• The first thing you need to do in order to integrate the Avanquest PDF SDK with your application, is to create an account on our Developer Portal and log in with your new credentials.

You can do so by following the link here and look for the Sign Up section: Create an Account

Getting started using C++ on Windows:

1. Generate the type of license key you are going to need

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

You can do so by following the link here, navigate to Resources tab and select Manage License Keys Generate a License key

2. 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

3. Extract the archive

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

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

6. 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. Generate the type of license key you are going to need.

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

You can do so by following the link here, navigate to Resources tab and select Manage License Keys Generate a License key

2. 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

3. Extract the archive

4. Build and run a sample project (samples to come shortly)

5. Pass your license key as a parameter when calling PDF::Init

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

Avanquest PDF SDK C++ API Reference

Getting started using .NET:

1. Generate the type of license key you are going to need.

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

You can do so by following the link here, navigate to Resources tab and select Manage License Keys Generate a License key

2. Select the version of the Avanquest PDF SDK you want to use

• For the View version - add Avanquest.Pdf.Core as a dependency for your project:

  in Visual Studio:

  • Go to [Project] => [Manage NuGet Packages...]
  • Select Avanquest.Pdf.Core and install it

  in VSCode:

  • Go to Command Palette and type "NuGet: Add NuGet Package"
  • Follow the instructions to add Avanquest.Pdf.Core

• For the Edit version - add Avanquest.Pdf.Edit as a dependency for your project:

  in Visual Studio:

  • Go to [Project] => [Manage NuGet Packages...]
  • Select Avanquest.Pdf.Edit and install it

  in VSCode:

  • Go to Command Palette and type "NuGet: Add NuGet Package"
  • Follow the instructions to add Avanquest.Pdf.Edit

• For the Convert version - add Avanquest.Pdf.Convert as a dependency for your project:

  in Visual Studio:

  • Go to [Project] => [Manage NuGet Packages...]
  • Select Avanquest.Pdf.Convert and install it

  in VSCode:

  • Go to Command Palette and type "NuGet: Add NuGet Package"
  • Follow the instructions to add Avanquest.Pdf.Convert

3. Pass your license key as a parameter when calling the function: pdfcore.Initialize

4. You can find the API Reference Documentation by following this link:

Avanquest PDF SDK C# API Reference