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PDF Document Processor: Interactive Forms Flattening (Coming soon in v16.2)

PDF documents have become one of the most widely used mediums for filling out forms. Combining elements such as text fields, drop down lists and buttons has made it simple for companies to provide a way to collect information. To ensure the integrity...

Paul Usher (DevExpress)

31 October 2016

PDF/A Export

We recently discovered some issues when exporting a PDF/A-2b type document in relation to the ISO 19005-2 standard. The document is not PDF/A compatible if it contains fonts without embedded font programs. The document is converted to PDF/A-3b if any...

Paul Usher (DevExpress)

12 September 2016

PDF Document Processor: Updates to PDF creation API (Coming soon in v15.2)

In our previous major release we introduced the Document Creation API that is used to generate a document layout from scratch as well as create your own graphics on the PDF page using a rectangle, a path, an ellipse, a polygon and other graphic elements...

Paul Usher (DevExpress)

10 November 2015

Filling the forms – programmatically

As soon as we announced the form filling capabilities in v14.2 of the PDF Viewer control you made it clear… you wanted the ability to do it yourself – in code. While it seems like a trivial task (as most PDF features do), it was far from it. Anyone who...

Paul Usher (DevExpress)

19 February 2015

PDF Control: Performance Enhancements and Adobe Style Print Dialogs (Coming soon in v14.2)

Performance One of the big factors when working with any external file is performance, its one thing to be able to deal with a couple of marketing PDFs, but something totally different when you start processing files containing many hundreds of megabytes...

Paul Usher (DevExpress)

22 November 2014

PDF Control: Interactive Forms and Annotations (Coming soon in v14.2)

Acro Form Filling One of the most widely requested features after releasing the DevExpress PDF Viewer control has been the ability to fill on Acro Forms. Well the waiting is over! With v14.2 you are able to type directly in to PDF documents that contain...

Paul Usher (DevExpress)

18 November 2014

Updates to the PDF Viewer and Library (Coming soon in 14.1)

Since its debut in 13.1 the PDF Viewer and document processing library has continued to grow in both features and functionality and 14.1 it's no different. In addition to internal rendering improvements the upcoming release has some really cool new features...

Paul Usher (DevExpress)

20 May 2014