Release Notes


2024.6.18 - June 18th, 2024
We are very excited to announce the official release of our new PDF .Net 2024.6! We've prepared many fixes and improvements. Let's see what's new:

  • PdfDocument: Improved stability and conversion quality.
  • PDF Reader:
    Full support for PDF, PDF/A (all subversions). Converting PDF to PDF/A is done instantly and efficiently.
    Now you can easily convert any PDF into the modern PDF/A format:
    • PDF/A-1 Part 1: Use of ISO 19005-1
    • PDF/A-2 Part 2: Use of ISO 32000-1, ISO 19005-2
    • PDF/A-3 Part 3: Use of ISO 32000-1 with support for embedded files, ISO 19005-3
    • PDF/A-4 Part 4: Use of ISO 32000-2, ISO 19005-4
  • Linux, Docker, Cloud solutions:
    A bug with reading system fonts has been fixed.
    Selection of font analogues and equivalent replacements.
    Your results will be as similar as possible when converting in different environments: Windows, Unix, MacOs, Linux, etc.
  • PDF Writer:
    Fixed issue with position of shape in PDF writer.
    Fixed issue with invalid font size in PDF reader/writer.

  • Fixed the minor issues, found and sent to us from our customers. Therefore the component became more error-free.
  • Code Samples & Platforms:
    We've prepared a lot of code samples for you: https://github.com/SautinSoft/SautinSoft.Pdf.Examples.
    Support of .NET Framework 4.6.2 and high.

2024.4.3 - April 3rd, 2024. Released first version.

PDF .Net is a .NET component built to allow developers to create PDF documents, whether simple or complex, on the fly programmatically. PDF .Net allows developers to insert tables, graphs, images, hyperlinks, custom fonts - and more - into PDF documents. Moreover, it is also possible to compress PDF documents. PDF .NET provides excellent security features to develop secure PDF documents. Best of all, it requires only .NET – it doesn’t rely on Adobe Acrobat or any other third-party software.

PDF .Net

Main Features:

  • Merge, split, and create PDF files.
  • Convert PDF files to image, such as PNG, JPEG, GIF, BMP, TIFF.
  • Extract a Unicode representation of a PDF page and individual text elements with their bounds and font.
  • View PDF files in WPF applications.
  • Annotate PDF pages with hyperlinks.
  • Fill in, flatten, read, and export interactive forms.
  • Read, write, and update PDF files.
  • Get, create, or edit bookmarks (outlines) and document properties.
  • Extract images from PDF files and OCR text from scanned PDFs.
  • Add text, images, shapes (paths), form XObjects, content groups, marked content, and format (fill, stroke) to pages and clip the content.
  • Encrypt and digitally sign PDF files. Clone or import pages between PDF documents.
  • Add watermarks, headers, footers, and viewer preferences to PDF pages.
  • Get, create, remove or reorder pages.

Supported PDF versions:

  • PDF .Net supports PDF versions 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 1.7, PDF/A (all versions), 2.0.

Fonts:

  • A lot of core fonts.
  • Type 1 fonts.
  • TrueType fonts.
  • Type 3 fonts.
  • CJK fonts.
  • Unicode support

Platforms:

  • .NET Framework 4.7.2 and higher
  • .NET 5 and higher
  • .NET Core

OS Support:

  • All versions of Windows (32-bit and 64-bit)
  • All versions of Linux (with .NET inside / 32-bit and 64-bit)
  • Cloud Computing Services: AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, etc.

PDF .Net totally simplifies the development of .NET applications where require to manipulate with PDF documents. Let us say, to provide the method to rotate a page in PDF document, you have add only the reference to the "SautinSoft.Pdf.dll" and write 3-4 C# lines in your application.

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We are developing .Net components since 2002. We know PDF, DOCX, RTF, HTML, XLSX and Images formats. If you need any assistance with creating, modifying or converting documents in various formats, we can help you. We will write any code example for you absolutely free.