• Overview

    Spire.PDF for .NET is a professional PDF component applied to create, read, write, edit and handle PDF documents without any external dependencies within .NET application. Using Spire.PDF for .NET, you can implement rich capabilities to generate PDF documents from scratch or process existing PDF documents entirely through C#/VB code without installing Adobe Acrobat.

    Many features can be supported by this PDF component, such as security setting (including digital signature), PDF text/image/attachment extract, PDF merge/split, metadata update, section and paragraph optimizing, graph/image drawing and inserting, table creation and processing, and importing data etc. Besides, Spire.PDF for .NET can be applied to easily convert HTML, Text, and Image to PDF with high fidelity.

    With an incredible wealth of features and affordable price, you can quickly download Spire.PDF for .NET and effortlessly install it in their system. Thereafter, you can reference Spire.Pdf.dll directly in your own .NET application to manipulate PDF documents.

    New Feature: Conversion Between XPS to PDF and PDF to Image are available Now!

    Commonly Used Features and Functionality:

    Conversion features
    Spire.PDF for .NET supports converting HTML (HTM, ASPX), Text, and Image etc. to PDF documents with efficient performance. Developers can transform these image formats, such JPG, PNG, BMP, TIF, GIF and ICO to PDF format. Furthermore, along with Spire.Doc for .NET, developers can convert Word (Doc/Docx), Excel(Xls/Xlsx), RTF and XML to PDF.
    Document Operations features and Forms features
    Spire.PDF for .NET offers the facility to merge/split PDF documents and overlay documents. That is to say, users can overlay pages from different PDF documents one over another. Meanwhile, Spire.PDF for .NET can provide import and stamp feature, booklet feature and form filling which can help users read value from form fields and populate a database.
    Security features
    Spire.PDF for .NET can protect PDF documents by setting passwords and digital signature. User password and owner password can determine the encrypted PDF documents readability, modifiability, printability and other selective restrictions. Meanwhile, digital signature, as a more effective method, can be applied to safeguard and authenticate PDF documents.
    Extract features
    Spire.PDF for .NET can be used to extract images, text, pages and attachments from a PDF document with great speed and accuracy.
    Document Settings features
    Document information can be set with Spire.PDF for .NET including custom metadata, document properties, page orientation, and page size. Wherein, document properties consist of document restrictions (printing, document assembly, page extraction, comment etc. allowed or not) and document description about file title, author, subject, keywords and so on. By using Spire.PDF for.NET, viewer preferences can be set with position, title display, resize, page mode and print scaling etc.

    More features…

    • Spire.PDF for .NET can support text formatting, multilingual support, text alignment etc.
    • It provides pen and brush to draw shape elements, text, images into PDF.
    • Layers, transparent graphics, color space and barcode creation can render PDF.
    • PDF/A-1b and PDF/x1a:2001 Compliance, both standards can be applied.
    • Developers have a great option to add scalar/vector images and mask and place them in designated location.
    • Table and table style can be supported by Spire.PDF for .NET
    • Spire.PDF for .NET can be used to insert interactive elements including Annotation, action, JavaScript, attachment, bookmark with specifying place and appearance.

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  • Product Features

    Support Environment

    • Fully written in C# and also support VB.NET
    • Applied on .NET Framework 2.0, 3.5, 3.5 Client Profile, 4.0 and 4.0 Client Profile
    • Support Windows Forms and ASP.NET Applications
    • Support 32-bit OS
    • Support 64-bit OS
    • Support PDF Version 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6 and 1.7
    • API reference in HTML
    • Be Independent and do not need Adobe Acrobat or other third party libraries

    Text

    • Draw Text
    • Set Text Format( font, size, color, layout, rotate, transform, alignment, transparency)
    • Read/Extract Text( Whole Page, Certain Page, Particular Pages)

    Fonts

    • 14 Core Fonts
    • Type 1 Fonts
    • Type 3 Fonts
    • True Type Fonts
    • CJK Fonts
    • Unicode Support(Part)

