Rich, Multi-Platform PDF API for Conversion, Creation and Object Access
Visual Integrity® has upgraded its three PDF SDK’s. Together, the PDF Conversion SDK, PDF Creation SDK and Custom PDF SDK provide a robust, multi-platform, set of PDF libraries for Windows, OS X and Linux developers. The SDK’s can be used to open and edit PDF drawings or diagrams within an application or service, extract text, implement object snapping, and more.
The PDF Conversion SDK enables developers to open and edit vector-based PDF files within their application or web-service. Using two API calls, vector PDF files render as editable objects in target applications, such as CAD programs or Visio. The PDF Conversion SDK also extracts text.
The PDF Creation SDK enables PDF generation as well as actions such as merge, watermark, stamp and extract. PDF files can be created from data, scratch, or from existing files. Content can be added and pages can be combined. Performance is enhanced since, unlike most of today’s converters, pages do not pass through a printer driver.
The Custom PDF SDK gives developers direct control over all the objects and text in a PDF file. It can be used to pre-process PDF files, extract specific objects or change objects before importing. Developers can map their native file format to the Custom PDF SDK allowing them to manipulate layers, implement snapping or change attributes from within their own application.
The Visual Integrity PDF SDK’s are at version 11 and include new API calls and conversion options. These enhancements include:
- New API functions to control scaling, layer separation, file-naming, Unicode support, clipping, password protection, page extraction, image quality and warnings.
- Options to specify fill, change images to color lines and for ellipse rotation.
- Improvements to hidden text functionality, font mapping, Unicode filenames, SVG object styles, EMF kerning, DXF layers, EPS fills, PDF parser and rotation.
Graebert GmbH, leading developer of custom CAD solutions for desktop, mobile and cloud, used Visual Integrity’s Custom PDF SDK to implement snapping in ARES® Commander. They also used the PDF Conversion SDK to build the PDF Import Plugin for Draftsight™.
“Our customers really appreciate the capabilities we’ve added to ARES Commander and DraftSight using Visual Integrity’s PDF Conversion API,” says Robert Graebert, CTO of Graebert GmbH. “Being able to snap to an underlay, or, to open and edit a PDF drawing, are really useful, everyday features.”
D-Tools Inc., the worldwide leader in system integration software, utilizes Visual Integrity’s Conversion SDK in its PDF Cloud Converter, a notable drawing feature in the company’s System Integrator (SI) platform that improves the PDF insert process for its users.
“Visual Integrity’s PDF Conversion SDK enables our customers to generate WMF files within the D-Tools Cloud Converter, and easily insert them directly into Visio while maintaining the drawing scale and high quality vectors of the original file instead of low resolution bitmaps through the standard Visio PDF converter,” said Adam Stone, President and founder of D-Tools. “With support for layers, grouping and scale, it’s helped further streamline the system design and engineering process for our customers, and has working perfectly for over two years and thousands of pages.”
“Our SDK framework has matured to a point where developers can integrate it in less than a day”, said Jean Haney, co-founder and CEO of Visual Integrity, “It’s that easy to meet their customers’ demand to open and edit PDF drawings or to work with PDF objects and text within their own application”.
The Visual Integrity PDF SDK’s are available in two ways – as a perpetual license with optional maintenance or as an annual subscription. Prices for the perpetual license start at $199 while prices for the annual subscription start at $299/year. An evaluation version of the entire PDF developer framework may be downloaded on the Visual Integrity web-site.
About Visual Integrity
Visual Integrity is an early pioneer and leader in PDF and vector graphics technologies. Since 1993, Visual Integrity has been developing solutions to reuse, repurpose and unlock vector-based content such as drawings, diagrams and technical illustrations. The company has turned its 25 years of vector graphics expertise into desktop programs, such as pdf2cad and pdf2picture, as well as a PDF SDK framework for developers and systems integrators including the PDF Conversion SDK, PDF Creation SDK and Custom PDF SDK. Visual Integrity has offices in The Netherlands and Portland, Maine.
About Graebert
Graebert GmbH, with over 30 years of experience in the industry, is recognized as a true innovator in desktop, mobile and cloud CAD solutions. Their “Trinity of CAD™” concept includee multi-platform ARES® Commander for the desktop, ARES Touch™ for smartphones and tablets, and ARES Kudo™, a full browser based solution. Graebert’s OEM CAD engine powers OEM products including Draftsight™ from Dassault Systems, Onshape™ Drawings from OnShape and CorelCAD™ from Corel Corporation. The company, headquartered in Berlin, also has offices in America, Europe and Asia.
