Getting Started
Essential PDF generates a new PDF document without any dependence on Adobe. However, you will need a viewer to view the generated PDF document. This section demonstrates how a new PDF document can be created with Essential PDF.
Drawing Text
There is plenty of support for customising the text formatting and layout in the PDF documents generated using Essential PDF.
Fonts
Essential PDF supports Standard fonts, CJK fonts and True Type fonts.
Drawing support
Essential PDF exposes a comprehensive set of drawing API's that can be used to draw variety of shapes. These APIs are similar to .NET Graphics types. You can now work with handy APIs to create rich shapes.
Images
Essential PDF has support for loading images from streams, file on disk or from a System.Drawing.Bitmap Object. Images can also be resized and inserted into the pdf document at the required size. Even features like Watermarks and Soft Masking are supported.
Tables
Essential PDF has support for inserting tables into the PDF Document. You can create tables with Auto PageBreaks, Custom Formatting and also import a ADO.NET datatable into tables. Essential PDF also allows to insert various graphics elements within the table cells providing options to create rich looking reports.
Document Elements
Essential PDF supports various interactive features like Acroforms, Annotations, Attachments, Bookmarks, Hyperlinks etc.
Page Elements
Essential PDF has support for inserting page elements like Headers, Footers and page labels in a PDF document.
Settings
Essential PDF supports settings like Document properties, Page Orientation, Viewer Preferences, etc., in PDF document.
Security
Essential PDF also has support for setting the security of the generated PDF document.
Conversion
Using Essential PDF you can convert MultiframeTiff images and Webpage/HTML documents to PDF with ease.
Performance
This section examines the performance of Essential PDF in various scenarios.
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