This high-performance and feature-rich .NET PDF framework works without Adobe dependencies. It has a PDF creation and editing library that allows you to create, read, and edit PDF files programmatically in any .NET application. It offers PDF viewer controls to view, review, and print PDF files. Its powerful conversion APIs make it easy to convert HTML, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and images to PDF.
There are no distribution fees, per-server licensing fees, or royalties, which makes PDF Framework very cost-effective.
It’s optimized for usage in a server environment where speed and low memory usage are critical.
All the elements in a typical PDF document like text, formatting, images, shapes, and tables are accessible through a comprehensive set of APIs.
Over more than 15 years, Syncfusion’s .NET PDF Library has become a mature and proven product.
The PDF Framework comes with extensive documentation, a knowledge base, and samples.
Use a single API across all platforms.
Create PDFs from scratch with text, images, graphics, and more. Manipulate or edit PDF files with just a few lines of code.
Create, read, fill, and flatten PDF form fields in both AcroForms and XFA.
Split a PDF file into different sub-documents quickly and accurately.
Add text, images, graphics, shapes, annotations, bookmarks, and stamps, and change a PDF file by replacing fonts and images.
Build PDF security into an application, spanning a range of low-to-high encryption standards.
Create stunning PDF tables with advanced customization, formatting, and styling.
Permanently remove sensitive or confidential information from PDF documents.
Converts scanned paper document in the form of PDF files or images into searchable, editable data.
For more information, please check our PDF Library features:
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Interactively view PDF files, annotate them, and fill out fields in PDF forms within an application.
Load documents with thousands of pages instantly. Enjoy a seamless scrolling experience. The virtualized pages utilize less runtime memory.
Fill, edit, save, and print interactive PDF form fields easily.
Effortlessly add or edit ink, free text, and text markup (highlight, underline, strike-through) annotations in a PDF document, interactively.
Interactively or programmatically navigate pages from options in a built-in toolbar. Users can also navigate pages in a single document using bookmarks and a table of contents.
An enhanced printing experience allows users to print an entire PDF document or customized ranges of PDF pages.
The Syncfusion PDF Viewer accurately renders PDF pages for viewing them seamlessly in your applications. It also provides APIs to convert the pages of a PDF file into JPG, PNG, TIFF, and BMP formats. Raster image exporting supports customizing image dimensions and DPI.
For more information, please check out our PDF Viewer control features:
WPF PDF Viewer WinForms PDF Viewer UWP PDF Viewer Xamarin PDF Viewer JavaScript PDF Viewer ASP.NET Core PDF Viewer ASP.NET MVC PDF Viewer Blazor PDF Viewer
Convert a Word document to PDF for printing and viewing in a portable format. Use various customization options like embedding fonts, PDF conformance levels A-1B and X-1A2001, and exporting bookmarks.
Convert an Excel workbook or worksheet to PDF format. Use various customization options like embedding fonts, ignoring empty pages or worksheets, and showing or hiding headers or footers.
Convert HTML from a URL, file, or string to a PDF. The converter offers full support for HTML tags, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, SVG, MHTML, and page breaks. It uses popular rendering engines such as Internet Explorer (IE), WebKit, and Blink (Chromium project).
Convert a PowerPoint presentation to PDF. The conversion can be customized with handouts and pages for notes.
Convert fixed document formats such as XML paper specification (XPS) and open XML paper specification (OXPS) to PDF without using a printer.
Convert many image formats such as JPEG, PNG, TIFF, EMF, SVG, and GIF to PDF.
Generate documents easily and quickly for a wide range of industries and businesses. With these available examples, users can create their own document right away.
Easily get started with the .NET PDF library using a few simple lines of C# code example as demonstrated below. Also explore our .NET PDF Library Example that shows you how to render and configure the .NET PDF.
PdfDocument document = new PdfDocument(); //Create a new PDF document
PdfPage page = document.Pages.Add(); //Add a page
PdfGraphics graphics = page.Graphics; //Create Pdf graphics for the page
PdfFont font = new PdfStandardFont(PdfFontFamily.Helvetica, 36); //Set the font
graphics.DrawString("Hello world!", font, PdfBrushes.Black, new PointF(20, 20)); //Draw the text
MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream(); //Saving the PDF to the MemoryStream
document.Save(ms);
document.Close();
The PDF processing is also available in Blazor, .NET Core, Xamarin, UWP, Flutter, WinUI, and .NET MAUI frameworks. Check it out on other platforms at the links below:
No, this is a commercial product and requires a paid license. However, a free community license is also available for companies and individuals whose organizations have less than $1 million USD in annual gross revenue and five or fewer developers.
A good place to start would be our comprehensive getting started documentation.
The Syncfusion PDF Framework supports platforms for web (Blazor, Flutter, ASP.NET Core, ASP.NET MVC, and ASP.NET Web Forms), mobile (.NET MAUI, Flutter, Xamarin, and UWP), and desktop (Windows Forms, WPF, WinUI, .NET MAUI, Flutter, Xamarin, and UWP).
You can find our PDF Framework demo here.
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