Drawing Text

There is plenty of support for customizing 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.

Modify PDF

This section illustrates Essential PDF's support for reading and modifying PDF documents.

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.