PDF In-The-Box is an ActiveX control for creating PDF files programmatically.
It writes native PDF format with no intermediate file.
No third-party software needed.
Your applications based on PDF In-The-Box can be freely deployed.
No run-time licence needed! Available APIs: ActiveX, VCL for Delphi and C++ Builder, DLL.
A comprehensive programming interface (about 110 methods, properties and events) allows you to build up sophisticated PDF documents.
FONT MANAGEMENT - All TrueType fonts supported.
- Angled text.
- Character spacing and line spacing.
- Font embedding.
Selection of embedded and non-embedded fonts.
TEXT MANAGEMENT - Multi-line text with smart hyphenation, horizontal and vertical alignment.
- Style sheets with support of margins, indents, bulleted and numbered text.
- Style inheritance.
- Insertion of rich texts loaded from RTF files.
INTERACTIVE FORMS - Supported field types: pushbutton, edit box, memo box, list box, combo box, check box, radio buttons.
- Support of style sheets.
- Links and JavaScript actions can be set on all fields.
GRIDS - Powerful grid management system with cell drawing and filling methods.
- Customization of aspect and dimensions for every column.
GRAPHICS - 15 methods available to draw geometrical shapes (lines, rectangles, circles, pies, polygons, Bezier curves, etc).
- Images retrieved from memory or loaded from disk (.BMP, .JPG, .WMF, .EMF, .ICO formats).
- Smart image stretching (preserving aspect ratio).
- Image compression with Zlib or Jpeg algorithms.
- Repetitive image management.
MULTIMEDIA - Bookmarks (table of contents displayed as an outline tree in PDF viewers) - Hyperlinks: internal, remote, external or Internet links.
- Annotations and rubber stamps.
DOCUMENT CONTROL - All paper sizes supported.
- Orientation may be changed inside a document.
- Document properties: author, keywords, producer, subject, title.
- Encryption and protection: owner password, user password, security options.
- Special ASP mode.

