April 2015

Some Greek characters are not shown correctly after creating a PDF from a canvas device context (GetCanvasDC, LoadFromCanvasDC and NewPageFromCanvasDC) when using the Symbol font. If another font such as Arial is used then all of the characters display correctly. This article refers to a deprecated product. If you are looking for support for Foxit […]

Pages in a PDF use points (1/72 of an inch) as the default measurement units with the origin or the coordinate system at the bottom left corner of the page. So there is a constant 72 involved in calculations when converting to or from points in PDF. This is the ratio of the “points” measurement […]

A PDF can’t be compressed like an image can be compressed. “PDF” is more of a container for various elements. So inside a PDF various things such as image data, font data, content data and so on can be compressed, but these have to be compressed separately. If you want to reduce the file size […]

Foxit Quick PDF Library can be used in ASP.NET MVC Web Application projects to add rich PDF features to web applications. It works in much the same way as it does for regular desktop or server applications. This tutorial is done using Visual Studio 2013 and C#, but the steps are mostly the same if […]

Foxit Quick PDF Library can be used in ASP.NET Web Application projects to add rich PDF features to web apps. It works in much the same way as it does for regular desktop or server applications. Please note: there is a difference between a ASP.NET Web Site project and a ASP.NET Web Application project. This article deals with […]