ABCpdf .NET

ABCpdf .NET is a C# library component designed for creating and manipulating Adobe PDF documents. It is suitable for both web server and standalone applications, making it a versatile solution for businesses of all sizes.

Key Features

Direct to PDF: ABCpdf .NET utilizes a direct-to-PDF approach to generate PDFs without the need for print drivers, resulting in efficient performance.

High-Performance Simplicity: ABCpdf .NET is a PDF library designed for the Microsoft .NET Framework. It offers a comprehensive set of features while maintaining simplicity and ease of use. Users can quickly become productive with ABCpdf within ten minutes.

Fully Multi-Threaded: ABCpdf .NET is fully multi-threaded, allowing it to be used in various .NET environments, including C#, ASPX, VB, .NET Enterprise Services, COM+, MTS, and Classic ASP. It has been extensively tested in high-performance multi-threaded environments, ensuring reliability and stability.

Web Page and HTML to PDF Conversion: ABCpdf .NET supports HTML/CSS and related technologies such as JavaScript, SVG, AJAX, and Font Awesome. It offers three different HTML to PDF rendering engines, providing flexibility and options for conversion. Users can import HTML from local or remote websites and utilize features like dynamic modification of pages and user tagged areas.

Many Image Formats: ABCpdf .NET supports a wide range of image formats, including JPEG, GIF, TIFF, BMP, PNG, EXIF, WMF, EMF, JPEG 2000, Photoshop PSD & PSB, PS, EPS, XPS, WPF, SVG, and SWF (Flash). It can handle multi-page CCITT or Group 4 Fax TIFFs and supports TIFFs with JPEG, OJPEG, and HDR content.

Many Document Formats: ABCpdf .NET provides full support for Encapsulated PostScript (EPS), XML Paper Specification (XPS), and Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) documents. Users can convert PDF documents to XPS or EPS and vice versa, preserving color spaces and embedded fonts. The library also supports a wide range of other document formats, including Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, WordPerfect, Lotus 1-2-3, and AutoCAD.

Sophisticated PDF Rendering: ABCpdf .NET offers rendering of PDFs to various file types, with control over options like halftones, overprint, and color separations. It supports PDF printing using different techniques and provides features like font embedding for automatic printer transfer. Transparency flattening and font vectorization capabilities are available for removing transparency and converting fonts to vector outlines.

Full Featured Graphics Capabilities: ABCpdf .NET supports OpenType, TrueType, and Type 1 fonts, allowing users to reference or embed fonts into PDFs. Users can apply transformations like rotation, magnification, skew, and translation to text, images, and graphics. The library offers extensive text settings for precise control over text display and layout.

Document Level Support: ABCpdf .NET enables a broad range of PDF manipulation, from simple read and save operations to drawing content from one PDF into another. It supports layer and page insertion, allowing users to add graphics to any layer on a page. Users can insert, append, reorder, stitch, and merge pages in PDF documents.

Unicode and Complex Language Support: ABCpdf .NET supports Unicode and foreign languages, allowing users to reference or embed Unicode fonts for accurate reproduction. It supports bidirectional layout and contextual ligatures required for languages like Hebrew and Arabic. Multi-styled text and text box chaining features simplify the flow of text through different areas.