PDF Document API

• Apr 23, 2019
• 4 minutes to read

The PDF Document API allows you to perform various scenarios with PDF documents in code, such as merging, splitting, editing, creating, password protecting, digitally signing and much more using the straightforward API.

Getting Started

In this section, you will get acquainted with the PDF Document API.

• Getting Started

  Describes the first steps to create a PDF processing console application in Visual Studio.

• Online Demos

  Shows all available demos related to DevExpress PDF Document API.

• Examples

  Contains task-based examples for the PDF Document API.

Coordinate Systems

The topic in this section:

• Coordinate Systems

  Describes coordinate systems used in the PDF Document API.

Document Generation

The topic in this section:

• Document Generation

  Describes how to generate a document layout from scratch.

PDF Graphics

This section contains the following topics:

• Overview

  Contains basic information on PDF Graphics API.

• Creating PDF Graphics Context

  Create PDF Graphics context.

• Drawing into Graphics Context

  Draw your own graphics into PDF graphics context using the following elements:

  • Image
  • String
  • Graphics (lines, Bezier curves, polygons, ellipses and paths).

• Adding Graphics Content to a Page

  Add created graphics content to a page.

• Adding Interactive Form Fields

  Add interactive form fields to a document.

Document Manipulation

This section contains all the required information related to programmatic document manipulation.

• Merging Documents

  Merge different documents into a single PDF.

• Page Manipulation

  Add a new page to a document, copy pages from one document to another PDF, delete or rotate a page in a document.

Additional Content

The topics in this section.

• Bookmarks

  Create bookmarks from scratch, change bookmark attributes (e.g. rename a bookmark, change its destination or font style) and delete bookmarks.

• Hyperlinks

  Add a hyperlink to a page or URI.

• Attachments

  Attach any number of files to the PDF document and access attached files.

Interactive Forms

This section contains all the required information related to an interactive form in a document.

• Interactive Form Filling

  Fill existing interactive forms.

• Interactive Form Flattening

  Flatten interactive forms in a document.

• Creating Interactive Form

  Create interactive form fields and add them to a document.

• Deleting Interactive Form

  Remove interactive form fields from a document.

• Export and Import Interactive Form Data

  Export and import interactive form data in various formats - FDF, XFDF, XML and TXT.

Text Markup Annotations

The PDF Document API component provides API that can be used to manipulate (create, modify or remove) text markup annotations in pages.

The topics in this section contain all the required information related to text markup annotation manipulation in a document.

• Creating

  Create markup annotations for a text and add them to a page.

• Modifying

  Change existing text markup annotations in a page.

• Deleting

  Remove text markup annotations from a page in a document.

Document Security

This section describes how to use save options to protect a document with a password and sign the document with a digital signature.

• Document Protection

  Protect a document using both the owner and user passwords. In addition, you can optionally specify user permissions for printing, data extraction, document modification and interactive operations.

• Signing a Document

  Apply a digital signature to a document.

Content Extraction

This section describes how to get content (an image, text) from a document.

• Extracting Text from a Document

  Extract text from documents.

• Extracting Images from a Document

  Extract images from documents.

• Searching for Text in a Document

  Find text in documents.

Printing

This section describes how to print a document and customize print settings.

• Printing

  Print any page in a document.

Export a Document to a Multi-Page Tiff Image

This section describes how to export document pages to a multi-page tiff image.

• Export a PDF Document to a Multi-Page Tiff

  Export pages to a multi-page tiff image.