Insights, tutorials, and updates from the Foxit PDF SDK engineering team.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]