PDF Printer API References

• Convert printable documents into PDF with just 3 lines of code
• Set oPrinter = CreateObject("easyPDF.Printer.5")
  Set oPrintJob = oPrinter.PrintJob
  oPrintJob.PrintOut "C:\input.doc", "C:\output.pdf"
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• Requires minimal setup to run in Server Side environment
  • Loader Setup
  • MS Office Setup (for processing MS Office documents)
  • COM Security Setup (additional steps to make the easyPDF SDK objects run properly on server-side environment).
  • ASP Sample ( This example shows how to convert Microsoft Word document into PDF using ASP script with IIS version 5)
• Method: Print PDF To the Memory
• Method: Print PDF From and To the Memory
• Create PDF through your Application's Printing Function (File > Print)
• Receive Event Notification from all easyPDF Print Jobs
• Set Page Range when printing to PDF
• Multi-Threading: Support multiple conversion instances simultaneously. See the Stress Test result
• Specific Support for HTML (via Internet Explorer). Full Description...
• Properties: Disable Script Debugger, Disable ErrorDialog On Every Error, Get/Set Footer, Get/Set Header, Get/Set Bottom Margin, Left Margin, Right Margin, Top Margin, Print Background Color.
• Specific Support for MS Word. Full Description...
• Properties: TimeOut for Bookmark and Hyperlink conversion, Set Bookmark Depth Mapping, Convert Word Hyperlinks, Convert Word Bookmarks, Set Password to Print Protected Word docs, Enable Word's AutoMacros, Set Bottom Margin, Left Margin, Right Margin, Top Margin, Open And Repair Corrupted Word docs , Set Page Height, PageWidth, Set Paper Orientation, Set Paper Size, Print in the Background, Print Document Revisions
• Specific Support for MS Excel. Full Description...
• Properties: Set Password for Printing Protected Excel docs , Fit To PagesTall, Fit To PagesWide, Set Bottom Margin, Left Margin, Right Margin, Top Margin, Set Paper Orientation, Set Paper Size, Print All Worksheets, Set Zoom
• Specific Support for MS PowerPoint. Full Description...
• Properties: Fit To Page, Draw Frame (border) Around the Slides, Get/Set Handout Order, Get/Set Output Type, Get/Set Print Color Type, Get/Set QueueWait Timeout
• Support for different printing mode in PowerPoint (e.g., slides, notes, handouts, etc.). View Enumeration
• Specific Support for MS Visio. Full Description...
• Properties: Get/Set Paper Orientation, Paper Size, Print Scale
• Convert image files (BMP, JPEG, GIF, PNG, TIFF, WMF, and EMF) into PDF . Full Description...
• No additional application needs to be installed.
• GenericPrintJob: Print Document to PDF using Windows' Filename association. Full Description...
• If you use this object, easyPDF SDK will look up Windows' filename association to search for the host application.
• Properties: ForceCloseAppOnFinish
• Font Embedding & Subsetting (TrueType font only)
• Font embedding
• Font substitution
• Barcode-font embedding support (Type 0)
• UNICODE (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) and vertical character support
• Base14 font support through substitution
• For Images within your Document
• Image Compression, Downsizing, Quality
• PDF Metadata (author, title, subject, etc.) 
• Enables/Disables Meta Data
• Set Author, Creator, Keywords, Subject, and Title
• PDF Security 
• Enables/Disables Security Features
• Get or Set Permission for Annotation (form filling), Content Extraction, Document Modification, Printing
• Get or Set File Encription (128 or 40 bit), Owner Password, User Password
• Digital Signature
• Enable/Disables Digital Signature
• Get or Set Digital ID filename, Signature Image, Image filename, Signature Possition, Zoom, Contact Information, Location, Reason for Signing
• Digital Stamp (stamp images onto PDF pages)
• Enable/Disables Digital Stamp
• Gets or set Stamp Count, Filename, Stamp the First Page Only, Positioning, Transparency, Zoom
• Watermark
• Enable/Disables Watermark
• Get / Set Watermark Text, Text Rotation, Text Outline, Text Color, Text Opacity, Count, Watermark first page only, Font Name, Font Size, Possitioning
• PDF Viewer Setting
• Hide Menu Bar, Hide Toolbar, Hide Windows Control, Page Magnification, Page Layout, Viewer Panel (bookmark, pages, layers, etc), Print Scaling
• General Printer Setting
• Get/Set graphic resolution
• Get/Set graphic scaling
• Get/Set paper orientation
• Get/Set paper size
• Set printer' color type (Grayscale or Color)
• Method: Create Custom Paper Sizes
• Method: Get paper sizes
• Method: Delete custom paper sizes
• PrintJob and Event monitoring. Full Description...
• Receive event notification from all easyPDF print jobs

 

PDF Processor APIs

Benefits / Key Features

• PDF page manipulation features, such as Merging, Splitting, Rotating, Delete, Extract, Optimize.
• PDF bookmarking features, such as appending and deleting bookmarks from existing PDF.
• Embed elements inside current PDF, such as note, text, hyperlink, file attachment, custom annotation.
• Get PDF information, such as metadata, page size, rotation, count, version.
• Modify PDF security setting, such as getting signature information, checking encryption, changing password.
• Extract text from PDF.

