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    Foxit PDF SDK for Android

    How to Implement Foxit PDF SDK for Android using Cordova Plugin

    This article will help you get started with Foxit PDF SDK for Android and the Cordova plugin. Click here to read how to implement it.

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    Foxit PDF SDK for Android

    How to Implement Foxit PDF SDK for Android using Xamarin

    Implement Foxit PDF SDK for Android using Xamarin Xamarin is a cross-platform development framework for building native apps using a shared C# codebase. We provide separate bindings for Android and iOS (‘foxit_xamarin_android’ and ‘foxit_xamarin_ios’) for developers to seamlessly integrate powerful PDF functionality of Foxit PDF SDK into their Xamarin apps. This section will help you [...]

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    Foxit Quick PDF Library

    Quick PDF Library 16.12 is out!

    We have recently released minor version 16.12 of Quick PDF Library. Below you may see some of the new features included in the library for this release: Highlights Delphi 10.3 Rio Support Added support for GS1 Datamatrix barcodes Rendering to PDFium now allows for EMF outputs Bug Fixes Direct access rendering linked to PDFium Improved [...]

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    Tech

    Introducing Foxit PDF SDK for Web 6.2

    Our last 2018 upgrade of Foxit PDF SDK for Web provides further technical and security improvements. We’ve developed a new encryption API to ensure safe transmission of data between client-browser and server, improved the performance of our code when saving files, expanded the parameters for setting path objects and annotations states, and much more! Added to [...]

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    Foxit PDF SDK for Web 6.2

    How to save and manipulate your sound annotations in Foxit PDF SDK for Web

    From Foxit PDF SDK for Web 6.2, we’ve provided you with the possibility of create sound recordings and annotate your PDF with them. This article will show you how to easily get your sound annotation content and manipulate it as you like. Understanding the Pattern subclass We’ve created the ‘Pattern’ subclass within the Annot class [...]

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    Foxit PDF SDK for Web 6.2

    How to create and configure a custom button in Foxit PDF SDK for Web

    Foxit PDF SDK for Web provides powerful possibilities for viewing and manipulating PDFs online, connecting your documents to the web environment while allowing you to control functionality and customize your ready-to-go PDF viewer as you wish. With great power comes great responsibility (yes, a spider-man web pun!), and we are here to provide you with [...]

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    Foxit PDF SDK for Web 6.2

    How to use Foxit PDF SDK for Web Encryption API?

    From Foxit PDF SDK for Web 6.2, we’ve implemented a solution for a more secure client-server data transfer process. This article will provide a step-by-step tutorial on how to set up your environment to use our encryption API and safely encrypt your PDFs from your server to your end-user client browser. For that, we will [...]

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    Foxit Quick PDF Library

    What is the difference between DLL and CPDLL?

    In version 16 of Foxit Quick PDF Library, you might have noticed that there is a new DLL called CPDLL in your download package. What does that mean? We’ve seem some users asking about the CPDLL. Here are the key differences and news about this new version of library: As most of our users who [...]

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    Foxit PDF SDK for Web 6.2

    Customize your context menu (right-click) in Foxit PDF SDK for Web

    The newly released minor version 6.2 of Foxit PDF SDK for Web allows you to customize what goes on your context menu when users right-click on the PDF screen. In this article, we will provide a few handy tutorials to customize your context menu. Default Context Menus In our current demo, this is how the [...]

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    Business

    Collaboration inefficiencies cost the construction industry $177 Billion a year – here’s how PDF can help

    Earlier this year, a survey study run by Plangrid in collaboration with FMI Corp., found that major construction companies, just in the US, are wasting as much as $177 billion in staff, mainly because of communication and process inefficiencies. 600 construction leaders (Directors, Project Managers, and Supervisors) from the US, Australia, New Zealand, United Kingdom [...]

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