activePDF Portal 2011, Creating a Basic Portal Site, (Part 2)

About activePDF Portal:
An easy to implement web control, activePDF Portal enables users to interactively view and modify PDF documents from any source in a standard web browser and maintain business guidelines.

Portal hosts PDFs behind your firewall, protecting confidential documents from unauthorized distribution or tampering. Mobile-device ready, Portal allows users to view, edit, and form-fill PDFs using smart phones and tablet devices. Use your standard browser to save partially modified PDFs for later or quickly add text, bookmarks, form-fields, hyperlinks and more.

Use Portal to
• Maintain PDF document security and integrity with firewall protection
• View and edit PDFs on-the-fly with mobile device functionality
• View and edit from any web browser
• Create custom UI to meet business specific needs

Visit us at: http://www.activepdf.com

Portal Overview: http://www.activepdf.com/products/serverproducts/portal/

Contact Us:  Toll free within the US 1-866-GoTo-PDF
Tel: +1-949-582-9002
Email: sales@activePDF.com

activePDF Portal installation video, from setup to creating a Portal database. Part 1

About activePDF Portal:
An easy to implement web control, activePDF Portal enables users to interactively view and modify PDF documents from any source in a standard web browser and maintain business guidelines.

Portal hosts PDFs behind your firewall, protecting confidential documents from unauthorized distribution or tampering. Mobile-device ready, Portal allows users to view, edit, and form-fill PDFs using smart phones and tablet devices. Use your standard browser to save partially modified PDFs for later or quickly add text, bookmarks, form-fields, hyperlinks and more.

Use Portal to
• Maintain PDF document security and integrity with firewall protection
• View and edit PDFs on-the-fly with mobile device functionality
• View and edit from any web browser
• Create custom UI to meet business specific needs

Visit us at: http://www.activepdf.com

Portal Overview: http://www.activepdf.com/products/serverproducts/portal/

Contact Us:  Toll free within the US 1-866-GoTo-PDF
Tel: +1-949-582-9002
Email: sales@activePDF.com

AVAILABLE NOW

activePDF® Toolkit™ 2011 R4 Service Release is available for immediate installation. Toolkit is the powerful PDF generator and manipulator that can perform virtually any PDF task.  This release includes fixes for fonts, barcodes and unicode issues.

Key Fixes in Toolkit 2011 R4:

• Full justification now works properly when Arial or Courier New fonts are used with PrintMultiLineText
• MSMincho font displays properly
• Unicode font displays properly with ASPX
• Chinese characters display properly in form fields
• Human readable text displays properly for Symbology 0 barcodes
• Wingding font accepts Unicode character to produce a checkmark
• Barcode height and width can be adjusted by setting the field or image height and width when printing to the page
• Toolkit is no longer case-sensitive to Base14  font names
• Encoding is now properly attached to the Symbol font
• Built-in fonts are now recognized with their passed-in names
• Improved handling of unsupported encodingtypes
• See Release Notes for complete details on all 39 fixes

Download Trial:   https://store.activepdf.com/DigitalDownloads-activePDFToolkit2011Evaluation.htm

Full Release Notes:  http://support.activepdf.com/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Article/View/352

Documentation:   http://support.activepdf.com/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Article/View/283

For more information about activePDF® Toolkit™ 2011, please click http://www.activepdf.com/products/serverproducts/toolkit/index.cfm

Toll-Free US:  866-GoTo-PDF

Outside US:  +1-949-582-9002

sales@activePDF.com

 AVAILABLE FOR IMMEDIATE INSTALLATION

activePDF® DocConverter™ is our most powerful document conversion tool, extending conversion capabilities across the enterprise. Leverage a rich .NET API to integrate document conversion into your existing applications.

DocConverter WBE 2010 R1.3 updates are now available for immediate installation.
Fixes/Upgrades
•    ConvertWordToPDF creates output folder if it does not already exist
•    Append to a secure PDF when OverwriteMethod is set to 1
•    Title and Author properties are preserved when set prior to ConvertPowerPointToPDF and PDFFormat set to 1
•    OverwriteMethod property merges documents properly without distorting text
•    Help button in the VerifyOfficeInstallation application works properly

Changes to Product Build Numbering Scheme
•    Our product version numbers have changed to a new format: i.e. 5.0.2.XXXXX.
•    New format allows us to attach a unique daily identifier (XXXXX) to each build.
•    Newer versions of each product are easier to identify

DocConverter WBE 2010 R1.3

Download Trial Version: Click here

Full Release Notes available: Click here

Documentation: Click here

For more information about activePDF DocConverter WBE 2010 click here:

US Toll-Free:  866-GoTo-PDF
Outside US:  949-582-9002

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2012 is going to be an exciting and busy year at activePDF.  The activePDF website is getting a whole new look and feel.  You’re getting a sneak preview of the look with this Newsletter.  Let us know what you think.  Stay tuned for more announcements and big things to come.

