USER MANUAL CONTENTS

  1. Introduction

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

  2. Object Model Overview

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

  3. Your First AspPDF Application

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

  4. Drawing

    Describes the PdfCanvas object and its drawing methods.

  5. Image and Graphics Objects

    Describes usage of external images, transparencies and graphics objects.

  6. Text and Fonts

    Describes text-drawing methods and font management.

  7. Tables

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

  8. Security

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

  9. Working with Existing PDFs

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

  10. Interactive Features

    Discusses actions, destination, annotations and outlines.

  11. Form Creation

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

  12. Existing Form Fill-in

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

  13. Barcodes

    Describes support for 1D and 2D barcodes.

  14. Document Stitching, Metadata, PDF/A

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

  15. HTML-to-PDF Conversion

    Describes the usage of the ImportFromUrl method.

  16. Color Spaces, Patterns and Shadings

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

  17. PDF-to-Image Conversion

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

  18. IE-based HTML-to-PDF Conversion

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

  19. Transparency

    Describes AspPDF's support for the PDF transparency model.

  20. Appendix A: Pre-defined Color Names

    Contains a table of pre-defined color names.

  21. Appendix B: Special Font Tables

    Contains Symbol and ZapfDingbats glyphs and their respective numeric codes.