Foxit PDF SDK for Linux

The PDF Signature module can be used to create and sign with digital signatures for PDF documents. This protects the security of documents and prevents it from being tampered with maliciously. It can let the receiver ensure that the document is released by the signer and the contents of the document are complete and unchanged. […]

General An annotation associates an object such as note, line, and highlight with a location on a page of a PDF document. It provides a way to interact with users by means of the mouse and keyboard. PDF includes a wide variety of standard annotation types as listed in Table 3-1. Among these annotation types, […]

PDF rendering is realized through the Foxit renderer, a graphics engine that is used to render a page to a bitmap or platform graphics device. Foxit PDF SDK provides APIs to set rendering options/flags. As an example, you can set up a flag to decide whether to render form fields and signature, or whether to […]

In PDF development, a PDF page means much more than in the final user’s PDF editor or viewer. Page objects help group and identify multiple objects in the PDF to perform other operations. A PDFPage object is retrieved from a PDF document by function PDFDoc.getPage. Page level APIs provide functions to parse, render, edit (includes […]

Foxit PDF SDK provides a series of options on how to handle documents. A PDF document object can be constructed with an existing PDF file from a file path, memory buffer, a custom implemented ReaderCallback object and an input file stream. The methods PDFDoc.Load or PDFDoc.StartLoad are used to load document content. Document objects inside […]

Foxit PDF SDK JavaScript is a language implemented within our library based on the core of JavaScript’s version 1.5. It is extremely useful for Web applications that need to use less memory from the server by offloading it onto the client. Foxit PDF SDK JavaScript implements extensions, in the form of new objects and their […]

What are XFA forms? PDF currently supports two different forms for integrating data – Acroforms and XFA forms. Acroforms are the original PDF-based fillable forms, based on the PDF architecture. XFA (XML Forms Architecture) are XML-based forms, wrapped inside a PDF. The XML Forms Architecture provides a template-based grammar and a set of processing rules […]

What is Redaction? Redaction is the process of removing data from a page for security purposes. With printed pages, redaction involves blacking-out or cutting-out areas of the printed page. With electronic documents that use formats such as PDF, redaction involves removing (not just obscuring) content within a region. Redaction lets you permanently remove (redact) visible […]

Introduction to Foxit PDF SDK Have you ever thought about building your own application that can do everything you want with PDF files? If your answer is “Yes”, congratulations! You just found the best solution in the industry that allows you to build stable, secure, efficient and full-featured PDF applications. Foxit PDF SDK provides high-performance […]