Bytescout.PDF library for .NET

Bytescout.PDF is a native .NET library for PDF writing, reading, modifying and signing

Key features:

• Full set of methods and properties (Bytescout.PDF namespace) to create documents (completely new documents or using existing PDF documents) with ability to draw on the page of existing PDF document;
• Font embedding (Type1, TrueType) including Unicode support;
• TIFF, JBIG2, CCITT Fax, Flate PNG, JPEG DCT images and image compression modes support;
• Linearization support (PDF documents web optimization - documents are loaded faster);
• PDF optimization support (internal structure of PDF document is optimized to reduce file size);
• Security options (document permissions) and 40 bit, 128 bit and 128 AES encryption support;
• Digital signature support (see sample code) including signing of existing documents;
• Threads and beads support;
• Built-in EMF to PDF conversion engine including support for EMF images produced by virtual EMF printers;
• 40 bits, 128 bits, 128 bits AES security options, password protection options, permissions options;
• Ability to handle produced PDF document in memory without need for temporary files and provide on-the-fly generation directly into memory stream(requires additional Web License);
• Ability to split, merge, extract pages from PDF document and append to an another document using pages manager class;

Examples And Tutorials:

"Hello, World!" examples

Quick Start Tutorials:

1. Getting started in Visual Basic.NET
2. Getting started in Visual C#
3. Getting started in ASP.NET

Advanced Examples:

1. AddAttachedFile
2. AddAttachedFileFromBuffer
3. AddAttachedFileFromPDFStream
4. AddAttachedFileFromStream
5. AddPages
6. AddStartupJavaScript
7. CopyPagesFromDocumentIntoAnother
8. DigitalSignature
9. HelloWorldUsingExistingDocuments
10. HelloWorldWithSecurity_HiPrintRemoved
11. Images
12. MultiplePages