About Bytescout PDFDoc Scout

Bytescout PDFDoc Scout library

PDFDoc Scout is an ActiveX (with .NET support) library for royalty-free PDF documents generation for your desktop and web-based applications made with Visual Basic, VisualBasic.NET, C#, ASP, ASP.NET and Visual C++.

Key features:

Full set of methods and properties to add and manage text, Unicode text, images, annotations, outlines, controls (for "acroforms") and javascript actions;
Built-in support for HTML formatted text (incl. images, hyperlinks etc), can be used to draw tables in PDF document;
Fonts embedding (TTF, TTC) including Unicode text support;
Built-in EMF to PDF conversion engine including support for EMF images produced by virtual EMF printers;
128 and 40 bits security options, password protection options (demo);
hDC emulation support so existing WinGDI code can be re-directed to produce reports in PDF format;
Ability to handle produced PDF document in memory without need for temporary files and provide on-the-fly generation directly into browser (with ASP and ASP.NET);
"One pass writing" mode support (PDF is streamed directly to the file without storing in memory) for hi-speed large PDF documents production;
Barcode drawing support;
Jpeg, Flate (BMP), CCITT 3, CCITT 3 (2D), CCITT 4 image compression modes support;
Support for PNG, TIFF, GIF images support (via additional free addon)

Examples And Tutorials:

"Hello, World!" examples for various programming languages will guide you step by step from the very beginning:

Quick Start Tutorials:

Advanced Examples: