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New in Amyuni PDF Creator .NET Version 4.5
Amyuni PDF Creator 4.5 is the result of more than a year of continual improvements over the previous 4.0 release. With Windows 7 and 64-bit OS becoming the standards in the PC market, all the aspects of running under these environments have been reviewed and optimized. Several performance enhancements and rendering accuracy have been added to the product.

• 64-bit SDK improves performance and compatibility with 64-bit applications
• Fully managed .NET assemblies enable integration with web form applications
• Improved performance and reliability for processing very large PDF documents containing heavy graphics
• Added support for PNG optimization in addition to the existing JPEG optimization
• New page caching algorithm keeps a defined number of pages in memory
• Improved PDF Rendering Engine
• Automatically fix non GDI compliant fonts for improved text support
• Advanced drawing operations (shadings, gradients)
• Wider support for third-party tools
• Improved XPS Rendering Engine
• Support for loading and saving PDF Actions and Destinations including Javascript
• Support for loading and saving external search index files
• JBIG2 compression of black and white images considerably reduces file size of scanned documents
• Support for multi-page TIFF images. New OCR module can be purchased separately as an add-on to PDF Creator

New in PDF Creator 4.0 for .NET

• The loading, creation, and display of layered PDF files.
• CJK file support, with the ability to specify the location of custom character maps (CMAPs).
• Text anti-aliasing for better on-screen document legibility (requires font installation on client PC).
• Internal PDF file structure access through comprehensive class architecture.
• Improved text editing operations such as font size adjustment to fit text into a field.
• Improved text highlighting capabilities.
• The addition of custom attributes to existing PDF Creator objects.
• Area zooming and panning capabilities.
• The ability to add custom metadata to the XMP metadata stream of a PDF.
• Exporting capabilities of a predefined sequence of pages instead of the entire document.
• Triggering of a number of new events such as progress or keyboard events.
• Improved bookmark operation such as drag-and-drop capabilities.
• Improved thumbnail control with a number of new operations and events.
• Ability to move one or multiple pages from one document to another.
• Support for a wider range of PDF files such as the PDF 1.7 format and the compressed XRef table format.
• The addition and extraction of attachments to and from PDF files.
• Exporting capabilities of PDF files into XAML in order to view from a Web page with Silverlight controls.
• Updated PDF/A engine ensures Acrobat 9 compatibility.
• Logging capabilities to ensure detailed detection and warning of errors during the processing of PDF files.
• Improved support for CJK languages and custom CMAPs.
• Resaving capabilities of PDF files using PDF 1.4, 1.5, or PDF/A formats.
• The generation of PDF/A-1a and PDF/A-1b files with embedding of custom XMP metadata.
• Support for Unicode strings for the selection of digital signatures.

New Printing Features for 4.0

• The ability to print a single page to multiple sheets or multiple pages to a single sheet.
• The option to rotate and scale the page during printing.
• Selectable paper tray options depending on the media type assigned to a page.
• A “Print Preview” report state to preview documents before printing.

New Performance Features for 4.0

• Improved file processing speed of PDF files that contain large graphics.
• Improved file loading capabilities from network drives.
• Reduced memory consumption during the processing of large numbers of pages.
• Reduced output file size through better page compression and reduced embedded font size. Improved performance and reliability of Merge operations.

New Graphics Features for 4.0

• JPEG2000 compression in addition to the existing image decompression.
• Delayed loading of JPEG and PNG images until they are required. This delay improves performance and memory usage during PDF processing.
• Improved performance of graphics library for faster decompression of CCITT and JBIG2 images.
• Improved support for transparencies and alpha-blending techniques.

Main Features

• FDF: Now supports loading FDF documents that contain data associated with a main PDF document.
• Support for loading documents containing JBIG2 and JPEG2000 compressed images.
• XPS document support: Supports loading XPS documents and exporting documents into XPS format.
• Tagged PDF: Create structured PDF documents as defined by the PDF specifications. Structured PDFs are easier to edit or export into other applications.
• PDF/A: Create PDFs that comply with the PDF/A ISO Standard.
• Unicode and CID font embedding now enable support for a wider range of fonts including Asian fonts.
• Fast and lightweight .NET class library and set of controls with small footprint makes it easy to distribute with applications.
• Edit and print PDF documents programmatically without any user interaction.
• Support for various types of form objects and annotations such as edit-fields, check-boxes, sticky-notes, highlighters, and others.
• Advanced printing features such as:
  • print pages to specific trays.
  • print specific pages of a document.
  • create a single print job from multiple PDFs.
  • print multiple pages on a single sheet of paper.
• Create PDF, RTF, HTML, JPEG, TIFF, and Excel documents using the same interface.

