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Spending too much time maintaining PDF support within your application, and not enough on its core functionality?

By integrating the Adobe PDF Library API, you will end up with better PDF functionality and more time to focus on the rest of your application.

About the Adobe PDF Library

The Adobe PDF Library is an SDK which allows developers to quickly add reliable, robust PDF capabilities to their applications. Powerful client- and server-based PDF solutions can be built using the same core technology that Adobe uses to build Acrobat.

The toolkit provides:

• a broad range of functionality;
• full compatibility with the latest PDF specification;
• language interfaces for .NET and Java;
• consistent, reliable support on a broad range of platforms; and
• high-performance, scalable optimized PDF processing.

Some of our customers are using the Library to:

• render PDFs within their customized document viewer;
• generate reports in 40+ languages using Unicode and double-byte fonts;
• extract text from PDFs for indexing;
• manipulate the contents of PDF documents in prepress workflows

A wide range of functionality is available and regular updates from Adobe ensure compatibility with future versions of PDF.

Version 9 highlights

The latest version of the Adobe PDF Library enables the creation and processing of PDF 1.7 documents and includes several new features such as:

• Ability to control thin line enhancements in a document during PDF rendering
• Ability to set page level control of PDF documents while printing (Win 32 & 64)
• Ability to use a custom defined CMap as the encoding for a font
• Improved page thumbnail quality
• Improved PostScript page independence
• Smaller embedded FontFile2 streams for TrueType fonts resulting in smaller file size
• Support for AES 256-bit encryption
• Support for rendering and printing of Reference XObjects in PDF documents
• Support for Unicode passwords

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