Foxit Reader SDK (ActiveX Version) allows your application to easily display PDF documents with high quality and efficiency.

Advantages

Foxit Reader SDK ActiveX uses the same rendering engine as Foxit Reader, so you can use this ActiveX to display any PDF file that can be opened by Foxit Reader, with same high quality and fast speed.

The ActiveX version of Foxit Reader SDK allows the application to adopt PDF rendering much more easier than using the DLL version of our SDK, because the ActiveX not only displays pages, it also handles all the user interface, like navigating, zooming, rotating, scrolling, and printing.

The ActiveX version is also more affordable than the DLL version. For more information on licensing terms and cost, please contact sales@foxitsoftware.com. Please mention your are interested in the ActiveX version.

Specifically, if you speak Chinese, you may also click here to contact our branch in China.

Limitations

If you license ActiveX version of Foxit Reader SDK, co-branding is required. That means the ActiveX control will display Foxit logo and copyright information. It's possible that the logo area to be customized according to licensee's requirement, however Foxit logo and copyright notice should always visible to end user.

Also, since the ActiveX control handles user interface for you, your application can't customize the user interaction features for reading/processing PDF files.

If you want to hide the Foxit logo area, or you want full control on user interface of your application, you will have to ask for a license of our DLL version of Foxit Reader SDK

Foxit Reader SDK ActiveX can't be embedded into any web page. It has to be accompanied by licensee's application when redistributed to end-user.

Installation

The Foxit Reader SDK control comes in a single file, to install it, use "regsvr32 <OCX filename>" command.

The control name is "Foxit Reader SDK Control". The ProgID is "Foxit.FoxitReaderSDKCtrl".

Properties

NOTE: All properties are read-only.

• FilePath: full path of the current PDF document;
• Title: title of the current PDF document;
• Author: author as reported in current PDF document;
• PageCount: number of total pages in current document;
• CurPage: current page index. Zero for first page;
• ZoomLevel: percentage of current zoom level;
• Rotate: current rotate orientation. Zero for not rotated, 1 for rotated clockwise, 2 for upside-down, 3 for rotated counter-clockwise.

Methods

• OpenFile: Open a PDF document;
• GotoPage: Goto any page wihtin the document;
• SetZoomLevel: Set zoom level;
• SetRotate: Set rotation orientation;
• PrintFile: Popup a "Print" dialog;
• ShowToolbar: Show or hide the toolbar;
• ShowStatusBar: Show or hide the status bar.

Demo