This issue brings you a recap of recent Service Releases for DocConverter, Toolkit and WebGrabber and a couple of Tech Tips.

AVAILABLE FOR IMMEDIATE INSTALLATION

New Features:

DocConverter Enterprise 2010 now converts Corel® WordPerfect files. DocConverter Enterprise automatically checks for the presence of WordPerfect. If WordPerfect is present, DocConverter Enterprise runs a WordPerfect verification application. Once verified, you can select WordPerfect as one of the DocConverter Applications in the activePDF User Interface.

Additional Fixes/Upgrades

This service release contains 18 fixes for DocConverter.

• Overwrite method now properly auto-increments filenames
• Office Verifier application no longer crashes when run against 64-bit version of Microsoft®Office
• The DocConverter API correctly performs ZIP file conversion
• Using  watched folders, PDF to HTML properly generates image files as required

Download Trial: Click here

Full Release Notes: Click here

Documentation: Click here

For more information about activePDF® DocConverter™ Enterprise 2010, please click here, or call 1-866-GoTo-PDF.

In addition to several minor fixes, this Service Release addresses a memory leak on Windows 2008 R2 x64.

Key Fixes

• Corrects a memory leak occurring on Windows 2008 R2 64-bit when calling Toolkit from .NET applications
• ImageByteArray now results in valid PDF when opened in Reader X
• List Items now honors the corresponding properties when called from .NET
• Calling Linearize File after setting 128-bit encryption no longer results in blank output
• Several file-specific bugs were also addressed;

Download Trial: Click here

Full Release Notes: Click here

Documentation: Click here

For more information about activePDF® Toolkit™ 2011 R3, please click here, or call 1-866-GoTo-PDF.

Key fixes include

• Footer is now centered in landscape orientation
• Text is now aligned properly in table cells
• File size no longer doubles with footer pagination
• Default footer height no longer results in a crash

Download Trial: Click here
Full Release Notes: Click here
Documentation: Click here

For more information about activePDF® WebGrabber™, please click here, or call 1-866-GoTo-PDF.

Key fixes include

• Footer  is now centered in landscape orientation
• Text is now aligned properly in table cells
• Flash conversion no longer results in a memory error
• File size no longer doubles with footer pagination
• Invalid Header HTML values are handled gracefully
• Letter spacing in CSS now preserved in conversion See Release Notes for complete      details.

Download Trial: Available here
Full Release Notes: Available here
Documentation: Click here

For more information about activePDF® WebGrabber™, please click here or call 1-866-GoTo-PDF

Changes to Product Build Numbering Scheme

You may notice that our product version numbers have changed to a new format: i.e. 5.0.2.XXXXX.This new format allows us to attach a unique daily identifier (XXXXX) to each build. This in turn makes it much easier to determine which builds of a given product are newer. 

WebGrabber provides the FitToPage property to help you determine how HTML content is arranged on output PDF pages.

When you set FitToPage = True, you are telling WebGrabber to size the PDF page to fit the HTML content. Essentially, the PDF is one page that is as long and as wide as the HTML content.

When you set FitToPage = False, you are telling WebGrabber to size the content to fit in the parameters of the default PDF width and height (8.5” x 11”).

Additionally, WebGrabber’s PDFWidth and PDFLength properties have an effect on the appearance of the PDF, as they manipulate the width and height of the output PDF pages.

To learn more about using the FitToPage property and how to troubleshoot issues with the appearance of your output PDFs when FitToPage is used, see Troubleshooting the FitToPage Property’s Effect on PDF Appearance on our support portal.

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Don’t let your Subscription lapse. If you have a current annual subscription you are entitled to upgrade at no additional charge. As always, exclusive subscriber benefits include FREEupgrades to latest version releases, rapid response customer support, as well as access to a wealth of technical support information for a period of one year.

Click here for a complete list of subscriber benefits.

If you or your client is unsure of their account status, please contact subscriptions@activepdf.com.Upgrade today here: UPGRADE

activePDF® Toolkit™ 2011 R3 is now available for immediate installation.  In addition to several minor fixes, this Service Release addresses a memory leak on Windows 2008 R2 x64.

Key Fixes in Toolkit 2011 R3:

• Corrects a memory leak occurring on Windows 2008 R2 64-bit when calling Toolkit from .NET applications
• ImageByteArray now results in valid PDF when opened in Reader X
• List Items now honors the corresponding properties when called from .NET
• Calling Linearize File after setting 128-bit encryption no longer results in blank output
• Several file-specific bugs were also addressed;
• See Release Notes for complete details

Download Trial:   https://store.activepdf.com/DigitalDownloads-activePDFToolkit2011Evaluation.htm

Full Release Notes:   http://support.activepdf.com/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Article/View/302

Documentation:   http://www.activepdf.com/support/knowledgebase/viewKb.cfm?id=12201&tk

For more information about activePDF® Toolkit™ 2011, please click here

or call 1-866-GoTo-PDF.

