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PDF for .NET provides the following essential features in order to facilitate the creation of PDF with security, compression, outlines, hyperlinks, and attachments using .NET:
- Generate, load, modify and save PDFs
- Using PDF, you can create PDF documents with simple or complex business requirements in .NET Standard applications. Moreover, you can also load, modify, and save PDFs to any source.
- Add PDF security
- PDF library allows you to apply robust security while generating PDF documents. It easily protects your documents using some basic security properties like OwnerPassword, Password, and much more. It is also possible to secure the PDF documents by signing them digitally.
- Rich set of features
- PDF library provides a rich set of features allowing the generation of complex PDF documents with content including text, graphics, images, annotations, outlines and more.
- AcroForms support
- Use the AddField method to add Acrobat form fields to your PDF documents. PDF for .NET supports the following field types: textbox, checkbox, radio button, push button, combo box, and list box.
- HTML support
- PDF lets you render HTML into your PDF documents. Using PDF, you can flow HTML content into multiple pages or columns, use existing style sheets, and mix HTML with other types of content (images, RTF, plain text, form fields, and so on).
- Add attachments to PDF files
- PDF lets you add multimedia items like videos, sound, sample code, and spreadsheets with detailed information as an attachment that can help you organize the primary text.
- Support for PDF/A
- PDF/A is commonly used format that embeds all fonts and digital signature feature that can help users for creating invoices, brochures, manuals or research reports. PDF for .NET supports Pdf documents that conform to PDF/A.
- Meta data
- As part of the document's meta data, PDF enables you to indicate the author, creation date, reader preferences, initial page layout, windows location, and menu visibility.