Management of PDF files

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Management of PDF files

Overview

PDF is one of the most widely used formats for transmitting and storing electronic documents.

Several methods can be used to create or manage PDF files:

Printing in PDF files: PDF files can be created when printing both via the report editor and WLanguage.
See Printing in PDF format for more details.
Viewing PDF files via the PDF Reader control.
See The PDF Reader control for more details.
Simple operations on PDF files in WLanguage: Check protection, extract a page, merge PDFs, etc.

Simple operations on PDF files

Various functions allow you to perform simple operations on PDF files. These functions directly handle the PDF file:


Versions 20 and later PDFExtractPage New in version 20 PDFExtractPage PDFExtractPage	Returns an Image type variable containing a page from a PDF file.
Versions 14 and later PDFIsProtected New in version 14 PDFIsProtected PDFIsProtected	Checks whether the PDF file requires a password in order to be read.
Versions 17 and later PDFMerge New in version 17 PDFMerge PDFMerge	Merges several existing PDF files into a single PDF file. The files are merged one after another. The paths of PDF files can be found in an array.
Versions 17 and later PDFMergeWithPassword New in version 17 PDFMergeWithPassword PDFMergeWithPassword	Merges several existing and password-protected PDF files into a single PDF file.
Versions 14 and later PDFNumberOfPages New in version 14 PDFNumberOfPages PDFNumberOfPages	Returns the total number of pages found in a PDF file.
Versions 24 and later PDFPassword New in version 24 PDFPassword PDFPassword	Protects a PDF document with a password.
Versions 14 and later PDFToText New in version 14 PDFToText PDFToText	Extracts the text found in a PDF file.