Marketplace Solution of the Month: The Power PDF Connector SDK

One of the most frustrating issues in a workflow is the need to swap between different software continuously. Unfortunately, it’s often a necessity. Not every program interacts with everything else on your machine, and without integration, you’ll necessarily have to move between platforms. However, that creates bottlenecks and slowdowns, especially in document-related processes. With the Tungsten Power PDF Connector SDK from the Tungsten Marketplace, there are opportunities to add some valuable functionality to your applications.

Moving documents into your Document Management System (DMS), creating or converting PDFs, and other tasks are all steps that take up time better spent on other tasks. Likewise, these efforts allow mistakes and errors to enter a workflow. With this officially developed SDK from the Marketplace, developers in your business, with the proper understanding, can integrate some Power PDF functions directly into your proprietary business applications.

Let’s explore the need for such functionality and how to leverage this SDK to improve operations.

What Does the Power PDF Connector SDK Do?

This Software Development Kit (SDK) is a free solution that provides a simple, understandable path for developing custom connectors for Power PDF and other applications. It offers resources, examples, and insights into using the Microsoft COM framework to build APIs and new connections between software.

Once integrated and connected, you can use the components you develop using this SDK to make selected Power PDF features available within your proprietary applications. Direct placement of Power PDF-related buttons on software ribbons or application toolbars lets you call specific functions directly without changing programs, manually copying data, or otherwise interrupting the workflow.

The SDK supports integrating functions into your other software using all versions of Power PDF from version 3.0 onward. Understanding COM-based add-on development is imperative for deploying solutions based on the SDK.

An Overview of This Connector’s Features

What can you achieve with a connector developed using this SDK? Remember, you can put some Power PDF functionality at your fingertips in other software to save time. Connectors can accomplish actions such as the following:

• Add a Power PDF-related option to an application’s File, Open, or Save As menus.
• Add a button to Open from Document Management System within the Open dialog.
• Add a Save to DMS button to the file saving dialog box.
• Assign specific Power PDF-related icons to buttons within your software.
• Connect the Tungsten PDF Printer to your DMS with a Save to DMS destination option.
• Extend the number of available saving destinations when using the Power PDF Convert Assistant to swap document formats or the Create Assistant to build new PDFs.
• Add custom buttons related to your software within the Power PDF’s connectors ribbon.

Explore the valuable opportunities created by the opportunity to easily integrate Power PDF operations into your DMS and other proprietary software.

The Benefits of More Thorough PDF Integration

What are some of the more specific advantages you unlock by investing time into developing connectors for Power PDF? The time saved by eliminating software swapping is the most evident benefit. Of course, it’s not just time you save; it’s money, too. When employees can accomplish these tasks faster without a complicated workflow, their work is of greater value and impact.

Reducing friction in the workflow accelerates the pace of business, but it also positively impacts employees. Less frustration and more accessible integration make accomplishing these tasks less tedious. That also creates opportunities to reduce the number of errors, such as saving a document to the wrong location or forgetting to upload paperwork into your DMS.

Other Ways You Can Extend the Impact of Power PDF

There are other ways to leverage the Marketplace to enhance the value of your investment in Power PDF. Alongside the connector SDK, you can investigate several other free resources. These include:

• The Power PDF 5 Automation Interface Guide. Use this resource to learn how to automate repetitive PDF-related tasks for faster document management and manipulation.
• The Power PDF JavaScript Reference Guide. Learn how the JavaScript API can be a potent tool for batch processing and data import/export operations within Power PDF.
• The Power PDF Command Line Reference. Quickly call specific functions from the command line for convenience and speed.

With these solutions available at no additional cost, you can extend core functionalities in your business that allow you to recognize a strong ROI in a shorter period.

Find More Ways to Automate and Innovate in the Marketplace

With more document capabilities at your fingertips, it’s possible to eliminate tedious steps and reduce the need to move between different software platforms constantly. The Tungsten Marketplace makes finding solutions designed to tackle everyday business problems easy.

The Power PDF Connector SDK is just one example of what’s possible. The Marketplace also contains a wealth of additional resources, including more ways to extend the impact of Power PDF. You could even introduce some automation to your PDF-related work. Download the free SDK today to learn more or find other ways to innovate in the Marketplace.