Tutorials

Getting Started with XOD Files

The WebViewer solution supports viewing a wide range of document file formats by converting all documents to the XOD format. PDFTron provides the XOD conversion component in two forms. You can choose the one that suits your deployment, requirements and licensing needs.

PDFNet SDK with WebViewer Add-on

With this option, you get the benefit of using PDFNet SDK, our full-featured PDF SDK, on your server. Essentially you would be doing your own XOD conversions on your server with PDFNet. You can do more advanced features here: e.g. apply your own watermark to all converted documents, add/remove pages to converted documents, merge annotations back to the original PDF. This gives you the most flexibility and control over your documents.

For more information, see http://www.pdftron.com/pdfnet.
[Licensing: Available with Redistributable Licensing]

DocPub Command-line Converter

With this option, you run the conversions with a command-line tool. This works best if you have a static set of documents you want to convert in a batch, and upload to a server all at once.

For more information, see http://www.pdftron.com/docpub/index.html.
[Licensing: Available with Redistributable Licensing]

XOD Conversion Features by Converter Types

PDFNet SDK DocPub CLI
XOD Conversion
XOD Encryption
MS Office Documents Support ✓ (Windows Only) ✓ (Windows Only)
Document Pre-Processing (PDF)
Built-in Annotation (XFDF) merging
On-the-fly Conversion Streaming