During the last years, spreading of file formats PDF and PDF/A strongly increases, and this trend is stable. The advantages of the file format for a safe and efficient exchange of electronic documents are universally recognized, and PDF is established as a standard, since today. At the document processing, today, one must not renounce a platform covering retention of the representation quality and formatting of the original document, comfortable collaboration functions as well as independence from the original program with which the file was created.
The increasing significance of PDF format, are taken into account by soft Xpansion with the further development of new products. Being firstly offered in 2002 to the implementing of PDF format in software applications, the company publishes a new version of its developer library with PDF Direct & Quick View 5.
Complicated developing projects can be realized, with PDF Direct & QuickView 5, in Visual C ++, .NET and in languages with COM support. The libraries, allow besides, a direct production and processing (PDF Direct) as well as announcement (PDF Quick View) of PDFs in software applications, also concerning foreign, already created PDF files. To be able to produce, process, view and print PDF files, the users of the application need therefore no additional programs. A huge number of powerful options for a flexible implementing of PDF format are offered by both libraries.
Version 5 offers the following new functions and improvements:
* 64-bit Windows versions support
* Production of PDF pages from content objects (vector, text and grid graphics)
* Improved import of pictures by the site production
* Processing of the contents of PDF pages (PDF Rich Edit)
* Combining of several PDF-pages in one page
* Trust-validation of signatures
* Import of GDI + metafiles
* Time stamp functions (insertion and validation)
* Import of HTML files and Web pages
PDF Direct has official support for Microsoft Windows, tough Quick View 5 can be used in applications, which run under the 32-or 64-bit versions of Windows XP (Home or Professional Edition), Vista, Server 2003 or 2000.
Allowing an adaptation to the needs of the target group and the users of the respective purpose application, the library is available from now on and is offered in several license models and component parcels. Except for those, which are already installed with the operating system Windows, no other software components are required.
