PDFOne

PDF component suite for .NET or Java developers enabling the creation of applications for creating, editing, enhancing, securing, merging, spliting, displaying and printing PDF documents and forms.

Gnostice PDFOne is available in 2 editions, for different developers: for Java and for .NET developers. Find more information for each of them below.

Gnostice PDFOne for Java provides a rich set of APIs to create, edit, view, print, merge, split, reorganise, encrypt, decrypt, bookmark, annotate, watermark and stamp PDF documents. Gnostice PDFOne can also create, edit, fill and flatten PDF forms. Gnostice PDFOne does not require other PDF software such as Adobe PDF library, Adobe Acrobat Professional or GhostScript. PDFOne is based entirely on Java code and does not have any non-Java dependencies.

Gnostice PDFOne .NET is a versatile PDF component suite for .NET developers to implement PDF-related tasks in their applications. PDFOne .NET can create, edit, view, print, search, redact, encrypt, decrypt, digitally sign, merge, split, reorganise, bookmark, annotate, watermark and stamp PDF documents. PDFOne .NET can also create, edit, delete, fill and flatten PDF form fields. It also has an AJAX-powered Web-Forms PDF viewer component that can display and print PDF documents on any modern browser. PDFOne .NET is based entirely on managed code.

PDFOne – Features

PDFOne .NET

General Features

PDFOne .NET provides a control that you can place on your form and call the extensive set of methods to create, manage, alter and organize PDF documents. PDFOne .NET also provides a wide set of properties and events for quick and efficient customization of the PDF task being performed. The documents can then be automatically delivered directly to users web browsers or saved to disk.

• Create PDF files from scratch (with any number of pages supported by PDF).
• Create files in PDF version 1.3 through 1.6 (Acrobat 5 through 7).
• Save to files and memory streams.
• E-mail document after saving to file.
• Print document after saving to file (if Adobe Reader is installed).
• Render formatted text, images, and drawing objects such as circles and squares.
• Render images in any format supported by the .NET framework.
• Rotate text, images, and whole pages.
• Render repeated images with a single resource copy (to minimize file size).
• Render text in Unicode – support for all character sets – Eastern Europe, Chinese, Japanese.
• Specify document information properties, even in Unicode.
• Use TrueType and OpenType fonts.
• Specify no/full/subset embedding of TrueType and OpenType fonts.
• Secure files using 40-bit and 128-bit encryption with user and owner passwords.
• Create, edit, and delete bookmarks.
• Create, edit, and delete thumbnail images.
• Specify custom thumbnail image for any page.
• Use any image format supported by the .NET framework for thumbnail images.
• Add actions to bookmarks – URI, GoTo, GoToR, Launch, and JavaScript.
• Specify page layout and page mode.
• Create, fill, delete form fields.
• Edit form field properties.
• Add custom JavaScript button actions.
• Create, edit, and flatten hierarchical form fields at document and page level.
• Export/import to and from FDF (Forms Data Format).
• Add and edit various types of annotations (Text, FreeText, Line, Square, Circle, Highlight, Underline, Squiggly, Strikeout, Stamp, and Ink).
• Add actions to annotations (URI, GoTo, GoToR, Launch, and JavaScript).
• Add attachments of any file type.
• Save to files and memory streams.
• Add watermarks using text, shapes (such as circles and squares), and images.
• Add stamp annotations.
• Use placeholders in text whose values are provided at run time.
• Use images in any format supported by the .NET framework.
• Specify page layout and page mode.
• Merge multiple documents into one.
• Insert pages from one document into another.
• Append pages from one document at the end of another.
• Extract pages from a document and create a new one with the extracted pages.
• Specify document information properties, even in Unicode.

