Instantly add PDF display to Windows apps
Fast time to market
Visual programming components
Powerful, easy-to-use PDF SDK
Foxit PDF SDK ActiveX is ideal for product managers and developers who are either new to PDF or don’t want to make large investments in learning PDF technology. With its easy-to-use and customizable visual programming components, developers can simply drag and drop the components into an application to instantly add PDF display functions to any Windows-based standalone application. This PDF SDK enables development organizations to quickly create PDF-capable applications and achieve faster time to market without requiring deep PDF expertise. It is compatible with many programming languages, including C/C++, Visual Basic, NET, and Delphi. The SDK also supports a wide range of Western and Eastern PDF fonts and provides a localizable user interface for your PDF application.
Small, fast, high-quality, full-featured PDF SDK
The Foxit PDF SDK ActiveX is a visual programming component that offers PDF display and annotation capabilities with minimal resource demand and small re-distribution size. It uses the same core technology as the popular and proven Foxit Reader; therefore, it can display PDF files quickly, accurately, and with high quality. Allowing an easy integration into a wide range of applications, it is designed for a broad spectrum of users who want to develop PDF display and annotation capabilities. Key features of the Foxit PDF SDK ActiveX include:
•Easy-to-use environment to develop your own PDF applications quickly and achieve fast time-to-market.
•Fast PDF rendering speed, high accuracy, superior quality.
•Compatible with many programming languages.
•Extensive printing, annotation, and form features and properties.
•Allows digital signing of PDF documents via third-party digital certificates; supports digital signature verification.
•Fully native 64-bit support that ensures high-performance computing (HPC)
•Localizable user interface.
System Requirements
Operating Systems
•Windows 7
•Windows 8.1
•Windows 10
Evaluate Foxit’s powerful PDF SDK ActiveX and learn why leading application developers and device manufacturers trust Foxit technology in their products due to Foxit’s blazing speed, high quality, small footprint, ease of use, and the support of the industry’s largest PDF development team.
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Fast PDF rendering speed and accurate rendering quality
•Less waiting time to read PDF documents.
•View PDF documents the way they were intended to be viewed: crisp, clear, and easy to read.
Fully native 64-bit support
•Ensure faster, high-performance computing (HPC) that is more suited to a 64-bit architecture, as is found in many of large organizations.
•Still 32-bit compatible.
Extensive PDF printing features and properties
•Manually adjust PDF printing options through a dialog window, or preset these options and perform a silent print.
PDF form element control
•Add, delete, and set the properties of PDF form elements. Build your own PDF forms and distribute them to target recipients.
PDF annotation object control
•Add, delete, and set the properties of annotation objects of PDF documents. Build your own annotation tools.
Compatible with many programming languages
•Conforms to the COM standard and can be easily used in C/C++, Visual Basic, .Net, Delphi, and other development tools that support COM components.
Multi-language support
•Supports Western, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean (CJK) languages.
Localizable UI
•Supports global end users in 34 native desktop languages. Easily change the UI language by calling one function when the corresponding XML language file is placed in the same file path as Foxit PDF ActiveX SDK.
One-stop shopping for a complete PDF solution
•No additional software required.
Professional customer support
•Quick and accurate response provided by professional and experienced engineers.
Digital signature
•Enable digital signatures in PDF documents using third-party digital certificates located in the Windows system certificate store.
•Supports digital signature verification (which authenticates the source and verifies the integrity of content of digitally signed PDF documents), signature timestamp, signature print control, and more.
Multi-instance Support
•Run multiple instances of ActiveX on a single system at the same time, so that applications can provide simultaneous views of multiple pages or display pages from multiple PDF documents at the same time.
Image conversion
•Convert images to PDF or export PDF to images in popular image file formats such as JPEG, BMP, PNG, TIFF, GIF, and JPX.
PDF page organization
•Incorporate the following capabilities into your applications: •Insert a blank page to a current PDF
•Insert pages in a PDF document from another PDF document
•Delete pages in a PDF
•Rotate a page
•Swap two pages in a PDF
•Flatten a page
•Crop a page
•Export pages to create a new PDF
Asynchronous operations
•Simultaneously read and download PDF documents. For example, the first page of a large document can be displayed while the rest of the PDF is still being downloaded.