PDFtoolkit VCL 5
Edit, enhance, secure, merge, split, view, print, digitally sign PDF and AcroForms documents

Gnostice PDFtoolkit is a comprehensive and versatile PDF component suite for Delphi™ and C++Builder®. PDFtoolkit VCL components come with hundreds of functions and properties that put immense power in the hands of the developer. PDFtoolkit hides the complexity of the PDF format and allows developers to easily create applications that can edit, enhance, secure, merge, split, view, digitally sign, and print PDF documents and process PDF forms. PDFtoolkit can extract text, export to images, and also add digital signatures. PDFtoolkit does not require PDF software such as Adobe PDF library, Adobe Acrobat Professional, Adobe PDF Reader or GhostScript.

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Highlights

Edit & enhance PDF files
Merge, split & reorganize PDF files
Read, fill & flatten form fields (PDF forms or AcroForms)
Add digital signatures
Change page layout and document display settings
Write modified PDF content to file, memory & HTTP response
Write autotext such as page numbers
Extract plain & formatted text
Convert pages to JPEG and BMP

View and print PDF documents
Interactive PDF viewer
Fill forms interactively
Click and save page content as images
Encrypt & decrypt PDF documents
Specify document restrictions
Add, edit & delete bookmarks
Add annotations
Add & extract file attachments
Add markups, watermarks & stamps

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Features

Features provided by PDFtoolkit VCL are listed here. (For system requirements, click here.)

Feature Matrix

Features By Category
General Features, I/O and Security Support
Document Enhancement
Document Modification and Re-organization
Document Management
Acroforms Processing (PDF eForms)
Document Search and Extraction
Document Viewing, Printing, Searching and Converting
General Features, I/O and Security Support	ProPlus
Email after saving to file
Embed TrueType fonts
Load from file and memory stream
Read password protected documents (requires password)
Reset component - Unload document and free all used resources
Run-time setup dialog
Save to file and memory stream
Save to HTTP response
Secure with password using 40bit and 128bit Encryption
Subset fonts to reduce file size
Support for all character sets - Eastern Europe, Chinese, Japanese…
Unicode support for text annotations
Unicode support for Watermarks, document information and bookmarks
Use TrueType fonts
Document Enhancement	ProPlus
Activate links in page content [http://, ftp://, e-mail and file://]
Add digital signatures
Attach files (any file type)
Build document Outline (TOC)
Draw simple HTML text [Tags supports: , , , , ]
Draw Text on the page [Horizontal and Vertical text]
Insert annotations [Text, FreeText, Line, Square, Circle, Highlight, Underline, Squiggly, Strikeout, Stamp, Ink]
Insert Bookmarks in content (Link annotation)
Insert page Header and Footer
Insert watermarks with text and images [Horizontal and Vertical text]
Page number stamping
Set custom thumbnails for each page
Set document and page events
Set presentation features [Page Transition]
Set various Actions to Annotations [URI, GoTo, GoToR, Launch, JavaScript]
Set various Actions to Bookmarks [URI, GoTo, GoToR, Launch, JavaScript]
Variables support for Watermark and Draw Text [Time, Date, Page number, Total Pages]
Document Modification and Re-organization	ProPlus
Add and Edit existing Outline items with unlimited nesting levels (TOC)
Append pages from one document to end of another
Delete existing Outline items
Delete pages from document
Extract pages from documents and create new ones
Insert new blank page
Insert pages from one document to another
Mask area on page
Merge multiple documents
Modify document information fields [Author, Subject, Title, Keywords.
Stitch pages [on top, side-by-side]
Write XMP metadata of document (custom document information)
Document Management	ProPlus
ASCII encode document (ASCII85 and ASCIIHex)
Change user permissions (requires owner password)
Change viewing page layout
Compress document
Decompress document
Set and edit viewer preferences
Acroforms Processing (PDF eForms)	ProPlus
Delete form fields
Edit Form field attributes
Flatten form fields
Full access to form field attributes [Name, Description, Type, Allowed values. ]
Insert new form fields
Read and Fill form field values
Document Search and Extraction	ProPlus
Extract all page content as Text, Graphic, Pattern objects with properties
Extract pages and save as new document
Extract Text (plain strings without formatting)
Extract Text Formatted (plain text with basic formatting)
Get page properties [Size, Mediabox, Cropbox, Rotation]
Programmatic text search
Read document information [Author, Subject, Title, Keywords. ]
Read XML Metadata of document
Document Viewing, Printing, Searching and Converting	ProPlus
(Viewer) Interactive form-filling
(Viewer) Select region and export to clipboard and image formats
(Viewer) User interaction modes - Hand, Select, Zoom, Snapshot and Highlight
(Viewer) User-defined widgets for PDF page elements
Bookmark panel component
Printer component
Render PDF to Canvas and convert to JPEG, BMP and (single and multi-page) TIFF
Search panel component
Viewer component

System Requirements

The following IDEs are supported.

Version	Delphi		C++Builder
Version	32-bit	64-bit	32-bit	64-bit
6	Yes	NA	No	NA
7	Yes	NA	NA	NA
2005	No	NA	NA	NA
2006	No	NA	No	NA
2007	Yes	NA	Yes	NA
2009	Yes	NA	Yes	NA
2010	Yes	NA	Yes	NA
XE	Yes	NA	Yes	NA
XE2	Yes	Yes	Yes	NA
XE3	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
XE4	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
XE5	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
XE6	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
XE7	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
XE8	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
10 Seattle	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
10.1 Berlin	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
10.2 Tokyo	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
10.3 Rio	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
10.4 Sydney	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
11.x	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
12.x	Yes	Yes	Yes	No

Other Software Requirements

Any Windows OS
gdiplus.dll* in case of the OS is older than Windows XP

* - In case gdiplus.dll file is already present, do not attempt to overwrite it, as this action will conflict with Windows system file protection feature.

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Version 5.0.0.140 - June 12, 2015

Enhanced
- PDF Viewing
  - Introduced new HighlightRegionShape property.
  - Added support for circle annotations.
  - TgtPDFDocument.MaskRect() also automatically masks the region if it is displayed in the viewer.
  - Adding text watermarks is optimized to re-use font resources across all pages.
  - TgtPDFDocument.SaveFileAttachmentTo() saves file attachments and file attachment annotations.
  - PDF Processing
    - If the default measurement unit is set to pixels, rendering operations will use 96 dpi as the pixel density, irrespective of the screen's pixel density.
    - PDF Viewing
      - Access violation encountered when Tab key is pressed on a viewer displaying annotations and forms.
      - Random 'List index out of index' error encountered during page navigation.
      - Memory leaks when displaying annotations.
      - First option in list box and combo box form fields is always selected, instead of no selection.
      - Listbox values show hexadecimal character values without processing.
      - Single-line form fields do not accept input properly if their width is too small.
      - Invisible form fields are displayed instead of being hidden.
      - Some JBIG2 images are not rendered properly.
      - Various memory leaks in processing JBIG2 images.
      - Access violation when rendering some PDF documents in 64-bit target platforms.
      - Document is not rendered properly if it contains masked CCITT images.
      - Setting TgtPDFAnnotation.BorderWidth property has no effect.
      - "Out of memory" error when adding a text watermark to a large number of pages.
      - TgtRect memory leak when adding a new form field.
      - Watermark position is incorrect if application is running on a system with high screen density.
      - Access violation encountered when merging PDF documents in a 64-bit application.
      Version 5.0.0.121 - April 13, 2015
      - Enhanced
        
        General
        
        Added support for RAD Studio XE8.
        
