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What’s New

• ABC pdf now supports TrueType fonts. You can either reference the font which keeps your PDF documents lightweight for distribution on the web. Or for guaranteed fidelity of reproduction you can embed fonts within your PDF document
• You can now add virtually any graphic into your PDFs. ABC pdf supports JPEG, GIF, TIFF, BMP, PNG, EXIF, WMF and EMF. Additionally you can reference image data from multiple locations in your document - great for inserting watermarks and other frequently used graphics
• Read and modify existing PDF documents. In most situations the standard ABC pdf methods will let you do everything you want. However if you want to take low level control over virtually any aspect of your document you can do this using our new information access methods
• You can apply advanced transformations like rotation, magnification, skew and translation to all the standard ABCpdf objects. This means you can draw rotated text, images and graphics all with only a few simple commands
• There are lots of new text settings to allow you precise control over the way that your text is laid out. Paragraph indent, kerning and tracking, word spacing, line spacing, paragraph spacing and horizontal justification are just some of the settings you can control

With ABCpdf.NET V3.5 you can import HTML and split it into chunks. This means you can split HTML content over multiple PDF pages or into multiple columns. It's fully style-sheet aware and because it uses the MSHTML engine it gives perfect results every time.

Plus there are lots of minor changes designed to make your life easier. Enhanced support for HTML styled text including lists, hyperlinks, superscript and subscript; CMYK JPEG import; and much much more.

What's New in V3.0?

• ABCpdf now supports HTML and HTML styled text. Import HTML from local or remote web sites. HTML styled text allows easy creation and layout of multi-styled text; supporting text box chaining to allow you to easily and automatically flow text through from one area to another
• ABC pdf now supports Unicode and foreign languages. Reference fonts from the relevant foreign language pack or embed Unicode fonts for guaranteed fidelity of reproduction on any platform. Draw text horizontally or vertically and quickly subset large CJK fonts with minimal use of memory and impact on server load. See AddFont for details
• ABCpdf now allows insertion of pages from other document for seamless joining, insertion and stitching of multiple documents into one. See AddImage and Append for details
• ABC pdf now supports PDF encryption for secure storage of PDF documents. You can apply user permissions and secure these permissions with encryption keys from 40 to 128 bits in size. See Encryption for details
• ABCpdf now supports Fields and Forms. Use placeholder fields in your template documents to position and lay out dynamically created elements
• ABCpdf now supports RGB, CMYK and Grayscale colors. This means you can produce high-quality print-friendly PDFs directly from your application
• ABCpdf now supports CCITT G4 compression for exceptionally high compression ratios on black and white images such as faxes or scans. It also supports EMF and WMF vector import
• ABCpdf is now even easier to use. We've made some subtle modifications to the behavior of a number of objects including the XRect object so that they work in line with the way that you expect rather than the way that PDF prescribes. We've also added a new AddGrid method to allow you to position objects more easily during development
• ABC pdf supports synthesized bold and italic typeface styles for situations in which you do not want to reference multiple typefaces
• ABC pdf is now fully floating point for precise positioning of text, line and other objects at a fractional point level
• ABCpdf now allows even more advanced control over any PDF object in your document. If you can't see how to accomplish a task using our simple to use methods then you can always access the raw PDF structure directly. For details see the Core Objects, Specific Objects and Object Paths sections of the documentation