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Foxit 10.1

Foxit PDF SDK for Desktop 10.1.0 supports PDF/E and PDF/X standards in preflight checks, enhances the conversion workflows and OCR capabilities with the support of multi-threaded/multi-core processing and additional options, and improves the performance in document optimization and form file import processes. It also adds new APIs in modules like search, image processing, and text processing to deliver a streamlined workflow.

Foxit Conversion SDK 2.1.0 brings enhanced features to PDF2Office and Office2PDF, providing users with a more versatile and efficient document conversion experience. For PDF2Office, users can now convert the restricted PDF files and benefit from additional options to remove trailing spaces from the output, specify Excel workbook settings, and control whether to include images or insert page breaks during conversion. Office2PDF introduces the support for outline conversion in Word2PDF, and offers workbook conversion options in Excel2PDF.

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Build native mobile (iOS, Android) apps with HTML, CSS & JS. Target multiple platforms with one code base on our mobile PDF SDK.

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Develop Android applications using MobilePDF SDK in Kotlin. Designed to work using Java, MobilePDF SDK can easily be integrated into your development process when working with Kotlin.

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Build and deploy native Android, iOS and Windows apps, using existing skills, teams, and code in C# with MobilePDF SDK.

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How can I rotate a text object around its center instead of the origin of coordinates?

Updated 26 March 2017
Foxit PDF SDK 5.3
Figure 1(a) shows the rotation of a text object around the origin of coordinates in Foxit PDF SDK. If we want to rotate a text object around its center as shown in Figure 1(b), a set of complex transformations are needed. The comp...
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How to render only part of a PDF page?

Updated 26 March 2017
Foxit PDF SDK 5.3
To render only part of a PDF page, the key point is to ensure that the rendering page size is larger than the device’s display area. Contents that are not on the display area will not be rendered. Foxit PDF SDK provides the int...
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Why Eclipse reports “The method getTextContent() is undefined” always in org.w3c.dom.Node class when running webpdf-extension-sample project?

Updated 26 March 2017
Foxit WebPDF Viewer – Discontinued
The project uses dom4j->xml-apis, it calls node class from dom4j but not from JDK. So it reports node class error. To solve the problem, right click properties of the project, select builder path, and then move the JDK up to ma...
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Why the length of the string retrieved from interface FSPDF_TextPage_GetChars is different from the count of characters getting from interface FSPDF_TextPage_CountChars?

Updated 26 March 2017
Foxit PDF SDK 5.3
The string retrieved from interface FSPDF_TextPage_GetChars is a UTF-8 string. The interface FSPDF_TextPage_CountChars gets the count of characters in a page. “The length of string” and “the count of characters” are two t...
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Why can’t I get the desired filling color if the bitmap format is not ARGB or RGB or if the bitmap contains alpha channel when using the interface FSCRT_Bitmap_FillRect?

Updated 26 March 2017
Foxit PDF SDK 5.3
Before SDK 4.4 version, there exist two bugs when using the interface FSCRT_Bitmap_FillRect to fill a bitmap object with a specified color. FSCRT_Bitmap_FillRect just only receives the color format of ARGB, but it does not judg...
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How can I display fonts correctly?

Updated 26 March 2017
Foxit PDF SDK 5.3
Foxit PDF SDK provides the interface of FSCRT_Library_AddFontFile or FSCRT_Library_SetFontMapperHandler to display fonts. Following is a sample to show how to use FSCRT_Library_SetFontMapperHandler in C++. static FSCRT_FONTMAPPER...
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What is the role of the interface FSPDF_Doc_InitiateJavaScript? And why would it destroy the form actions when calling the interface FSPDF_Doc_InitiateJavaScript before FSPDF_Doc_SetActionHandler?

Updated 26 March 2017
Foxit PDF SDK 5.3
FSPDF_Doc_InitiateJavaScript is mainly used for initiating javascript, such as a series of javascript functions and global variables that are stated by users. When opening a document, we should call this interface to initiate java...
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What is the relationship between FSPDF_FORM and FSPDF_FORMCONTROL? What about FSPDF_FORMCONTROL and FSCRT_ANNOT?

Updated 26 March 2017
Foxit PDF SDK 5.3
One PDF Form (FSPDF_FORM) can contain more than one Form Field, and one Form Field can contain more than one Form Control (FSPDF_ FORMCONTROL). Form Control (FSPDF_ FORMCONTROL) and Annotation (FSCRT_ANNOT) belong to the type of ...
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How can I print layers which are supposed only to be printed but not displayed?

Updated 26 March 2017
Foxit PDF SDK 5.3
Foxit PDF SDK provides parameter setting to control printing. We can set the parameter “flag” in the interface FSPDF_RenderContext_SetFlags(FSPDF_RENDERCONTEXT pdfRenderContext, FS_DWORD flags) to “FSPDF_RENDERCONTEXTFLAG_OC...
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