Industry-Leading PDF Support

All versions of ImageGear® incorporate the latest Adobe PDF library, allowing developers to automatically conform to the highest PDF (Portable Document Format) Language Standard and open and process PostScript (PS) and Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) files.

Highlights

Latest Adobe PDF library support - 100% Adobe Acrobat compatible on Win32, Linux (Intel), AIX, Sun Solaris and Mac OSX platforms. View PDF support for HP-UX or Linux (PPC) platforms.
Quickly build .NET, ActiveX, and DLL applications with PDF support
Work with 3D PDF content in Universal 3D (U3D) format
Easily create PDF searchable text from scanned text
Provide more control of displaying individual CMYK channels and Pantone spot colors in a PDF
Quickly add a wide variety of annotations to a PDF document
Easily read and write to and from PDF, PostScript, and Encapsulated PostScript files
Allow opening and saving of files with different compression schemes
Preserve vector data when saving PDF files

Available Features

Work with 3D PDF content in Universal 3D (U3D) format. Create and edit 3D Artwork and facilitate data exchange with support for this unversal vector standard, including rasterization.
Verify PDF documents for reliable graphic content exchange through PDF/X (PDF/X-1a, PDF/X-3, and PDF/X-4) and PDF/A (PDF/A-1a and PDF/A-1b) compliance
Convert scanned pages into PDF searchable text by applying optical character recognition (OCR) methods to the text images and converting them into PDF text elements. The text elements are overlaid over the recognizable words and are not visible. This is similar to the Paper Capture function in Adobe Standard that creates a PDF document that displays the image and also contains text data.
Provide more control of displaying individual CMYK channels and Pantone spot colors in a PDF. The application developer can create applications that control whether just one or more channels are displayed and which Pantone spot colors are displayed from a PDF file.
Add annotations to a PDF document. Annotation marks include text, line, freehand polyline, rectangle, ellipse, polygon, polyline, audio, image, ruler, protractor, encryption, button, hot spot and rich text. This version also includes the ability to import and export these marks to XML files. The application developer has the flexibility to “burn” these annotations into the PDF file as a true Adobe annotation or to save them in a separate file.
Full support of PDF Standard, allowing for the opening and processing of any valid PDF, PS or EPS file
Linearization, to create page-independent PDF documents to facilitate the delivery of large documents over the Web
Native PDF document printing renders document content directly to the printer, providing more speed and reducing memory requirements
Encryption for secure Web delivery
Files in Memory (FIM) support, to keep temporary files in memory, instead of on disk, resulting in significantly increased processing speeds
Embed and subset fonts into PDFs to ensure the document is viewed exactly as it was created
Double Byte support so that information can be shared across multiple languages including Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Arabic and Hebrew
Additional font support providing listing of available host system fonts and finding system/PDF font matches, as well as font creation from system fonts and for the editing of font information
PDF Text Extraction to allow for the extraction of words from PDF documents or specified pages, including word enumerating and sorting and obtaining word layouts, styles and characters
PDF Modification so that additional PDF pages may be inserted
Document metadata can be retrieved and set for a PDF document such that it corresponds to the document’s information dictionary
Optimization to eliminate redundancy in the storage of files, and the creation of smaller PDF files
Compression to improve the storage of graphics in PDF files, minimizing the size of stored PDF documents (JPEG, CCITT, LZW, deflate and JBIG2 compression schemes)