• Overview

    Spire.PDF for Silverlight is a PDF component that enables users to develop applications in Silverlight. With Spire.PDF for Silverlight, users can read, write and manipulate PDF documents without Adobe Acrobat. As a powerful Silverlight PDF component, it provides lots of featured functions. Spire.PDF for Silverlight supports standard PDF/ A-1b, PDF/X1a and even encrypted PDF documents.

    Users can use Spire.PDF for Silverlight to do most PDF document operations like merge PDF documents.

    Furthermore, this Silverlight PDF component can help setting PDF document properties. Spire.PDF for Silverlight is a standalone Silverlight component. It is independently and doesn’t need any other 3rd party software/library installed on system.

    New Release: Hotfix 2.5.7
    •Support adding Meta Data to PDF

    Rich Features

    Spire.Pdf supports features such as:

    • Supports embedding fonts, true type fonts and CJK fonts
    • Draw shapes such as rectangles, circles, arcs, ellipses and fill them with custom brushes
    • Load Images to PDF documents from streams and files on disk. It can draw both scalar and vector images in the documents. Mask Images and Watermarks can also be drawn in the pages
    • Datatable can be imported into the PDF files. Rows and columns can be formatted. You can also insert graphic elements inside the table
    • Auto Page Breaks for large tables can be enabled in the PDF documents
    • Drawing Form Fields like buttons, text boxes, list boxes, check boxes, and so on, into the PDF document
    • Drawing Header and Footer in a PDF document
    • Read existing PDF forms and filling the form
    • HTML web page pagination is available to render large web pages into PDF without any text truncation at page breaks. Also, you can render the web pages as streams to create PDF without any intermediate files on disk

    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(Only for .NET)  
    Conversion(Only for .NET)   Digital Signature √
    HTML to PDF √ Encryption √
    Doc To PDF (Spire.Doc required) √ Decryption √

    ** Partial supported
    Note: Transparent Graphics is Partial Supported for Silverlight