        Printing and interactive form-filling support for Windows 8.1 virtual DPI scaling.
        
        Added support for multiple monitors with different DPIs.
        
        Page will automatically scale based on the monitor's DPI if application is DPI aware.
        
        Added new property FormHighlightColor in TgtPDFViewer .
        
        Added new property FormTextColor in TgtPDFViewer .
        
        Added support for scrolling in multi-line text form fields.
        
        Added '+' indicator for multi-line text form fields that contain more text than could be fit in its bounding box.
        
        General
        
        C++Builder compilation issue due to gtMultiMonitorAwareness.HPP.
        
        Components are shown disabled on the Tool Palette in 64-bit target projects.
        
        Text and images with DeviceCMYK and Seperation colorspace are not rendered properly.
        
        Images are not rendered properly when ColorSpace entry is not present.
        
        When landscape-oriented page is printed on portrait medium with "FIT" scaling and no rotation, output is not scaled proportionally.
        
        Access violations encountered with text search methods in 64-bit targets.
        
        Access violation encountered when assigning go-to action to link annotations.
        
        Document merge methods causes pages to lose their rotation settings.
        
        Version 5.0.0.99 - March 13, 2015
        
        Enhanced
        
        PDF Processing
        
        Support for rendering JBIG2 images with masking.
        
        Support for any length of the private key of PFX certificates used for digital signing.
        
        PDF Printing
        
        Page height-width ratio will be maintained if print scaling is set to "Fit".
        
        Parent form will be disabled when printing. Earlier, user interaction would cause application to become unresponsive.
        
        PDF Processing
        
        "Invalid floating-point operation" exception raised when merging some PDF files with JBIG2 images.
        
        Access violation in C++Builder when saving some PDF documents.
        
        JBIG2 decoder HPP causing linking error in C++Builder.
        
        Adobe Reader shows "BER decoding" error when signing with OpenSSL certificates.
        
        Adobe Reader shows "Insufficient image data" error with some merged PDF documents.
        
        Dotted lines are not rendered in some PDF documents.
        
        Some images are not rendered properly in some PDF documents.
        
        Invalid Glyph index error encountered on 64-bit OS for some PDF documents.
        
        Watermark is not visible when PDF rectangle uses negative coordinate system.
        
        Access violations when rendering some PDF documents with JBIG2 images.
        
        Version 5.0.0.80 - February 03, 2015
        
        Enhanced
        
        PDF Viewing
        
        Support for viewing PDFs with JBIG2 images in 64-bit targets.
        
        PDF Viewing & Processing
        
        TgtPDFDocument.GetText() will interpret the coordinates of the TRect passed to it in terms of pixels, instead of points, as was earlier. This makes it easy to work with the rectangle returned by TgtPDFViewer.GetOriginalRect() method, which is used to obtain a region selected by the end-user on a page displayed the viewer component.
        
        PDF Processing
        
        JBIG2 images in some documents are not rendered correctly.
        
        Text form field values are not aligned properly after flattening.
        
        Access violation encountered when closing viewer after some PDFs with missing "Catalog" name.
        
        'Strasa' symbol is not rendered for some PDFs.
        
        Memory leaks encountered when viewing some PDFs.
        
        Interactive text form fields are not rendered properly if DPI is greater than 96.
        
        Interactive text form field are not displayed with embedded fonts.
        
        Version 5.0.0.71 - January 16, 2015
        
        Enhanced
        
        PDF Processing
        
        Improved accuracy of text search and extraction.
        
        Optimized display of PDF forms - reduced CPU usage.
        
        PDF Processing
        
        Memory leaks are encountered with text extraction in some files.
        
        IDE shows warnings related to TgtPDFFormPushButton class.
        
        Size of radio button gets changed if TgtPDFFormField.ReadOnly property is set to true.
        
        Version 5.0.0.46 - November 24, 2014
        
        Enhanced
        
        General
        
        Support for RAD Studio XE7 Update 1.
        
        Support for compilation of product source code compilation in Delphi 5.
        
        Added "Remove Attachment" option for file attachment annotations in custom widgets viewer demo project.
        
        Support for URL link annotations in custom annotation widgets demo.
        
        Improved text extraction and search accuracy.
        
        Two new methods to TgtPDFDocument class:
        
        RemoveAnnotation(PageIndex, AnnotIndex: Integer)
        
        RemoveAnnotation(PageIndex: Integer; AnnotObject: TgtPDFAnnotation)
        
        Input property of user-derived form widget classes has been made "protected" to provide better input control.
        
        TgtEdit.Input of type TgtEditInput(TMemo)
        
        TgtListBox.Input of type TgtListInput(TListBox)
        
        TgtCheckbox.Input of type TgtCheckInput(TCustomControl)
        
        TgtRadioGroup.Input of type Input: array of TgtRadioItem(TgtViewerFormWidget)
        
        TgtComboBox.Input of type TgtComboInput(TComboBox)
        
        General
        
        Installation issue in RAD Studio XE7 on 64-bit platforms.
        
        After previous update, help file does not open.
        
        Documents with invalid "startxref" position cannot be read.
        
        "Producer" document information property is set at the time of loading, rather than at the time of saving.
        
        Text extraction results in unreadable text for some documents - "ToUnicode" entry was not considered.
        
        Form field flattening ignores line breaks for multiline field values.
        
        Access violation caused during side-by-side page overlay (page stitching).
        
        Contents of multiline form fields are not wrapped when the values are modified.
        
        After modification, contents of form fields become invisible in Adobe Reader if "Highlight Fields" option is selected by end-user.
        
        Bold text is not rendered as bold in some cases when fonts are not embedded.
        
        False "Catalog not found" errors.
        
        TgtPDFDocument.SaveChanges() throws exception when input document is loaded from a stream.
        
        TgtPDFDocument.InsertBlankPage method sets page size to crop box instead of media box.
        
        Adding a watermark with vertical alignment set to the bottom edge does not position it exactly.
        
        Access violation encountered when saving encrypted PDFs with DCT-encoded images.
        
        Setting TgtPDFFormCheckBoxField.ReadOnly to true does not make the field read-only in the document.
        
        Selection state of read-only checkboxes could be modified interactively by end-user.
        
        Mouse activity event is not fired for MouseUp event.
        
        Interactive search in viewer ignores lines that are only slightly off the baseline.
        
