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Pages in a PDF use points (1/72 of an inch) as the default measurement units with the origin or the coordinate system at the bottom left corner of the page. So there is a constant 72 involved in calculations when converting to or ...
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A PDF can't be compressed like an image can be compressed. "PDF" is more of a container for various elements. So inside a PDF various things such as image data, font data, content data and so on can be compressed, but these have t...
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ASP.NET MVC Web Applications and Foxit Quick PDF Library
Updated 16 May 2022
Foxit Quick PDF Library can be used in ASP.NET MVC Web Application projects to add rich PDF features to web applications. It works in much the same way as it does for regular desktop or server applications.
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Foxit Quick PDF Library can be used in ASP.NET Web Application projects to add rich PDF features to web apps. It works in much the same way as it does for regular desktop or server applications. Please note: there i...
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Sometimes it's necessary to customize the content of a document on the fly from templates. There's various different ways this can be done, but one way is to have a template with different content on each page of a document and th...
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Programmatically determine the content area of a page in a PDF
Updated 16 May 2022
It's easy to determine the size of a page by using the PageHeight and PageWidth, but it's a little more difficult to determine the rectangular content area of a page. There are functions in the library for returning the text coord...
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Issue with Ricoh printers where PDFs come out in black and white instead of color
Updated 16 May 2022
Foxit Quick PDF Library uses the standard Windows DEVMODE structure for printing which is used by many other programs as well. Unfortunately the printer driver manufacturers don't use the values specified in the DEVMODE structure ...
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Foxit Quick PDF Library includes a range of functionality for extracting text from PDF files, but usually it's for extract text from an entire page. The extract functions which include "area" in the name let you specify a rectangu...
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Programmatically impose multiple pages on one page (imposition)
Updated 16 May 2022
There is not a single "imposition" function in Foxit Quick PDF Library but it's easy to use the CapturePage and DrawCapturedPage functions to do the imposition. There is some sample code below that demonstrates how to take a ...
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