Comparison with Adobe DPS - Woodwing and Paperlit

  • Universal distribution
  • True PDF
  • Customizable interface
  • Source code available
  • Zoomable content
  • Multimedia
  • Customizable Overlay
  • Bidimensional scrolling
  • Newsstand support
  • Two pages side by side
  • Text Search
  • Text interaction
  • Kiosk View
  • Share contents
  • Setup fee
  • Single issue App
  • Multi issue App
  • Per Download fee
  • Monthly fee
  • App with other features
  • Tool needed
  • Creation tool fee
Adobe DPS - Woodwing
  • Universal distribution Yes
  • True PDF Yes
  • Customizable interface Yes
  • Source code available Yes
  • Zoomable content Yes
  • Multimedia Yes
  • Customizable Overlay Yes
  • Bidimensional scrolling Yes
  • Newsstand support Yes
  • Two pages side by side Yes
  • Text Search Yes
  • Text interaction Yes
  • Kiosk View Yes
  • Share contents Yes
  • Setup fee Starting at € 4260
  • Single issue App ?
  • Multi issue App ?
  • Per Download fee € 0.22 after first 5000
  • Monthly fee Yes
  • App with other features ?
  • Tool needed At least InDesign CS 5.5
  • Creation tool fee € 1534,80
Paperlit
  • Universal distribution Yes
  • True PDF Yes
  • Customizable interface Yes
  • Source code available Yes
  • Zoomable content Yes
  • Multimedia Yes
  • Customizable Overlay Yes
  • Bidimensional scrolling Yes
  • Newsstand support ?
  • Two pages side by side Yes
  • Text Search Yes
  • Text interaction Yes
  • Kiosk View Yes
  • Share contents Yes
  • Setup fee Starting at € 2000
  • Single issue App Starting at € 100 per month
  • Multi issue App Starting at € 100 per month
  • Per Download fee ?
  • Monthly fee Starting at € 100 per month
  • App with other features ?
  • Tool needed None
  • Creation tool fee None
FastPdfKit
  • Universal distribution Yes
  • True PDF Yes
  • Customizable interface Yes
  • Source code available Yes
  • Zoomable content Yes
  • Multimedia Yes
  • Customizable Overlay Yes
  • Bidimensional scrolling Yes
  • Newsstand support Yes
  • Two pages side by side Yes
  • Text Search Yes
  • Text interaction Yes
  • Kiosk View Yes
  • Share contents Yes
  • Setup fee Starting at € 0
  • Single issue App Free
  • Multi issue App Free
  • Per Download fee Free
  • Monthly fee Free
  • App with other features Yes
  • Tool needed Any pdf editor
  • Creation tool fee Free

The source code for the core library is not available.

Universal distribution

Create just one pdf and distribute it on any iOS device: iPad, iPhone and iPod touch with or without retina display.

True PDF

Using true pdf document is a key feature as the download time is reduced dramatically, the same file is distributed to every device and you keep image sharpness even if zoomed. Obviously you don't need to pay someone to do the conversion process and the text interaction is preserved, giving the ability to search through pages, highlight text and even use accessibility features like automatic text reading.

Customizable interface

The whole interface is customizable, to perfectly fit your needs. You can choose to show just essential buttons, change the search appearance, add toolbars, etc.

The Kiosk sample has the full code available enabling you to customize everything to fit your client's needs.

Source code available

The source code is a key feature for your applications. If you rely on third party components, you need to access the code to perform even small customizations.

FastPdfKit ships with the sample project source code available and the full interface available with classes, xibs and storyboards.

Just the Core Rendering Engine is shipped as compiled library to prevent frauds and keep the quality hight. In the license you can find detailed informations on how the Core source code will be released if DIMENSION decides to stop supporting it.

Customizable Overlay

You can define your own overlay and customize the appearance, the content and the behavior. Your limit is the fantasy of your designer.

