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PDFTechLib by PDF Technologies

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Add complex PDF creation functionality to your applications. PDFTechLib PDF Core Library is a .NET class library used to create and edit PDF documents. The library does not require the use of third-party products and is not a print driver. You can create stylish PDF documents with just a few lines of code. You will be able to fill PDF e-forms, merge and split PDF documents, add barcodes and create your own PDF reports and documents. With no extra effort, you will be able to create PDF documents that are ISO 19005: PDF/A (PDF/A-1b : 2005) compliant, the new standard in long term archiving of electronic documents. The library is written in 100% C# managed code allowing you to develop royalty free server-side or desktop applications with great ease. You may use any .NET compatible language, such as C#, VB.NET or ASP.NET to create stylish PDF documents that deliver great results.

PDFTechLib Technical Overview - PDFTechLib PDF Core Library is a .NET class library used to create and edit PDF documents. The library does not require the use of third-party products and is NOT a print driver. You can create stylish PDF documents with just a few lines of code. You will be able to fill PDF e-forms, merge and split PDF documents, add barcodes and create your own PDF reports and documents. The library is written in 100% C# managed code allowing you to develop royalty free server-side or desktop applications with great ease. The simple and intuitive PDF class library is easy to learn and use. Within minutes, you will be able to create robust PDF documents from text, extract text from PDF documents, split and merge previously created PDF documents, create complex reports, build mail merge applications, fill server side PDF forms and generate PDF documents from various image formats with just a few lines of code. With no extra effort, you will be able to create PDF documents that are ISO 19005: PDF/A compliant, the new standard in long term archiving of electronic documents. You may use any .NET compatible language, such as C#, VB.NET or ASP.NET to create stylish PDF documents that deliver great results.

PDFTechLib Core PDF Library Features

Standard Fonts - Standard fonts are fonts used by Adobe and need not be embedded. The PDFTechLib supports the use of standard fonts.

True Type Fonts - The PDFTechLib fully supports True Type fonts and automatically embeds them into the generated PDF.

Open Type Fonts - The PDFTechLib fully supports Open Type fonts and automatically embeds them into the generated PDF.

CJK Fonts - The PDFTechLib also supports Far East Fonts. Supported Far East Fonts:

HeiseiKakuGothicW5

HeiseiMinchoW3

HanyangSystemsGothicMedium

HanyangSystemsShinMyeongJoMedium

MonotypeHeiMedium

MonotypeSungLight

SinoTypeSongLight

Unicode - The PDFTechLib fully supports the Unicode Encoding

Character Sets -In addition to providing support for Unicode, the PDFTechLib supports character sets such as Greek, Russian, Turkish, Baltic, Eastern European character sets.

Font embedding -The PDFTechLib can use and embed all fonts.

Tables -Advanced table support for the creation of stylish reports from SQL Queries. Column and row spanning.

Text Generation:

Text Formatting

Text align

Break long words

First line indent

Line spacing

Orientation

Column count

Clipping text

Multiple Columns

Ability to add text format options to columns - The core library supports two or three column page options.

Auto Text - Auto text method support the flow of text to next page automatically if the added text does not fit the current page.

Text Justification - Supports alignment parameters such as Left, Center, Right and Justified.

Text Boxes - Using the text box functionality, you may set text on any location on the page. You may also set properties such as rotate and clip.

Tagged texts - Using the AddTaggedText method, you may set text with embedded HTML tags. The following HTML tags are interpreted and supported:

font

b

i

u

st

br

sup

sub

a

hr

p

Drawing - Various Shapes. Rendering and color support for shapes such as Lines, Rectangles, Circle, and Bezier curves.

Brush Types: Hatch, Gradient

Barcode Support - PDF Technologies Core library supports the creation of 1D and 2D barcodes. These are:

EAN Family - Symbologies used to mark retail products and publications worldwide.

Ean13

Ean8

Isbn

Ismn

Issn

Jan13

Jan8

Scc14

Sscc18

UccEan128

Upc_E

UpcA

128 Full ASCII Family -Highly dense and general purpose full ASCII range symbologies used in shipping and distribution industry.

Code_128

Telepen

3 of 9 Family - Symbologies used in automotive and defense industry.

Code32

Code39

Code93

NumlyNumber

Pharmacode

Pzn

2 of 5 Family - General purpose numeric symbologies used in warehouse, airline ticketing, medical, and automotive industry.

Industrial2of5

Interleaved2of5

Itf14

Opc

Plessy Family - Symbologies used for marking retail shelves.

Msi

Codabar - Discrete and self-checking symbology used in blood banks, photo labs, and on FedEx air bills.

Codabar

Code11

Postal - Symbologies used by postal services for sorting mails.

AustraliaPost

DeutschePostIdentcode

DeutschePostLeitcode

Planet

Postnet

RoyalMail

Kix

SingaporePost

SwissPostParcel

UspsFim

UspsHorizontalBars

IntelligentMail

UspsPicUccEan128

UspsSackLabel

UspsTrayLabel

2D Family - Encode more data in less space with 2D symbologies. These symbologies also offer better error correction mechanisms.

