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Aspose powers PowerPoint users

Nettie Hartsock — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Aspose has announced the release of its own PDF rendering engine which gives users the power to save PowerPoint presentations to PDF.

This week in PDF: Datalogics to distribute Adobe PDF Print Engine SDK

Dan Shea — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT

This week in PDF has seen the release of a standalone Java-based PDF viewer and a PDF creation utility, along with the signing of a distribution deal for the Adobe PDF Print Engine SDK.

Coherent Graphics announces Coherent Command Line PDF Toolkit 1.3

Nettie Hartsock — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Coherent Graphics Ltd. has updated its Coherent Command Line PDF Toolkit for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.

PDF3D-SDK offers Acrobat 9.0 compatibility

Nettie Hartsock — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT

PDF3D has released PDF3D-SDK version 1.6 which offers users XML server configuration option, enables batch processing and compositing of multiple 3D object files into 3D PDF technical publishing format.

Server-based PDF invoice creation with .NET

Dan Shea — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The Imaging Source has announced a family of server-side components for Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 and 2008 to generate invoices in PDF format.

Aspose.Pdf for .NET updated

Nettie Hartsock — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Aspose.Pdf for .NET v 3.7 has added support for creating bookmarks and adding EMF and WMF images to XSL-FO to PDF with support for security settings in XSL-FO2PDF.

PDF Tools AG updates 3-Heights products

Nettie Hartsock — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

PDF Tools AG has released version 1.7 of its 3-Heights products for PDF processing. According to the company, a major improvement is the new direct .NET interoperability for all API products.

Indigo Eight releases AjaxPDF 2.0

Nettie Hartsock — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Rhode Island-based Indigo Eight Software has announced the release of AjaxPDF 2.0, the latest update to its ASP.NET control for displaying PDF documents.

This week in PDF: Free PDF library released

Dan Shea — Thu, 15 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

This week in PDF has seen the release of a free PDF library, an update to Adobe's PDF-compatible eBook software and Microsoft's certification of a PDF software vendor.

Sponsor Spotlight: PDFTron

Nettie Hartsock — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT

As part of the ongoing series on Planet PDF's sponsors, we wanted to highlight PDFTron and its innovative PDFNet SDK v4 which was released in February. The latest version added full Java support to the PDF library. Version 4.0 also includes a new Java interface that offers API functionality as a set of Java classes to give developers an easier and more expedient way to integrate PDFTron's PDFNet API into already existing applications.

Big Faceless Organization speeds up Java PDF Library

Nettie Hartsock — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Big Faceless Organization has released an updated version of their Java PDF Library and Viewer, a bugfix to version 2.10 released late last week.

Synactis announces release of All In-The-Box

Nettie Hartsock — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Synactic has announced the release of it document viewer and PDF writer aimed at professional developers working on the Windows platform.

This week in PDF: PDF information retrieval tool updated

Dan Shea — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 00:00:00 GMT

This week in PDF has seen a major update to a PDF information retrieval tool, while minor updates were released for a Java-based PDF library and a PDF forms solution.

BCL Technologies announces easyConverter SDK PDF2Word API

Nettie Hartsock — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 00:00:00 GMT

BCL Technologies has announced the release of easyConverter SDK 1.0, a PDF to Word Programming Toolkit.

PDFlib GmbH releases PDFlib PLOP 3 and PDFlib PLOP DS

Dan Shea — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Munich-based software developer PDFlib GmbH has released PDFlib PLOP 3. In a related development, the company also launched the new product PLOP DS, used for digitally signing PDF documents.

Big Faceless Organization updates Big Faceless Java PDF Viewer

Nettie Hartsock — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Big Faceless Organization has released an updated version of their Java PDF Library and Viewer. The version 2.8 now features a complete redesign of their PDF viewer package.

This week in PDF: Neo takes best-in-show honors

Dan Shea — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMT

This week in PDF sees updated developer tools for PDF creation and content extraction, while a new PDF editing tool takes best-in-show honors.

Amyuni releases PDF Creator 3.0 for .Net

Nettie Hartsock — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Amyuni has rolled out PDF Creator 3.0 for .NET, which features support for Microsoft Vista operating system and several other upgrade features from the last version.