    Images

    • Draw Image
    • Draw Special Shapes( lines, Rectangles, Circles, Arcs, Ellipses, Five-Pointed Star)
    • Read / Extract Images (Jpg, Jpeg, Png, Bmp, Tiff, Gif, Ico etc)

    Attachments

    • Add Attachments
    • Add Attachments with Attachments Annotations
    • Remove Attachments
    • Read/Extract Attachments
    • Read/Extract Attachments with Attachments Annotations
    • Get Attachments Properties

    Tables

    • Simple Table
    • Image Table
    • Nested Table
    • Export Database Table and Pictures to PDF
    • Set Table Layout

    Bookmarks

    • Add Bookmarks
    • Add Child Bookmarks
    • Get Bookmarks
    • Get Child Bookmarks
    • Clear Bookmarks
    • Modify Bookmarks
    • Modify Child Bookmarks

    List

    • Simple List
    • Ordered List
    • Multiple levels List

    Header and Footer

    • Add Text in Header
    • Add Text in Footer
    • Add Image in Header
    • Add Image in Footer

    Watermark

    • Add Text Watermark
    • Add Image Watermark
    • Modify Text Watermark
    • Modify Image Watermark

    Links and Actions

    • Add Hyperlinks( Plain Link and Anchor Link)
    • Work with Action
    • Work with Javascript Action
    • Work with Action Chain
    • Work with Action Annotation

    FormField

    • Add Fields(Text Box, Check Box, List box, Combo Box, Button, Radio Button)
    • Remove Fields
    • Edit Fields
    • Fill Fields

    Pages

    • Add PDF Pages
    • Add Empty Page in PDF
    • Delete PDF Pages
    • Read/Extract PDF Pages
    • Set Page Number
    • Get Page Count
    • Paginate Pages
    • Set Page Transition
    • Set Page Label
    • Set Page Orientation
    • Set Page Transparency
    • Set Page Overlay
    • Create PDF Booklet
    • Draw PDF Barcode

    Document

    • Set PDF Properties
    • Set PDF View Preference
    • Set PDF Template
    • Merge PDF Files
    • Split PDF File( by one page and any range of pages)

    Conversion

    • Convert Webpage HTM, HTM ASPX to PDF
    • Convert Images of Jpeg, Jpg, Png, Bmp, Tiff, Gif, Ico etc to PDF
    • Convert Text to PDF

    Security

    • Encrypt PDF ( Owner Passwords and User Passwords)
    • Decrypt PDF
    • Create PDF Digital Signature
    • Modify PDF Passwords(Owner Passwords and User Passwords)

    Feature Details

    Feature Support Feature Support
    Drawing Text Standards
    Text Formatting √ PDF/ A-1b Compliance √
    Multilingual Support √ PDF/x1a: 2001 Compliance √
    Text Extraction (Only for .NET) √ Fonts
    Graphics Standard Fonts √
    Pen and Brush √ CJK Fonts √
    Layers (Only for .NET) ** True Type Fonts √
    Transparent Graphics √ Unicode True Type √
    Color Spaces ** Images
    Image Extraction √ Scalar Images √
    Transform √ Mask √
    Bar code (Only for .NET) √ Vector Images √
    Document Operations Watermarks √
    Merge Documents √ Data Management
    Split Document (Only for .NET) √ ADO.Net Tables Support(Only for .NET) √
    Overlay Documents √ Rich Table Styles √
    Import and Stamp √ Table Features(Only for .NET) √
    Booklet √ Page Operations
    Document Settings Headers and Footers √
    Custom Metadata √ Page Label √
    Document Properties √ Automatic Fields √
    Page Orientation √ Interactive Elements
    Page Sizes √ Annotation **
    Viewer Preferences √ Action √
    Forms JavaScript √
    Create Form √ Attachment √
    Form Filling ** Bookmark √
    Form Export ** Security
    Conversion Digital Signature √
    HTML to PDF √ Encryption √
    Doc To PDF (Spire.Doc required) √ Decryption √

    ** Partial supported

    Note: Transparent Graphics is Partial Supported for Silverlight