Essential PDF is a .NET library that can produce Adobe PDF files. It features a full fledged object model for the easy creation of PDF files from any .NET language. It does not use any external libraries and is built from scratch in C#. It can be used on on the server side (ASP.NET or any other environment) or with Windows Forms applications.
General Features
Essential PDF consists of a comprehensive set of API's to create Adobe® PDF documents with text and rich graphics including custom drawing and images. Here is a list of some of the general features that are supported by Essential PDF.
Drawing Support
Essential PDF exposes a comprehensive set of drawing API's that can be used to draw text and a variety of shapes like Rectangle, Arc, Circle, Ellipse, CurveBezier, Path and Polygons.
Images
Essential PDF has support for loading images from streams, file on disk and System.Drawing.Bitmap Object.
Images can also be resized and inserted into the pdf document at the required size. Even advanced features like Transparency and Soft Masking are supported.
Fonts
Essential PDF supports 14 predefined fonts, Custom fonts and True Type fonts.
Tables
Essential PDF has support for tables that can be insterted into the PDF Document. The table has support for AutoPageBreaks, Custom Formatting and importing an ADO.NET datatable.
This greatly simplifies the process of inserting tabular data into the PDF document.
- Auto PageBreaks
- Import ADO.NET Datatable
- Repeat Table Header
- Format Table
Security
Essential PDF also has support for setting the security of the generated PDF document.
- Allow Print / Allow Copy
- Password Protection