Insights, tutorials, and updates from the Foxit PDF SDK engineering team.
Foxit PDF SDK for Web’s customization possibilities are endless and easy to implement in your online viewer. In this article, we will show you how to easily add a simple toolbar to a HTML page and create multiple types of buttons within the library’s present functionality. Create a simple toolbar Let’s start with the basics. [...]
This article will show you how Foxit PDF SDK toolbar components are structured and organized. This is very important in order to customize your toolbar according to your own needs and layout and have a viewer that attends specifically to what your visual identity or functionality requires. Components All component types support the ‘type’ and [...]
The snapshot functionality is disabled by default in Foxit PDF SDK for Web UI, but it is included in the viewer core and you can implement easily. This article shows the many ways you can implement that useful tool in your application. Enable the built-in button Following this tutorial, this is how the default UI [...]
Foxit PDF SDK for ActiveX 5.5 brings exciting functionality to the easy-to-implement ActiveX platform. Along with new UI customization features, PDF SDK for ActiveX page control functionality has been enhanced with support for Bookmarks, giving your users more control over their documents. Highlights Full bookmark support New pencil tool customization options New note annotation customization [...]
The legal industry is ripe with inefficiencies with regards to digital document management, records management and sign off. The industry itself seems to be moving slowly to close the gap that it is creating between itself and other industries. Digital innovation can take many forms, without the changes being hard to introduce. For the most [...]
This Foxit quick start guide will describe how to easily set up the web viewer using Nginx and Tomcat as the HTTP service.
Our React Native component for Foxit PDF SDK for Android and iOS is a long awaited binary for many developers. Firstly, because it is a great addition to Foxit’s bundle of new frameworks for cross-platform mobile development, along with our Cordova, Xamarin and Kotlin support. Secondly, because the efficiency on data retrieval and improvement in performance React Native can provide to applications running in APIs, like Foxit PDF SDK for Android/iOS, has been shared and praised by developers everywhere. We are very interested to see how it will perform in production and the feedback we will receive from our users.
Foxit SDK Framwork includes arm64, armv7, i386, and x86_64 architectures, but the i386, and x86_64 architectures are not allowed to be uploaded to Apple App Store so that you will meet the “Invalid Binary Architecture” error if you use the framework directly. To solve this problem, Foxit SDK provides a script named “prepare-framework-to-publish-to-appstore.sh” found in [...]
From version 5.1, Foxit PDF SDK for iOS supports setting the night mode color as desired. To set the night mode color, you should set the properties FSPDFViewCtrl.mappingModeBackgroundColor and FSPDFViewCtrl.mappingModeForegroundColor at first, and then set the FSPDFViewCtrl.colorMode to FSRendererColorModeMapping. Note: If the FSPDFViewCtrl.colorMode has already been set to FSRendererColorModeMapping, you still need to set it [...]
Foxit PDF SDK for iOS supports the print feature since version 5.1. You can press the Wireless Print button on the More Menu view in the Complete PDF viewer demo to print the PDF document. Furthermore, you can call the following API to print the PDF documents: // for iPhone and iTouch (void)printDoc: (FSPDFDoc *)doc [...]