        PDFUtils.CPixelsPerInch variable can be changed to override system's DPI, as Screen.PixelsPerInch cannot be read on Windows 8.1.
        
        Access violation encountered when setting PDFDocument property of PDFPrinter to Nil.
        
        ImageMask masked images are displayed distorted or with low resolution.
        
        Combo box form field values are not displayed if application is created in RAD Studio XE2 and newer.
        
        Version 5.0.0.16 - September 12, 2014
        
        Enhanced
        
        General
        
        Support for RAD Studio XE7.
        
        Version 5.0.0.9 - August 20, 2014
        
        Enhanced
        
        General
        
        64-bit target support for Delphi/C++Builder XE2 and later versions.
        
        Support for RAD Studio XE7.
        
        Custom widget demo project can now display attachments and save them directly using viewer.
        
        Custom widget demo can display free-text annotations.
        
        New completely native font engine written from the ground up - enables platform independence and 64-bit compatibility.
        
        Improved accuracy of search-and-highlight feature when searching text using TgtPDFSearchPanel component.
        
        New method SaveToStream to TgtPDFFileAttachment class.
        
        TgtPDFDocument.Encryption property can be used to read existing encryption settings.
        
        General
        
        C++Builder compatibility issues caused by GDI+ TIFF processor.
        
        Drag-and-drop feature in Viewer demo did not work for files with upper-case extension (".PDF").
        
        Form-processing demo not assigning checkbox state based on value string ('True' or 'False').
        
        Access violation encountered when saving some documents already loaded in a viewer component.
        
        Checkbox cross symbol disappears after form flattening.
        
        "Catalog not found" exception thrown with some documents having multiple x-ref tables.
        
        Unable to set "creation date" and "modification date" document information properties.
        
        Radio group form field's SelectedItemIndex property wrongly defaults to 0 (first one) instead of -1 (no selection).
        
        Version 4.0.1.462 - July 2, 2014
        
        Enhanced
        
        General
        
        Support for RAD Studio XE6 Update 1.
        
        Included link annotation widget in custom annotation widget demo.
        
        PDFToolkit source has been made compatible with Delphi 5.
        
        Added new Destination property for link annotations (linking to targets within the same document).
        
        Added new optional Password parameter for TgtPDFDocument.LoadFromFile and TgtPDFDocument.LoadFromStream methods.
        
        Added ability to make InteriorColor transparent for circle, square and line annotation classes by setting it to ClNone .
        
        General
        
        Installation issues with C++Builder in RAD Studio XE2 and XE6.
        
        Missing .OBJ error with trial builds in C++Builder-only installations.
        
        Encrypt.pas and Decrypt.pas conflict with other packages - renamed
        
        TgtPDFDocument.OnPassword event is not called if password provided to LoadFromFile() or LoadFromStream() does not work.
        
        Invalid bitmap error encountered when rendering PDFs with some DCT images.
        
        With some documents, existing content is lost when calling TgtPDFDocument.MergeDocs() method.
        
        TgtPDFDocument.SaveAsText() method does not fully consider its page range parameter.
        
        Access violation encountered when merging certain PDFs in programs built in some IDEs (2007 and older).
        
        PDF signatures added by PDFtoolkit are not recognized by Adobe Reader in some cases.
        
        Access violation encountered when closing an application if it contains multiple viewer instances linked to a single TgtPDFDocument instance.
        
        Invalid ID exception raised when rendering documents.
        
        Integer overflow exception when rendering some PDFs if binary is compiled with "overflow check" option enabled
        
        With some documents, a blank page is printed if TgtPDFPrinter.ShowSetupDialog() property is set to false.
        
        Pages are slightly shifted when printer component's IgnoreHardMargin property is enabled
        
        Version 4.0.1.440 - April 21, 2014
        
        Enhanced
        
        General
        
        Added support for RAD Studio XE6.
        
        Added more language options to installer.
        
        General
        
        Access violation when splitting certain PDF documents.
        
        Control name typo error on Watermark demo project.
        
        Access violation occurs when splitting certain PDF documents.
        
        Several form-processing issues.
        
        Printer component throws exception when no printers are available.
        
        Access violation occurs when merging PDF documents with JBIG2 images.
        
        Text extraction error-tolerance issues when ToUnicode entry does not contain any character codes - not falling back to the CID font.
        
        Form-field encoding errors causes Adobe reader to show "Save" dialog when end-user closes the document.
        
        Printing merged (but not saved) documents results in empty output.
        
        Incorrect annotation count is returned after adding new annotations and before saving.
        
        Document information properties become corrupt if text specified is in Unicode.
        
        Issues occurring when reading and writing document information properties.
        
        PDFs with DCT images are corrupt while decrypting.
        
        Access violation on loading a new document in a viewer control if standard actions have been configured for it and previous document has highlighted regions.
        
        Viewer context menu displays the wrong viewer mode as currently selected.
        
        Several image-rendering issues with JBIG2 and "Masked Images".
        
        Digital signatures are not rendered properly in some PDFs.
        
        Duplicate fields are not rendered in non-interactive mode.
        
        Temporary file created when rendering PDFs with JBIG2 images is not deleted.
        
        Version 4.0.1.398 - January 24, 2014
        
        Enhanced
        
        PDF Viewing
        
        Support for rendering Color Key masked images.
        
        Added new method MovePage(PageToMove: Integer; MoveToPageNumber: Integer) in TgtPDFDocument class.
        
        PDF Viewing and printing
        
        Page rendered blank when page size rectangle in the document is specified in reverse order, for example, (0, 1200, 800, 0).
        
        Text extraction operations return junk characters when ToUnicode table is empty, that is, mapping information is absent.
        
        Version 4.0.1.395 - January 10, 2014
        
        Enhanced
        
        General
        
        Removed cbmsvcrt.lib dependency in C++Builder
        
        Support for rendering masked images with ImageMask, Mask (Explict Masking only, no ColorKey Masking) and SMask entries
        
        Reduced memory usage with PDFs containing huge images
        
        Added new method TgtPDFDocument.SetXMLMetadata(AXMLMetaData: String) to set XML metadata for a document
        
        Support for modifying push button form field's SubmitURL property
        
        Support for modifying a form field's ReadOnly property
        
        PDF Viewing
        
        Viewer will not grab focus when it gets activated or loads a document
        
        Removed JPX image decoder C wrapper due to conflicts in C++Builder - can be enabled for Delphi by modifying source
        
        General
        
        Installation issues in Delphi 7
        
        Access violation caused during initialization of PDFtoolkit components if PentaCalc Pro software is installed
        
        Application start-up error when using PDFtoolkit with some third-party components in C++Builder.
        
        C++Builder linking error with "DynamicRTL=False" and "Build With Runtime packages=False" settings
        
        ColorSpace and TBitmap memory leaks with some PDFs
        
        Some text missing when rendering some PDFs - caused by improper freeing of font object.
        
