A PDF Creation Control/Component by ceTe Software

::Performance
Performance was a major consideration during the development of Merger for COM/ActiveX. The techniques used to parse and manage the imported data are extremely fast and well designed. PDF documents are generated with a single pass architecture allowing the output data to be sent to the stream as the document is being created. This minimizes the amount of data stored in RAM as the document is created and frees up resources as quickly as possible. The architecture is similar to the way ASP renders controls and has proven to be highly efficient.

The object model is also multithread safe. Multiple threads can generate PDF documents at the same time. Page Elements, Fonts, Images and other resources can be shared between threads without interfering with each other.

::Flexibility
The Merger for COM/ActiveX object model is very flexible and can be used to achieve many PDF manipulation tasks. The Document object can be used to merge and append PDF documents. Pages from the resulting document can then be accessed and new content can be added to the pages.

The included ImportedPageData object is a Page Element object that allows an imported page to be placed on a Generator for COM/ActiveX page and be scaled, shifted or rotated. This allows multiple pages from an existing PDF to be placed onto one page. This is ideal for pre-press work as well and using existing PDF documents as templates for portions of a page.

Objects and methods are also included for reading the content from an imported page and for determining the number of pages in an imported PDF document.

Generator for COM/ActiveX is included with Merger for COM/ActiveX. When using Merger for COM/ActiveX, you have access to the Generator for COM/ActiveX object model. See the feature chart for the exact features included with each version of Merger for COM/ActiveX.