Big Faceless Organization enhances Big Faceless PDF Library

Nettie Hartsock — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Big Faceless Organization has released an updated version of their Java PDF Library and Viewer.

WindJack Solutions offers PDF CanOpener 3.0

Nettie Hartsock — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT

WindJack Solutions has announced the release of PDF CanOpener 3.0, which the company terms a "major update" of its Acrobat plug-in for analyzing and manipulating data in PDF documents.

Ubiquitous PDF: Java Game Programming for Dummies

Dan Shea — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 00:00:00 GMT

Keen to add a little action to your Web site but don't know how? One option is to add Java-based games -- perhaps a viable option for even the less coding-savvy among us with the help of free PDF eBook Java Game Programming for Dummies. According to its entry on Ebooknetworking.com, the eBook is "The fun and easy way to create your own games and put them on your Web page."

PDFTextStream Upgraded, v1.4 extracts PDF form content

Dan Shea — Wed, 23 Nov 2005 00:00:00 GMT

Snowtide Informatics Systems, Inc. has this week announced an update to its PDF content extraction library for Java applications and web services. Version 1.4 expands PDFTextStream's Pure Java API to include support for extracting PDF form data, enhances performance, and introduces an expanded PDF document model.

Big Faceless Organization announces PDF Library 2.4.3

Dan Shea — Wed, 03 Aug 2005 00:00:00 GMT

Big Faceless Organization (BFO) has announced version 2.4.3 of its PDF Library. The new offering now supports XFA forms, Acrobat 7 encryption, PDF417 and QR Code barcodes.

Appligent releases PDF Foundry

Dan Shea — Wed, 27 Jul 2005 00:00:00 GMT

Appligent recently announced the release of a server-based application that allows the creation of PDF from PostScript and TIFF data streams. In addition to its PDF creation capabilities, PDF Foundry can correct malformed PDF or add encryption and document information to existing PDF files.

PDFlib releases new text extraction package

Dan Shea — Wed, 06 Jul 2005 00:00:00 GMT

PDFlib Text Extraction Toolkit (TET) extracts text from PDF documents, converting it to Unicode strings while preserving font and glyph information. The toolkit is currently available as a library, component and a command-line tool.

WindJack Solutions releases AcroDialogs

Dan Shea — Wed, 22 Jun 2005 00:00:00 GMT

WindJack Solutions, Inc has just released a graphical designer for creating Acrobat JavaScript Dialogs. With the release of Acrobat 7, Adobe documented the use of fully-fledged dialog boxes with Acrobat JavaScript.

SkySof Software releases PDF Maker DLL

Dan Shea — Wed, 22 Jun 2005 00:00:00 GMT

Skysof Software has just released an ActiveX Dynamic Link Library for software developers. PDF Maker DLL gives programmers control over the creation of PDF files from numerous file types, and supports the application of standard PDF security.

A pair of awards for activePDF Toolkit

Dan Shea — Wed, 01 Jun 2005 00:00:00 GMT

activePDF has had a great month. The prominent provider of PDF server and development tools has announced two industry awards for its activePDF Toolkit 4.0 product -- the highly-coveted Reader's Choice Award in Visual Studio Magazine's "PDF Tools" category and the 2005 Codie Award for Best Software Component.

Ubiquitous PDF: Just weeks to go for Google Puzzle Championship

Thu, 26 May 2005 00:00:00 GMT

Web search powerhouse Google is sponsoring a US qualifying event for the World Puzzle Championship 2005, to be held in Hungary this October. The rules of the competition state that participants have two and a half hours to answer as many questions as possible, and that hopefuls have until June 16 to enter.

Big Faceless PDF Library version 2.4 released

Dan Shea — Thu, 05 May 2005 00:00:00 GMT

The Big Faceless Organization (BFO), a global provider of Java reporting solutions, has just released the latest version of its PDF library. The Big Faceless PDF Library version 2.4 offers non-technical users the ability to add additional signatures to digitally signed documents without invalidating the original signature. More at Planet PDF.