        Randomly occurring blank print output due to invalid initial printer margin settings
        
        Multi-line text form fields are rendered with only the first line in non-interactive mode
        
        Modifying a PDF/A document turns it into a non-PDF/A document - now retains existing PDF/A identifier in header
        
        TgtPDFDocument.GetText() method returns string with every line prefixed with the previous line
        
        Check mark of a flattened check box form field appears as '4'
        
        Access violation when rendering some documents
        
        Access violation when digitally signing some PDF documents in older IDEs (older than 2009)
        
        "ShortTime" placeholder replaced with "ShortDate" placeholder values
        
        Page size is not properly set by TgtPDFDocument.InsertBlankPagesAt method
        
        Multi-line text form fields are exported to image with only the first line
        
        Encryption corrupts some PDF documents
        
        Access violation when merging PDF documents containing DCT images
        
        Merged PDF documents are blank if they contain DCT images
        
        Encryption corrupts DCT images
        
        Encryption corrupts document properties in some documents
        
        Saving a document will corrupt it if a font contains an unexpected newline character
        
        Version 4.0.1.364 - October 7, 2013
        
        Enhanced
        
        General
        
        Added support for RAD Studio XE5
        
        Reduced size of the installer (around 20MB smaller)
        
        Added German-language support for the installer
        
        Viewer will display a form field with its "default value" property if the the PDF document does not specify a "value" property for the field - mimics Adobe Reader behavior
        
        PDF Viewing and printing
        
        Viewer lets end-user to fill read-only form fields
        
        Setting TgtPDFViewer.Active to true returns control to program only after rendering first page
        
        Some shapes are not rendered when their colorspace information is incorrectly specified in the original PDF
        
        Some text elements with incorrect text matrices are not rendered
        
        A few memory leaks occur with certain PDF documents
        
        TgtPDFDocument.InsertBlankPageAt() method does not work with Delphi/C++Builder versions newer than 2009
        
        Some text elements with incorrect text matrices are not processed
        
        Access violation occurs when encrypting some PDFs
        
        Version 4.0.1.364 - October 7, 2013
        
        Enhanced
        
        General
        
        Added support for RAD Studio XE5
        
        Reduced size of the installer (around 20MB smaller)
        
        Added German-language support for the installer
        
        Viewer will display a form field with its "default value" property if the the PDF document does not specify a "value" property for the field - mimics Adobe Reader behavior
        
        PDF Viewing and printing
        
        Viewer lets end-user to fill read-only form fields
        
        Setting TgtPDFViewer.Active to true returns control to program only after rendering first page
        
        Some shapes are not rendered when their colorspace information is incorrectly specified in the original PDF
        
        Some text elements with incorrect text matrices are not rendered
        
        A few memory leaks occur with certain PDF documents
        
        TgtPDFDocument.InsertBlankPageAt() method does not work with Delphi/C++Builder versions newer than 2009
        
        Some text elements with incorrect text matrices are not processed
        
        Access violation occurs when encrypting some PDFs
        
        Version 4.0.1.344 - August 23, 2013
        
        Enhanced
        
        PDF Processing
        
        Added new GetDocumentHash method in TgtPDFDocument component
        
        Added support for text alignment in form-field flattening methods
        
        PDF viewer and printer
        
        Optimized rendering where document contains multiple copies of the same font and other types of resources
        
        Increased speed of rendering of PDFs with large CCITT images (at over 5000 pixels)
        
        Added new property TgtPDFViewer.Caching to specify how PDF resources are cached by the viewer
        
        Added new optional argument Transparent (default is true) to TgtPDFViewer.HighlightRegion method
        
        Restored tab-key navigation for PDF form fields in VCL forms applications built with RAD Studio XE and older IDEs
        
        Made PDFSearchPanel not require Document property to be set - it will use the linked viewer's document
        
        Added SetEditFocus method to set focus on the search text entry edit box
        
        Made search panel to automatically set focus to search text entry edit box when the control is activated
        
        Added support for initiating search operation by pressing Enter key
        
        General
        
        Compilation issues in RAD Studio XE3
        
        Multi-line form field values get truncated when merging documents
        
        Range check error when extracting text from some documents
        
        TgtPDFImageElement.IsJPEG property always returns false
        
        Access violation occurs when creating button form field with submit action
        
        Document merging sometimes creates corrupt documents
        
        Invalid root object exception raised incorrectly
        
        SearchPanel causes access violation when its linked viewer component unloads a document
        
        Range check error occurs when viewer zoom is set below 1
        
        German 'ß' and some other characters (encoded as 2-byte CID character codes) are displayed incorrectly
        
        Some non-Latin text elements not rendered properly
        
        Printer component retains old bin names when printer device is changed
        
        Viewer randomly does not detect "page down" or "page up" key presses
        
        SearchPanel does not find instances of search text where it is placed at the end of a line (when used with "whole word" option)
        
        Printer component causes access violation when it tries to enumerate capabilities of a Remote Desktop printer
        
        Printer causes "abstract" error when encountering a page with empty content stream
        
        Text not rendered properly when encoding specified by the document is not present in a font
        
        Form field values are not rendered if InteractiveForms property is set to false
        
        Viewer freezes when loading documents that have empty font-mapping "ToUnicode" stream
        
        Changing printer component's AdvancedPrinterSettings.Color does not work
        
        Various access violations, excessive memory usage, memory leaks and other issues encountered with viewer and printer components in relation to font processing, text extraction, etc., - with some issues only affecting applications built in RAD Studio XE2 and newer IDEs
        
        Version 4.0.1.293 - May 7, 2013
        
        Enhanced
        
        General
        
        Added support for RAD Studio XE4
        
        PDF Processing
        
        Scrambled output when rendering some documents with JBIG2 images
        
        Text extraction issues caused by Truetype fonts with 'Differences' entry
        
        Memory leak in TgtPDViewerPref affecting loading and saving PDFs
        
        Version 4.0.1.283 - April 26, 2013
        
        Fixed
        
        PDF Processing
        
        Various memory and access violation that occurs when performing page operations on some PDF documents
        
        "Index out of bound" error occurs when calling TgtPDFEngine.TextOut with HTML tags.
        
