USER MANUAL CONTENTS

Introduction

Contains a list of features, system requirements, and description of the expiration mechanism.

Object Model Overview

Describes main objects such as PdfManager, PdfDocument and PdfPage, and their relationships. Also contains a detailed description of the PdfParam object.

Your First AspPDF Application

Describes a simple "Hello World!" application. Also discusses document saving options (to disk, memory and HTTP stream).

Drawing

Describes the PdfCanvas object and its drawing methods.

Image and Graphics Objects

Describes usage of external images, transparencies and graphics objects.

Text and Fonts

Describes text-drawing methods and font management.

Tables

Describes AspPDF's table support, demonstrates tabular report generation.

Security

Contains PDF security overview, describes the Encrypt and Sign methods.

Working with Existing PDFs

Describes text extraction, template fill-in, other document modifications, using PDF pages as templates.

Interactive Features

Discusses actions, destination, annotations and outlines.

Form Creation

Describes interactive forms and form fields such as text boxes, checkboxes, pushbuttons, etc.

Existing Form Fill-in

Demonstrates how AspPDF can be used to fill existing interactive forms programmatically.

Barcodes

Describes support for 1D and 2D barcodes.

Document Stitching, Metadata, PDF/A

Describes document appending, metadata, support for PDF/A.

HTML-to-PDF Conversion

Describes the usage of the ImportFromUrl method.

Color Spaces, Patterns and Shadings

Describes the PdfColorSpace and PdfFunction objects, and also patterns and shadings.

PDF-to-Image Conversion

Describes the PdfPreview object and its usage. Also describes document printing and structured text extraction.

IE-based HTML-to-PDF Conversion

Describes HTML-to-PDF conversion based on the Internet Explorer rendering engine.

Transparency

Describes AspPDF's support for the PDF transparency model.

Appendix A: Pre-defined Color Names

Contains a table of pre-defined color names.

Appendix B: Special Font Tables

Contains Symbol and ZapfDingbats glyphs and their respective numeric codes.