Foxit PDF SDK ActiveX Features in detail

Standard Package

The Standard Package contains the mandatory base functionality of the SDK. It provides a complete PDF solution for developers to add view, search, and extract text functionality to their applications and devices:

Industry’s best PDF rendering
PDF viewing including zoom in/out and set background color
PDF page navigation
Programmatic access to bookmark information
Progressive display
Search, extract, and select PDF text
Open and save PDF
PDF printing including print as image, add watermark for printing, and silent printing, etc.
Multi-instance support
Asynchronous processing
Modify the context menu of page thumbnail panel
Customize viewer including show TitleBar/ToolBar/ToolbarButton/StatusBar/ToolTip/NavigationPanel, etc.
Support Chinese/Japanese/Korean (CJK) languages
Support multi-language UI

Professional Package

The Professional Package adds annotation support, forms support, watermarks additions, converting PDF to text, and hyperlink operations.

Importing/ exporting annotations
Printing pop-up annotations
Filling form fields (user interface only)
Programming interface available as form module
Importing/exporting form data
Search form data
Highlight all matched search text
FTP uploading
Running document JavaScript
Hyperlink and watermark Support
Adding images to PDF
PDF page organization, such as inserting a blank page, exporting pages, etc.
Converting PDF to text and bitmaps
Password encryption
Permission controls
Set save in a PDF
Bookmark editing and modifying the context menu in bookmark panel

PDF Form Add-on

The PDF Form Add-on Module provides developers programmatic access to the forms, so the program can have access and react to the data the user inputs into forms. It includes PDF form element operations ( such as adding, removing, and editing form fields), JavaScript support.

Annotation Add-on

The Annotation Add-on Module provides developers programmatic access to the annotations, so the program can react to user’s annotations. It also includes advanced annotation operations on PDF documents, such as editing, creating, and removing annotations, and the formatting of text annotations.

Digital Signature Add-on

The digital signature Add-on Module allows developers to enable their applications to digitally sign PDF documents using third-party digital certificates located in the Windows system certificate store. It also supports digital signature verification, signature timestamp and signature print control.

Updated on July 1, 2021

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