PDF FeaturesStandardProfessional
Embed Bookmarks
Document properties
Document properties as XMP metadata
Custom XMP metadata
Internal cross-references
External cross-references
JavaScript actions
Text FormattingStandardProfessional
RGB Text color
CMYK Text color
Grayscale Text color
Single and double strike-through
Single and double underline
Sub- and superscript
Left, right and center alignment
Justification
Hyperlinking
XHTML formatting
CSS style sheets (for XHTML content)
RTF import (MS Office)
PDF Forms and ScriptingStandardProfessional
Create PDF Form fields
Create Buttons
Assign actions
Create JavaScript
Page LayoutStandardProfessional
Vertical Page Alignment
Relative positioning (flow layout)
Absolute positioning (grid layout)
Mix grid and flow layout on one page
Apply keep-with-next constraints
Apply do-not-break constraints
Add pages from exising PDF
TablesStandardProfessional
Colspan
Align cell content vertically
Specifiy column widths absolute or relative
Nest tables
Absolute cell width and fit-cell-to-content
Apply colors and line styles to borders
Background fills
Repeat header row
GenerationStandardProfessional
Declaritive document generation
Event-Driven document generation
From XML using the forward-only XmlReader class
From database using a forward-only database cursor
Load document structure from XML or XML/XSL
Create document structure dynamically in code
Extend object model with custom classes
Use custom classes in XML
High performance forward-only generation
ImagesStandardProfessional
BMP, GIF, JPEG, TIFF, PNG
GDI+ / Embed System.Drawing.Bitmap
Load from file, URL or stream
Compress images as JPEG (uncompressed images only)
Compress images with ZIP (uncompressed images only)
Alpha transparency (uncompressed images only)
GIF index transparency
CMYK image data (TIFF and JPEG)
CCITT (Fax/scanner) image data (TIFF)
Image data in XML as BASE64
Document LayoutStandardProfessional
Divide a document into sections
Assign headers and footer to each section
Assign a (standard) page size to each section
Define different headers and footers for odd, even, first and last pages
Images
Text
Brushes and pen styles
Draw inside relatively positioned boxes
Draw on entire page as a canvas
Insert existing PDF content
Drawing and graphicsStandardProfessional
Drawing paragraph allows relative positioning of shapes.
Vector graphics: Lines, rectangles, ellipses, pies, arcs
Pens and Brushes in RGB, CMYK or Grayscale
Solid, Gradient and Pattern fills
TextShape and MultilineTextShape
Rotate all shapes
ImageShape allows mixing bitmap and vector graphics.
Insert artwork from existing PDF using PageShape
FontsStandardProfessional
14 standard PDF fonts
TrueType fonts (.ttf)
TrueType Collection fonts (.ttc)
TrueType subset embedding
Unicode
Ligatures
EncryptionStandardProfessional
Weak and strong
User and owner password
Allow print
Allow copy
All other PDF 1.4 privileges
Supported PlatformsStandardProfessional
100% .NET managed code
ASP.NET support
ActiveX / COM support
.NET 1.0 support
.NET 1.1 support
.NET 2.0 support
64-bit architecture support
Mono (any platform)