PD4ML 3.6.0 is considered to be a good-quality and useful PDF generating tool that uses HTML and CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) as page layout and content definition format. Written in 100% pure Java, it allows users to easily add PDF generation functionality to end products.

Major Features:

1. Convert an URL or HTML string to a PDF file or byte stream.
2. Support of inline and external CSS stylesheets
3. Set PDF page format and orientation
4. Control page margins
5. Define PDF headers and footers in HTML (including images and page numbers)
6. Embed and use True Type and Open Type fonts.
7. Support most of Asian, Middle-East, European and Latin character sets
8. Generate external and internal hyperlinks
9. Control header/footer appearance on selected pages
10. Embed media or document attachments
11. Switch PDF encryption on and assign document security restrictions. PD4ML allows you to secure your PDF documents with 40-bit/128-bit encryption. You can disable printing, modifications or extracting of text content, you can lock your PDF with a password.
12. Generate PDF bookmarks from named anchors or from 

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    structure

13. Generate table of contents based on

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    structure

14. Customize page background (color or background image)
15. Watermark pages
16. Override hardcoded document style with additional CSS style sheets
17. Provide basic support for PDF forms
18. HTML-to-Image conversions
    

Enhancements:

• Pd4Cmd command-line HTML-to-PDF converter
• Fixed bugs:
• • Invalid text background inheritance
  • MS-Office-specific 'windowtext' and 'window' color names ignored
  • No table cell background if the cell contains
    tag only.
  • Minor text flow issues