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GdPicture PDF Support

Read & Generate PDF documents with GdPicture.NET

Overview


GdPicture includes a wide range of functions which allow you to load & save PDF (including PDF/A) documents from within Windows and Web applications.
Read & write single and multi-page PDF documents without needing to install Adobe Acrobat software.

Find additional information about PDF support in GdPicture.NET by reading the GdPicture PDF Managed Plugin description page here.


  • PDF/A compliance.
  • PDF ISO 32000 (PDF 1.7) compliance.
  • Full encryption support (RC4, AES form 64-bit to 256-bit).
  • Extract bitmap from PDF with their original bit-depth. (All formats are supported).
  • Render PDF page to bitmap with high speed.
  • Extract text from PDF documents or from a specific area of a page.
  • Retrieve PDF informations: Creator, author, producer, title, version, creation date, modification date, metadata...
  • Retrieve number of pages.
  • And many other features !


  • Support for single page and multi-page PDFs.
  • Support for 40-bit and 128-bit encryption (RC4 & AES).
  • Support for PDF rights (print, view, edit, annotate, fill fields, assemble, combine)
  • CCITT4, Flate, JPEG & JBIG2 compression support.
  • Generate PDFs compatible with Version 1.3 & up.
  • Generate 100% PDF/A 1.4 compliant files (validated by Adobe Acrobat 9 PDF/A validator).
  • Specify document properties such as Title, Author, Creator, Producer, Subject and Keywords.
  • Specify your metadata in XMP format.
  • Embed bitmaps: 1-bit to 128-bit color depth images in more than 90 different formats.
  • Support for text drawing with special effects such as rotation, character spacing, text scaling, outlining and filling.
  • Draw shapes such as lines, curves, circles, arcs and rectangles.
  • Support for full Path Construction model: subpath, line, cubic Bézier curve, rectangle...
  • Support for full Path Painting model: close, stroke, fill, Even-Odd Rule, Nonzero Winding Number Rule...
  • Support for page widths & orientation.
  • Support for direct multi-page PDF generation from multi-page TIFF images.
  • Support for PDF/OCR creation from images, scanners or existing PDFs (all versions).
  • And lot of other features !


Download and install GdPicture.NET package from here.

  • You will be able to find a compiled demo applications in [Install directory]\samples\Bin\
  • You will be able to find C# and VB.NET demo applications including source code in [Install directory]\samples\AnyCPU\
  • You will find other code snippets within the online reference guide found here http://guides.gdpicture.com
  • You can find some discussions about PDF in the dedicated section of our community forums located here http://forums.gdpicture.com/pdf/