PDF Xpress ActiveX Features

Gain a broad range of PDF features including file creation, editing, text and image extraction, and standard PDF security in your current application.

• Simple to Implement - PDF Xpress has concise code that enables fast, simple customization of your current application.
• Break Out and Manipulate Pages - With PDF Xpress, you can break open the PDF page structure so you can add, delete, rotate, and rearrange elements on the page. With these functions, users are able to:
  • Extract specific pages.
  • Easily add, move, and delete pages or groups of pages.
  • Rotate pages.
  • Create a new PDF from extracted pages.
  • Insert and reorder pages.
  • Merge or split PDF files.
• Create and Edit PDF and PDF/A - Generate new PDF files from text and images and edit existing PDFs. Create PDF/A-1b archive files. Add images from numerous image formats including:
  • TIFF
  • JBIG2
  • PNG
  • JPEG
  • JPEG 2000
  • GIF
  • BMP
  • RAW
• Powerful Compression - Applications built with PDF Xpress can make PDF files dramatically smaller for fast display and efficient archival. Compress an existing PDF document by as much as 96% and easily control compression settings to balance file size and quality. Apply PDF linearization, which dramatically speeds up PDF display on the web.
• Markup Control - Crack open PDF annotations to read, add, edit, import, and export all types of PDF markings, including text and shapes.
  • Read, display, add, edit, and delete PDF annotations.
  • Includes comment, highlight, text, arrow, line, and various shape annotation.
  • Import and export PDF annotations to XFDF (XML format).
  • Import and export to NotateXpress format.
• Security Settings and Permissions - Read and access document security settings including permissions, encryption method, and user/owner passwords. Edit or remove security settings from a secure document or add security settings to a non-secure document.
  • Permissions include:
    • Modifying the document.
    • Adding or modifying text annotations.
    • Copying or extracting text and graphics from the document.
    • Assembling the document by inserting, rotating, or deleting pages, and creating bookmarks or thumbnail images.
    • Filling in interactive form fields, like signature fields.
    • Printing the document.
  • Encryption methods include:
    • 40-bit RC4, Acrobat 3 and later.
    • 128-bit RC4, Acrobat 5 and later.
    • 128-bit RC4, Acrobat 6 and later.
    • 128-bit AES, Acrobat 7 and later.
    • 256-bit AES, Acrobat 9 and later.
• Take Control of Rendering - PDF Xpress gives your applications control of the PDF rendering process to optimize viewing, printing, and conversion. This toolkit enables rendering:
  • Bitmap, DIB, EPS, RAW, or Device Context.
  • PDF annotations.
  • Large pages to higher resolution for detailed viewing.
  • Copy-protected PDFs that block content copying.
• Extract Text and Images from PDFs - PDF Xpress makes it easy for users to extract any and all image files from an existing PDF for other uses. Access the uncompressed image data and easily pass it to other Accusoft components. You can even search for and highlight text within a PDF document.
• Manage Bookmarks - Use PDF Xpress to work with a PDF file’s internal navigation bookmarks. Read, create, edit, delete, and move internal PDF navigation bookmarks in the table of contents.
• Control PDF Properties - What’s the PDF version a file is saved in? Is it linearized for fast web view? Empower your application to find out.
  • Determine the PDF version of a document.
  • Determine if a document is linearized for efficient access in a network environment.
• Manage Metadata - Read, add, edit, and delete document metadata including:
  • Author
  • Title
  • Subject
  • Creator
  • Producer
  • Keywords
  • Read Creation and Modification Dates
• Manage Links to External Content - PDF Xpress gives you control of hyperlinks including adding, changing, removing, and searching for links.
  • Add URL hyperlinks so users can launch a web page from a PDF.
  • Edit the bounding box and URL properties of existing PDF hyperlinks.
  • Find, edit, and remove hyperlinks.
• Make a Portfolio - From attachments, PDF Xpress can build and show a PDF portfolio that combines documents in multiple file types.
  • Build a portfolio PDF viewer by opening attachment data contained in a PDF.
  • Add and remove PDF attachments.
  • Determine if a PDF document has attachments.