        Application freezes when rendering PDFs with certain CID fonts
        
        "Invalid Integer" exception occurs while rendering some PDFs
        
        Viewer hangs in IDEs older than 2010 when TgtPDFViewer.BackgroundRendering is set to true
        
        Version 4.0.1.271 - March 8, 2013
        
        Enhanced
        
        PDF Viewing and Printing
        
        Added support for rendering JPX images
        
        General
        
        Setup bundles LIB and OBJ files for C++Builder-only environments
        
        Annotation demo throws "Undeclared identifier SquareInteriorColor" error
        
        Memory leaks in page-processing operations
        
        Merge and insert page operations produce blank output with some documents
        
        Error decoding images when (color depth) BitsPerComponent is missing or -1
        
        Access violation when Viewer component is freed after setting Viewer.Active to false
        
        Lines with width 0 are not rendered (unlike Adobe Reader)
        
        High CPU usage by background rendering thread
        
        Filling checkboxes does not work with some documents
        
        Incorrect positioning of form fields when page initially loads in the viewer
        
        Version 4.0.1.235 - December 4, 2012
        
        Enhanced
        
        PDF Viewing
        
        Added background rendering for fluid (page) scrolling experience
        
        Added new AddAction method for adding multiple PDF actions to a single PDF form field
        
        Added support for new PDF actions - TgtPDFFormFieldValidateAction and TgtPDFFormFieldAutoCalcAction
        
        General
        
        Installation issues with "Without Source" build in RAD Studio XE3
        
        Access violation encountered when stitching PDF pages - document does not contain enough font information
        
        Newly added signature form fields not visible if document already has form fields
        
        Various memory leaks
        
        PDF corruption in some non-English locales - decimals in floating point values get converted to commas
        
        Version 4.0.1.200 - September 27, 2012
        
        Enhanced
        
        General
        
        Added support for RAD Studio XE3
        
        Added new value aatBeforeDocOpen in enumeration TgtDocActionTriggers - add a PDF action for the "document-open" event
        
        PDF Processing and Viewing
        
        Access violation caused by incorrectly encoded (empty) image stream in the document
        
        Version 4.0.1.169 - July 25, 2012
        
        Enhanced
        
        PDF Viewing and Printing
        
        Added new property AllowImageCopy in TgtPDFViewer class
        
        Added "tab-key navigation" support for interactive form fields [not available for radio button form fields]
        
        Added new events OnFormFieldValueChanged and OnFormFieldFocus in TgtPDFViewer class
        
        Support for default appearance specified in the document for interactive form fields - background color, font size and color
        
        PDF Viewing and Printing
        
        Viewer does not preserve page position when resized
        
        "€" character is displayed as "?"
        
        "Index out of bound" error may occur when user overrides the viewer's default popup menu
        
        Incorrect page scaling when printing from Windows XP
        
        "Invalid type cast" error occurs when rendering a document with certain types of form fields
        
        "%S is not a valid integer value" error occurs when processing certain types of form fields
        
        Access violation occurs when getting the file name of an attachment in the document
        
        ReadOnly property does not work with some form fields
        
        Page crop box values are not considered when obtaining the location of form fields
        
        Some types of form fields cannot be printed in Adobe Reader after their values are modified
        
        Some types of form fields lose their original appearance properties after their values are modified
        
        Text extracted from a page suffer from incorrect spacing for certain types of text elements
        
        Access violation occurs when calling TgtPDFDocument.SaveAsImage() on pages with a particular type of JPEG images
        
        "Invalid parameter" error occurs when rendering some pages
        
        Pages with inherited resources are blank when extracted to another document
        
        Version 4.0.1.145 - April 16, 2012
        
        Fixed
        
        General
        
        Package conflict when installing in Delphi 6
        
        Compatibility/co-existence issues with XtremePDFConverter on same IDE - now requires identically numbered version of both products
        
        Unintended scaling when output paper size is different from original page
        
        Performance issues in form processing
        
        Encryption corrupts the document in Delphi 7
        
        Access violation when setting SetSelectedItemIndex property of TgtPDFFormListBox or TgtPDFFormComboBox instances
        
        XFA form field values are visible in TgtPDFViewer but not in Adobe Reader - as a workaround, XFA entry will be removed and the value will be made available in AcroForm dictionary
        
        Form field values are not visible in Adobe Reader when Highlight mode is off
        
        Newly-created check box form fields show the number 4 instead of check mark in Adobe Reader
        
        TgtExPDFDocument.GetFontList() causes access violation with some documents
        
        Memory leaks in page reorganization operations
        
        Version 4.0.1.129 - February 17, 2012
        
        Fixed
        
        PDF Rendering
        
        All known rendering memory leaks
        
        Access violations in C++Builder when merging certain PDF documents
        
        Version 4.0.1.122 - February 7, 2012
        
        Enhanced
        
        General
        
        Added support for RAD Studio XE2 Update 3
        
        New overloads for methods in TgtPDFDocument class: SaveAsText() and ExtractText()
        
        Improved text extraction with better word/line detection and removal of extra spaces and lines
        
        Added support for extracting text content of Form XObjects
        
        Support for custom checkbox symbols (cross, circle, star, check) in interactive form filling
        
        General
        
        RAD Studio XE2 error "Unit gtViewerWidget was compiled with a different version of Vcl.Graphics.dSkyBlue"
        
        "Unable to SetFocus" error when parent form of viewer component is hidden
        
        Clipped images in document are rendered without clipping by viewer component and TgtPDFDocument.RenderToDC() method
        
        Pages with negative height values cause "Division By Zero" error
        
        Memory leak when calling TgtPDFDocument.InsertPagesFrom() method multiple times
        
        Page range parsing issues with TgtPDFDocument.InsertPagesFrom() method
        
        Incorrect encryption when document has PDF objects with ID tags
        
        Version 4.0.1.97 - November 25, 2011
        
        Enhanced
        
        PDF Processing
        
        Improved text extraction from PDF pages
        
        Improved accuracy of "hand tool" and other viewer interaction modes
        
        PDF Viewing
        
        Freezing when page is zoomed using Ctrl+Mousewheel
        
        Access violation when loading certain PDF files
        
        Several memory leaks - optimized memory usage
        
        Issues affecting popup menu on image widgets
        
        Issues with PopupMenu property of viewer in C++Builder XE and XE2
        
        Access violation when opening PDF documents with Type 3 fonts
        
        Issues with Open standard action
        
        Rotated form fields do not appear in correct position
        
        Lines rendered with incorrect width
        
        Form fields with empty values rendered all black
        
        Memory leaks in TIFF processing logic
        
        Extra text "_page1" appended to file name when exporting PDF pages to a multi-page TIFF image
        
        Several range-check errors
        
        Text overlap issues with Textout method and TgtTextwatermark class
        
        Document information properties get corrupted after encryption
        
        Version 4.0.1.89 - October 13, 2011
        
        Enhanced
        
        General
        
        New demo demonstrating how to interactively add an annotation and display it in the viewer using a custom annotation widget
        
        New demo demonstrating how to read all form field properties from a PDF document
        
        New property Opacity in TgtPDFAnnotation class
        
        New properties SelectedRegionColor and HighlightRegionColor to specify default color for selected and highlighted regions on the viewer
        
        New methods ScrollDown , ScrollLeft , ScrollRight and ScrollUp to programmatically scroll displayed content
        
        New method GetOriginalRect to obtain actual location and dimensions of a selected page region after correcting for rotation and zoom changes set by the end-user
        
        New method SaveToFile saves the displayed document to specified file and loads it into the viewer
        
        Added keyboard support for page navigation
        
        Support for printing the displayed document (along with form field values entered by the end-user) without having to save the document first
        
