Gnostice PDFtoolkit VCL 5.0.0.612-A Comprehensive and Versatile PDF Component Suite
Edit, enhance, secure, merge, split, view, print, digitally sign PDF and AcroForms document

 Compatibility

Delphi C++Builder

 

Overview

Gnostice PDFtoolkit is a comprehensive and versatile PDF component suite for Delphi™ and C++Builder®. PDFtoolkit VCL components come with hundreds of functions and properties that put immense power in the hands of the developer. PDFtoolkit hides the complexity of the PDF format and allows developers to easily create applications that can edit, enhance, secure, merge, split, view, digitally sign, and print PDF documents and process PDF forms. PDFtoolkit can extract text, export to images, and also add digital signatures. PDFtoolkit does not require PDF software such as Adobe PDF library, Adobe Acrobat Professional, Adobe PDF Reader or GhostScript.

 

Editions

ProPlus With Source

ProPlus Without Source

Highlights

Edit & enhance PDF files

Merge, split & reorganize PDF files

Read, fill & flatten form fields (PDF forms or AcroForms)

Add digital signatures

Change page layout and document display settings

Write modified PDF content to file, memory & HTTP response

Write autotext such as page numbers

Extract plain & formatted text

Convert pages to JPEG and BMP

View and print PDF documents

Interactive PDF viewer

Fill forms interactively

Click and save page content as images

Encrypt & decrypt PDF documents

Specify document restrictions

Add, edit & delete bookmarks

Add annotations

Add & extract file attachments

Add markups, watermarks & stamps

 

Features

Features provided by PDFtoolkit VCL are listed here.

 

Features By Category

General Features, I/O and Security Support

Document Enhancement

Document Modification and Re-organization

Document Management

Acroforms Processing (PDF eForms)

Document Search and Extraction

Document Viewing, Printing, Searching and Converting

 

General Features, I/O and Security Support    ProPlus

Email after saving to file    

Embed TrueType fonts      

Load from file and memory stream       

Read password protected documents (requires password)       

Reset component - Unload document and free all used resources       

Run-time setup dialog       

Save to file and memory stream     

Save to HTTP response     

Secure with password using 40bit and 128bit Encryption  

Subset fonts to reduce file size      

Support for all character sets - Eastern Europe, Chinese, Japanese…       

Unicode support for text annotations   

Unicode support for Watermarks, document information and bookmarks   

Use TrueType fonts     

 

Document Enhancement           ProPlus

Activate links in page content [http://, ftp://, e-mail and file://]     

Add digital signatures

Attach files (any file type)  

Build document Outline (TOC)       

Draw simple HTML text [Tags supports: , , , , ]

Draw Text on the page [Horizontal and Vertical text]    

Insert annotations [Text, FreeText, Line, Square, Circle, Highlight, Underline, Squiggly, Strikeout, Stamp, Ink]      

Insert Bookmarks in content (Link annotation)       

Insert page Header and Footer      

Insert watermarks with text and images [Horizontal and Vertical text]    

Page number stamping     

Set custom thumbnails for each page

Set document and page events     

Set presentation features [Page Transition]     

Set various Actions to Annotations [URI, GoTo, GoToR, Launch, JavaScript]   

Set various Actions to Bookmarks [URI, GoTo, GoToR, Launch, JavaScript]     

Variables support for Watermark and Draw Text [Time, Date, Page number, Total Pages]

      

Document Modification and Re-organization       ProPlus

Add and Edit existing Outline items with unlimited nesting levels (TOC)    

Append pages from one document to end of another  

Delete existing Outline items   

Delete pages from document  

Extract pages from documents and create new ones   

Insert new blank page       

Insert pages from one document to another     

Mask area on page      

Merge multiple documents       

Modify document information fields [Author, Subject, Title, Keywords.

Stitch pages [on top, side-by-side]

Write XMP metadata of document (custom document information)       

 

Document Management   ProPlus

ASCII encode document (ASCII85 and ASCIIHex)       

Change user permissions (requires owner password)

Change viewing page layout  

Compress document   

Decompress document      

Set and edit viewer preferences    

 

Acroforms Processing (PDF eForms)      ProPlus

Delete form fields  

Edit Form field attributes    

Flatten form fields

Full access to form field attributes [Name, Description, Type, Allowed values...]

Insert new form fields  

Read and Fill form field values      

 

Document Search and Extraction      ProPlus

Extract all page content as Text, Graphic, Pattern objects with properties   

Extract pages and save as new document       

Extract Text (plain strings without formatting)   

Extract Text Formatted (plain text with basic formatting)      

Get page properties [Size, Mediabox, Cropbox, Rotation]   

Programmatic text search  

Read document information [Author, Subject, Title, Keywords...]    

Read XML Metadata of document

 

Document Viewing, Printing, Searching and Converting      ProPlus

(Viewer) Interactive form-filling      

(Viewer) Select region and export to clipboard and image formats

(Viewer) User interaction modes - Hand, Select, Zoom, Snapshot and Highlight    

(Viewer) User-defined widgets for PDF page elements      

Bookmark panel component    

Printer component       

Render PDF to Canvas and convert to JPEG, BMP and (single and multi-page) TIFF  

Search panel component  

Viewer component

 

System Requirements

The following IDEs are supported.

Other Software Requirements

Any Windows OS

gdiplus.dll* in case of the OS is older than Windows XP

 

* - In case gdiplus.dll file is already present, do not attempt to overwrite it, as this action will conflict with Windows system file protection feature.