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.

Simple PDF Document

Drawing Text

There is plenty of support for customizing the text formatting and layout in the PDF documents generated using Essential PDF.

Text in multiple pages	TextFormatting
RTF Import	Right To Left Language
ColumnBreak	Multi-lingual Support

Fonts

Essential PDF supports Standard fonts, CJK fonts and True Type fonts.

Standard Fonts	True Type Fonts
CJK 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.

DrawingBrush	DrawingShapes
Layers

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.

Scalar Images	Vector Images
Soft Mask	WaterMarks

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.

TableFeatures	Rich Table Styles
ADO.NET Tables Support

Document Elements

Essential PDF supports various interactive features like Acroforms, Annotations, Attachments, Bookmarks, Hyperlinks etc.

Acroform	Annotation
Attachment	BookMark
Action

Page Elements

Essential PDF has support for inserting page elements like Headers, Footers and page labels in a PDF document.

Headers and Footers

PageLabel

Settings

Essential PDF supports settings like Document properties, Page Orientation, Viewer Preferences, etc., in PDF document.

Document Properties	Page Orientation
Page Sizes	Viewer Preferences

Modify PDF

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

Merge Documents	Split Document
Form Filling	Import and Stamp
Overlay Documents

Security

Essential PDF also has support for setting the security of the generated PDF document.

Digital Signature

Encryption and Decryption

Conversion

Using Essential PDF you can convert MultiframeTiff images and Webpage/HTML documents to PDF with ease.

WebPageToPDF

TiffToPdf

Performance

This section examines the performance of Essential PDF in various scenarios.

Performance Measures