PDFOne .NET Professional Edition 3.0.6

PDFOne .NET Professional Edition 3.0.6 comes as a comprehensive and versatile PDF component suite for .NET developers to implement PDF-related tasks in their applications. PDFOne .NET can create, edit, view, print, encrypt, decrypt, merge, split, reorganize, bookmark, annotate, watermark, and stamp PDF documents. PDFOne .NET can also process PDF forms or Acroforms by creating, editing, filling, flattening PDF form fields.

PDFOne .NET does all of this without any external PDF software such as Adobe PDF library, Adobe Acrobat Professional or Ghostscript. PDFOne .NET can be used with C#, VB.NET, ASP.NET and other .NET development platforms. PDFOne components come with hundreds of functions and properties that put immense power in the hands of the developer. They hide the complexity of the PDF format and allows developers to quickly implement PDF-related features.

Major Features:

1. General Features, I/O and Security Support 
   • Load from file and memory stream
   • Save to file and memory stream
   • Save to HTTP response
   • Email after saving to file
   • Fully support PDF version 1.3 through 1.6 (Acrobat 4 through 7) files
   • Support TrueType and OpenType fonts
   • Support full embedding of TrueType and OpenType fonts
   • Support subset embedding of TrueType and OpenType fonts
   • Support for text rendering in Unicode (for all character sets – Eastern Europe, Chinese, Japanese…)
   • Support for Unicode text in watermarks, document information, bookmarks and text annotation
   • Password-protect document with 40-bit and 128-bit encryption
   • Read encrypted documents (password required)
   • Read XML metadata of document
   • Read and edit document information properties, such as Title, Author, Subject, Keywords…
   • Read and edit document's viewer preferences
   • Add and remove thumbnails
   • Rendering of all image formats supported by .NET framework
   • Support Flate Encode/Decode, ASCII85 Encode/Decode, ASCIIHex Encode/Decode, RunLength Encode/Decode, LZW Encode/Decode compression techniques
2. Document Creation (new documents)
   • Support advanced rendering functions – header/hooter, paragraph, table, text box, watermark/stamping and auto-pagination for text
   • Add annotations - text, link, free text, line, square, circle, highlight, underline, squiggly, strikeout, stamp, ink, caret and more
   • Insert page-level file attachments
   • Add actions to links and annotations
   • Add document-level and page-level actions
   • Specify transparency levels for text, images, and shapes
   • Render shapes, images and text using CMYK
   • Embed document-level file attachments
3. Document Modification (existing documents)
   • Insert watermarks and stamps with text and images
   • Add, edit, and delete annotations
   • Add actions to bookmarks [URI, go-to, remote go-to, launch, JavaScript, and named]
   • Add actions to annotations [URI, go-to, remote go-to, launch, JavaScript, and named]
   • Add, edit, and delete bookmarks
   • Change page layout
   • Change document viewer settings
   • Change document viewer window settings
   • Change owner and user passwords
   • Change document restrictions
   • Insert page-level and document-level attachments
   • Add page headers and footers
   • Draw shapes such as circles, ellipses, squares, rectangles, lines, polylines, polygons…
   • Write formatted text with various fonts
   • Place autotext in rendered text [page number, total page count, time, and date]
   • Add various transition effects to enable a PDF document to be used as a presentation slide
   • Document Re-organization
   • Merge several documents into one
   • Copy pages from one document and append or insert them in to another document
   • Split a document into several new documents
   • Include/exclude bookmarks, annotations, form-fields, page-level actions, document-level actions from page reorganization operations
4. Acroforms Processing (PDF eForms)
   • Read and Fill form field values
   • Create new PDF form fields
   • Flatten existing form fields to make them non-interactive
   • Delete form field
   • Clone form field
   • Import form field values from an FDF file
   • Export form field values to an FDF file
5. Document Viewing
   • Rendering of text, shape and image elements
   • Support for TrueType and Type 1 fonts
   • Character and word spacing
   • Rendering CCITT4 images
   • Navigation keys
   • Page buffering for smooth scrolling
6. Document Printing
   • Scaling to printable area
   • Print page sub ranges (All, even, odd and custom-selected pages)
   • Page-level printing events

Enhancements:

• Enhanced
• • PDF Content Creation
  • • New Flag property introduced in PDFFormCheckBox, PDFFormComboBox, PDFFormListBox, PDFFormPushButton, PDFFormRadioButton and PDFFormTextField classes for specifying form field attributes
    • New overloaded PDFDocument.ImportFDF method that imports FDF data from a stream
    • New PDFFont.FontFilePath property to specify the path of the FontList.xml programatically - alternative to the app.config file entry
• Fixed
• • PDF Content Creation
  • • PDFPage.AddTable does not update PDFPage.CursorPosY position - causing WriteText method to overlap text
    • PDFDocument.CurrentPageNo is not updated when PDFDocument.AddTable is set paginate automatically
    • Page margins ignored when PDFDocument.AddTable wraps text and the table's AutoAdjustRowHeight property is set to true
    • Some issues with reading incrementally updated files
    • Inability to make multiple saves on a PDF document in creation mode
  • PDF Processing
  • • Flattening reduced multi-line text form fields to a single line
    • Flattening ignores form field attributes such as hidden or invisible
    • NullReferenceException raised by PDFDocument.WriteWatermarkText method when using Type1 fonts
    • Exception raised when casting Gnostice.PDFOne.PDFFont type to Gnostice.PDFOne.PDFBaseFont type - happens with PDF forms documents
    • Bookmarks are lost if they are not explicitly accessed/processed by user code
    • Issues related to cross-reference tables
    • Document layers information lost on save
  • PDF Viewing
  • • Masked images with Decode array set to [0 0] not rendered properly

Requirements:

• Development Environments
• Microsoft Visual Studio 2010
• Microsoft Visual Studio 2008
• Microsoft Visual Studio 2005
• Delphi Prism 2010