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With over 1.2 billion users worldwide, Microsoft Office is the most popular suite of business and productivity applications. However, it isn’t the only one; there are several open source alternatives such as Apache OpenOffice as well as ad-supported free options such as WPS Office.
Many businesses need to create PDFs with fillable form fields for internal or customer use. Creating PDF forms that end users can fill out—without having to print them out—helps you run your business with seamless efficiency and is also beneficial to the environment as it avoids contributing to deforestation. Imagine running an organization or business [...]
The ability to save files such as images, videos, and PDFs to a server is a common convenience across industries. As a developer, you’ll need to prioritize this feature when building applications. The following are some use cases in which it’s necessary to save files to a server: * Invoices: Businesses and individuals increasingly use invoicing platforms to generate and share invoices for clients. * E-commerce: Receipts and other financial documents are stored for both customers and companies as part of the online shopping process. * Large companies: As companies grow, they require more accounting files, resumes, and other paperwork that they need to store for future reference. In this tutorial, you’re going to save files to your server using the Foxit PDF SDK for Web. Saving files to a storage server enables you to retrieve, send, or transfer them as needed. You’ll be using an object storage with Amazon Web Services to upload a file, then download that file to the server.
Originally developed by Adobe in the 1990s, portable document format (PDF) has emerged as one of the most popular formats for electronic documents in the world. Monthly archives from Common Crawl show that PDF is second only to HTML in its crawled web content. At the PDF Technical Conference 2015, Phil Ydens, VP of Engineering for the Adobe Document Cloud, estimated that there were 2.5 trillion and growing PDF files in existence.
Tables are a great way to organize data in a clear and concise manner. They’re often used to show the relationships between different variables that are too complicated to be adequately described via plain text. Tables are also often required in PDF documents, like when you need to convert Excel spreadsheets or database dumps such [...]
PDF templates are a vital tool for many modern businesses. They serve as a standardized canvas that organizations can use to easily create, read, and update content for internal and external stakeholders. Before PDF documents were in common use, document formatting was a struggle for individuals and organizations. Varying document software meant there was no [...]
When your web application needs to allow users to download reports, charts, or invoices, PDFs are a great option. However, there are times when you must remove personal information from the PDFs you generate. For example, an administrator in your application may be permitted to view all user data, but other users may be restricted [...]
PDF templates are predefined patterns that are used to generate PDF files. PDF templates can be created and added to any platform, such as web or mobile apps, and used automatically or manually with PDF software. You can have as many PDF templates as you want, each with its own purpose. For example, if you [...]
Most people are accustomed to PDF files as they are one of the most common formats used to share all sorts of documentation, including many of the forms people use daily. You’re probably familiar with the typical workflow involved in filling out a PDF form: * Receiving an email with a PDF file attached* Printing [...]
The PDF format has become essential to modern software since it’s a good go-to solution for all types of documents. One way to create secure, editable, and easy-to-use PDFs for your business is to use Foxit. Foxit’s PDF SDK libraries offer plenty of features for various industries. Web browser PDFs in particular have multiple use [...]