PDFDoc Scout is an ActiveX/NET library for PDF documents generation from Visual Basic, Visual Basic.NET, Visual C++, C#, ASP, ASP.NET programming languages

Key Features:

• Royalty-free distribution along with your product/application;
• 12 months of free updates and 12 months of free tech support via e-mail (within 2 business days) are included. Additional 12 months are available at 30% of regular price.;
• PDF security protection options support;
• Full set of methods and properties to add and manage text, Unicode text, images, annotations, outlines, controls (for PDF forms "acroforms") and javascript actions;
• Built-in support for HTML text formatting (including support for HTML links, local and remote images, fonts and tables), and support for XML and XSLT transformation to PDF
• 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 (example);
• 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;
• Abilty to attach files to the generated PDF doc;
• 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;
• Full bookmarks generation support;
• 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)