Introduction wPDFControl

The component wPDFControl was created to make it easy for programmers to add PDF support to their application. It is based on the popular PDF engine 'wPDF' which has been successful on the Delphi and C++Builder market since the year 2000.

Now version 3 of this powerful tool is available. Version 3 is completely backwards compatible so we decided to include this manual also for the last release of version 2 with the version number 2.90 - so you can compare the features of the old and the new version easier. (wPDFControl V3 introduces 2 new properties: CidFont and PDFAMode)

wRTF2PDF Version 3 is based on an entirely new rtf engine. It supports much more formatting features, including sections, text boxes and footnotes. Since RTF2PDF V3.5 you can also use it to create HTML, RTF, MIME or PDF text under ASP or ASP.NET! It is much more than just a PDF conversion engine! Please don't miss our demo! Or check out the product TextDynamic, this is the visual edition of this text creation and editing component.

Our component RTF2PDF offers the same possibility as wPDFControl. It does everything what wPDFControl does but, of course, its main feature is the integrated powerful text rendering engine. Since wRTF2PDF V3.5 it is also possible to create text and save in RTF or HTML, even MIME format. This is possible since the component exports all of its internal word processing abilities through a set of interfaces. This interfaces are in fact mostly the same as the interfaces used by our visual word processing control "TextDynamic". Only the interface IWPMemo has been replaced by a different interface (IWPEditor) which contains about 70% of the methods originally found in IWPMemo.

So, if you are using wRTF2PDF V3.5 or later (also called wRTF2PDF "PLUS") please refer to the specialized RTF2PDF manual which explains the API in detail.

wPDFControl can be used as .NET control, as ActiveX and also as raw DLL. For the DLL we have included a C++ include file. This manual describes the use with .NET.