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    How Long-Term Validation (LTV) can improve your archive

    Long-Term Validation (LTV) refers to certifying a document to ensure that a signature is valid at the time of signing. It’s based on the Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS), the advanced format of the Public Key Infrastructure (PKI). To enable signatures for LTV, you need to know exactly when a PDF was signed by using digital [...]

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    Introducing Foxit PDF SDK for Web 7.1

    Foxit PDF SDK for Web has received a big upgrade. This latest release comes with loads of new features, enhancements and further upgrades. Read on below as we look at the update in detail. Highlights: MORE SDK API FUNCTIONALITY RESPONSIVE UI PDF VIEWER ANNOTATION DATA COMPATIBILITY ANGULARJS SUPPORT VIEW THE RELEASE PAGE HERE More [...]

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    How to implement Foxit PDF SDK for Web on AngularJS

    Learn how to implement AngularJS with Foxit PDF SDK for Web by following the instructions in this article.

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    LiveCycle support is ending; Here’s why PDF SDK is a better alternative

    As Adobe LiveCycle’s support comes to a close (extended technical support ends March 2020), we’re taking a look at why a PDF SDK is the perfect alternative for your company. Intro to Adobe LiveCycle Firstly, let’s dive into Adobe LiveCycle itself. The product included a dedicated Adobe server that you could attach to your [...]

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    How to optimize PDFs with Foxit PDF SDK

    Foxit PDFOptimizer Add-on Optimization feature can reduce the size of PDF files to save disk space and make files easier to send and store, through compressing images, deleting redundant date, discarding useless user data and so on. In version 7.0, the optimization module provides functions to compress the color/grayscale/monochrome images in PDF files to reduce [...]

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    How to convert HTML to PDF with Foxit PDF SDK

    HTML to PDF Conversion For some large HTML files or a webpage which contain(s) a lot of content, it is not convenient to print or archive them directly. Foxit PDF SDK provides APIs to convert the online webpage or local HTML files like invoices or reports into PDF file(s), which makes them easier to print [...]

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    How to do Long-Term Validation of Signatures (LTV) with Foxit PDF SDK

    Long term validation (LTV) From version 7.0 onwards, Foxit PDF SDK provides APIs to establish long term validation of signatures, which is mainly used to solve the verification problem of signatures that have already expired. LTV requires DSS (Document Security Store) which contains the verification information of the signatures, as well as DTS (Document Timestamp [...]

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    How to Protect Annotations with Foxit PDF SDK for Web

    Find out How to Protect Annotations with Foxit PDF SDK for Web. Protecting annotations adds another layer of security for your PDF documents. Our feature described below sets the annotation to a locked state where only the reply can not be edited.

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    How to Create Hyperlinks with Foxit PDF SDK for Web

    Find out how Foxit PDF SDK for Web allows you to create hyperlinks here with sample code included. Adding hyperlinks with Foxit PDF SDK for Web allows you to link to different documents on the web. When the PDFUI or PDFViewer is initialized with Foxit PDF SDK for Web, you can add in a custom parameter which is configured as follows

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    How to Create Image Annotations with Foxit PDF SDK for Web

    Click here to discover how Foxit PDF SDK for Web allows you to create image annotations with a simple code. The image annotation feature allows you to add graphic annotations to PDF files, perfect for situations when text annotations don’t suffice.

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