Gnostice PDFtoolkit 5.0 VCL
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Introduction
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Gnostice PDFtoolkit is a powerful component suite for users of Delphi and
C++Builder to edit, enhance, secure, merge, split, view, print, PDF documents and also process AcroForms documents. PDFtoolkit does not require PDF software such as
Adobe PDF library, Adobe Acrobat Professional or Ghostscript.
The ReadMe file contains information on where to start and how to get access to additional resources so that you can get the best out of Gnostice PDFtoolkit.
Contents
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1. Installation and Getting Started
2. Known Issues
3. Important resources
4. Uninstallation
5. Credits
1. Installation and Getting Started
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The Gnostice PDFtoolkit Setup program is designed to install PDFtoolkit and register components automatically into your programming environment - Delphi or C++Builder.
After installation, you will find sample projects/demos at:
<My Documents>\Gnostice\PDFToolkit VCL\Demos\
2. Known Issues
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The following is a list of features or functionality that is not supported or is
supported with certain limitations.
Viewer and Printer components
- ColorSpaces/Patterns/Shading
- Seperation
- DeviceN
- Tiling Pattern
- Shading Pattern
Images
- Masked Images
Fonts
- Type 3
Annotations
- Annotations
Document component
Form Processing
- XFA
Watermark and TextOut
- In 64bit target, only the following list of fonts are supported
'Courier', 'Courier-Bold', 'Courier-BoldOblique', 'Courier-Oblique',
'Helvetica', 'Helvetica-Bold', 'Helvetica-BoldOblique', 'Helvetica-Oblique',
'Symbol', 'Times-Bold', 'Times-BoldItalic', 'Times-Italic', 'Times-Roman',
'ZapfDingbats'
3. Important Resources
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The following is a list of resources for PDFtoolkit VCL.
1. Home page - Visit http://www.gnostice.com/PDFtoolkit_VCL.asp.
2. Help File
- On your desktop, click Start menu > Programs > Gnostice > PDFtoolkit VCL > PDFtoolkit Help
- On the web, goto http://www.gnostice.com/PDFtoolkit_VCL.asp?show=resources
3. Online support contact - http://www.gnostice.com/support.asp
4. E-mail support contact - support@gnostice.com
5. Purchase - http://www.gnostice.com/buy_now.asp. Gnostice PDFtoolkit is
delivered electronically. As soon as your payment is authorized, you will receive an email with details on how to get access to the registered version. IMPORTANT: When you submit your order please make sure the email you have provided is valid and presently working. Gnostice PDFtoolkit is also available for OEM Licensing. Please send your enquiries about OEM licensing to sales@gnostice.com.
6. RSS News feed - http://www.gnostice.com/news_feed.asp
7. RSS Newsletter feed - http://www.gnostice.com/nl_feed.asp
8. Newsletter articles - http://www.gnostice.com/nl.asp
4. Uninstallation
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To remove the installed files:
1. Go to Start -> Settings -> Control Panel.
2. Open Add/Remove Programs.
3. Remove Gnostice PDFtoolkit from the list.
4. Uninstallation will complete.
The Uninstallation may not remove newly created files or folders. Please check
for this and manually delete the folder where you installed Gnostice PDFtoolkit.
5. Credits
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PDFToolkit VCL uses portions of the following open source libraries. Credit is due to the following authors for their respective works:
1. AESLib by Wolfgang Ehrhardt
2. Cryptography API interface unit from Project JEDI
3. FreeType library from the FreeType Project and Delphi FreeType wrapper by David Turner, Robert Wilhelm, and Werner Lemberg
4. IGDI+ by Mitov Software
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