Gnostice PDFOne .NET

Gnostice PDFOne .NET 7 .4.558.1320-A Versatile PDF Component Suite

Create, modify, view, print, search, redact, encrypt, digitally sign, annotate & reorganise PDF documents and forms

 

Compatibility

Visual Studio 2005*/2008*/2010/2012/2013/2015

 

Overview

Gnostice PDFOne .NET is a versatile PDF component suite for .NET developers to implement PDF-related tasks in their applications. PDFOne .NET can create, edit, view, print, search, redact, encrypt, decrypt, digitally sign, merge, split, reorganize, bookmark, annotate, watermark, and stamp PDF documents. PDFOne .NET can also create, edit, delete, fill and flatten PDF form fields. It also has an AJAX-powered Web-Forms PDF viewer component that can display and print PDF documents on any modern browser. PDFOne .NET is based entirely on managed code.

PDFOne .NET does all of this without any external PDF software such as Adobe PDF library, Adobe Acrobat Professional or Ghostscript. PDFOne .NET can be used with C#, VB.NET, ASP.NET and other .NET development platforms.

PDFOne components come with hundreds of functions and properties that put immense power in the hands of the developer. They hide the complexity of the PDF format and allows developers to quickly implement PDF-related features.

 

Editions

ProPlus

At a glance

Create new PDF documents & forms from scratch

Read & modify existing PDF files

Write formatted text

Render images

Draw shapes, tables

Insert autotext

Add headers & footers

Add digital signatures and blank signature form fields

 

View & print PDF documents in both WinForms and WebForms applications

Encrypt and decrypt PDF documents

Add & edit annotations

Add & edit bookmarks

Add markups, comments (notes) stamps, watermarks…

Search page text

Redact page text

Merge & split PDF documents; reorganize pages

 

Features

Gnostice PDFOne .NET supports the following features.

 

Features By Category

General Features, I/O and Security Support

Document Creation (new documents)

Document Modification and Processing (existing documents)

Document Re-organization

Acroforms Processing (PDF eForms)

Document Viewing

Document Printing

Document Outline Viewing

ASP.NET Support

 

General Features, I/O and Security Support    ProPlus

100% .NET code   

Add and remove thumbnails   

Email after saving to file    

Fully support PDF version 1.3 through 1.6 (Acrobat 4 through 7) files

Load from file and memory stream       

Password-protect document with 40-bit and 128-bit encryption      

Read and edit document information properties, such as Title, Author, Subject, Keywords…    

Read and edit document's viewer preferences       

Read encrypted documents (password required)   

Read XML metadata of document

Rendering of all image formats supported by .NET framework

Save to file and memory stream     

Save to HTTP response     

Support Flate Encode/Decode, ASCII85 Encode/Decode, ASCIIHex Encode/Decode, RunLength Encode/Decode, LZW Encode/Decode compression techniques  

Support for text rendering in Unicode (for all character sets – Eastern Europe, Chinese, Japanese…)       

Support for Unicode text in watermarks, document information, bookmarks and text annotations

Support full embedding of TrueType and OpenType fonts

Support subset embedding of TrueType and OpenType fonts  

Support TrueType and OpenType fonts      

 

Document Creation (new documents)     ProPlus

Add actions to links and annotations   

Add annotations - text, link, free text, line, square, circle, highlight, underline, squiggly, strikeout, stamp, ink, caret and more      

Add document-level and page-level actions    

Add signature form fields - visible and hidden digital signatures, blank signature form fields   

Embed document-level file attachments    

Insert page-level file attachments  

Render shapes, images and text using CMYK       

Specify transparency levels for text, images, and shapes  

Support advanced rendering functions – header/Footer, paragraph, table, text box, watermark/stamping and auto-pagination for text     

 

Document Modification and Processing (existing documents)   ProPlus

Add actions to annotations [URI, go-to, remote go-to, launch, JavaScript, and named]

Add actions to bookmarks [URI, go-to, remote go-to, launch, JavaScript, and named]   

Add page headers and footers       

Add various transition effects to enable a PDF document to be used as a presentation slide   

Add, edit, and delete annotations  

Add, edit, and delete bookmarks    

Change document restrictions       

Change document viewer settings       

Change document viewer window settings      

Change owner and user passwords    

Change page layout   

Draw shapes such as circles, ellipses, squares, rectangles, lines, polylines, polygons…   

Extract text       

Insert page-level and document-level attachments       

Insert watermarks and stamps with text and images     

Modify signature form fields - filling blank signature form fields, removing all existing signatures  

Parse PDF page elements       

Place autotext in rendered text [page number, total page count, time, and date]

Redact text (using literal text and regular expressions) and page regions  

Search text (using literal text and regular expressions)       

Write formatted text with various fonts

 

Document Re-organization    ProPlus

Copy pages from one document and append or insert them in to another document    

Include/exclude bookmarks, annotations, form-fields, page-level actions, document-level actions from page reorganization operations     

Merge several documents into one      

Split a document into several new documents       

 

Acroforms Processing (PDF eForms)      ProPlus

Clone form field    

Create new PDF form fields    

Delete form field    

Export form field values to an FDF file       

Flatten existing form fields to make them non-interactive   

Import form field values from an FDF file   

Read and Fill form field values      

 

Document Viewing     ProPlus

Navigate using keys    

Page buffering for smooth scrolling     

Render text, shape and image elements    

Rendering CCITT4 images      

Rendering JBIG2 images  

Specify character and word spacing    

Support for TrueType and Type 1 fonts       

 

Document Printing     ProPlus

Page-level printing events       

Print page sub ranges (All, even, odd and custom-selected pages)      

Rendering JBIG2 images  

Scaling to printable area   

 

Document Outline Viewing     ProPlus

Integration with viewer component      

Interactive tree-view display of PDF bookmarks     

 

ASP.NET Support       ProPlus

Printing PDF - client-side printing by PDF viewer control (MVC)    

Printing PDF - client-side printing by PDF viewer control (Web Forms)       

Reading from PDF      

Viewing PDF - PDF viewer control (MVC)

Viewing PDF - PDF viewer control (Web Forms)    

Writing to PDF       

 

System Requirements

Please ensure that your systems meets these requirements.

 

Development Environments

    Microsoft Visual Studio 2015

    Microsoft Visual Studio 2013

    Microsoft Visual Studio 2012

    Microsoft Visual Studio 2010

    Microsoft Visual Studio 2008*

    Microsoft Visual Studio 2005*

 

* - The PDF viewer components for ASP.NET are supported only in Visual Studio 2010/2012/2013/2015.