Components for Developers & PDF Software → PDF Creator Pilot Features

General

• Extended set of methods and properties for easy PDF file generation;
• Reading and merging existing PDF documents;
• Adding and deleting PDF document's pages;
• Ability to add thumbnails for a PDF document;
• Ability to create and manipulate tree-like outlines;

Text and Graphics

• Ability to use and embed fonts in different formats (TrueType, TrueType Collection, OpenType, Type1);
• Full support for Eastern European, Turkish, Baltic, Russian, Greek, and CJK, such as Japanese, Korean, and so forth, character sets;
• Unicode support;
• Ability to use images in different formats (JPEG, TIFF, PNG, BMP, GIF);
• Build free form paths, polygons or use simple graphic primitives;

Protection

• Encrypt output files with different encryption methods;
• Set owner or user password;
• Disable printing of created PDF or text extraction;
• Ability to create watermarks for each page;

Interactive content

• Ability to create interactive PDF documents using JavaScript and Hyperlinks;
• Support for interactive AcroForm elements: text input fields, buttons, radio buttons, combo boxes, check boxes;
• Ability to create and use annotations;

Technical features

• You can use library from any programming language: C++, C#, Delphi, Visual Basic, VB.NET, VBScript, ASP, ASP.NET, PHP, Python;
• You can use virtual device context (HDC) to draw on a PDF page using WinAPI functions;
• The PDF library allows you to generate PDF documents on a server;
• Ability to generate a PDF document on disk or in memory (useful for web applications);
• The PDF library optimizes the size of a generated PDF file;
• You can create documents that satisfy the PDF/A standard;