        Automatic creation of the appearance stream whenever form field value is updated
        
        Improved Highlight tool operation
        
        General
        
        Image export demo throws LoadAfterSave property error
        
        Horizontal scrolling is disabled when Hand tool is used
        
        Zoom-mode cursor resets while holding down Ctrl key
        
        Radio buttons are not positioned correctly
        
        Image processing creates stray files on hard drive
        
        Temporary files created by image export to multi-page TIFF are not deleted
        
        Version 4.0.0.77 - October 7, 2011
        
        Enhanced
        
        General
        
        Support for RAD Studio XE2 (both 32-bit and 64-bit Windows)
        
        Support for C++Builder 2007 to XE2
        
        Updated demos
        
        Interactive form filling
        
        Context menu options to change viewer interaction modes and save current page as BMP, JPEG, EMF or TIFF images
        
        Automatic reloading of document after changes are saved
        
        Extendable widgets for page elements
        
        Base class for annotation widgets added for future built-in or user-defined annotation rendering
        
        Default page context menu can be replaced with custom popup menu
        
        User interaction modes - Hand, Select, Zoom, Snapshot, Highlight
        
        Built-in widgets for form fields and image elements
        
        Event to track mouse activity on form fields
        
        Context menu options for selected image element - Copy image and Save image
        
        New GetScrollPosFromPageIndex function for getting maximum scroll bar position that can be set for specified page
        
        OnMarqueeSelect event handler has a new parameter for page number
        
        Zoom-in and zoom-out operations automatically skip to standard page zoom levels if it is within range
        
        API to register custom widgets for form fields, text, and image elements
        
        Faster rendering of embedded fonts
        
        Added several standard actions (TAction) for PDF viewer component - File Open, File Save As, Print Document, Zoom Actual Size, Zoom Fit Width, Zoom Fit Page, First , Prior, Next, Last, Zoom in, Zoom out, Rotate clockwise, Rotate Anti-Clockwise, Select Mode, Hand Mode, Zoom Mode, Snapshot Mode, Highlight Mode - build a PDF viewer application without writing any code
        
        Added resource for Hand, Select, Zoom, Snapshot and Highlight viewer mode cursors
        
        More options to retrieve bookmarks (as Strings, TreeNodes)
        
        API to export PDF to image files
        
        Customizable image properties (JPEG quality, Pixel format, Smoothing, Monochrome, etc)
        
        Event to customize name, prefix of image to be exported. Also accepts parameter to skip current page or break the entire operation
        
        Ability to save changes to loaded document
        
        New and improved form processing APIs
        
        API to copy page content to Windows Clipboard
        
        Document merge operations also merges bookmarks
        
        OnBookmarkMerge event to customize the default behaviour of bookmark merging
        
        HTML submit method for AcroForms changed to POST
        
        New optional argument AutoReload in SaveToFile and SaveChanges methods to keep the updated document remain loaded in memory
        
        PDF Viewing and Printing
        
        Scaling problems occur when document is printed
        
        Invalid bitmap error occurs when rendering some documents
        
        Access violation are encountered when rendering masked images
        
        Viewer freezes when opening PDFs created using Amyuni Converter
        
        Generic error occurs when document contains no cropbox entry
        
        Rounded bullets appear as square bullets
        
        TgtPDFDocument object does not fire OnBeginRead and OnEndRead events correctly
        
        Inability to set value for radio/checkbox form fields
        
        Angled watermarks do not appear at center
        
        Inability to set values for form fields that have the same name
        
        Invalid pointer error occurs when calling ExtractPagesTo method with some documents
        
        Crashes occurs when saving certain encrypted documents
        
        Images are misplaced after merging
        
        Version 3.4.8.240 - April 12, 2011
        
        Enhanced
        
        PDF Rendering and Processing
        
        Added support for rendering rotated text
        
        Added support for performing page operations, digital signing, and encryption on documents with JPX and JBIG2 images
        
        PDF Rendering and Processing
        
        Memory leak experienced if RenderToDC method is called repeatedly
        
        Incorrect coordinates in TgtFormField.FieldRect property for form fields that have same name
        
        "Out of memory" error when saving PDFs with JPX images
        
        "Font family not found" error when rendering documents that have fonts that are neither embedded in the document nor installed on the client computer. (All such fonts will henceforth be substituted with Arial.)
        
        Version 3.4.8.235 - March 28, 2011
        
        Enhanced
        
        PDF Processing
        
        Highly improved PDF text extraction
        
        PDF Processing
        
        Access violation when merging certain types of PDF documents
        
        "EC is not valid integer" error when processing some types of form fields (special characters in properties)
        
        Version 3.4.8.233 - March 11, 2011
        
        Enhanced
        
        PDF Viewing and Printing
        
        Support for rendering JBIG2 images with color map (Color Inversion)
        
        Support for rendering of CID fonts with embedded CMAP
        
        Optimized output PDF size after page-level operations
        
        PDF Viewing and Printing
        
        Fixed rendering of CJK CID fonts
        
        JBIG2Decode.hpp 'PCardinal Not found' error in C++Builder 2007
        
        Access violation when flattening form fields
        
        Access violation when digitally signing PDFs
        
        "$ - EConvertError" when saving or rendering PDF documents with special characters
        
        TgtPDBookmark.GetChild(AIndex: Integer) does not return bookmark specified by index
        
        Issue with missing/corrupt signature details when digitally signing PDFs
        
        Issues when retrieving values with special characters from form fields
        
        Memory leaks with text search and page-related functions
        
        Access violation when performing page operations with documents containing empty annotation entries
        
        IsLoaded property incorrectly returns true when document load operation failed due to wrong password
        
        Invalid pointer operation error on application close
        
        Version 3.4.8.228 - February 22, 2011
        
        Enhanced
        
        General
        
        New PDF viewer component demo for interactively inserting watermarks on PDF pages
        
        Support for rendering PDF with JBIG2 images
        
        General
        
        Ambiguity between PDFtoolkit and eDocEngine enumeration constants
        
        Access violation issues encountered during merging and page operations
        
        All known memory leaks
        
        Incorrect setting of Indy component properties (for EmailAfterSave)
        
        "List index out of bounds" error during page-level operations
        
        Version 3.4.7.207 - October 29, 2010
        
        Fixed
        
        PDF Content Creation
        
        Incorrect positioning of watermarks on rotated pages
        
        Error creating (internal) PDF name objects with special characters in the names
        
        Code Insight incorrectly shows SaveToFile method as as deprecated
        
        Version 3.4.7 - September 6, 2010
        
        Enhanced
        
        PDF Processing
        
        Enhanced support for Chinese fonts
        
        Support for RAD Studio XE
        
        Reorganized shared sources and packages for cleaner installation and compatibility with XtremePDFConverter
        
        PDF Processing
        
        LoadFromStream method locks input stream
        
        Some watermarks added by PDFDocument could not be exported
        
        Issues with filling newly-added form fields
        
        Issues with reading existing form fields
        
        Some watermarks added by PDFDocument were not displayed
        
        Issues with PDF documents generated by Crystal reports
        
        Generic Error encountered when rendering blank pages
        
        C++Builder 2010/2009/2007/2006 compatibility issues
        
        Scrolling issue affecting Delphi IDE in Windows 7
        
        Conditional compilation issue in Jedi unit (gtWinCrypt.pas)
        
        PDFtoolkit DEBUG compiler directive interferes with use of standard DEBUG directive - now renamed
        
        Version 3.4.6 - January 29, 2010
        
        Enhanced
        
        PDF Content Creation
        
        Unicode support and font rendering optimizations for TgtPDFDocument.TextOut method and TgtTextWatermarkTemplate class.
        