About D-Tools
D-Tools, Inc., founded in 1998 and based in Concord, California, is a worldwide leader in accessible, highly accurate system design and documentation software platform. The company’s flagship product, System Integrator™ (SI), is a robust solution that utilizes Autodesk® AutoCAD and Microsoft® Visio to facilitate comprehensive system design, documentation and project management. D-Tools enables residential and commercial integrators to streamline business processes and increase revenues while reducing the time and cost associated with the installation and integration of low voltage electronic systems. More than 5,500 leading companies in 87 countries currently use the award-winning D-Tools platform to reduce time, costs and to streamline the system integration process.
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Cogistem has used the FLY CAD SDK to create a plug-in for DesignCAD that enables customers to open and edit PDF files while in the program. Located in Paris, Cogistem is responsible for the localization and sales of DesignCAD for all French-speaking European countries. For more information about the plug-in, contact info@cogistem.com.
Import PDF into TurboCAD, DoubleCAD and DesignCAD
IMSI Design selected pdf2cad™ to add PDF import into their wide range of products for Windows and Macintosh. Now, engineering drawings saved as Adobe PDF files can be converted into DXF files that can be opened and edited in TurboCAD®, DoubleCAD®, DesignCAD® and other popular engineering programs.
ZWCAD 2017 provides a cost-effective solution for the entire CAD workflow, from the very beginning to the very end of your projects, with innovative, collaborative, and customizable features. pdf2cad adds a valuable feature to the mix by enabling you to open and edit PDF files in ZWCAD.
ZWCAD is committed to providing the most reliable and outstanding CAD/CAM solutions for its customers. Their products meet the needs of drafters across the 2D and 3D design industries, including AEC (architecture, engineering, construction), mechanics, manufactures, and electronics.
For the past eight years, ZwCAD distributors around the globe have been bundling pdf2cad with ZWCAD in order to provide great value and meet their requirement to import and edit PDF drawings. Contact your ZWCAD reseller today and ask for the ZWCAD/pdf2cad bundle!
GstarCAD builds add-on using CAD SDK 
Suzhou Gstarsoft Co., Ltd develops 2D and 3D CAD software and solutions for the AEC, mechanical, manufacturing, electrical, GIS, civil, survey and mapping engineering industries. With more than 18 years of technology innovation and practical application, GstarCAD software is dedicated to providing the fast, powerful and DWG-compatible CAD software for customers and partners worldwide
GstarCAD has built our pdf2cad functionality into a tightly integrated add-on to GstarCAD called PDFtoDXF. Contact your GstarCAD reseller today and ask for GstarCAD PDFtoDXF!
Edit PDF drawings in BricsCAD
pdf2bricscad is a dedicated plug-in for BricsCAD. Based on the proven, best-selling stand-alone pdf2cad for Windows and mac OS X, pdf2bricscad opens PDF files and renders them on-screen as editable BricsCAD drawings. All objects and text will be extracted and quickly and accurately. pdf2bricscad will successfully convert computer-generated PDF files, it is not designed to convert scanned drawings (raster PDF). These scans will be presented as an underlay or tracing layer.
As part of the Bricscad partner program, Visual Integrity has released a plugin which converts vector engineering drawings, saved as Adobe PDF files, into DXF files which can be opened and edited in Bricscad.
About BricsCAD
BricsCAD® is the powerful CAD software platform unifying the familiar feature set of native dwg with advanced 2D tools and intelligent 3D direct modeling on Windows and Linux, and this at a compelling price. BricsCAD provides Application Developers with the broad suite of APIs required to deliver advanced solutions to cost conscious customers in the AEC, GIS and mechanical CAD markets.
BricsCAD V13 software is available in Classic, Pro and Platinum editions addressing needs going from simple 2D drafting to complex 3D engineering, and now also including BIM*, mapping* and assembly functionality. The software, available in more than 15 languages, can be downloaded from the Bricsys website or obtained from a BricsCAD sales point in one of more than 70 countries worldwide.
cad2cad depends on Visual Integrity’s PDF to DXF engine
cad2cad Software develops CAD conversion and visualization products such as TwinView Edit and TrueDTP in the European market. They are especially well known for data conversion. Many large companies, as well as engineering, architecture and dra
wing offices, have opted for their accuracy and reliability of cad2cad’s products and cad2cad depends on Visual Integrity for the PDF to DXF features.
ProgeCAD PDF import powered by Visual Integrity.
progeCAD 2010 is the newest version of progeCAD that represents the state of the art of the IntelliCAD® evolution. The DWG support from Version 2.5 up to 2011 and the high level of compatibility with the AutoCAD® environment and interface are only two of the key features.
ProgeCAD 2010 offers PDF Import with just one click. Their solution for this is based on the CAD SDK from Visual Integrity. Click below to see a demonstration video!
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