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Foxit Quick PDF Library provides an extensive API for programmatically extracting text from PDF files. This includes the options of just plain text output and also returning the text in a formatted CSV string with details about th...
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Memory Management and the DLL and LIB editions of Foxit Quick PDF Library
Updated 16 May 2022
The creation and release of memory buffers are handled automatically in most scenarios by the DLL and LIB editions of Foxit Quick PDF Library.
There is an internal buffer where all string results are stored. The AnsiStringRes...
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Incremental updates provide a method for updating a PDF file without completely re-writing it, according to the PDF specification (1.7), incremental updates work like this:
The contents of a PDF file can be updated incrementally w...
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Foxit Quick PDF Library does not currently support the extraction of path information. However, the GetContentStreamToString function will extract the content stream which contains all of the drawing commands.
You would need to pa...
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Programmatically find and replace URL links in PDF files
Updated 16 May 2022
Foxit Quick PDF Library has an extensive API for programmatically working with links in PDF files. In the sample code below we demonstrate how to find all URLs in a PDF and then check to see if it matches our predefined URL a...
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Controlling the precision of numeric values in PDF files
Updated 16 May 2022
Foxit Quick PDF Library includes a function called SetPrecision which allows you to control the precision of numeric values in PDF files.
In a PDF all numeric values are stored as strings. So using a smaller precision would m...
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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 projec...
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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...
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Known Issue: Some Greek characters not displayed properly when using Symbol font
Updated 16 May 2022
Some Greek characters are not shown correctly after creating a PDF from a canvas device context (GetCanvasDC, LoadFromCanvasDC and NewPageFromCanvasDC) when using the Symbol font. If another font such as Arial is used then all of ...
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