activePDF Toolkit is a scalable programmable COM object that enables users to dyamically create and manipulate PDF files. With Toolkit's robust API, the automation of virtually any PDF manipulation task becomes possible ??users can append, stamp, stitch, merge, paint, form-fill PDF, and more. Digitally signing PDF documents, adding watermarks to PDFs, embedding Flash® files in PDF, creating form fields, incorporating headers and footers, extracting and concatenating pages and comments within PDF files, and much more are all simplified using activePDF Toolkit.

Dynamic PDF Form Creation and Editing On-the-fly PDF Generation Extracting from and Merging of PDF Files Stamping Text and Images On PDFs Stitching PDFs Digital Signatures and PDF Security Barcoding

Dynamic PDF Form Creation and Editing
activePDF Toolkit allows you to generate form fields on the fly, enabling you to create PDF forms dynamically while offering precise control in laying out database reports using custom PDF templates. Additionally, Toolkit's form-filling feature allows PDF form fields to be dynamically populated with data from any source, including XML, while enabling end users to save filled-in PDF forms locally. activePDF Toolkit also enables users to populate PDF form fields with images, making exact placement and resizing of images a simple task. Toolkit's form-flattening feature also removes the bloat from larger PDF forms – fields are stripped out and the content is left behind, dramatically reducing PDF file size.

On-the-Fly PDF Generation
activePDF Toolkit's TextToPDF method enables you to quickly convert data from your application into a portable, secure PDF document. Using a few SQL queries, you can generate complicated reports that can be distributed to enterprise users, or populate prepared PDF templates to create labels, business cards, mass mailings and more.

Extracting and Merging
activePDF Toolkit allows users to combine, or merge, two or more PDF files. As an example, this feature could be used to combine multiple PDF reports into a single, navigable PDF file. activePDF Toolkit also allows the user to append PDFs and extract pages to and from virtually any PDF, even in memory. Additionally, activePDF Toolkit includes options for retaining bookmarks within PDFs, making it the product of choice for assembling large, complex PDF documents.

Stamping Text and Images within PDF Files
Support business rules by stamping text into your PDF documents, using any font available on your server, at any size or color, in any degree of rotation. activePDF Toolkit's text width calculation routines make text placement within PDFs exact, allowing you to automatically apply standard text such as page numbers, headers and footers, or watermarks to a single page, range of pages or entire PDF documents.

Toolkit Professional includes comprehensive image stamping with native support for over 40 image types, allowing for precise placement of logos, images, or electronically represented signatures within PDF files. For example, watermarking can be used to automatically stamp highly-sensitive PDF documents with a “Confidential” label, while a signature stamp can be applied to approved documents as they pass through a workflow milestone.

Stitching PDFs
activePDF Toolkit's stitching technology allows you to import one or more PDF documents, combining them into a single PDF page. Previously labor-intensive applications, such as newsletters or classified advertisements, are streamlined with this feature.

Digital Signatures and PDF Security
Digital signatures employ powerful encryption technology and a public key infrastructure to provide PDF document authentication and nonrepudiation. activePDF Toolkit enables you to dynamically apply digital signatures to your PDF files using certificates stored on your server. With Toolkit, you can also create certificates on the fly, allowing you to easily extend signing capabilities to every user interacting with your organization. Additionally, activePDF Toolkit allows you to encrypt and decrypt PDF files with a simple API call. The first server-based product to support native 40 and 128 bit encryption, Toolkit also enables you to password protect PDF files, disable end-user printing, prevent copying of text and graphics, and more. Toolkit's unique fingerprint technology also allows you to verify PDF document integrity, providing built-in support for enforcing business rules.

Barcoding
Toolkit's Barcode object enables you to generate over 20 standard barcode types without requiring third-party utilities or individual barcode fonts. Barcodes can be added to new or existing PDFs, or exported as XML, affording you the flexibility to easily integrate with your existing business processes.  Toolkit's barcoding technology conforms to standard barcoding guidelines, while still enabling you to customize the PDF output to suit your organization's needs. You control everything; from type, value, and placement to size, rotation, comment text and color. Generating and placing a numeric, alphanumeric, or 2-D barcode has never been easier.