Overview

CutePDF Form SDK is a developer toolkit that provides PDF form handling technology for Windows applications. It enables software to programmatically populate, edit, extract data from, and secure interactive PDF forms using simple API calls. The SDK uses native COM/ActiveX architecture and supports multiple development environments including Visual C++, .NET, VBScript, Delphi, and others. It is suited for both single- and multi-threaded server applications that need automated PDF form operations.

Features and Capabilities

• Form Data Population: Populate PDF form fields by name-value pairs to generate completed PDF documents programmatically.
• Image Stamping: Insert or stamp images into specified form fields.
• Form Field Management: Modify properties, set default values, and retrieve types for various form objects.
• Data Import & Export: Import form data from FDF, XFDF or XML into templates; export PDF form data to these formats.
• Form Flattening: Flatten completed forms, embedding content directly into the PDF.
• Security Controls: Add or modify native PDF encryption (40-bit & 128-bit) to restrict editing or altering of form data.
• Utility Operations: Extract form data to memory buffers; create FDF/XFDF/XML data files; write completed PDFs to memory.
• Integration API: Based on COM/ActiveX, callable from Visual C++, VB, .NET, VBScript, ASP, Delphi, etc.
• Multi-Task Server Support: Designed to work in multi-threaded server environments requiring high throughput.