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Version 4 is now released for Clarion Developers - to see how you can upgrade from a prior version - please read this news page before contacting us if you have any queries.

To use the latest PDF-XChange Viewer SDK's - you will need an independantly purchased and current PDF-XChange Viewer SDK license or a current Version 4 PDF-XChange, Drivers API or PDF-Tools SDK License and a new serial number

Not an existing PDF-Tools or PDF-XChange client and want to know more ?

When a Clarion Developer purchases one of our Developer's kits to incorporate functionality into their applications, they can be sure they are buying a product that works with Clarion, offers Clarion specific Help and Examples, along with comprehensive classes and Templates for all versions of Clarion from C5b and up, making its major functions simple to incorporate into their project.

The reason for this is that despite the fact that we develop our SDK libraries in C/C++ and where appropriate Assembler - much of our client work was historically produced in Clarion for Windows, Versions 5b, 55, 6 (our Tools are also designed for use with C7 too) - simply because it is efficient to do so, Clarion is, as we all know, one of the best kept secrets in the development community.

We have 1 developers on staff working 100% of their time on supporting the Clarion community and continually updating our Classes, Templates, Demo's and help documentation - for the Clarion 3rd party community - another staff member spends approximatley 50% of their time working on our newer products and preparing them for use with Clarion prior to release  - in addition to our Team working on the Core PDF Libraries and Driver functionality for use by all developer tool users and end users

Without doubt, with regards the Clarion community, our PDF-Tools SDK has been our most popular offering, it offers developers a means to generate highly optimised Adobe PDF files from their report output - without the need to install printer drivers of any type.

Entirely DLL based, PDF-Tools works by capturing the .WMF output file from the standard Clarion Report 'Print Preview Queue' and converting this to a fully Adobe compatible - highly optimised PDF file.

Additonally because a .WMF file is not a Raster image format - the PDF file remains fully text searchable!

Our Tools ensure your project can be progressed with speed and efficiency - and output arguably the most optimised and compressed files available from any conversion tool today (including Adobe's own !) whilst ensuring faithful reproduction of the source material.But this is not the end of PDF-Tools attraction, it also works (we supply demo apps) with ClarioNet, both Client and Sever Side. Our Templates and Classes are tested with Clarion 5 (with the exception of ClarionNet functionality), Clarion 5.5 and Clarion 6.x.

BUT - unlike many other tools you may purchase for Clarion - all of our products are equally at home working in C/C++/VB/Delphi/C#/ .NET, Access, Foxpro etc etc - any investment you make is not restricted to Clarion - but entirely portable to virtually any development environment for Windows you choose - without further cost to you !

Please proceed to the Various Clarion Tools page for more information on pricing and downloading.

If you have Clarion 6EE - compare Soft Velocity's file sizes and image output issues when creating PDF output to ours - you will notice some astounding differences !

Including Legacy and ABC Template chains, further more we have built in compatibility for CPCS, FOMIN and RPM, Icetips and many more - and would anticipate no problems (of any magnitude) with other Report templates you may choose to use - if you do find any issue with a 3rd party tool and our products, we will endeavour to work with that supplier to ensure compatibility issues are resolved.

* Allows Royalty FREE distribution for up to 100,000 end user application licenses (when distributed with your software application) - above which you will require additional/alternative licensing - Please contact our sales department to discuss your more detailed needs.