AztecCode

Code16k

CompactPdf417

DataMatrix

MacroPdf417

MicroPdf417

PDF417

QRCode

Semacode

Images

Support for vector images such as EMF and WMF

Scalar images can be embedded into any PDF page.

Ability to add an image mask

Support for transparency

Support for any type of PDF stamp. You can use any image or text as a stamp.

Support for Watermarks.

Interactivity

Support for Acro forms.

Form filling

Ability to open an existing PDF document and filling form values.

Flatten Acro form objects

Ability to flatten form values in existing PDF documents.

Form filling with XML, FDF and XFDF

Ability to fill forms with XML, FDF, XFDF

Ability to attach any type of document into an existing PDF file as an attachment.

Ability to place any type of annotation to PDF files. Examples of annotation types that can be used are: PDFTextAnnotation, PdfRubberStampAnnotation, PdfLineAnnotation, PdfFileAttachmentAnnotation, PdfMarkupAnnotation, PDFCircleAnnotation

Ability to place a bookmark any location of a PDF document.

Actions - Support for the following actions

Go to Page

import data

java script

launch

remote go to

reset form

submit form

url

visible control

Page Elements:

Ability to adjust page margins (top, bottom, left, right)

Ability to set a page header and footer

Ability to set the unit of measure such as inches, pixels, centimeters, millimeters etc.

Ability to specify transition effects in full screen mode.

Automatic page numbering using Roman and Arabic numerals.

Ability to set thumbnails

Settings:

Document Properties

Ability to set property fields such as Author, Subject and Keywords

Ability to set Custom Properties

Ability to set the page orientation (Landscape and Portrait)

Ability to set any page size.

Viewer Preferences:

Ability to set how the viewer behaves by changing settings such as HideToolBar, HideMenuBar, HideWindowUI, FitWindow, CenterWindow

Security:

Ability to encrypt and decrypt any PDF file.

You may set passwords and permissions on any PDF document. The library supports 128-bit and 40-bit encryption. You may edit encrypted PDF file

Ability to recover the owner password for any PDF file.

Permissions:

Ability to set permissions on any PDF file such as (Allow print, Allow editing, Allow text and image extraction, etc).

Digital signatures - Ability to apply digital signatures to any PDF file.

Conversion and Reporting:

HTML to PDF - PDFTechLib uses the MSHTML.DLL to convert HTML pages to PDF. It automatically splits pages and can identify and embed internal and external links.

XML to PDF - PDFTechLib can automatically match up XML and XSL files to generate PDF document.

Text to PDF - PDFTechLib can use the "Add Text" method to convert text into PDF.

Tiff to PDF with CCITT Fax compression -PDFTechLib can convert multi-page TIFF files into PDF.

Text extraction - PDFTechLib can extract Text out of any PDF file.

Misc Features:

PDF Page Templates

Split, Merge and Extract functions

Compatible with PDF/A-1b : 2005

What's new in PDFTechLib V1.7.37?

Performance improvements

Page Header and Footer Enhancements

Table support extended to include row spans

Add complex PDF creation functionality to your applications.

Pricing: PDFTechLib V1.7.37 1 Developer License with 1 Year Subscription, PDFTechLib V1.7.37 4 Developer Team License with 1 Year Subscription, PDFTechLib V1.7.37 8 Developer Team License with 1 Year Subscription, PDFTechLib V1.7.37 1 Site Wide License (Allows Unlimited Developers at a Single Physical Address) with 1 Year Subscription, PDFTechLib V1.7.37 Corporate License (Allows Unlimited Developers at a Unlimited Physical Address) with 1 Year Subscription, PDFTechLib Subscription Renewal 1 Developer License 1 Year Subscription Renewal, PDFTechLib Subscription Renewal 4 Developer Team License 1 Year Subscription Renewal, PDFTechLib Subscription Renewal 8 Developer Team License 1 Year Subscription Renewal, PDFTechLib Subscription Renewal 1 Site Wide License (Allows Unlimited Developers at a Single Physical Address) 1 Year Subscription Renewal, PDFTechLib Subscription Renewal Corporate License (Allows Unlimited Developers at a Unlimited Physical Address) 1 Year Subscription Renewal

Evals & Downloads: Read the PDFTechLib help file, Read the PDFTechLib Getting Started Guide - Requires Acrobat Reader, Read the PDFTechLib License Agreement - Requires Acrobat Reader, Download the PDFTechLib V1.7.37 evaluation on to your computer - Output Display Evaluation Messages

Operating System for Deployment: Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2000

Architecture of Product: 32Bit

Product Type: Component

Component Type: .NET Class

Compatible Containers: Microsoft Visual Studio 2008, Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, Microsoft Visual Basic 2008, Microsoft Visual Basic 2005, Microsoft Visual C++ 2008, Microsoft Visual C++ 2005, Microsoft Visual C# 2008, Microsoft Visual C# 2005, .NET Framework 3.5, .NET Framework 3.0, .NET Framework 2.0

Keywords: PDF Creator, PDF Component, Royalty Free, .NET, PDF/A pdf tech lib techlib pdf-a

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