Format text into one or more rectangular or arbitrarily shaped areas with hyphenation (user-supplied hyphenation points required), font and color changes, justification methods, tabs, leaders, control commands; wrap text around images. Advanced line-breaking with language-specific processing. Flexible image placement and formatting. Wrap text around images or image clipping paths.

Common vector graphics primitives: lines, curves, arcs, ellipses*, rectangles, etc. Smooth shadings (color blends), pattern fills and strokes. Transparency (opacity) and blend modes. External graphical content (Reference XObjects) for variable data printing. Reusable path objects and clipping paths imported from images.