eDocEngine VCL Professional + PDFtoolkit VCL ProPlus [2.1 Single Developer Licence]

• Generic, all purpose document creation engine - Delivers the power and the freedom to create every kind of electronic document required. Supports Exporting from any Delphi-C++Builder reporting tool including, QuickReport, ReportBuilder, Rave, FastReport, AceReporter. Greatly reduces developer learning curve and cost.
• Built-in page setup options - Reduces development time by letting the developer set page sizes and margins with predefined values.
• Direct canvas drawing support - Allows precise control over creation and enables any kind of new 3rd party component to be drawn.
• Metafile rendering support - Delivers instant power to convert to more useable formats such as PDF, RTF, HTML, Excel and other formats. Converted metafiles retain vector graphics as vector graphics enabling documents to retain crispness when enlarged.
• Advanced drawing functions Greatly reduces development time and minimizes chance for programming error as tables, paragraphs and textboxes can be placed with simple built-in commands.
• Paragraph control - Formatting of text can be painlessly achieved just by setting indents and alignment.
• Support for advanced features of PDF - PDF documents can be compressed, encrypted with passwords, secured with access permissions and embedded with the fonts used, making the document extremely portable and convenient to distribute.
• Bookmarks and Table of Contents - Set multi-level bookmarks and create TOC pages to create documents that are easy to navigate and use.
• PDF Forms support - Delivers rich PDF forms that can be filled and submitted online, reducing manual processing overheads and the need to use paper.
• Built-in document enhancement functions - When required, helps create documents that are appealing and interesting to use with support for watermarks, page transition effects and many others.
• Built-in Header/Footer control - Reduces repetitive coding as headers and footers can be coded once and repeated automatically on each page.
• Flexible Report Export architecture - Better leverage your existing work and investments as reports can be dynamically saved, without additional coding, to all supported formats.
• Ultra high performance - High speed creation capability makes it ideal for dynamic creation of documents for instant delivery over the Internet.

PDFtoolkit VCL 2.0 Features:

• View and Print PDF documents - View and Print PDF documents from within your application without needing any external PDF software making your application highly capable and independent.
• Fill and Read PDF forms (also known as AcroForms) - Access and set form values and fields directly from your application programs. Highly beneficial when required to deliver an integrated solution for user needs.
• Append and Merge multiple PDF documents - You can take multiple PDF documents created from different sources or at different times and make a single document that is much easier to use and deliver.
• Secure PDF documents with passwords and set access permissions -

• Insert pages from one PDF document to another - Insert supplemental information to an existing document in the appropriate places and deliver information as one single document.
• Extract pages from a PDF document to make new ones - Supply a single easy to deliver document with all information and segregate it at the processing end to delivery specific information to specific users.
• Set thumbnails - Make existing documents more useable by associating pages with thumb images that users can easily relate with.
• Set bookmarks with unlimited nesting levels - Make existing documents easier to navigate and browse by building a Table of Contents with links to pages by topic names.
• Set watermarks and rubber stamp documents - Designate a document as “Confidential" or “Draft" by specifying text and images to stamp on each page of the document, or underlay the company logo as a watermark.
• Save final document to memory, HTTP Response, or disk Perform operations on the PDF documents and finally deliver them directly to the user’s browser window without the need to store on disk, or save the document to a disk file for later distribution.

• Export from any Delphi-C++Builder reporting tool to popular formats for distribution. Supported reporting tools include, QuickReport, ReportBuilder, Rave , FastReport, AceReporter and more.

• Single, rich programming interface enables you to create attractive electronic documents using the same set of instructions in over 18 popular formats: PDF, Word RTF, HTML, XHTML, Excel, Text, TIFF, SVG, JPG and more. This not only simplifies programming but also reduces the learning curve and cost of development.

• Generic engines give full control to create any kind of document and add custom content to meet any kind of application need.

• Advanced features for PDF output include, compression, encryption, TrueType fonts, font embedding, font sub-setting, international characters (European, Chinese, Japanese...), bookmarks, notes annotations and more.

• PDF AcroForms support enables you to design richly formatted PDF forms with support for buttons, checkboxes, lists, edit controls, JavaScript actions and more.

• Vector graphics and Metafile rendering ensures sharp scalable graphics in the generated PDF, RTF or other supported formats. Also ensures files are extremely compact and easy to distribute.

• Convert RichText to PDF, HTML and other formats making the documents more portable. RichText is rendered as rich, formatted text (not image) in all document formats ensuring crisp documents that can be text searched and enlarged without loss of quality.

• Advanced drawing functions include support for drawing tables, paragraphs and textboxes with a single method call.

• Paragraph control enables automatic alignment of multi-line text items. Left, Right, Center or Justify alignment can be achieved just by a single property setting.

• Built-in Header and Footer control further simplifies document creation, as the task of rendering repeating items can be delegated to the component itself.

• Extensible, well planned architecture enables speedy and clean implementation of new features and formats.

• Allows end-user configuration of document output through run-time dialogs.

• SPEED. All engines of eDocEngine are highly optimized for high-speed rendering of commands and metafiles. Ideal for dynamic Internet and Intranet application development.

• Reduce costs for information delivery by delivering information electronically

• Increase process efficiency and shorten turn-around time in applications that require users to perform actions on documents using the built-in support for Action, Navigation and form submission features

• Format information in exactly the way users require it

• Greatly reduce developer workload and time-to-market using a common programming interface and code base for creating all document formats

• Better leverage existing investments with the help of the flexible Report Export architecture

Using eDocEngine to create and deliver information electronically
eDocEngine provides VCL components for the creation of the supported document formats. The developer can place the components on a Form or DataModule, set properties to customize the output and then call methods to insert Text, draw Shapes, Charts and Images, and render Metafiles. The final output can be received in a memory stream or a disk file. The screen shots show the creation of a new PDF document with some text and a metafile rendered. The vector graphics in the metafile are retained as vector graphics in the PDF document ensuring sharp and light weight PDF documents, even when scaled to much larger page sizes.

