Insights, tutorials, and updates from the Foxit PDF SDK engineering team.
Before we starting this tutorial make sure that you’ve read through the previous tutorial which explains how to get up and running with VB6 and Foxit Quick PDF Library. To begin with add a button to your Standard EXE form called Hello World. Then double-click on the button and in the code view in the VB6 [...]
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This tutorial shows you how to get ready to create your first PDF application with VB6 and Foxit Quick PDF Library. 1. Register the ActiveX DLL The first thing you’ll need to do is register the ActiveX component. Instructions on how to do this can be found on the getting started page for the ActiveX [...]
It is not currently possible to print to multiple paper trays or bins using Foxit Quick PDF Library due to the technical constraints of some of the libraries that we use. For Foxit Quick PDF Library users a workaround is possible by implementing the printing job manually using the RenderPageToDOC function and some transformations. This article refers [...]
Foxit Quick PDF Library does not support converting entire HTML documents to PDF, however, it is possible to use a limited set of HTML tags to draw content onto pages in PDF files using the HTML text functions such as DrawHTMLText. This article refers to a deprecated product. If you are looking for support for Foxit [...]
Adding links to PDF files is simple using the the AddLinkTo* functions available with Foxit Quick PDF Library.
Currently it is only possible to replace simple text that has not been encoded using Foxit Quick PDF Library using the scripting feature which uses Foxit Quick PDF Library behind the scenes. The function that lets you replace text is the ReplaceTag function. Basically, it is possible to replace some text in a PDF file [...]
There isn’t an easy way to check if a PDF contains compressed elements or not. There is not a PDF wide compression option, instead various different objects and streams in PDF files can be compressed individually, using different compression methods. So if you wanted to determine if a PDF contained any compression at all you [...]
When you use the SignFile function to add a digital signature to a PDF it adds an invisible digital signature which is not shown on any of the pages in the document. Instead the digital signature can be viewed by opening the PDF in Adobe Reader, Adobe Acrobat or another PDF editing application, and clicking [...]