PDF Xpress

PDF Xpress allows you to easily create, modify and render PDF and PDF/A files from within your applications.

PDF Xpress is available in the following editions:

• PDF Xpress Reader: Allows you to open PDF documents, render pages for viewing including annotations and bookmarks and extract content from PDFs.
• PXF Xpress Professional: Includes all the Reader features as well as the ability to create PDF and PDF/A documents and modify PDF content, bookmarks, annotations, metadata and watermark.

Key Features:

• Create new PDF documents
• Create image-only PDF/A compliant documents
• Rapidly display large PDF images such as engineering drawings
• Determine whether color information may be safely removed to reduce file size
• Extract each image in a PDF file
• Support hyperlinks in a PDF file
• Extract pages from a PDF document
• Extract attachments from a PDF portfolio

PDF Xpress - Features

PDFXpress Reader PDFXpress is a PDF support toolkit enabling the building of applications that can be used to view PDF files. It is available as a Microsoft .NET component and COM control, provides full read support for all PDF formats and reads all PDF files that are supported by Adobe.

Features include:

• General:
  • Support for Microsoft Windows 32-bit visual development environments
  • Sample code for C#, Visual Basic .NET, Visual Basic 6 and Delphi 7 and 8
  • Deploy within .NET as a managed control
  • Use in any development environment that hosts ActiveX and COM
  • Client/server Web development
  • Use in a multi-threaded environment.
• Adobe PDF Support:
  • Read single and multiple page PDF files
  • Support for native PDF files
  • Support for post script-based PDF files
  • Support for black and white image PDF files encoded to CCITT G3-1D, CCITT G3-2D, CCITT G4 and JBIG2
  • Support for colour image PDF files encoded to JPEG and JPEG 2000.
• Additional File Formats:
  • Use ImagXpress to support additional file format conversion and compression beyond PDF.

PDFXpress Professional

In addition to the read support in the Reader edition, the PDFXpress Professional edition also delivers write support.

Features include:

• Programming environments: Win32 visual development environments
• Sample code is included for: C#, VB.NET, VB 6, Delphi 7/8
• Deploys within .NET as a managed control
• Can also be used in any development environment that hosts ActiveX/COM
• PDFXpress Professional edition delivers both read and write support (see PDF Reading Support and PDF Writing Support below)
• PDFXpress Reader edition is offered for those requiring only PDF viewing capability (see PDF Reading Support below)
• Client/Server web development capabilities
• Can be used in a multi-threaded environment.

• Read single and multi-page PDF files
• Read Post Script-based PDF files
• Read color image PDF files encoded to JPEG (both sequential and progressive), JPEG 2000, GIF, BMP, PNG, and RAW image input
• Render pages to 24-bit color or 1-bit bitonal
• Render (read) the page or specified section of a PDF document
• Specify resolution
• Read Native PDF files
• Read black and white image PDF files encoded to TIFF (CCITT G3-1D, CCITT G3-2D, CCITT G4), and JBIG2
• Will render to a DIB, Bitmap (.NET only), or EPS stream
• Obtain the bookmarks associated with a PDF document
• Configure whole image or rectangle selection viewing
• Specify annotation viewing options (faces of certain PDF annotations only).

• Create a new PDF document
• Create color image PDF files encoded to JPEG (both sequential and progressive), JPEG 2000, GIF, BMP, PNG, RAW image input
• Add PDF bookmarks to a file, linking to locations within the document that can be displayed to form a document outline in Acrobat Reader
• Add pages made of images to an existing document
• Split a single PDF file into multiple files
• Rotate, scale, or clip imported pages when placing in a new PDF file
• Create black and white image PDF files encoded to TIFF (CCITT G3-1D, CCITT G3-2D, CCITT G4), and JBIG2
• Create files from an image memory stream, no file required
• Specify thumbnail generation and storage with the associated page in the PDF document
• Merge two PDF files into a single PDF file
• Delete pages from a PDF file
• Save a created or modified PDF document with linearization.