Power to control and the accuracy to satisfy any document creation need
eDocEngine provides an extensive set of drawing methods to enable developers to create the rich and precise electronic documents that business applications demand. Over the standard drawing methods, eDocEngine also provides a generic Canvas (HDC) handle that is 100% compatible with TCanvas and Windows® drawing functions. With the generic Canvas feature you can include any type of content and render any third-party control that can draw itself to a Canvas. The Canvas handle is provided for all supported document formats!

Native support for enhanced visual representations of information
eDocEngine provides more than just drawing primitives that draw simple text, images and shapes. To simplify the developer’s task, eDocEngine provides Table and Grid drawing, laying out text as Paragraphs by setting left and right indents, and placing memos in boxes wherever needed. These features really take the load off the developer by getting content formatted easily and in enhanced presentation quality.

One language and yet no compromises
All document engines of eDocEngine support a vast set of common properties and methods and the classes are layered in such a way that efficient OOP techniques can be applied to create documents in multiple formats with a single code base. Yet developers need not make any compromises when they need to implement an advanced feature supported in a particular document format such as PDF, RTF or HTML. Advanced features unique to each document format are supported by additional properties and methods of that engine. You can implement encryption, encoding, font embedding and font sub-setting in PDF documents, and place content in cells, set the format of cells and start a new Worksheet in Excel documents. No compromises!

Extensible architecture
With a well laid out extensible architecture, eDocEngine naturally lends itself to continual development and enhancement. New document formats and features can easily be supported just by tapping at the appropriate layer of the eDocEngine architecture. New data exporting components can be implemented for new reporting tools with the flexible and highly configurable Report Export interface architecture.

eDocEngine in workflow scenarios
eDocEngine supports key features necessary for implementing business workflow functions. Created documents can be automatically emailed to specified recipients or be opened to view. eDocEngine also supports the setting of presentation features to created PDF, HTML and XHTML documents. With the presentation features documents can be opened automatically after creation and set to scroll and show page by page with special transition and scroll effects.

PDFtoolkit VCL 2.0 Benefits:
Why use Gnostice PDFtoolkit?

• View and Print PDF documents from within your application, without using any external software.

• Convert PDF documents to JPEG, BMP, other image formats, and using eDocEngine, to HTML, RTF, TIFF and more.

• 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.

Using PDFtoolkit to manage PDF documents from within your application
PDFtoolkit provides VCL components to link to the PDF documents that need to be managed. The developer can place the PDFDocument component on a Form or DataModule, set properties and then call methods to fill or read form values, compress, secure by setting password, append or merge multiple PDF documents, rubber stamp as ‘Confidential’, ‘Draft’, etc, add bookmarks and perform many more tasks related to PDF. The final output can be received in a memory stream or a disk file. The screen shot on the left shows how three existing PDF documents can be opened, merged, rubber stamped, secured with a password and saved to disk as one document. The screen shot on the right shows the new, merged PDF document.

Conveniently manage PDF documents with the extensive set of functions
PDFtoolkit supports a whole range of PDF document management and manipulation functions that enable a developer to implement all PDF management tasks right with in the application. Following is a partial list of the functions supported:

• Merge a list a PDF documents by just proving the names of the documents.
• Insert pages from one document to another by specifying a range of pages in the source document and the point at which the pages should be inserted in the destination document.
• Append pages to the end of one document by specifying a range of pages in the second document.
• Delete pages from a document by specifying a range of pages to delete.
• Extract pages from one document by specifying a range of pages to extract into the second document.

Once the operations are performed by calling any of the functions the document can be encrypted with owner and user password, and written to disk or memory in compressed or uncompressed form. Access permissions can also be set on the user password to allow or disallow printing, copying of text and graphics, modifying of document and so on. PDFtoolkit also handles encrypted PDF documents when appropriate passwords are provided; taking care to allow only the operations the user is permitted to perform. If the owner password is provided then all operations are allowed.

Process PDF forms (or AcroForms)
The form processing feature of PDFtoolkit enables filling and reading of form data from PDF forms or AcroForms. PDFtoolkit can be queried for a list of the form fields present in the supplied PDF document then values can be set for each field, accessing the field by name or index, and finally a new PDF document can be written out with all the fields filled in place! Field values from filled PDF forms can be extracted, again by just providing a source PDF document and a string list to store the read fields and values. The PDF field types currently supported are Button Fields [Checkboxes and Radio Buttons], Text Fields and Choice Fields.

Make PDF documents more interesting and easy to use
PDFtoolkit supports the association of pages with thumbnail images that users can easily relate to, just by specifying the page number and the image to associate the page with. PDF documents can be made easier to navigate and browse by adding new or editing existing bookmarks or Table of Contents elements. Physical markings can be underlaid or overlaid as watermarks or stampings to designate a document for specific uses and restrictions, such as “Draft" or “Confidential". Markings can contain text or images, or both. You can even combine multiple underlay/overlay markings to create composite markings.

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• Pentium 200Mhz (P-II or higher recommended)
• 64MB RAM (128MB or higher recommended)
• 20MB Hard drive space (Additional space as required for exported document)

Development Environments Supported:

• Delphi 5
• Delphi 6
• Delphi 7
• Delphi 2005
• C++Builder 5
• C++Builder 6