Security Features

• PDF documents can be secured using either 40- or 128-bit encryption algorithms to prevent them from being viewed, modified, or even printed.
• PDF documents can be digitally signed using any valid certificate installed on the end-user’s system.

Additional Features

• Ability to do paragraph editing with reflow. This is important due to the nature of PDF files that are otherwise not easily editable.
• Compression of images, graphics, and text heavily reduces the size of the resulting PDF file.
• Font embedding enables the inclusion of True Type® and Type1 fonts used in the source document to ensure perfect portability.
• Search/Replace capabilities from the user-interface or programmatically.
• Saving documents page-by-page makes it possible to create very large documents without consuming a huge amount of memory.
• Automatic creation of bookmarks and hyperlinks by analyzing the document contents.
• Enhanced functions for adding, inserting, deleting, and moving pages.
• Ability to open a PDF document as a background or template for the main document.
• PDF documents can be optimized for downloading through the web, also known as PDF linearization.
• Link to a database using Microsoft DAO (Data Access Objects) or using a custom link supplied by the application programmer.
• Define your own object types that are completely managed outside of PDF Creator.
• Render parts of a PDF document to a device context created by the calling application.

What's New in V3.0:

• XPS document support: Now supports loading XPS documents and exporting documents into XPS format
• FDF: Now supports loading FDF documents that contain data associated with a main PDF document
• Support for loading documents containing JBIG2 and JPEG2000 compressed images
• Tagged PDF: Create structured PDF documents as defined by the PDF specifications. Structured PDFs are easier to edit or export into other applications
• PDF/A: Create PDFs that comply with the PDF/A ISO Standard
• Unicode and CID font embedding now enable support for a wider range of fonts including asiatic fonts

Main Features

• Support for the new Microsoft Vista operating system
• Fast and lightweight .NET class library and set of controls with small footprint makes it easy to distribute with applications
• Edit and print PDF documents programmatically without any user interaction
• Support for various types of form objects and annotations such as edit-fields, check-boxes, sticky-notes, highlighters, and others
• Advanced printing features such as:
  • print pages to specific trays
  • print specific pages of a document
  • create a single print job from multiple PDFs
  • print multiple pages on a single sheet of paper
• Create PDF, RTF, HTML, JPEG, TIFF and Excel documents using the same interface

Security Features

• PDF documents can be secured using either 40-bit or 128-bit encryption algorithms to prevent them from being viewed, modified or even printed
• PDF documents can be digitally signed using any valid certificate installed on the end-user’s system

Additional Features

• Ability to do paragraph editing with reflow – this is important due to the nature of PDF files that are otherwise not easily editable
• Compression of images, graphics and text heavily reduces the size of the resulting PDF file
• Font embedding enables the inclusion of True Type® and Type1 fonts used in the source document to ensure perfect portability
• Search/Replace capabilities from the user-interface or programmatically
• Saving documents page by page makes it possible to create very large documents without consuming a huge amount of memory
• Automatic creation of bookmarks and hyperlinks by analyzing the document contents
• Enhanced functions for adding, inserting, deleting and moving pages
• Ability to open a PDF document as a background or template for the main document
• PDF documents can be optimized for downloading through the web, also known as PDF linearization
• Link to a database using Microsoft DAO (Data Access Objects) or using a custom link supplied by the application programmer
• Define your own object types that are completely managed outside of the PDF Creator
• Render parts of a PDF document to a device context created by the calling application

Support

Maintenance includes:

• Free downloads of minor and major releases for one year
• Email and voice support (5 voice incidents per year)
• Access to technical notes and FAQ's
• Automatic enrolment in User Forum

Updates and Upgrades

• An Update is defined as moving your product to the latest version currently available for that same product
• An Upgrade is defined as obtaining a product of higher value that contains the product that you already own

Updates

• Updates are free for holders of valid Preferred Support
• Updates for holders of Standard Maintenance - Updates can be purchased with either a 25% or 50% discount, or no discount, depending on the version currently held.

Upgrades

• Upgrades for holders of valid Preferred Support - Upgrades can be obtained by paying the difference in price between the held product and the desired one.
• Upgrades for holders of Standard Maintenance - Upgrades can be obtained by purchasing an update for the product held, plus the cost of the price difference between the product held and the desired one.

Want to renew your Support?
Support plans are renewable prior to your current support plan expiry date. Renewals past the support plan expiry date must first purchase an update.