Insights, tutorials, and updates from the Foxit PDF SDK engineering team.
Developers Will Benefit from Increased Speed, Control and Functionality FREMONT, Calif. – (July 27, 2021) — Foxit, a leading provider of innovative PDF products and services, helping knowledge workers to increase their productivity and do more with documents, today announced the launch of Foxit PDF SDK 8.0, delivering new advanced collaboration and accessibility features for developers. Foxit’s [...]
Welcome to PDF SDK 7.6! This release comes with lots of new features as well as improvements to performance and bug fixes. Read on below for more information on this update. Highlights: REAL TIME COLLABORATION NOW AVAILABLE FOR WEB PDF PORTFOLIO SUPPORT ADDED HTML TO PDF SUPPORT FOR LINUX (WINDOWS AND MAC TOO!) NEW [...]
We’ve made some major upgrades to the user experience of PDF SDK in the past year. Tasks that used to require you to write a lot of code have now been integrated into the library to better help you with your development. This piece takes a look at some of these product improvements for Foxit. [...]
We’re proud to announce Foxit PDF SDK 7.5 to our customers. Our final release of 2020 comes packed with new features, enhancements and further upgrades. Read on below for more information on this update. Highlights: LAYOUT RECOGNITION ENGINE EXTENDED TO MAC AND LINUX (WINDOWS TOO!) NEW WEB SDK FEATURES WEB VIEWER UI ENHANCEMENTS TOOLBAR BUTTON [...]
PDF is one of the most ubiquitous file formats today. Whether you are submitting a resume for your next job, generating a financial report for your boss, or publishing a scientific whitepaper – PDF is the defacto format. Because it’s so widely used, you’re likely to run across many situations as a software developer where [...]
PDFs are among the most widely used formats for business documents, so properly securing them is a critical part of many workflows. If you’re building a web application that needs to open PDFs, you’ll probably run into a situation where you have to deal with password-protected documents. Building this functionality yourself will require a lot [...]
Getting paid is one of the most critical functions in any business, and digital invoices are becoming standard practice in a wide swath of industries. With this in mind, web application developers are often tasked with generating and sending PDF invoices programmatically. Whether you’re automating the invoice generation and notification process or building a GUI [...]
Being able to edit PDF text online is crucial to a lot of business workflows. This includes adding new text to files that typically don’t have form fields as well as making edits to already existing text. If you’re an insurance company, you need to be able to quickly add a text box with the [...]
With the COVID-19 pandemic now affecting all parts of the globe, the Foxit SDK team want to give our customers an update. Our entire team has been working remotely from home for the past few weeks, ensuring we do our part to reduce the spread of this virus through social distancing, as well as following [...]
What is PDF.js? PDF.js, as the name suggests, is an open source JavaScript library that renders PDFs in a web browser. The project was released in 2011 and mainly enables you to have PDF viewing and searching functionality online. It is divided into 3 layers: Core Viewer Display Why would you use PDF.js? PDF.js is [...]