        New TgtWideStringList.SaveToStreamA method, an ANSI alternative for the return type of the ExtractText method - to support old IDEs
        
        PDF Processing
        
        Access violaton in CCITTFaxDecode
        
        "Font Family Not Found" error for some documents with Type1 non-embedded fonts
        
        Improper or blank output for some documents with Type1 non-embedded fonts
        
        Incorrect rendering of documents with embedded TrueType fonts with MacRoman and Custom encoding
        
        Form fields without appearance stream did not render properly
        
        Version 3.4.5 - December 23, 2009
        
        Enhanced
        
        PDF Enhancement
        
        Support for text appearance in digital signature form fields.
        
        General
        
        Installation fails to add PDFtoolkit components on C++Builder tool palette
        
        Version 3.4.4 - November 20, 2009
        
        Resolved
        
        PDF Processing
        
        Access violation in MergeDocs method.
        
        Some pages were blank after merging.
        
        Merge operations sometimes created corrupt files.
        
        MergeDocs failed with documents that have only images.
        
        Access violation in ExtractPageTo method.
        
        Access violation in FlattenFormFieldsOnPage method.
        
        GetPageElements returned text elements incompatible with v2.5 - now returns individual text outs as it did in version v2.5.
        
        Access violation when SaveToStream is called after FlattenFormFieldsOnPage.
        
        Incorrect text content extraction caused by incomplete processing of font encoding.
        
        Some images rendered black.
        
        Some special characters (for example ü) not displayed.
        
        Version 3.4.2 - October 29, 2009
        
        Enhancements
        
        PDF Viewing and Printing
        
        Optimized rendering of softmasked images.
        
        New TgtPrinterCapabilities.PaperSize property to set custom page size.
        
        Bookmark creation and bookmark tree traversal overhauled.
        
        Added new
        
        GetByTitle method
        
        LastChild property
        
        BookmarkIndex property
        
        Level property
        
        Overall
        
        Conflicts with IGDI+ if IGDI+ already exists on the development system.
        
        Issues in manual compilation of PDFtoolkit components.
        
        Access violation with SearchFirst method.
        
        Linker error in C++Builder 2009.
        
        Corrupted resource file.
        
        Index used by GetFormField and GetFieldIndexOf methods did not match.
        
        Issue with loading PDFs with malformed XRef tables - enhanced fault tolerance.
        
        Issue with receiving mousewheel messages when viewer is not focused.
        
        Issue with auto-rotation.
        
        Print output was stretched.
        
        Version 3.4 - September 25, 2009
        
        Enhanced
        
        PDF Viewing and Printing
        
        Rendering optimizations and speed improvements
        
        Support for rendering images with explicit mask
        
        Optimized image processing
        
        Adding blank signature fields
        
        Filling blank signature fields
        
        Overall
        
        Conflicts with Delphi's Vector.pas
        
        Issues in manual compilation of PDFtoolkit components
        
        Incorrect rendering of some masked images
        
        Large size of (metafile) file sent to printer when printing
        
        Printer prints blank pages for some documents
        
        GetPageElements returning incorrect coordinates
        
        Form fields that do not contain font resources not rendered
        
        Version 3.3 - September 3, 2009
        
        Enhanced
        
        Overall
        
        Support for Delphi 2010
        
        Add digital signatures
        
        Support for Delphi 2010
        
        Optimized image rendering performance - in terms of speed
        
        Overall
        
        C++Builder 2009 - Link error
        
        Delphi 2009 - Building and installing PDFtoolkit VCL from source
        
        Custom icon for host application could not be added
        
        GetPageElements returns wrong coordinates of page elements
        
        Page extraction causes invalid pointer error
        
        Access violation affecting some PDF documents
        
        Host application freezes for a short time (approximately one minute)
        
        Version 3.2.1 - July 28, 2009
        
        Enhanced
        
        Overall
        
        Restored support for Delphi 5
        
        Restored support for all C++Builder versions except C++Builder 6 and C++Builder 2006
        
        Document merging supports annotations including form fields and file attachments
        
        PDF Document Processing
        
        Rendering of group form fields or form fields with children form fields
        
        Exception after saving PDF and accessing form fields with GetFormField method
        
        "Invalid File ID in Trailer" error occurring in some documents
        
        Rendering to canvas in Delphi 7
        
        Merging documents - several issues
        
        Rendering of XObjects in form fields.
        
        Rendering of form field values - getting displayed more than once in some documents
        
        Display of documents loaded from stream - access violations
        
        All pages blanked out in some documents
        
        Blank printouts in some documents
        
        Version 3.2 - June 23, 2009
        
        Enhanced
        
        Overall
        
        Speed improvements and optimizations
        
        Mouse wheel support for scrolling and zooming
        
        Ability to set custom or system DPI
        
        Mouse support for scrolling pages by holding and dragging
        
        Mouse support for pan and zoom
        
        Improved speed and accuracy of rendering
        
        Improved quality of formatted text extraction
        
        GetPageElements method redesigned for greater control and accuracy
        
        New IsComb property for text form field (useful for entering dates and other pre-formatted numbers and text)
        
        New PageNum property in TgtFormField class for obtaining number of the page that contains the form field
        
        New Orientation property in TgtPDFFormField class for rendering rotated formfields.
        
        Overall
        
        Installation of visual components in Delphi 7
        
        Installation of PDFtoolkit in RAD Studio 2009, which affected certain other applications
        
        Access violation when adding text watermarks in Delphi 6 and 7
        
        Access violation with FlattenFormFields and FlattenFormFieldsOnPage methods in Delphi 6 and 7
        
        Access violation when adding form fields in Delphi 7
        
        Access violation when adding a text watermark to a page created by the "InsertBlankPageAt" method
        
        InsertBlankPageAt method when using measurement units other than points
        
        Character overlap in text watermarks
        
        Rendering of text watermarks that had escape strings, line-feed and carriage-return character, and vertical and horizontal alignment settings
        
        Flattening of multi-line text field
        
        Rendering by StitchSideBySide method
        
        Access violation while spliting certain documents
        
        Adding of shared PDF elements when spliting documents
        
        Filling of certain types of form fields - affecting some documents that lacked important form field information
        
        Some other reported memory leaks
        
        Access violation in viewer in Delphi 6 and 7
        
        Access violation in printer in Delphi 6 and 7
        
        Rendering of certain types of form fields - affecting some documents that lacked important form field information
        
        Rendering of contents of rotated PDF pages in viewer in Delphi 6 and 7
        
        Error message "MetaFile is not valid" and subsequent printing of a blank page
        
        Version 3.1 - April 30, 2009
        
        Enhanced
        
        Overall
        
        Has no external DLLs - create single EXE apps
        
        Interactivity features for developing sophisticated document retrieval, reviewing and processing apps
        
        New HighlightRegion method to highlight specific regions on the viewer - includes support for hint text, custom object association and mouse activity events.
        
