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This high-performance and feature-rich Xamarin PDF framework and 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 Xamarin applications. It offers PDF viewer control to view, review, and print PDF files. Its powerful conversion APIs make it easy to convert Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and images to PDF.
There are no distribution fees, per-server licensing fees, or royalties, which makes Essential PDF very cost-effective.
It’s optimized for usage in a server environment where speed and low memory usage is 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 PDF library has become a mature and proven product.
The Xamarin PDF library comes with extensive documentation, a Knowledge Base, and samples.
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.
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.
Syncfusion Essential PDF allows developers to build PDF security into their application, spanning a range of low to high encryption standards.
Create stunning PDF tables with advanced customization, formatting, and styling.
For more information, please check our Xamarin PDF library features.
View, annotate, and fill PDF form fields interactively within an application easily.
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 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 through 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 renders PDF pages accurately. It also provides APIs to convert the pages of a PDF file into JPG, PNG, TIFF, and BMP formats. The scaler exportation comes with the customization of dimensions and DPI.
For more information, please check our Xamarin PDF Viewer control features.
Converts a Word document to PDF for printing and viewing in a portable format. Supports 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 a PowerPoint presentation to PDF. The conversion can be customized with handouts and pages for notes.
Convert many image formats such as JPEG, PNG, TIFF, and SVG to PDF.
Easily get started with the Xamarin PDF Library using a few simple lines of C# code example as demonstrated below. Also explore our Xamarin PDF Library Example that shows how to create and modify PDF files from C# with 5 lines of code on different platforms.
//Create a new PDF document
PdfDocument document = new PdfDocument();
//Add a page
PdfPage page = document.Pages.Add();
//Create Pdf graphics for the page
PdfGraphics graphics = page.Graphics;
//Set the font
PdfFont font = new PdfStandardFont(PdfFontFamily.Helvetica, 36);
//Draw the text
graphics.DrawString("Hello world!", font, PdfBrushes.Black, new PointF(20, 20));
//Saving the PDF to the MemoryStream
MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream();
document.Save(ms);
document.Close();The Syncfusion Xamarin PDF Framework supports the following:
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.
Apart from Xamarin, 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, and UWP), and desktop (Windows Forms, WPF, WinUI, .NET MAUI, Flutter, and UWP).
You can find our Xamarin PDF Frameworks demo here.
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