Pdf Creator Features
ExpertPDF Pdf Creator SDK is a .NET library built to enhance our existing HtmlToPdf Converter.
The Pdf Creator emerged as a premium product that has,
besides the html to pdf converter features, a large number of more general pdf related capabilities.
General features
- Add texts and image elements to the PDF documents and templates
- Render multipage images (TIFF) to PDF
- Add graphic elements like lines, rectangles, ellipses, circles, Bezier curves
- Create bookmarks for the PDF document
- Merge and split PDF files and streams with MergePdf and SplitPdf classes
- Create links to internal and external resources in the PDF document
- Create file attachments
- Create text notes
- Rotate PDF document pages
- Add viewer preferences
- Add document description
- Add fonts and color directly from .NET Font and Color structures
Pdf security
- Add ordinary digital signatures
- Set user and owner passwords
- Encrypt PDF document content
- 40 and 128 bit encryption keys
- Set PDF document permissions (print, edit, copy)
Html to pdf conversion
- Place the HTML to PDF conversion result in any position in PDF document
- Set the width and height in PDF of content rendered from HTML
- Add several html elements in the same document in any position
- Possibility to get the bounds of the rendered content in each rendered page
- Set the transparency for the rendered content
- Rotate the rendered PDF content
- Add HTML in templates that can repeated on each page of the PDF document
- Add HTML in header and footer of the PDF document
RTF to pdf conversion
- Place the RTF to PDF conversion result in any position in PDF document
- Set the width and height in PDF of content rendered from RTF
- Add several RTF elements in the same document in any position
- Possibility to get the bounds of the rendered content in each rendered page
- Set the transparency for the rendered content
- Rotate the rendered PDF content
- Add RTF in templates that can repeated on each page of the PDF document
- Add RTF in header and footer of the PDF document
NEW in v5.0.0:
(released Dec 8th, 2009)
- Repeat the header of long HTML tables on each PDF page where the table is rendered using the display:table-header-group style
- Exclude HTML regions from rendering using the the HtmlExcludedRegionsOptions property of the PdfConverter class
- Improved the converter behavior in multithreaded applications and in high traffic websites
- Improved the scrolling speed of the generated PDF document when the document is opened in Adobe Reader
- Added the Console_MultithreadedPerformance sample application to measure the converter performance in multithreaded applications
- Added sample applications to show how to repeat the head of a HTML table on each PDF page where the table is rendered
NEW in v4.4.0:
(released Jul 9th, 2009)
- Import bookmarks from the external PDF documents appended and prepended to the conversion result
- Added the OpenAction property to execute a JavaScript code or to automatically go to a PDF page when the the PDF document is displayed
- Added the FitHeight property to make the HTML content fit the PDF page height
- Added the HttpRequestHeaders property to send HTTP headers (e.g. cookies) to the web server when the web page is requested by converter
- Added the TransparencyEnabled property to enable or disable all the transparencies from the generated PDF document
- Added the DrawBackground property for HtmlToPdfArea and HtmlToPdfElement to make visible the PDF objects behind them
- Added a demo application for WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation)
- Added a demo application for how to alternate the header and footer content on odd and even pages of the generated PDF document
NEW in v4.3.0:
(released Apr 9th, 2009)
- Resolved a problem with converting some web sites with JavaScript enabled
- Resolved a problem with creating PDF/X conformant documents
NEW in v4.2.0:
(released Mar 11th, 2009)
- Improved support for complex script and right to left Asian languages
- Added an option to generate PDF/A, PDF/X or PDF/SiqQ compliant documents
- Added an option to specify the color space of the PDF document (RGB, CMYK, Grayscale)
- API to get the position in PDF (by ID or by tag name) of any HTML element
- Ensured the converter works when FIPS compliant algorithms are enabled
- Performance improvements
NEW in v4.0.0:
(released Feb 11th, 2009)
- Convert the HTML links with anchors to internal links in PDF to easily create a table of contents in the generated PDF
- Added an option to compress images in PDF with JPEG to highly reduce the PDF document size
- Allow any number of HtmlToPdfArea, TextArea and ImageArea in the generated PDF document header and footer
- Added the possibility to prepend an array of external PDF documents before conversion to create cover pages
- Added support for rendering vertical text defined in HTML with writing-mode styles tb-rl or bt-rl
- Performance improvements
NEW in v3.0.6:
(released Dec 11th, 2008)
- Added more descriptive error messages for easier troubleshooting
- Added the possibility to stretch the HTML content to fit the PDF page width
NEW in v3.0:
(released Oct 1st, 2008)
- Added the possibility to specify the PDF viewer preferences
- Added the option to auto size the PDF page width
- Header and footer improvements
- Improved the rendering of PDFs with embedded images
- Added a ConversionSummary property
NEW in v2.3.3:
(released Jul 21st, 2008)
- Improved memory utilization during conversion
- Added the possiblity to specify a navigation timeout of the html page
- Bug fixes
NEW in v2.3.0:
(released Jun 18th, 2008)
- Added the possibility to specify the Internet Security Zone of the converted URL
NEW in v2.2.7:
(released Jun 5th, 2008)
- Improved the rendering of HTTP links in PDF
- Improved the height auto-detection for some web pages
NEW in v2.2.4:
(released May 15th, 2008)
- bug fixes
- Improved true type fonts embedding in the generated PDF
NEW in v2.2.2:
(released Apr 15th, 2008)
- bug fixes
NEW in v2.2.0:
(released Mar 4th, 2008)
- Automatically generated bookmarks for a specified list of HTML tags
- bug fixes
NEW in v2.1.2:
(released Feb 25th, 2008)
- Better support for large files
- Improved rendering of transparent PNG and GIF images
- bug fixes
NEW in v2.1.0:
(released Feb 7th, 2008)
- The HTTP links from the header and footer HTML are converted to PDF links
- bug fixes