        Visual selection of multiple regions by user with support for dynamic labeling and coloring of regions
        
        New methods (HighlightRegion, ClearHighlightRegions, and ClearSelectedRegions), properties and events for retrieving, adding, deleting and clearing of highlighted and user-selected regions
        
        Detection of physical printer DPI
        
        New CMapPath property to specify folder containing external CMAP files
        
        Improved formatted text extraction
        
        Overall
        
        GDI+ intialization
        
        Rendering text watermarks containing escape strings and line feed/carriage return characters
        
        Placeholders substitution and rendering of text watermarks
        
        Rendering and positioning of image watermarks in all locales
        
        Some issues in form field processing, rendering, and flattening
        
        Resource handling in page overlay operations
        
        Saving PDF documents with JavaScript
        
        Processing of PDF NULL objects when saving files
        
        Rendering of PDF inline images
        
        JPEG thumbnail rendering
        
        Processing documents that have PDF Form XObjects with inherited properties
        
        DPI awareness when rendering to DC
        
        Merging encrypted documents
        
        Access violation when closing viewer in certain scenarios
        
        Reuse of viewer to load several documents
        
        (Delphi 2009 only) Dropping printer component on a form
        
        Barcodes printing
        
        Formatting of search results
        
        Version 3.0.2 - March 10, 2009
        
        [ProPlus] Enhanced: Image masking
        
        [ProPlus] Fix: Dragging and dropping printer component in RAD Studio 2009
        
        [ProPlus] Fix: Adding watermarks
        
        [ProPlus] Added: Formatted text extraction (as in v2.5)
        
        Fix: License activation
        
        Fix: Check box form field value
        
        Fix: Escape characters in text watermarks
        
        Fix: Load from stream
        
        Fix: Text and image watermarks in different locales
        
        Version 3.0.1 - February 27, 2009
        
        [ProPlus] Added: Support for JPX encoded images
        
        [Pro] Fixed: Minor issues
        
        [Pro] Updated: FAQ topics in help file
        
        Version 3.0 - February 20, 2009
        
        [ProPlus] Enhanced: Robust, completely re-designed, extensible core engine, which will be continuously enhanced
        
        [ProPlus] Added: Support for all versions of PDF
        
        [ProPlus] Enhanced: Optimized memory use
        
        [ProPlus] Added: Support for Type 1 with full and subset embedding
        
        [ProPlus] Added: Support for Standard Type 1 fonts (14 standard Type 1 fonts are supported without requiring font embedding)
        
        [ProPlus] Added: Support for subset embedded fonts
        
        [ProPlus] Added: Support for CID fonts (Will be substituted when font used is not embedded and not found on system)
        
        [ProPlus] Added: Multipage viewer (Multiple and continuous page display)
        
        [ProPlus] Added: New viewer events to track changes in current page, zoom, etc.
        
        [ProPlus] Added: Facility to get selected region or a point on the viewer (useful while adding watermarks, stamps, etc)
        
        [ProPlus] Added: Viewer can zoom pages up to 3200%
        
        [ProPlus] Enhanced: Fault-tolerant loading by viewer (Small PDF errors will not halt rendering)
        
        [ProPlus] Fixed: Issues related to text extraction solved
        
        [ProPlus] Enhanced: Clean formatted extraction of text from pages
        
        [ProPlus] Fixed: Issues related to GDI+ solved for C++ Builder
        
        [ProPlus] Enhanced: Fast, accurate vector printing of PDF files(Printer component)
        
        [ProPlus] Enhanced: Support for automatic rotation and centering of pages in printer component
        
        [ProPlus] Enhanced: Bin selection in printer component
        
        [Pro] Fixed: All issues related to filters are solved
        
        [Pro] Enhanced: Highly enhanced CCITT decode
        
        [Pro] Enhanced: Faster flate encode/decode with support for all predictors
        
        [Pro] Added: Supports all colorspaces for image, shape, and text elements
        
        [Pro] Enhanced: Fault tolerance for "cross reference stream" errors
        
        [Pro] Fixed: Merging certain types of documents
        
        [Pro] Enhanced: Super-fast merging of PDFs with any number of pages
        
        [Pro] Enhanced: Support for RAD 2009
        
        [Pro] Added: On-demand loading of PDF data
        
        [Pro] Added: Comprehensive PDFtoolkit 3.0 demo included
        
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Version 5.0.0.140 - June 12, 2015

Version 5.0.0.121 - April 13, 2015

Version 5.0.0.99 - March 13, 2015

Version 5.0.0.80 - February 03, 2015

Version 5.0.0.71 - January 16, 2015

Version 5.0.0.46 - November 24, 2014

Version 5.0.0.16 - September 12, 2014

Version 5.0.0.9 - August 20, 2014

Version 4.0.1.462 - July 2, 2014

Version 4.0.1.440 - April 21, 2014

Version 4.0.1.398 - January 24, 2014

Version 4.0.1.395 - January 10, 2014

Version 4.0.1.364 - October 7, 2013

Version 4.0.1.364 - October 7, 2013

Version 4.0.1.344 - August 23, 2013

Version 4.0.1.293 - May 7, 2013

Version 4.0.1.283 - April 26, 2013

Version 4.0.1.271 - March 8, 2013

Version 4.0.1.235 - December 4, 2012

Version 4.0.1.200 - September 27, 2012

Version 4.0.1.169 - July 25, 2012

Version 4.0.1.145 - April 16, 2012

Version 4.0.1.129 - February 17, 2012

Version 4.0.1.122 - February 7, 2012

Version 4.0.1.97 - November 25, 2011

Version 4.0.1.89 - October 13, 2011

Version 4.0.0.77 - October 7, 2011

Version 3.4.8.240 - April 12, 2011

Version 3.4.8.235 - March 28, 2011

Version 3.4.8.233 - March 11, 2011

Version 3.4.8.228 - February 22, 2011

Version 3.4.7.207 - October 29, 2010

Version 3.4.7 - September 6, 2010

Version 3.4.6 - January 29, 2010

Version 3.4.5 - December 23, 2009

Version 3.4.4 - November 20, 2009

Version 3.4.2 - October 29, 2009

Version 3.4 - September 25, 2009

Version 3.3 - September 3, 2009

Version 3.2.1 - July 28, 2009

Version 3.2 - June 23, 2009

Version 3.1 - April 30, 2009

Version 3.0.2 - March 10, 2009

Version 3.0.1 - February 27, 2009

Version 3.0 - February 20, 2009

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