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How to Open 1GB+ PDFs in a Mobile or Browser App

Having the option to render documents client-side has many pluses: it’s simpler and more secure than relying on server-side rendering, it scales better, and it opens the door to superior local and offline…

Jun 14 2019

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What is PDF Linearization?

PDF “Fast Web View” or Linearization is a way of optimizing PDFs so they can be streamed into a client application in similar fashion to Youtube videos. This helps remote, online documents open almost…

Jun 11 2019

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May Marks a Month of Wellness at PDFTron

To mark the end to a month of wellness initiatives from the “plank challenge” to stretching sessions, on May 31st PDFTron hosted our most significant fundraising initiative yet this year as a way to show…

Jun 7 2019

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WebViewer 5.1 - Promisified instantiation

A brand new WebViewer has been released with a better instantiation function! The promise, which is returned from the new instantiation function, contains not only the APIs but also objects and namespaces…

Jun 5 2019

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Introducing Apple Pencil support, real-time collaboration, and image stamp rotation in PDFTron 6.10.4 for iOS

We are happy to announce version 6.10.4 of PDFTron's iOS SDK . This release adds image stamp annotation rotation, Apple Pencil support, real-time collaboration support, keyboard shortcuts, a new…

Jun 3 2019

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Bringing Cloudy Annotation Creation to PDFTron SDK 6.10.4 for UWP

We are excited to announce our new official UWP SDK release (version 6.10.4). Based on the success of the CloudCreate, PolygonCreate and PolylineCreate tools with PDFTron SDKs for Android & iOS platforms…

May 31 2019

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How to add a PDF viewer to a SwiftUI app

In this article we describe how to add a PDF viewer to your iOS app using SwiftUI, Apple's declarative UI framework announced at WWDC 2019. Getting started Integrating the PDFTron iOS SDK for a project…

Jun 5 2019

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Customize the UI in Android Document Collaboration App

In a separate blog post, we created a real-time document collaboration app using Firebase and PDFTron's Android PDF SDK. This lets many users view the same document at the same time and communicate via…

May 1 2019

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PDFTron Receives USD$71 Million Growth Investment Led By Silversmith Capital Partners

New Capital Focused on Accelerated R&D and Strategic Acquisitions Vancouver, British Columbia, May 16, 2019 – PDFTron Systems, a leading provider of document processing tools for software developers…

May 16 2019

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PDFTron Heads to HxGN Live 2019 in Las Vegas

We’re pleased to announce that we’re headed to HxGN Live 2019, Hexagon’s premier conference on GPS, global mapping and measurement solutions. The international event, June 11 to June 14 in Las Vegas…

May 10 2019

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Success Story: CCS Delivers Fast & Reliable PDF Rendering Using PDFTron SDK

For more than 30 years, Construction Computer Software (CCS) delivered innovative solutions empowering companies to increase productivity and visibility, and manage risk across engineering & construction…

Jan 25 2019

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Success Story: OEC Graphics Partners with PDFTron to Upgrade its FUSION UX

OEC Graphics, the largest privately held premedia company in North America, knows what it takes to stay ahead. Since OEC opened its doors in Oshkosh, Wisconsin in 1912, constant innovation has been…

Dec 21 2018

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A Vision for the Future of PDF

When Adobe Co-Founder John Warnock first proposed his plan for an entirely self-contained universal document format, in the Spring of 1991, he was met with skepticism. One critic is even said to have…

Oct 11 2018

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View & Create PDF/UA tagged files with PDFTron SDK

PDF is an immensely popular format. But for many years, its “Achilles heel” has been lack of meaningful semantic information, identifying tables, paragraphs, headers and footers - and specifying in what…

Sept 17 2018

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PDFTron Participates in the Game of Apps Championships

PDFTron is thrilled to have participated in a community event with Catherine Andersz, CEO of PDFTron, invited as one of the judges for the Richmond Cohort Championships of the Game of Apps program this…

May 7 2019

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PDFTron Selected as Canada’s Best Employers for Recent Graduates

We are proud to announce that PDFTron has been selected as among Canada’s best employers with its addition to 2019 Career Directory™, a division of Canada’s Top 100 Employers. Published since 1992, the…

Nov 9 2018