF standards and features including support for the Acrobat X file format.

PDFlib pCOS provides a simple and elegant facility for retrieving any information from a PDF document which is not part of the page contents. For example, PDF metadata, interactive elements (links etc.), or page dimensions can easily be queried with pCOS. With pCOS you can extract a variety of interesting items and create output for different purposes. By processing multiple PDF documents with a single call you can easily create summaries of document info entries, page formats, fonts, or any other property. Combined with tabular output this provides a powerful PDF administration tool.

Updates in V3.0

The new version brings pCOS up to date with the newest PDF standards and features including support for the file format of Acrobat X.

About PDFlib

Rainbow PDF SBC V3.0 patched to MR3

Wed, 13 Oct 2010 17:20:00 GMT

A PDF converted from an Excel file with Rainbow PDF Server Based Converter.

Fixes in V3.0 MR3

Conversion from PDF

An encrypted file may fail in decoding
Single byte symbols may be garbled with MR2
Characters were garbled when converting PDF with incorrect font information
Support for ZapfDingbats character sets. (When it is not embedded, it will be garbled in the environment without ZapfDingbats.)
When the glyph of an embedded font could not be acquired, extra text was generated and garbled
Some fonts failed to acquire the width of characters correctly
The width of characters was inaccurate, failing in reading font information
The font for the charmap of LATIN_1 was missing with MR2
The WINANSI_ENCODING font might be garbled with MR2
Unnecessary color fills occurred with R1
The jbig2 file failed in reading and images occasionally collapsed

Conversion from Word

The "Unknown document type" error occurred failing in distinguishing the 97-2003 file format
Parentheses and circular arcs were occasionally color filled
An image pasted to a rotating figure did not rotate with the 97-2003 Word format file
A conversion terminated abnormally with a Word file with incorrect contents and could not open with Microsoft Word
A text box within a table was arranged incorrectly
Conversions terminated abnormally with files saved with Fast Save in 97-2003 format
The reference method of the width of a cell in a table and the table occasionally collapsed with the 2007 file format
Conversion occasionally failed when reading figures
Unnecessary line numbers were occasionally outputted
Horizontal borders were not outputted
Figures in the header were not correctly arranged
When a rotation was specified to a grouped figure, the rotation was done incorrectly
Text boxes for vertical text were not arranged correctly
The size of text in a list differed from the original
When there was a Symbol font in a table, characters were not arranged correctly
Images were doubly outputted

Conversion from Excel

Rotating character strings cut off in the cell boundary
Text added to a check box was not arranged correctly
Unnecessary characters were added to an image

Conversion from PowerPoint

The "Unknown document type" error occurred failing in distinguishing the file format
Calculation of the transformation of WordArt that was not correctly outputted with 97-2003 format file
An image pasted to a rotating figure did not rotate with the 97-2003 format file
The size of circular arcs in the 2007 format file were outputted larger than the original
The PersistDirectory error occurred failing in reading a large file size
Only a part of an image was outputted
Support for outputting the transparent images with the 97-2003 file format

Conversion to Flash

Figures with color fill might not be reproduced correctly
When expanded small figures were arranged, space was occasionally generated

Other

The default font-config.xml attached to the program was not correct with MR2
When outputting figures to PDF, the "PDF Output Error" occurred with MR2

About Antenna House

DocConverter adds two-way PDF conversion

Mon, 04 Oct 2010 22:03:00 GMT

The Interactive Conversion window in activePDF DocConverter 2010.

activePDF DocConverter 2010 supports multi-threading, PDF/A validation, Office 2010 and conversion To and From PDF.

activePDF DocConverter converts over 300 file types to and from PDF including Microsoft Office, WordPerfect and 80 image types. activePDF DocConverter is a server-based web-accessible application that allows you to dynamically convert over 300 different file formats to and from PDF. DocConverter provides control of output parameters such as file location. DocConverter also allows control of print and screen quality, security and web optimization of generated PDF files. activePDF DocConverter 2010 can streamline document management by dynamically converting virtually any file format, including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007, to and from PDF. activePDF DocConverter operates in batch mode via directory scanning for on-the-fly PDF conversion. DocConverter Enterprise edition includes COM or .NET APIs to provide PDF conversion capabilities directly within your custom applications. DocConverter Enterprise also includes email and FTP Output settings.

Updates in 2010

Supports conversion To and From PDF
Convert over 300 file types directly to PDF
Generate "Intelligent PDF" from Microsoft Office, preserving links, comments, etc.
Supports PDF/A validation
Microsoft Office 2010 Support
Multi-threaded processing for high volume environments.

About activePDF

HtmlToPdf Converter adds .NET 4 samples

Tue, 28 Sep 2010 17:18:00 GMT

Converting an HTML page to PDF format.

ExpertPDF HtmlToPdf Converter V6.2 includes .NET 4 and VS2010 samples, plus assemblies for .NET 4.

ExpertPDF HtmlToPdf Converter is a .NET 2.0 library that offers the ability to convert HTML pages to PDF on the fly. If you need PDF reports you don't have to use complex report generators anymore. Just create a simple ASP.NET page and export it to PDF with the ExpertPDF HtmlToPdf Converter. You can set PDF page margins, change page orientation (portrait, landscape), customize headers and footers (add images, change height, change fonts, colors), add page numbers, set compression level and more.

Updates in V6.2

Added assemblies for .NET 4.0
Added samples for .NET 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010
Performance improvements

About Outside Software Inc.

Outside Software Inc. is a Romanian software company created with the intention of providing reliable, high-quality IT services. The members of the team have years of experience in developing complete Web applications, fully scalable database solutions, complex Windows based applications, great developer components and tools.