Bytescout PDFDoc Scout library 
(c) Bytescout Software 2006-2008

Bytescout 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; 
- Support for HTML formatted text that can be used to draw text with images, hyperlinks, fonts. You can use it to draw tables;
- Support for XML - XSLT transformation converting into PDF ( see http://bytescout.com/pdfdocscout_example_xml_xslt_transformation_to_pdf.html );
- 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; 
- 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) 


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