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This high-performance and feature-rich UWP PDF framework to work with PDF files. It has a PDF creation and editing library that allows you to create, read and edit PDF files programmatically in any UWP applications. It offers PDF viewer controls to view, review and print PDF files from any UWP applications.
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 .NET PDF library has become a mature and proven product.
The UWP PDF framework comes with extensive documentation, a knowledge base, and samples.
Single API across all platforms.
Create PDF from the scratch with text, images, graphics, and more. Manipulate or edit the existing PDF with just a few lines of code.
Combine or merge different PDF files into one PDF file, and split a PDF file into different sub-documents quickly and accurately.
Add text, images, graphics, or shapes, annotations, bookmarks, attachments, and stamps, and update a PDF 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.
For more information, please check our UWP 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.
Allows the user to 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. Also supports navigation between the pages of a single document through table of contents and bookmarks.
Provides an enhanced printing experience by allowing users to print the entire PDF document or customized ranges of PDF pages.
For more information, please check our UWP PDF Viewer control features.
Converts fixed document formats such as XML Paper Specification (XPS) and Open XML Paper Specification (OXPS) to PDF without using a printer.
Support converting many image formats such as JPEG, PNG, TIFF, to PDF.
Easily get started with the UWP PDF library using a few simple lines of C# code example as demonstrated below. Also explore our UWP 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 to the document.
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));
//Save the document into stream.
MemoryStream stream = new MemoryStream();
await document.SaveAsync(stream);
//Close the document.
document.Close(true);The Syncfusion UWP PDF Library 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 UWP, the Syncfusion PDF Library supports platforms for web (Blazor, Flutter, ASP.NET Core, ASP.NET MVC, and ASP.NET Web Forms), mobile (.NET MAUI (Preview), Flutter, and Xamarin), and desktop (Windows Forms, WPF, WinUI, .NET MAUI (Preview), Flutter, and Xamarin).
You can find our UWP PDF Frameworks demo here.
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