 AVAILABLE NOW

activePDF DocConverter Enterprise 2010 updates are now available for immediate installation.  DocConverter Enterprise is our most powerful document conversion tool supporting 300 files types.  In addition to several bug fixes, this release introduces native support for WordPerfect conversions.

New Feature:

DocConverter Enterprise 2010 now  converts  Corel^® WordPerfect files. DocConverter Enterprise automatically checks for the presence of WordPerfect.  If WordPerfect is present, DocConverter Enterprise runs a WordPerfect verification application. Once verified, you can select WordPerfect as one of the DocConverter Applications in the activePDF User Interface.

Additional Fixes/Upgrades

The service release contains 18 fixes for DocConverter. Some of the issues addressed include:

• Overwrite method now properly auto-increments filenames
• Office Verifier application  no longer crashes when run against 64-bit version of Microsoft®Office
• The DocConverter API correctly performs ZIP file conversion
• Using watched folders, PDF to HTML properly generates image files as required

Download Trial Version : https://store.activepdf.com/DigitalDownloadsactivePDFDocConverterEnterprise2010Evaluation.htm

Full Release Notes available here:  http://support.activepdf.com/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Article/View/285

Documentation:

https://support.activepdf.com/index.php?/CustomerService/Knowledgebase/Article/View/295/21/activepdf-docconverter-documentation

For more information about activePDF® DocConverter™ Enterprise 2010, please click here,

or call 1-866-GoTo-PDF.

For Server-Based PDF Creation, Conversion & Development Tools

Mission Viejo, Calif., Dec. 13, 2011 – activePDF®, Inc. announced today that it has attained Gold Competency status in the Microsoft® Partner Network™ in the ISV/Software Solutions category.

This status recognizes activePDF’s expertise and impact in the marketplace for its enterprise PDF developer tools and solutions. activePDF has demonstrated expertise with Microsoft technologies and proven ability to meet customers’ needs, and thereby receives a rich set of benefits including technical services, software and developer resources, training, and sales and marketing support, giving  them a competitive advantage in the channel.

“We’re proud to have earned this designation from Microsoft because it reflects the strategic relationship we’ve had as a Windows®-based application developer since our company was founded in 2000,” said Tim Sullivan, activePDF, Inc. President and  CEO. “All of our products make optimal use of the latest Microsoft technologies to provide the performance and quality needed to meet the enterprise PDF application development needs of our large and growing global customer base.”

The company’s products included in the partner program include:

• DocConverter™, which converts documents to or from PDF format
• Meridian™, a network PDF  printer solution
• Portal™, a browser-based  PDF viewer and editor
• Server™, which dynamically generates PDFs from any application that can print
• Toolkit™,  a powerful PDF  manipulation tool that can append, stamp, stitch, merge, secure, encrypt PDF files
• WebGrabber™, which converts HTML to PDF

About activePDF
Headquartered in Mission Viejo, California, activePDF is a leading provider of PDF creation, conversion and development tools designed to meet the increased demand for automated electronic forms and content management in today’s key vertical enterprise markets. Founded in January of 2000, activePDF maintains a global distribution network to serve its  more than 25,000 enterprise customers in 90 countries. For additional  information about the company or its full line of products, please visit the website at www.activepdf.com.

With a 2011 Readers Choice Award

MISSION VIEJO, CA  -  December 6, 2011 – activePDF has been honored once again by the readers of Visual Studio Magazine with a 2011 Readers’ Merit Award, in the category of PDF and Print/Preview applications, for the company’s suite of server-based PDF management applications.  The PDF category was introduced in 2005 and activePDF has been recognized every year taking top Readers Choice honors 5 times.

“We are pleased to have received this recognition from Visual Studio readers because they’re a sophisticated audience who can truly evaluate enterprise solutions based on their practical experience using them every day,” said Tim Sullivan, activePDF, Inc President and  CEO. “It’s especially gratifying this year as we are the only true PDF company to be acknowledged in that award category since its inception.”

In announcing the awards, Editor-in-Chief Michael Desmond said that the magazine relies on subscribers “to drive our annual Readers Choice Awards because they are among the most demanding and knowledgeable developers on the planet. Our readers live and die by their tools. So when a product earns recognition in our survey, it really means something. These tools have proven themselves out where it really counts – not in a reviewer’s lab, but in the field.”

About activePDF
Headquartered in Mission Viejo, California, activePDF is a leading provider of PDF creation, conversion and development tools designed to meet the increased demand for automated electronic forms and content management in today’s key vertical enterprise markets. Founded in January of 2000, activePDF maintains a global distribution network to serve its  more than 25,000 enterprise customers in 90 countries. For additional  information about the company or its full line of products, please visit the website at www.activepdf.com.