Planet PDF Developer

This week in PDF: activePDF Server 2009 released

Dan Shea — Thu, 07 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT

This week in PDF has seen an update to a PDF creation engine, the release of an open source PDF library, and the acceptance of a new Adobe Solution Provider.

Debenu launches Quick PDF Library and Quick PDF Tools

Dan Shea — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Debenu, the company behind personal document management tool Benubird Pro, has released a pair of PDF products. The first, Quick PDF Library 7.12, is a PDF API that allows developers to build functions such as PDF creation, security administration and content extraction into their own software. The second new offering, Quick PDF Tools 1.3.0.1, is a freeware desktop application built using the Quick PDF Library.

This week in PDF: Established vendors boost product compatibilities

Dan Shea — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT

This week in PDF has seen one software vendor announce Section 508 compliance, PDF functionality added to a 3D tool, and the release of a PDF developer library that is compatible with Sun Solaris.

Datalogics announces Adobe Normalizer API 9.0

Nettie Hartsock — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Datalogics Inc., has announced the release of Adobe Normalizer API 9.0, Adobe's developer toolkit for converting PostScript and EPS files to PDF.

This week in PDF: A pair of PDF developer products updated

Dan Shea — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT

This week in PDF has seen PDF features added to a personal document management system, along with major updates to a pair of PDF developer products.

Debenu acquires PDF developer library

Dan Shea — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Debenu, the company behind personal document management package Benubird Pro, today announced its acquisition of SEDTech's PDF developer library.

Evaluating JavaScript using Acrobat's console

Dan Shea — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

If you have incorporated JavaScript into your PDF documents, chances are that you'd like to make sure that it's valid before you post the PDF to your website. The good news is that Acrobat has a handy JavaScript console that allows you to do just that.

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.