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Gnostice PDFtoolkit is a powerful PDF document management, manipulation, and PDF eForms processing component set. PDFtoolkit supports filling and reading of PDF forms, compressing, securing, appending and merging of multiple PDF documents, stamping, setting bookmarks, and many more functions that can be performed on PDF documents. PDFtoolkit also provides components for viewing and printing PDF documents. PDFtoolkit operates on existing PDF documents and can even create new ones by extracting pages from existing documents. With the help of PDFtoolkit developers can support powerful PDF document management functionality right from the business applications they develop, making the applications more efficient and independent of other external software.

Why use Gnostice PDFtoolkit?

• View and Print PDF documents from within your application, without using any external software.
• Convert PDF documents to JPEG, BMP, HTML, RTF, TIFF and other formats using eDocEngine. Useful for imaging and archival needs.
• Modify and Re-organize PDF documents by adding new text, images, bookmarks, annotations, delete pages, append page and more.
• Enhance PDF documents by activating links in content, inserting headers and footers, stamping page numbers, inserting document events and more.
• Automate reading of filled PDF forms and capture data accurately in the format you want, processing thousands of forms in seconds.
• Automate filling of PDF forms with constant data or unique data picked up from any data store, and distribute the filled forms in one go. An indispensable feature when you have to process and email thousands of forms to users across the globe.
• Stamps and Watermarks - apply markings that can appear on or below document content to indicate specific uses or restrictions on the document such as "Confidential", "Draft", etc or set the company logo as a watermark on all pages or selected pages of the document.
• Automate extraction of document metadata (or document information) and save it to a data store, enabling fast searching and retrieval based on document information elements. An extremely useful feature for implementing document archival/retrieval functions in your applications.
• Perform any kind of PDF document management, manipulation and reorganization task in batch or real-time from your application to automate document workflows.

Latest News about PDFtoolkit ActiveX/.NET

Gnostice has released version 2.5 - posted 6/15/2007

• Greatly improved rendering of PDF elements, eliminating jaggies and rasterization (aliasing) artifacts.
• Support for clipped regions in text, shape and image elements (viewer)
• Support for dashed pattern and line join styles for path elements (viewer)
• Support for transparency levels in colorspace for PDF elements (viewer)
• Support for individual character spacing in text elements (viewer)
• Enhanced positioning and rendering of text, shape, and image elements
• Accurate substitution and enhanced rendering of the 14 Standard Type 1 fonts (viewer)
• Elimination of redundancy of font information when adding/filling form fields
• Enhanced character and word spacing (viewer)
• Accurate handling of page cropping