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.

This sample demonstrates the Essential PDF support for variety of brushes such as Gradient, Tiling and Radial Brushes. These brushes are used to fill shapes with colors, symbols and pictures.

You can also write text with various brushes.

Essential PDF has support for drawing shapes like Rectangle, Arc, Circle, Ellipse, Path, Polygons, Bezier Curve and Transparent objects. You can also paginate large shapes to flow across multiple pages using PdfLayoutFormat class.

Layers are virtual plates associated with one page that are rendered in different Z-order. You may insert or append more layers to a page. This is ideal for rendering texts or other elements over each other. Each layer has its own graphics, which can be accessed through its Graphics property.