Create an account

The first thing you need to do in order to integrate the Avanquest PDF SDK with your application, is to to create an account on our Developer Portal. Look for the Sign Up button, enter your information and click Continue followed by Create Account buttons.

At this point you will receive an email that will prompt you to verify your email address. Click the ACTIVATE YOUR ACCOUNT button to confirm your email address.

Generate a License Key

This depends on the features / version of the SDK you have decided to integrate within your application. You can choose to generate a View, Convert or Edit license key or any combination of the three. For example - selecting both the View and Edit versions will generate one license key which will work for both the View and Edit versions of the SDK.

You can generate a license key by following the link Generate a License key, navigate to Resources tab and select Manage License Keys.

I. You have the option of creating a free, 30-day trial license key, that will work with any of the SDK versions you choose to try.

The three types of licensee keys we offer are shown under the Permissions – PDF SDK section. To generate your new license key, select the type of feature(s) you're interested in testing out, by choosing the appropriate box(es) and clicking the Create Trial Key button. This type of license key is limited to one per account. You will be able to see the days remaining in your trial, in the Status column of the License table.

II. Once you have created the free 30-day trial license key as described in section I above you have the option of purchasing a permanent license key, without an expiry.

Choosing this option will allow you to create unlimited number of keys and edit permissions of an already created key. You can do this by contacting our Sales Department via the completion of our online form.

Fill out your information, in the Product of interest drop-down select Desktop SDK and in the What solution will you like to build information field - specify the feature(s) you are interested in (i.e. View / Convert / Edit) and click Submit. Someone from our sales department will get back to you and propose a personalized solution.

NOTE: Regardless of what type of license key you choose to generate, you can optionally name it to remind yourself which version(s) of the SDK it corresponds to (i.e. view-sdk, convert-edit-sdk etc.).

Getting started using C++ on Windows:

1. Download the Avanquest PDF SDK for Windows

Select the platform architecture you are using - Windows x86 or Windows x64
Select the version of the SDK you are interested in - View, Edit or Convert
Click on the Download button

You can do so by following the link here, navigate to Resources tab and select Download Center Download the PDF SDK for Windows

2. Extract the archive

3. Build and run a sample project (samples to be added shortly)

4. Pass your license key as a parameter when calling the function PDF::Init

5. You can find the API Reference Documentation by following this link and select Documentation tab

Avanquest PDF SDK C++ API Reference

Getting started using C++ on Linux:

1. Download the Avanquest PDF SDK for x64 Linux platform architecture

Select the version of the SDK you are interested in - View, Edit or Convert
Click on the Download button

You can do so by following the link here, navigate to Resources tab and select Download Center Download the PDF SDK for Linux