- Add a link to PDF with an external destination
- Add a link with an internal destination to PDF
- Add a note to PDF
- Add barcodes to PDF
- Add bookmarks to PDF
- Add footer to PDF
- Add simple html text to PDF
- Add hyperlink to PDF
- Add Long Term Validation (LTV) data to an existing signature
- Add multiline text to a PDF document
- Add a rubber stamp annotation with a custom icon
- Add single-line text to PDF
- Add Stamp to PDF
- Add tags to existing PDF
- Add text field to PDF
- Add a Diagonal Watermark to PDF in C# - TallComponents - PDF Library
- pdfkit5 - detailed changes to the API - Tall Components
- Append two or more existing PDF files
- Change the color inside a PDF
- Change the formatting of a numeric field
- Change page orientation PDF
- Clip PDF page content in C#
- .NET Core console app on MacOS
- Convert PDF to plain text
- Convert SVG to PDF
- Create a text annotation in PDF with rich text
- Create formfields in PDF documents
- Create a new digitally signed PDF document
- Create rectangles with rounded corners
- Create tagged PDF
- Create text with decorations
- How to create a tiling for shapes in PDF
- Crop content on a PDF page
- Determine the content bounding box
- Determine if a PDF only contains images
- Digitally sign a PDF form in C# or VB.NET
- Disable submit button after submitting
- How to downscale all images in a PDF
- Download and convert image to PDF
- How to downscale all images in a PDF
- Vector graphics in PDF
- Fill XFA form and export XDP data
- Fill and save dynamic XFA form
- Merge XDP data with dynamic XFA form
- Dynamic XFA
- How to embed files in a PDF document
- Embed TrueType font in PDF
- EMF to PDF as vector image
- Export FDF from PDF form
- Extract embedded files from PDF
- Extract glyph boxes from PDF
- Extract glyphs and sort by reading order
- Extract graphics from PDF
- Extract images from PDF
- Fill in a template PDF document
- Fill PDF form
- Fit image to PDF page
- Flatten Markup Annotation
- Flatten PDF form
- How to generate and export certificates
- How do I extract page destinations from bookmarks?
- Highlight fields in PDF
- How to add autosized text to PDF
- How to sign and verify updates to a PDF document
- Import FDF into PDF
- Licensing and .NET Standard
- Merge PDF files in C# .NET
- How to mirror PDF pages and other shapes
- Layout text with MultilineTextShape
- pdfkit5 and .NET Core
- pdfkit5 .NET Standard API
- Read and write meta data from PDF
- Read PDF tags
- How to reduce PDF file size
- Reduce PDF size
- Remove graphics from PDF
- Remove PDF security settings
- Replace field with image
- Resize PDF pages
- Rotate a PDF page
- How to scale content of PDF
- Search text in PDF
- PDF Viewer Preferences
- Create a custom signature handler to sign and verify PDF documents
- Split PDF pages in C# and VB.NET
- Tagged PDF
- TIFF to PDF C#
- Translate PDF page content
- Use multiple licenses
- Use TrueType font collections
- Write Document to HttpResponse
- Use pdfkit5 with a Xamarin.Forms app
- pdfkit5 and Xamarin
PDFKit.NET 5.0 - detailed changes to the API
This article compares the builds that 4.0 and 5.0 have in common: net20, net40, net40-client and net40-wpf. PDFKit.NET 5.0 adds a netstandard1.5 build that is discussed separately.
The following is a fairly dry list of changes. Links to the API reference and related conceptual articles and code samples are provided.
Backwards compatible
All types and members that are available in 4.0 are also available in 5.0. So it is fully backwards compatible.
XFA
The new dynamic XFA API of PDFKit.NET 5.0 allows populating and consuming dynamic XFA documents. Read more.
- Added enum
TallComponents.PDF.XfaDocumentMode. - Added property
TallComponents.PDF.XfaInfo.DocumentMode. - Added class
TallComponents.PDF.Forms.Fields.DynamicXfaProcessor. - Added class
TallComponents.PDF.Forms.Fields.XfaActionCollection. - Added many properties to class
TallComponents.PDF.Forms.Fields.XfaInfo. - New event
FieldCollection.Changed. This event signals new fields being added dynamically.
Tagging
PDFKit.NET 5.0 adds support for tagging. The API allows you to read existing tags and create new tags and associate these with content. Read more.
Central to the tagging API are types LogicalStructure, Tag, TagAttribute, RoleMap, ClassMap and interface ITaggable.
- Added namespace
TallComponents.PDF.Tags. Check the API reference for all the new types. - Added interface
TallComponents.PDF.Tags.ITaggable(implemented by Fragment and ContentShape)
Layer
- New enum
TallComponents.PDF.LayerState - New property
Layer.Exportable - New property
Layer.Printable
OpenOptions
- New class
OpenOptionsto control reading a PDF document. This class has propertiesAutoRepair,PasswordandJavaScriptBehavior. - New
Documentctors that accept OpenOptions as one of their arguments.
Compress and reduce
- New property
WriteOptions.Compressionto specifiy compression when a PDF document is written. - New enum
TallComponents.PDF.ReduceOptions - New methods
Document.Rewritethat allows rewriting of a document to reduce its size
Prepress
- New namespace
TallComponents.PDF.Prepress - New class
TallComponents.PDF.Prepress.OutputIntent - New class
TallComponents.PDF.Prepress.OutputIntentCollection - New enum
TallComponents.PDF.Prepress.OutputIntentType
MatrixTransform
- New enum
TallComponents.PDF.Transforms.MatrixOrderto specify multiply order - New methods
Rotate,Scale,ShearandTranslateadded to classTallComponents.PDF.Transforms.MatrixTransform