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PDF/A (Archival Portable Document Format) or commonly referred to as the archival PDF is a type of standard PDF, which is used to store information for a longer period of time as compared to the traditional PDF. PDF/A is an ISO-standardized variation of PDF and is widely used to preserve electronic documents and files, digitally for longer periods of time. History and Purpose Usage Levels of PDF/A Viewing PDF/A files Disadvantages of PDF/A Differences between [...]

The abbreviation PDF stands for Portable Document Format that is a multi-format file format developed by Adobe Systems. PDF captures formatted documents such as images, fonts, document texts, and even does formatting of documents from a variety of Desktop Publishing Applications. The greatest advantage of PDF is that it contains color-accurate information, it prints the documents as it is as they appear on your screen. You need Adobe Reader, free software distributed by Adobe Systems [...]

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Short Answer: Yes, you can use iTextSharp 4.1.6 (please read important information about this particular version 4.1.6 below). iTextSharp is the mature and solid PDF generation library for .NET, originally ported from iText, Java library. This open-source library delivers functionality to create, modify, stamp, fill PDF files. Question: Can I use this library in a closed source commercial applications for free of charge? Answer: this is allowed with iTextSharp 4.1.6 version (or prior versions) only [...]