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People turn to PDF for its ability to bring a lot of information together onto a single page. A PDF document can store text, vector graphics and fonts, raster images, and much more, and users can…
Feb 12 2019
When Google first released their mysterious Fuchsia OS in 2016, it was claimed that it could run on virtually anything -- from a smartwatch to your car’s dashboard entertainment system -- setting the stage…
Feb 8 2019
Before you convert files to PDF/A, your conversion software will require that you pick a PDF/A standard and conformance level. The differences between PDF/A-2b and PDF/A-2a, or PDF/A-1b and PDF/A-3b, for…
Jan 18 2019
Organizations prefer PDF/A for its industry acceptance and advantages over other archiving formats in terms of its ability to preserve text, vector graphics, raster images and related metadata…
Jan 16 2019
The ZUGFeRD standard makes the sharing of payment information between entities large and small a lot simpler. However, building a program to automatically generate ZUGFeRD compliant invoices is a little…
Jan 10 2019
If you’re working with hundreds or thousands of files, you need a way to convert to PDF/A as quickly and conveniently as possible. This post will show you how you can accomplish this using PDFTron’s easy…
Jan 7 2019
It is possible to convert from PDF to PDF/A in multiple different ways, using many different solutions. If you’re interested in converting a small number of PDF files to PDF/A, look no further than PDFTron…
Dec 11 2018
The best approach for generating PDFs in Rails really depends on the types of PDFs you need to generate. This tutorial will provide step-by-step instructions for generating PDFs by using wkhtmltopdf, an…
Nov 28 2018
In this post we'll show you how to display PDFs in Angular 5+ by using the PDF.js-based ng2-pdf-viewer component, and then wrapping it with a custom UI. Here's what it will look like: The viewer includes…
Nov 26 2018
This post will show you how to add a simple PDF viewer to your AngularJS app with PDF.js and the angularjs-pdf directive. We'll also show you how to match your app's look-and-feel by wrapping it in a…
Nov 23 2018
In order to let users view PDF documents in an Android app, it's common practice to defer this functionality to a third-party app on the user’s device. By doing so, developers won't have to build their own…
Nov 21 2018
Electron is an open-source framework that allows you to create cross platform desktop applications using web technology. This post will go over how to implement PDF.js into an Electron app to build your…
Nov 2 2018
It's possible to display Office documents in a Xamarin app without using a server, Microsoft Office license, or other third party software. The PDFTron PDF SDK will convert Office files to PDF directly…
Adding a seamless Word, Excel, and PowerPoint document viewing experience to Android apps is easy with the PDFTron PDF SDK . No need for a server, Microsoft Office license, or other third party software…
Oct 31 2018
Seamless viewing of Office documents in iOS apps is made simple with the PDFTron PDF SDK . Office files are converted directly to PDF in the client, and then displayed with a PDF viewer. No server…
Oct 29 2018
In this article we describe how to add a PDF viewer to your iOS app using Swift with PDFKit, Apple's builtin PDF SDK introduced in iOS 11. The PDFKit framework has been available in AppKit since macOS 1…
Oct 24 2018
Xamarin.Forms provides the ability to build fully native Android, iOS and Universal Windows Platforms apps using C#. In this article, you will learn how to display a PDF in a fully featured document…
Oct 23 2018
React Native is an open source framework for building native mobile apps using JavaScript. The resulting apps are indistinguishable from those built in Swift, Objective-C, Kotlin, or Java, because they don…
Oct 22 2018
React components are chunks of isolated code that can easily be shared across your entire UI, and even across multiple projects. This post will go over how to create a PDF viewing component that you can…
Oct 17 2018
Apple. Samsung. Android. Windows Phone. Nokia. Blackberry. The mobile marketplace is filled with choices. And today’s end-users expect to have their mobile apps work the same, whatever their device. Now…
Oct 1 2018
PDFTron was pleased to present at the PDF Association's recently held PDF Day conference in Washington, DC, where I presented about Secure Collaboration on Engineering Documents. As PDFs move from the…
Aug 20 2018
Semantic content recognition is the ability to identify components of a document by their “class” – that is if any particular content constitutes a title, subtitle, section, paragraph, word, figure…
Jan 7 2016
pdf.js is a well known project for rendering PDF documents directly in the browser. In that sense, it is similar to our recently announced PDFNetJS . While pdf.js is interesting project, and may be a…
Nov 24 2015
View and Convert Microsoft Word Documents Anywhere We’re very pleased to announce the launch of the newest addition to PDFNet SDK: built-in Word conversion. Now you can go straight from .docx to .pdf…
Sept 8 2015
PDFTron was pleased to present at the PDF Association ‘s recently held PDFDay conference in Washington, DC and New York City. James Borthwick, a member of our development team, presented a talk on…
Mar 16 2015
In a previous post we announced the availability of PDFNet in Nuge t, and also discussed how we made PDFNet work with the AnyCPU configuration. Feedback for the AnyCPU setup has been great, but our…
Dec 1 2014
PDFNet is easy to use with a Swift project. This post will show how to set up a new Swift project and display a PDF. This post will show you the basics of starting a new Swift project that uses PDFNet. For…
Sept 22 2014
We have received lots of interest in our new PDF to HTML/EPUB conversion since it was released in PDFNet 6.0 . With this interest we have also gotten questions on customizing the output. So today I’ll…
May 25 2014
Intro Why is PDF so popular and what is its Achilles’ foot? How difficult is it to extract a table from PDF? What is the best tool to extract structure from PDF? PDF Liberation Hackathon PDFGenie PDFGenie…
Mar 2 2014
PDFTron open sources PDFNet language bindings for PHP, Python, and Ruby. We are happy to announce that the source code for the PHP, Python, and Ruby bindings for PDFNet are now open source . This is in…
Feb 28 2014
The rise of mobile platforms, each with its own native programming language and API, has created new demand for cross-platform development tools and SDKs. To display a PDF, most cross-platform toolkits…
Feb 3 2014
Starting with PDFNet SDK 6.2.0-BETA for Windows Store apps, it is now possible to get more useful error messages when PDFNet throws exceptions. Due to limitations of the COM API boundary, only System…
Want to create high quality, fixed layout EPUBs from a PDF? Or simply want to show a PDF file in the browser, taking full advantage of the power of HTML and the browser? Or maybe you just want a simple way…
Nov 15 2013
RichMedia annotations can be used to embed videos and sound files in PDF documents. When opened in a compliant reader, the user can play them back directly as part of the page content, usually by just…
Sept 11 2013
Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to view a remote PDF the same way as one can view an online video? By this we mean you can see the beginning of the content almost immediately, and if you move to the middle…
Aug 24 2013
HTML5 apps offer many of advantages over native ones. Web apps are Naturally cross-platform: develop once, run on iOS, Android, Windows Phone and everything else. Easy to update the app for everyone…
Aug 8 2013
A common question we receive from our customers is how do I create thumbnails of a PDF document? The best class to use for this is PDFDraw, which rasterizes* PDF pages one at a time, and provides methods…
Jul 20 2013
Introduction PDFNet makes sharing annotations easy by offering an simple way to import and export annotations. The annotations are saved in a standardized XML format, XFDF . This makes the annotations…
Jul 19 2013
