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Foxit PDF SDK for Desktop 11.0.0

Foxit PDF SDK for Desktop 11.0.0 features significant enhancements in security, compliance, OCR capabilities, PDF optimization, and platform adaptability for efficient document rendering and management. Highlights include document sanitization, thread safety mechanisms, and transparency handling for enhanced security and compliance; advanced control over layers, annotations, dynamic color, and screen DPI scaling for superior rendering experience; smarter OCR with direct format conversion, processing mode controls, and process termination callbacks; superior PDF optimization with optimized handling of scanned documents, image compression, quality control, font management, and space audit; and broader platform adaptability with new Go programming language support and expanded architecture coverage for Python and .NET platforms.

Foxit PDF Conversion SDK 3.0

PDF2Office adds Go programming language support for Linux x32/x64 platform, and upgrades the Python library to make it compatible with Python 3.11 and subsequent micro versions. Office2PDF now supports Linux system platforms. The online conversion demo supports parameter configurations and selections. This new version also enhances the recognition of various elements such as text paragraphs, border tables, and headers/footers, optimizes the font loading method, and supports vertical paragraph alignment for drawing objects, all aimed to deliver better conversion results.

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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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Code to check PDFs for security settings

Updated 16 May 2022
Foxit Quick PDF Library
The AnalyseFile function can be used to check a PDF for security settings. If the PDF has an open password then this password will need to be passed to the AnalyseFile function before you can check the permissions for the PDF. pri...
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Programmatically set initial view zoom magnification using Foxit Quick PDF Library

Updated 16 May 2022
Foxit Quick PDF Library
The PDF specification doesn't have a simple document setting that specifies the initial page number and zoom magnification. However it is possible to add an "open action" to the document that specifies the action to perform when t...
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Generate PDF report from MS Access application coded in Visual Basic

Updated 16 May 2022
Foxit Quick PDF Library
You can use Foxit Quick PDF Library with Microsoft Access and Visual Basic using either the DLL or ActiveX editions. There is also a knowledge base article which shows you how to generate a PDF report from a Microsoft Access datab...
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Display watermark only when a PDF is printed

Updated 16 May 2022
Foxit Quick PDF Library
With the use of Optional Content Groups (OCGs), aka Layers in Acrobat lingo, it is possible to make specific content only appear when the PDF is viewed on screen or printed. The sample code demonstrates how this can be done by sho...
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Programmatically remove a password from a PDF

Updated 16 May 2022
Foxit Quick PDF Library
The ease with which you can remove a password from a PDF document depends on whether you have the user password. If the user password is known then removing security from a PDF is as simple as loading a document using the LoadFrom...
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Programmatically delete all form fields in a PDF

Updated 16 May 2022
Foxit Quick PDF Library
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Rename an existing form field programmatically

Updated 16 May 2022
Foxit Quick PDF Library
It is possible to rename a form field programmatically using the SetFormFieldChildTitle function in Foxit Quick PDF Library. Say for example that you have a parent field called Details, with child fields Name and Address, the full...
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Add a barcode to a PDF

Updated 13 October 2023
Foxit Quick PDF Library
Foxit Quick PDF Library includes support for a variety of different barcodes, including: Code39 (or Code 3 of 9) EAN-13 Code128 PostNet Interleaved 2 of 5 Data Matrix Intelligent Mail Barcode (OneCode) PDF...
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Extract fonts from a PDF programmatically

Updated 16 May 2022
Foxit Quick PDF Library
Foxit Quick PDF Library lets you extract embedded TrueType fonts from PDF files to a font file on the local disk. All other font types and subsetted TrueType fonts are not supported by the SaveFontToFile function. Here is some C# ...
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