Aspose.Pdf for .NET

What's new in Aspose.Pdf V6.2?

• Pdf to Pdf/A font conversion
• Implement EMF Devices
• Concatenate method adds a suffix to the same name fields
• Add separation tEMFDeviceso RGB color conversions
• Add Lab to RGB color conversions
• Supports PDF to DOC conversion

What's new in Aspose.Pdf V6.0?

• Validate PDF files for PDF/A-1a and PDF/A-1b compliance
• Convert PDF files to PDF/A-1a and PDF/A-1b compliant files
• Convert PDF files to Linearized PDFs

What's new in Aspose.Pdf V5.0?
The following bugs were fixed:

• HTML Paragraph tags are not properly being rendered
• H1 and H2 objects are being displayed in single line
• Word to PDF problem with Chinese documents
• XML-FO and XSL-FO transformation to PDF - formatting issues
• Formatting issue in BindFO feature
• Attachments & security not working
• The IsFilled property is not working with the Arc object

What's new in Aspose.Pdf V4.9?

• Added "continued" to the bottom of a wrapped page
• Now supports form validation and custom calculation
• Now supports Cell Background Images
• Now supports different styles for repeating rows
• Vertical text for Graph Note
• Inserting text across multiple pages can have different templates, margins or headers
• A new Pdf Section attribute named FirstPageInfo has been added (in addition to existing one PageInfo). It contains same page setup properties as PageInfo (like page size, margin) but it only applies to the first page in a section.

What's new in Aspose.Pdf V4.8?

• Improvements in generating large size PDF documents
• Added the support for following HTML controls while transforming HTML contents into PDF file:
• <alt> html tag.
• <width> property of table
• <menu> html element
• <dir> html element
• <dd> html element
• <dl> html element
• <dt> html element
• <basefont> html element
• Fix image height

What's new in Aspose.Pdf V4.6? - Now supports transformation of large TIFF images into PDFs using efficient utilization of memory resources. In addition, it now supports the following HTML controls when transforming HTML contents into a PDF.

• Select
• Option
• CheckBox
• TextArea
• Text

What's new in Aspose.Pdf V4.4?

• Support for .NET Framework 4.0 / Visual Studio 2010.
• Support for MemoryStream object while creating PDF in Direct-to-File mode.
• Overloaded method  BindFO(XmlDocument xmldocument,XmlDocument xsldocument); which now also takes XSLT as an argument.
• Better fonts support while creating PDF documents.
• Stable inLineHTML to PDF conversion

What's new in Aspose.Pdf V4.3?

• Method to return the current product version
• Turn of text wrapping inside table cell
• Assign value to Radio buttons while creating PDF form 

What's new in Aspose.Pdf V4.1?

What's New?

• Now supports page gutter
• Now supports opacity for text

What's improved?

• Performance and memory efficiency have been improved notably. In testing, the performance for normal XML2PDF has been improved for 60% on average and the performance for Word2PDF is improved for 30% on average.
• Beside Text paragraph, Image and Table paragraphs are now supported in FootNote and EndNote
• The long-term unresolved issue that unwanted blanks around page number has been fixed
• The logic is more reasonable when processing table and cell borders

What's new in Aspose.Pdf 4.0?

In this release, the feature 'PDF Linearization' (sometimes called 'Web Optimized' or 'Fast Web View') is now supported. The idea behind linearization is faster display of PDF documents downloaded from the web. If you're developing a Web-based system that creates large PDF files for delivery to web browsers over the Internet, you should try to make sure that your system can generate linearized PDF files. As your users might become frustrated and impatient if your system creates large PDF files that are not linearized. In addition, Aspose have optimized the performance and memory usage for large table processing. Mirror margin feature in MS Word is now supported when converting doc into PDF. Importing PDF file into Corel Draw is also supported in this release.

What's new in Aspose.Pdf V3.9?

• In this release, PDF/A-1a and PDF/A1 are now fully supported.

What's new in Aspose.Pdf V3.x?

