A Document Generator Control/Component by Gnostice Information Technologies

What does eDocEngine provide?
eDocEngine provides a rich set of API to easily format any kinds of content elements to enable you to achieve the precise look and feel required of your electronic documents and reports. Created documents can then be automatically delivered directly to users’ web browsers, sent as email attachments or saved to disk.

What are the ways in which I can use eDocEngine?
You can use it as a free-form electronic report writer, to enable mail-merge/document creation, to serve dynamic PDF eForms and to enable many other information delivery functions.

What platforms and languages does eDocEngine support?
eDocEngine ActiveX/.NET is currently supported under Visual Basic, Visual Basic .NET, Visual C#, Visual J#, Visual C++, ASP, ASP.NET, Borland Delphi 8 .NET, Borland C#Builder .NET and older versions of Borland Delphi and Borland C++Builder.

Why use Gnostice eDocEngine as my electronic document creation component?

• Single, rich programming interface enables you to create attractive electronic documents using the same set of instructions in over 18 popular formats: PDF, Word RTF, HTML, XHTML, Excel, Text, TIFF, SVG, JPG and more. This not only simplifies programming but also reduces the learning curve and cost of development.


• Generic engines give full control to create any kind of document and add custom content to meet any kind of application need.


• Advanced features for PDF output include, compression, encryption, TrueType fonts, font embedding, font sub-setting, international characters (European, Chinese, Japanese...), bookmarks, notes annotations and more.


• PDF AcroForms support enables you to design richly formatted PDF forms with support for buttons, checkboxes, lists, edit controls, JavaScript actions and more.


• Vector graphics and Metafile rendering ensures sharp scalable graphics in the generated PDF, RTF or other supported formats. Also ensures files are extremely compact and easy to distribute.


• Convert RichText to PDF, HTML and other formats making the documents more portable. RichText is rendered as rich, formatted text (not image) in all document formats ensuring crisp documents that can be text searched and enlarged without loss of quality.


• Advanced drawing functions include support for drawing tables, paragraphs and textboxes with a single method call.


• Paragraph control enables automatic alignment of multi-line text items. Left, Right, Center or Justify alignment can be achieved just by a single property setting.


• Built-in Header and Footer control further simplifies document creation, as the task of rendering repeating items can be delegated to the component itself.


• Extensible, well planned architecture enables speedy and clean implementation of new features and formats.


• Allows end-user configuration of document output through run-time dialogs.


• SPEED. All engines of eDocEngine are highly optimized for high-speed rendering of commands and metafiles. Idea for dynamic Internet and Intranet application development.