Detailed information about PDFsharp's features.

• Creates PDF documents on the fly from any .Net language
• Easy to understand object model to compose documents
• One source code for drawing on a PDF page as well as in a window or on the printer
• Modify, merge, and split existing PDF files
• Images with transparency (color mask, monochrome mask, alpha mask)
• Newly designed from scratch and written entirely in C#
• The graphical classes go well with .Net

• Improved support for Unicode
• Font embedding and subsetting
• Bug fixed in connection with Acrobat 8
• New sample demonstrates using PDFsharp and MigraDoc to create a document Please note: The support for .NET 1.1 and Visual Studio 2003 was dropped. Developed for and tested with .NET 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005.
  

• Unicode support
• Textformatter class
• New samples: Unicode, TextLayout

• Two new samples: ConcatenateDocuments and XForms
• Bug fixes
• Many improvements

• XGraphics.Save/Restore now work properly with nested calls
• Bug fixes
• Many improvements

The graphical objects follow the design pattern of the .Net framework. With one set of functions you can draw on a PDF page as well as on a System.Drawing.Graphics object. Your application can render its output in a window, on the printer or in a PDF document.

• Lines, polylines, arcs, Bézier splines, canonical splines
• Rectangles, rounded rectangles, ellipses, polygons, pies, closed splines, paths
• RGB, CMYK, and grayscale colors with transparency
• Pens and brushes for drawing and filling
• GDI+ like predefined colors, pens and brushes
• Matrix transformations
• BMP, PNG, GIF, TIFF, and JPEG images
• Image masks and transparency
• Form XObjects
• Clipping through graphical path
• First two bar code types (Code2of5Interleaved and Code3of9Standard)

• TrueType fonts / OpenType fonts with TrueType outline
• Matrix transformations
• Converting glyphs to a graphical path
• WinAnsi and Unicode encoding
• Text Annotations, Rubber stamp annotations

• Encryption with 40/128 bit with password
• Document access permissions

• Read content of interactive form fields (AcroForms) (still under construction)
• XPdfForm objects as templates. Use XGraphics class to create PDF form objects.

See "Samples Menu" for code snippets and output screen shots.

See "Tools Menu" for information about add-ons for PDFsharp.

Go to "Downloads" to get the complete source code (C#) with all the samples found on this site.