This high-performance and feature-rich .NET Core PDF framework works without Adobe dependencies. It has a PDF creation and editing library that allows you to create, read, and edit PDF files programmatically. If offers PDF viewer control to view, review and print PDF files. Its powerful conversion APIs make it easy to convert HTML, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and images to PDF.
There are no distribution fees, per-server licensing fees, or royalties, which makes Essential PDF very cost-effective.
It’s optimized for usage in a server environment where speed and low memory usage is critical.
All the elements in a typical PDF document like text, formatting, images, shapes, and tables are accessible through a comprehensive set of APIs.
Over more than 15 years, Syncfusion’s PDF library has become a mature and proven product.
The .NET Core PDF Library comes with extensive documentation, a Knowledge Base, and samples.
Use a single API across all platforms.
Create PDFs from the scratch with text, images, graphics, and more. Manipulate or edit an PDF files with just a few lines of code.
Split a PDF file into different sub-documents quickly and accurately.
Add text, images, graphics, or shapes, annotations, bookmarks, attachments, and stamps.
Build PDF security into an applications, spanning a range of low-to-high encryption standards.
Create stunning PDF tables with advanced customization, formatting, and styling.
Permanently remove sensitive or confidential information from PDF documents.
Converts scanned paper document in the form of PDF files or images into searchable, editable data.
Easily get started with the .NET Core PDF Library using a few simple lines of C# code example as demonstrated below. Also explore our .NET Core PDF Library Example that shows you how to render and configure the .NET Core PDF.
//Create a new PDF document.
PdfDocument document = new PdfDocument();
//Add a page to the document.
PdfPage page = document.Pages.Add();
//Create PDF graphics for the page.
PdfGraphics graphics = page.Graphics;
//Set the font.
PdfFont font = new PdfStandardFont(PdfFontFamily.Helvetica, 20);
//Draw the text.
graphics.DrawString("Hello World!!!", font, PdfBrushes.Black, new Syncfusion.Drawing.PointF(0, 0));
//Save the document into stream.
MemoryStream stream = new MemoryStream();
document.Save(stream);
//Close the document.
document.Close(true);
Unlock the power of PDF creation and manipulation on any platform with our PDF Framework. It empowers you to easily create, read, and manipulate PDF documents programmatically across various platforms (applications), including .NET, Blazor, .NET MAUI, .NET Core, Flutter, WinUI, Xamarin, and UWP. Explore the platform-wise features of our PDF creation and manipulation library.
View, annotate, and fill PDF form fields interactively within an application.
Load documents with thousands of pages instantly. Enjoy a seamless scrolling experience. The virtualized pages utilize less runtime memory.
Fill, edit, save, and print interactive form fields easily.
Effortlessly add or edit ink, free text, and text markup (highlight, underline, strike-through) annotations in a PDF document, interactively.
Interactively or programmatically navigate pages from options in a built-in toolbar. Users can also navigate pages in a single document through bookmarks and a table of contents.
An enhanced printing experience allows users to print an entire PDF document or customized ranges of PDF pages.
The Syncfusion PDF Viewer renders PDF pages accurately. It also provides APIs to convert the pages of a PDF file into JPG, PNG, TIFF, and BMP formats. The scaler exportation comes with the customization of dimensions and DPI.
Our PDF Framework offers PDF Viewer components tailored for web, desktop, and mobile applications, providing a comprehensive ecosystem and allowing you to integrate PDF viewing functionality seamlessly. Explore the features of our PDF Viewer components by platform.
Convert a Word document to PDF for printing and viewing in a portable format. Use various customization options like embedding fonts, PDF conformance levels A-1B and X-1A2001 and export bookmarks.
Convert an Excel workbook or worksheet to PDF format. Use various customization options like embedding fonts, ignoring empty pages or worksheets, and showing or hiding headers or footers.
Convert HTML from a URL, file, or string to a PDF. The converter offers full support for HTML tags, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, SVG, MHTML, and page breaks. It uses the popular rendering engines such as Internet Explorer (IE), WebKit and Blink (Chromium project).
Convert a PowerPoint presentation to PDF. The conversion can be customized with handouts and pages for notes.
Convert fixed document formats such as XML paper specification (XPS) and open XML paper specification (OXPS) to PDF without using a printer.
Convert many image formats such as JPEG, PNG, and SVG to PDF.
The Syncfusion .NET Core PDF Framework supports the following:
No, this is a commercial product and requires a paid license. However, a free community license is also available for companies and individuals whose organizations have less than $1 million USD in annual gross revenue, 5 or fewer developers, and 10 or fewer total employees.
A good place to start would be our comprehensive getting started documentation.
Apart from .NET Core, the Syncfusion PDF Framework supports platforms for web (Blazor, Flutter, ASP.NET MVC, and ASP.NET Web Forms), mobile (.NET MAUI, Flutter, Xamarin, and UWP), and desktop (Windows Forms, WPF, WinUI, .NET MAUI, Flutter, Xamarin, and UWP).
You can find our .NET Core PDF Frameworks demo here.
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