PDFOne.NET Edition Comparison

Features List	Professional	ProPlus
General Features, I/O and Security Support
Load from file and memory stream
Save to file and memory stream
Save to HTTP response
Email after saving to file
Full support for reading PDF version 1.3 through 1.6 (Acrobat 4 through 7) files
Support for TrueType and OpenType fonts
Support for Full embedding of TrueType and OpenType fonts
Subset embedding of TrueType and OpenType fonts
Unicode support for text rendering. Support for all character sets Eastern Europe, Chinese, Japanese
Unicode support for Watermarks, Document Information and bookmarks and text annotations
Secure with password using 40bit and 128bit Encryption
Read password protected documents (requires password)
Read XML metadata of document
Read and Write Document Information properties
Read and Write Viewer Preferences properties
Set and remove thumbnail images
Input of all image formats supported by the .NET framework
Compression techniques – Flate Encode/Decode, ASCII85 Encode/Decode, ASCIIHex Encode/Decode, RunLength Encode/Decode, LZW Encode/Decode
Document Creation
Support advanced rendering functions header/hooter, paragraph, table, text box, watermark/stamping and auto-pagination for text
Add annotations – text, link, free text, line, square, circle, highlight, underline, squiggly, strikeout, stamp, ink, caret and more
File Attachments
Set Actions to links/annotations: GoToR, Launch, JavaScript
Support for actions on Document and Page events
Support for associating all actions with link annotations, bookmarks, and document and page events.
Support for setting transparency levels for text, images, and shapes
Support for rendering shapes, images and text in CMYK color
Support for embedding document-level file attachments
Document Modification (existing documents)
Insert watermarks and stamps with text and images
Add, edit, and delete annotations
Add actions to bookmarks [URI, go-to, remote go-to, launch, JavaScript, and named]
Add actions to annotations [URI, go-to, remote go-to, launch, JavaScript, and named]
Add, edit, and delete bookmarks
Change page layout
Insert page Header and Footer
Change document viewer settings
Change document viewer window settings
Change owner and user passwords
Full support for all drawing (creation) functions for use on existing pages
Variable placeholders (auto text tags) support for Watermark and all Text drawing functions [Time, Date, Page #, Page Count]
Set presentation features [Page Transition]
Support for retrieving embedded document-level file attachments
Document Re-organization
Merge multiple documents
Copy pages from one document and append or insert them in to another document
Split a document into several new documents
Include/exclude bookmarks, annotations, form-fields, page-level actions, document-level actions from page reorganization operations
Acroforms Processing (PDF eForms)
Read and Fill form field values
Create new PDF form fields
Flatten existing form fields to make them non-interactive
Delete form fields
Clone form field
Import form field values from an FDF file
Export form field values to an FDF file
Document Viewing and Printing
Rendering of text, shape and image elements
Support for TrueType and Type 1 fonts
Character and word spacing
Rendering CCITT4 images
Navigation keys
Page buffering for smooth scrolling
Scaling to printable area
Print page sub ranges (All, even, odd and custom-selected pages)
Page-level printing events

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PDFOne for the Java platform

General Features

PDFOne for the Java platform is a 100% Java library for developers to implement PDF based software solutions.PDFOne for the Java platform provides a rich set of APIs to create, manipulate and organize PDF documents, process PDF forms and perform other PDF document related tasks from within your Java applications.

• Create PDF files from scratch (with any number of pages supported by PDF).
• Create files in PDF version 1.3 through 1.6 (Acrobat 5 through 7).
• Save to files and memory streams.
• E-mail document after saving to file.
• Open or print document after saving to file (if Adobe Reader is installed).
• Render formatted text, images, and drawing objects such as circles and squares.
• Render images in any format supported in Java.
• Rotate text, images, and whole pages.
• Render repeated images with a single resource copy (to minimize file size).
• Render text in Unicode – support for all character sets – Eastern Europe, Chinese, Japanese.
• Specify document information properties, even in Unicode.
• Use TrueType and OpenType fonts.
• Specify no/full/subset embedding of TrueType and OpenType fonts.
• Secure files using 40-bit and 128-bit encryption with user and owner passwords.
• Create, edit, and delete bookmarks.
• Create, edit, and delete thumbnail images.
• Specify custom thumbnail image for any page.
• Use any image format supported by the in Java for thumbnail images.
• Add actions to bookmarks – URI, GoTo, GoToR, Launch, and JavaScript.
• E-mail document after saving to file.
• Read XML metadata of documents.
• Create, fill, delete form fields.
• Edit form field properties.
• Add custom JavaScript button actions.
• Create, edit, and flatten hierarchical form fields at document and page level.
• Export/import to and from FDF (Forms Data Format).
• Add and edit various types of annotations (Text, FreeText, Line, Square, Circle, Highlight, Underline, Squiggly, Strikeout, Stamp, and Ink).
• Add actions to annotations (URI, GoTo, GoToR, Launch, and JavaScript).
• Add attachments of any file type.
• Specify/change page layout and page mode.
• Add watermarks using text, shapes (such as circles and squares), and images.
• Add stamp annotations.
• Use placeholders in text whose values are provided at run time.
• Use images in any format supported in Java.
• Specify page layout and page mode.
• Merge multiple documents into one.
• Insert pages from one document into another.
• Append pages from one document at the end of another.
• Extract pages from a document and create a new one with the extracted pages.

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PDFOne – System Requirements

System Requirements

PDFOne for the Java platform

Minimum Software Requirements

Common for all PDFOne Java components
JDK 1.4 or above

For PDF Viewer and PDF Printer components alone
Windows, Linux or Mac