Create PDF files using our print drivers and then View and Modify (via the PDF-XChange Viewer) PDF files - all embedded within your own application windows - no 3rd party products such as Adobe Acrobat Reader or GhostScript are used or required !
Provides Developers with a comprehensive set of Virtual Drivers to generate Adobe PDF Compatible files from their software applications using our best selling PDF-XChange print drivers for Windows 2000 & Later (32/64 bit) - developers needing to support earlier versions of Windows (Win9x/ME/NT) may also use our Version 3 products if required, though please note Version 3 products are no longer updated .
When using these drivers you can be sure that the files you generate offer the most highly compressed/optimised PDF files available from any general PDF virtual driver - smaller size files generated quickly and efficiently.
Briefly, the licensing of the API SDK allows you to generate PDF files from your own application reports etc and even to convert output from 3rd party applications such as MS Word, Excel AutoCAD etc to PDF - but - there are limits on this latter category please see the detailed explanation further down this page.
What you may not do is to create an application within which a primary and significant feature is the conversion of PDF files accessing a 3rd party application. i.e. - an application not created or published by you) such as Microsoft Office and its files to other formats such as PDF. Whether this is singly or in batch mode.
However if you are creating a structured document management & archival system or your intended application serves a vertical market and the per seat license cost when compared with our own 'End User' products are significantly higher - then we see no conflict of interest and would not object. If you contact us and briefly describe your product and the intended sales costs - we would be happy to confirm this prior to your purchase.
If you wish to create a product of this nature - then we would be pleased to discuss the licensing of the 'FULL' unrestricted, general PDF-XChange Drivers set on an OEM basis, at advantageous terms.
Finally all developers should be aware that to function in non evaluation mode - the drivers require that a License and DEVCODE 'unlock' string be passed to the drivers as part of each print job - thus ensuring that any direct attempt to print from a 3rd party application by your end users (i.e. from MS Word) will generate output with an evaluation watermark and not be useable by the end user for commercial purposes - you would need to code the opening of the Word file and print from your application to PDF-XChange - then the PDF would be generated 'DEMO' watermark free as described above.
The API SDK comes with many examples for many software tools (MFC/C++/VB/C# etc) including MS Word to PDF conversion as a demonstration of how this process can be achieved.