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Setup Android Studio and Foxit Quick PDF Library

by Conor | July 3, 2015
This tutorial demonstrates how to use Foxit Quick PDF Library to create an Android app using Android Studio. If you haven’t already downloaded the Android trial then you can do that from the trial here. Setup Android Studio project with Foxit Quick PDF Library Open Android Studio. If Quick Start window is displayed then click […]
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Create an emulator for testing in Android Studio

by Conor | June 29, 2015
This article is intended for users of Foxit Quick PDF Library for Android. The Android Virtual Device (AVD) is an emulator configuration that lets you model an actual device by defining hardware and software options to be emulated by the Android Emulator. It comes as an optional download when you install Android Studio. Please note: […]
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Converting Pixels and Inches to PostScript Points

by Conor | April 7, 2015
Pages in a PDF use points (1/72 of an inch) as the default measurement units with the origin or the coordinate system at the bottom left corner of the page. So there is a constant 72 involved in calculations when converting to or from points in PDF. This is the ratio of the “points” measurement […]
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Can I compress my PDF?

by Conor | April 2, 2015
A PDF can’t be compressed like an image can be compressed. “PDF” is more of a container for various elements. So inside a PDF various things such as image data, font data, content data and so on can be compressed, but these have to be compressed separately. If you want to reduce the file size […]
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ASP.NET MVC Web Applications and Foxit Quick PDF Library

by Conor | April 1, 2015
Foxit Quick PDF Library can be used in ASP.NET MVC Web Application projects to add rich PDF features to web applications. It works in much the same way as it does for regular desktop or server applications. This tutorial is done using Visual Studio 2013 and C#, but the steps are mostly the same if […]
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ASP.NET Web Applications and Foxit Quick PDF Library

by Conor | April 1, 2015
Foxit Quick PDF Library can be used in ASP.NET Web Application projects to add rich PDF features to web apps. It works in much the same way as it does for regular desktop or server applications. Please note: there is a difference between a ASP.NET Web Site project and a ASP.NET Web Application project. This article deals with […]
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Merge content from multiple pages into one page

by Conor | March 31, 2015
Sometimes it’s necessary to customize the content of a document on the fly from templates. There’s various different ways this can be done, but one way is to have a template with different content on each page of a document and then based on certain criteria (i.e. content from page 1, 5, 8 is required […]
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Programmatically determine the content area of a page in a PDF

by Conor | March 31, 2015
It’s easy to determine the size of a page by using the PageHeight and PageWidth, but it’s a little more difficult to determine the rectangular content area of a page. There are functions in the library for returning the text coordinates such as GetPageText and there’s functions for determining the coordinates of images, but there’s […]
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