• Bookmarks at specific points
• Custom action for bookmarks
• Custom action for links
• EMF and WMF support in FO2PDF
• Security setting in xsl-fo
• Multi-Line Text Field is supported
• Canvas is supported

PDF Document Features

• Document information like Author, Creator etc. can be set
• Bookmarks level of the headings of the document can be configured
• Compression level of the document can be controlled
• Document open action can be set to Fit Page or Fit Box etc.
• Document open mode or appearance can be set to Thumbnails or Bookmarks etc.
• Document can have different Page Transition Effects like Dissolve or Box etc.
• XML and FO can be bound to the PDF document
• HTML files can be bound to the PDF document using a file name or a Web URL
• Create Pdf documents via XML, API or XML and API combined

Section Features

• Page size and page margins of each section can be defined
• Page backgroung image of each section can be defined
• Page header and footer of each section can be defined
• Unique ID can be assigned to each section
• Multiple paragraphs can be added to a section

Paragraph Features

• Margins of each paragraph can be defined
• Unique ID can be assigned to each paragraph
• Each paragraph can be rendered into a new page
• Custom positioning of any paragraph is also supported

Text Features

• Text can be aligned to right, left, center, justify or full justify
• Left hanging text paragraph can be created
• White spaces in the text can be preserved
• Text format can be set and inherited by the child nodes of the PDF DOM
• Text format for all segments can be changed
• Text can be made underline, overline or strikout
• Text can be rendered
• Vertical alignment of text segments can be set to baseline or topline
• Text background color can be changed
• PostScript Type1, TrueType and other PDF Core Fonts are also supported
• Replaceable symbols are also supported to change the corresponding text content at runtime
• Right-to-left languages such as Arabic, Hebrew and Urdu etc. are supported
• Custom TAB stops in the text paragraphs are also supported

Graph Features

• Different shapes of graphs are supported
• Graphs can be drawn on any page location specified by its coordinates
• Graphs can be rotated and scaled

Imaging Features

• Images can be added to documents from local disk or memory
• Web images can be added to documents by giving their Web URLs
• CCITT (Fax) images are supported
• Multi-pages TIFF images are also supported
• TIFF image with CCITT (Sub-Format) can be added to document
• Transparent GIF and TIFF images are supported
• Default image feature is also added
• Images with fixed width can be added to table cells of a document
• Relative file path of the images are also supported

Heading Features

• Headings of the document can be numbered or bulleted
• Heading levels and auto sequencing can be configured
• System and User defined bullets can be used for headings

Table Features

• Border style, margin and padding of a table can be set
• Columns width and spanning can be controlled
• Row splitting of a table can be controlled
• Table cloning is supported in two versions: Clone and Complete Clone
• Importing data from object array, DataTable or DataView into table is supported
• Default cell formatting can be applied on all table cells
• Rows and columns can be formatted
• Nested tables are allowed

Hyperlink Features

• Hyperlinks to pages in the same document are supported
• Hyperlinks to pages in another document are also supported
• Hyperlinks to Non-PDF files are supported too
• Hyperlinks to web locations can also be added by specifying a target URL

Attachment Features

• File of any type can be attached to a PDF document
• Note annotations can also be attached to a PDF document
• Position and size of the note's popup window can be specified

List Features

• Table of contents are supported
• List of tables can be added
• List of figures can be included too
• All lists can be formatted at every level
• Headings, Tables, Images or Graphs can be added as list items

Form Field Features

• Form fields can be created programmatically
• Form fields can be positioned using table
• Form fields can be positioned using custom positioning

Security Features

• PDF documents can be encrypted upto 128 bits
• Master and User passwords can be set for PDF encryption
• Content modification in PDF documents can be restricted
• Copying content of PDF documents can be restricted
• Printing of the PDF documents can be restricted
• Form filling of the PDF documents can be restricted
• Degraded printing of the PDF documents can be restricted
• Annotation modification of the PDF documents can be restricted
• PDF documents assemblying can be restricted
• Screen readers of the PDF documents can be restricted

Conversion Features

• Convert an existing XML file (.xml) plus a Style Sheet file (.xsl) to a new PDF document or a PDF file stream
• Convert an existing XML XmlDocument plus a Style Sheet XmlDocument to a new PDF document or a PDF file stream
• Convert an existing FO file (.fo) to a new PDF document or a PDF file stream
• Convert an existing FO file stream to a new PDF document or a PDF file stream
• Convert an existing FO XmlDocument to a new PDF document or a PDF file stream
• Convert an HTML page (using the local file name or a web url) into a PDF document

Advance Features

• Integration with Aspose.Chart is supported
• Minimum column width of a table can be acheived
• Page borders can be created
• XML can be used as a template
• Aspose.Pdf can be used with COM applications