PDF viewer demo

From: Keith Blows (noone_at_nowhere.com)
Date: 01/25/05 

Date: 25 Jan 2005 07:11:18 -0800

All,

I've uploaded a bitmap-based PDF viewer and printer, which shows the
power of the SEDTech PDF toolkit for rendering. I'm a happy user of
their component and have wanted to write a PDF viewer for some time.
This is quick demo I put together last night.

Cons:
  - Bit slow! (Needs background threaded rendering to speed things up)
  - Does not decode PDF outlines properly in all cases
  - Does not decode all PDF's
  - No text selection tool
  - No search (yet!)

Pros:
  - 3Mb stand-alone EXE PDF Viewer/printer- views 80-90% of PDFs in my
testing
  - Page text extraction
  - Security remove/add (coming soon)
  - Page extract (coming soon)

Requirements:
  Windows XP
  Windows 98/NT/2000 with GDI+

Download the 7-zipped EXE demo from
http://www.kbsoft.com/Files/PDFView.7z (1 Meg). See
http://www.sedtech.com for more information on this PDF toolkit.

If you have any questions or comments or would like the Delphi source:
keithb(_at_)eta(dot_)co(dot_)za. You will need Delphi 7,
DevExpressBars, JVCL 3, iSedQuickPDF and JCL 2 to compile!

Kind regards
Keith Blows

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