A Feature-Rich PDF API Library for VB.NET Development
- Create and edit PDF files with Visual Basic (VB).NET Code
- Render existing URLs as PDF files
- HTML template in VB.NET and conversion to dynamic PDFs
- Merge multiple PDF files into one document in VB.NET
- Load PDF documents with annotations, attachments, and outlines
- Edit, encrypt, watermark or turn PDF
documents into plain text with VB.NET
Overview
A VB.NET PDF document API library is a programming interface that allows developers to programmatically create and manipulate PDF documents at scale. GrapeCity Documents for PDF is a solution that allows developers to import/export, create templates, and deploy PDFs across desktop applications.
Security
User and owner passwords protection. Allow edit, copy, printing, and digital signatures along with encryption and decryption for C#.
Advanced Text Handling
Create PDF templates in C# with special character support, open and standard PDF type fonts supported. Full support for creating PDF in multiple languages.
Document and Page
Add, delete, copy, and move pages between PDFs. Attach document-level file attachments, change page size and orientations, and split and merge documents.
Redaction Technology
Confidently remove and obscure sensitive data within PDF files. Redact specific words, images, pages, and more.
PDF to Image
Convert PDF files to JPEG, TIFF, PNG, and BMP. Control image output, such as image size, DPI, aspect ratio, and more.
PDF Data Extraction
Search and extract text, images, and metadata from PDF files for automation, editing, indexing, and more.
E-commerce
Create invoices, packing slips, and shipping labels directly from data on your e-commerce platform. Create document templates that help you stand out from the crowd.
Sales
Create price offers, price lists, barcodes, and other sales-related documents already in your system.
Procurement
Create purchase orders, contracts, and service agreements based on data in your procurement database.
Legal
Generate contracts and agreements automatically based on data on your administration system.
Standardized documents reduce the risk of errors and provide considerable savings.
Marketing
Build offers, coupons, and presentations with ease based on data on your CRM system.
Customize your marketing materials to reflect your corporate visual identity.
Advanced Features of PDF API
Quick Start
This quick tutorial walks you through creating a simple "Hello, World!" app that uses GcPdf to generate and save a PDF file.
Print PDF Documents to Printer
Print PDF document directly to a printer on Windows platform
Fonts
Create, initialize, and use the Font Collection class to manage and use when rendering texts.
Page Headers
Print page headers and footers in PDF documents. Organize pages by headings to help users get a sense of the page’s organization and structure.
Merge Pages
Combine and organize multiple documents into one PDF–making it simple to share and send render pages of one PDF to another.
Attachments
Attach photos, text, drawings, PDFs, and other file types (including AcroForm) to a PDF. If you move the PDF to a new location, the attachments move with it.
Text
Review the basics of rendering text in GcPDF (DrawString and DrawTextLayout), character formatting, paginated text, text trimming, word, character wraps, and much more.
Images
Generate pages of slides from all images in a directory and extract images from PDF documents.
Create Tables with Complex Layouts
Make use of new TableRenderer API to create tables with complex layout, merge cells, rotate text direction in cells and draw custom content in the cells.
PDF Report Templates
Automate and customize documents and report generation. PDF Templates allow you to bind HTML templates to various data sources by using report templates that generate PDF files from HTML.
Document Properties
Make viewing faster with linearized PDFs. Documents properties include metadata, compression, and font embedding behavior. Restrict printing, copying, and PDF editing.
Annotations
Create, edit, or delete annotations from existing PDF documents. Several annotations are supported from PDF specifications.
Advanced Text
Design magazine style, multi-column page layouts with balanced columns and outlines. Multi-language text is supported, including RTL, east-Asian languages, and vertical text.
Navigation
Create text links to a URL and add outline entries. Link thumbnails to full-sized images, article threads, and destinations.
HTML to PDF
Convert HTML files or strings to PDF, or add HTML fragments to PDF documents along with other content.
Extract
Load existing PDF into GcPdfDocument and see how text, paragraphs, and tables can be inspected or extracted.
Redaction
Completely remove content from PDF documents, including quadrilateral and polygonal redaction areas.
Form Fields
Create AcroForm fields include textbox, checkbox, radio button, combtext, combo box, list box, and buttons. Also, set field format for TextField, CombTextField, ComboBoxField.
PDF Layers
Add, edit and remove layers programmatically. Associate PDF content (part of content stream, FormXObject, Annotation or PDF document) with a layer in PDF document.
Digital Signatures
Digitally sign PDFs, inspect signature properties, or remove existing signatures. Add Image signatures to PDF Documents.
Security
Encrypt or decrypt PDF Documents. When a document is encrypted, its contents become unreadable. An authorized user can decrypt the document to obtain access to the contents. If a PDF document is password encrypted, the user must enter the password in order to view the document.
ZUGFeRD Complilant
ZUGFeRD is a standard for electronic invoices in PDF/A format and based on the ISO standard. Create ZUGFeRD 1.x compliant invoices and read ZUGFeRD data from existing PDFs.
Password-Protected PDF Files
Password-protected PDF files can be opened through the password input dialog or even without specifying the password.
Linearize Existing PDF Documents
Linearise any existing PDF document and save the document in any 3 modes - Default, Linearise and Incremental Update (for signing existing signed document)
Draw SVG on PDF Documents
Draw the SVG Image from file to PDF document using GcGraphics.DrawSvg method.
PDF to Images
Save a PDF as a multi-page TIFF, JPEG, PNG, GI, or BMP image to save space and open easily.
Read Structure Tags
Extract whole logical structure of the PDF document, parsed the tags, glean the data that needs to be extracted.
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