PDF Processor API References

• PDFProcessor Object
• This is the entry point for accessing all of the easyPDF PDF Processor SDK feature. This object lets you do post-processing of existing PDF files
  Set oProcessor = CreateObject("easyPDF.PDFProcessor.5")
  oProcessor.Merge "C:\input01.pdf", "C:\input02.pdf", "C:\output.pdf"
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• Manipulating PDF
• Merge PDF
• Split one PDF into two
• Rotate one or more pages in PDF
• Delete one or more pages in PDF
• Extract one or more pages from a PDF file
• Optimize PDF to reduce the file size
• Embedding elements into a PDF file
• Embed note into a PDF file
• Embed text into a PDF file
• Embed hyperlink into a PDF file
• Embed file attachment into a PDF file
• Adds a square or circle annotation to a PDF file.
• PDF Bookmarking
• Append a bookmark to a PDF file
• Deletes all bookmarks from a PDF file
• Extracting the Text from PDF
• Extract Text from PDF
• Extract Text from specified coordinate in a PDF file
• Get Information
• Edit and Extract Metadata (document information, such as author, title, subject, etc)
• Get page size (width and height info)
• Get page rotation
• Get page count
• Get PDF version
• PDF Security & Encription
• Get Digital Signature Information from PDF
• Encrypt existing PDF
• Decrypt and encrypted PDF
• Check encryption
• Checks if a PDF file has a password (any password)
• Checks if a PDF file has a User Password

 

PDF Converter APIs

Benefits / Key Features

• Rasterize PDF into BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG, and TIFF image formats.
• Set page number, image color, image quality, image resolution, page conversion timeout

PDF Converter API References

• PDFConverter Object
• This is the entry point for accessing all of the PDF to Image Conversion features (BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG, and TIFF)
  

  Set oConverter = CreateObject("easyPDF.PDFConverter.5")
  Set oPDF2Image = oConverter.PDF2Image

  oPDF2Image.ImageFormat = CNV_IMAGE_FMT_JPEG
  oPDF2Image.Convert "C:\input.pdf", "C:\output.jpg"

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• Add page number to file name (even for single file output).
• Get/Set file conversion timeout value
• Get/Set image color (16million color, 256 color, 8bit, B&W, Grayscale)
• Get/Set image format (BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG, and TIFF)
• Get/Set image quality (5 to 100 with 100 being the highest quality)
• Get/Set image resolution (8 to 600 dpi)
• Get/Set minimum page number digits to insert to file name
• Get/Set page conversion timeout value
• Get/Set separator string to be inserted in between file name and page number
• TIFF Supports
• Get/Set TIFF Compression
  • CCITT Group 3 fax compression
  • CCITT Group 4 fax compression
  • CCITT modified Huffman RLE compression
  • JPEG DCT compression
  • LZW compression
  • No compression
  • Macintoshi RLE compression
• Get/Set a flag to indicate whether to Create Multi-Page TIFF or not.
• Get/Set TIFF X image resolution
• Get/Set TIFF Y image resolution

 

PDF Document APIs

Benefits / Key Features

• Extract, insert, and update data in PDF Forms.

PDF Document API References

• PDFDocument Object
• This is the entry point for accessing all of the easyPDF Form features
  

  Set oDocument = CreateObject("easyPDF.PDFDocument.5")
  oDocument.Open "C:\input.pdf"
  
  Set oTextField = oDocument.oFormFields("My Text Field")
  oTextField.Value = "Hello"
  
  oDocument.SaveAs "C:\output.pdf"
  oDocument.Close False

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• FormFields Object. Full Description...
• This object represents a form, which is a collection of fields, in PDF
• Get the number of forms in the document
• Get a form field of a specified type/item (Text, List, ComboBox, CheckBox, or RadioButton)
• Check if any of the fields in a form has been modified
• FormField Object. Full Description...
• This object represents a single form field, such as Text, List, ComboBox, CheckBox, or RadioButton
• Check if the value in a form field has been modified
• Get the name of a form field
• Get the type of a form field (Text, List, ComboBox, CheckBox, or RadioButton)
• Text Fields. Full Description...
• Get the maximum number of characters
• Check for multiline text field
• Check for password text field
• Get or Set the value of text field
• List Fields. Full Description...
• Check if more than one field can be selected
• Combo Box Fields. Full Description...
• Check for custom value
• Get or Set the custom value
• Radio Button Fields. Full Description...
• Check if at least one button has to be selected
• Check if a group of radio buttons will turn on and off in unison
• Check Box Fields. Full Description...

 

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