Supported PDF Content
PDF Document API supports the following PDF content elements:
- Annotations
- Attachments
- Bookmarks and Links
- Interactive Form Fields
- JPX / JBIG
- Patterns
- Shapes
- Transparency Groups
- Type3 fonts
Print. Convert.
Use our .NET PDF Document API to customize print output and turn your PDF document into a printed report with a simple method call. You can customize page margins, document orientation, paper size, and relevant page settings.
And yes, you can easily convert PDF files to a PNG, JPEG, BMP, TIFF, or GIF format without sacrificing image quality. And of course, you can also use our Word Document API and Excel Spreadsheet API to convert your Microsoft Word documents and Excel workbooks to PDF.
How to: Convert docs (DOCX, XLSX, PDF) within your Blazor Server apps
Interactive Forms
Our comprehensive PDF File API allows you to create, fill, flatten, and delete fillable PDF forms.
If your PDF document includes AcroForm data, you can import from or export to the following formats: FDF, XFDF, XML, and TXT.
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Protect PDF Files
With our PDF Document API, you can prevent unauthorized access to PDF files. Encrypt your documents with a password or apply permissions to prevent copying, changing, or printing PDF files as needed.
The DevExpress PDF Document API allows you to lock-down PDF files via digital signature. You can quickly and easily do the following:
- create new signature fields with multiple attributes (name, location, reason, image, etc.);
- remove existing signatures;
- sign PDF docs with multiple signatures;
- generate a timestamp and apply it to a signature;
- sign a document with a document-level timestamp;
- sign PDF docs in deferred mode.
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PDF Attachments. Bookmarks. Links
The DevExpress PDF Document API allows you to attach files, add hyperlinks, create bookmarks and edit existing bookmarks within any PDF file.
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Annotate & Comment
Create, remove, edit annotations, add comments and replies (including nested responses) to your PDF documents. Our PDF Document API supports the following text annotations:
- Sticky Note
- Text Markup
- Free Text (text box, callout, typewriter)
- Path (line, arrows, polyline, polygon)
- Shape (circle, square)
- Rubber Stamp
- File Attachment
- Link
- Caret
- Ink
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Customize PDF Files
With our PDF API, you can combine multiple PDF files or mix, insert, delete, and rotate PDF pages. Customization options include:
- merge multiple files into one PDF;
- split a PDF into multiple files;
- add/remove pages to/from your PDF;
- reuse/copy pages from multiple PDF documents;
- transform page content (scale, rotate, flip, and shift);
- remove page content;
- rotate pages to portrait or landscape orientation;
- add custom graphic content.
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Search in PDF
Our PDF API allows you to search for words or phrases in a PDF document, specify search parameters such as case sensitivity and search direction.
How to: Search text in PDF
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DevExpress PDF Viewers
Embed a PDF Viewer into your desktop app.
If you need to add a full PDF Viewer to your WinForms or WPF application, be sure to check out our PDF Viewer UI controls. These ready-to-go UI controls allow you to display, manipulate, and print PDF documents directly in your desktop applications without installing an external PDF reader on your end-user's machine.
WinForms PDF Viewer
WPF PDF Viewer