  • Scrollable views
  • Maps with position
  • Interactive idexes
  • Custom Table of Contents
  • Buttons
  • Animations
  • Formatted text
  • Complex image galleries
  • 3D touchable objects
  • Augmented reality
  • Take photos and movies

Multimedia

Add video, audio, web pages, html5 animations and native UIView on top of the pdf. With FastPdfKit you just need to add standard pdf annotations with your own preferred editing tool.

Zoomable content

The advantage of zoomable pages is clear: you can distribute not optimized pdf documents (read old ones) on iPhone and iPad, and let everyone fully enjoy your publications. You can obviously decide to activate or not the zoom functionality on each document with page granularity.

Text Search

Search for text inside documents is fundamental. But more important is the ability to highlight results and get their position on the page. FastPdfKit supports perfectly various font types and charachters, giving you a precise search on every document. FastPdfKit let you show results as list with the surrounding words in the phrase, or skim through them moving easily from one page to the following one and zooming on the next result.

Text interaction

FastPdfKit let you select text rectangles, get the inside text and present it to the user formatted in a different way; you can also share it and read it with the accessibility features. You can truly access every pdf opportunity.

Kiosk View

In the project freely available on GitHub is included a multimedial Kiosk project ready to be used to download magazines or a dynamic pdf list. Just take the sample xml file, customize it with your pdf addresses and put it on your pdf space. You'll obtain immediately an application fully functional to distribute pdf in every company.

Share contents

Add rapidly the ability to share parts of documents with ShareKit (Twitter, Facebook, Delicious, Email, Google Reader, Instapaper, Pinboard, Read it Later, Tumblr) or with the embedded iOS accounts. Use the article text extration or the full page text extraction and page thumbnail to let everyone know what you're reading!

Setup fee

Setup fee: FastPdfKit is free, download the sample code, read the documentation, use it in you application and if you want buy a commercial license when you need to publish the application without our logo, just eventually.

Single issue App

Do you want to create an application with a single pdf document? It's simple and everything will be ready in 5 minutes: take a look at our video tutorial.

Multi issue App

Do you plan to distribute many issues within the same application?

FastPdfKit is perfect as you can use it for distribute any number of issues at the same price choosing one of our license, and even freely.

Per Download fee

Some services are offering a per download fee, so you need to pay for every issued downloaded by each user, with huge ongoing costs. With FastPdfKit you can provide use a custom hosting solutions (like your own, with Amazon or with someone else of your choose) that fit your needs at a way lower price.

Monthly fee

Do you need to create an application? Do you have enough funds to create it? Perfect, with FastPdfKit you don't need anything else: no setup fee, no per download fee, no per issue fee, nothing.

App with other features

An app with just a pdf? Probably isn't so much appealing: add more features like tab bars with other contents, blog feeds, push notification with custom alerts, photo galleries and so on. As you have the source code you can add and remove any feature you like.

Tool needed

FastPdfKit doesn't need any custom editing tool to create its issues as it directly supports unmodified pdf documents, so there isn't any fee for any tool.

Creation tool fee

With Woodwing, Adobe and Paperlit you have to buy the editing or submitting tool or send you pdf document to let them modify it, paying a high cost.

With FastPdfKit you don't need any tool so you don't have to pay any fee.

Bidimensional scrolling

FastPdfKit presents pages side by side and you can skim swiping your finger left and right. Starting from version 2.0 we've added bi-dimensional scrolling: pages can be adapted by their width and if you swipe down you can scroll thought the bottom part of each page. In any moment you can swipe left or right to jump to the previous or the next page.

Two pages side by side

FastPdfKit let you choose to show a single page or two pages side by side in any device orientation to perfectly fit the page dimensions.

Newsstand support

FastPdfKit is can be used to leverage Newsstand magazines features.
  • Background download of single issues: let your user find ther magazines ready to read in the morning;
  • Show last issue cover insted of the classi App icon;
  • Join the custom App Store section of newspaper and magazines and get visibility;
  • Push notifications for new issues and automatic download.