• Security Enhancements
  • Reading and writing PDF 2.0 revision 6 encrypted PDF files
  • Enhanced Digital Signatures through the addition of New Generation Certificates, custom attributes and external certificate contexts
• Performance Improvements
  • Optimized rendering of PDF streams containing a large number of small objects
  • Optimized text output PDF instructions in order to resave faster and more compact PDF files
• Rendering Improvements
  • Improved rendering of rotated pages containing rotated text and annotations or form field objects
  • Improved speed and quality of rendering large JPeg and JPeg2000 images
  • Improved rendering performace of documents containing large clipping areas
• Functional Enhancements
  • Added the ability to add custom attributes to the document object
  • Added the BlendMode attribute to all PDF annotation objects
  • Plus a number of enhancements as requested by our customers in the past two years

• Generate PDF 2.0 compliant files in addition to PDF 1.3 to 1.7
• Edit and print PDF documents programmatically without any user interaction
• Create PDFs that comply with the PDF/A-1 and PDF/A-3 ISO Standard while embedding your custom XMP metadata
• Create tagged or structured PDFs as defined by the PDF specs. Structured PDFs are easier to edit and export to other applications
• Comment and annotate PDFs with sticky notes, highlighters, stamps, lines, frames and more

• Support for a wide range of PDF files such as the PDF 1.7 format and compressed XRef tables
• Resave PDF files into PDF 1.4, 1.5, or PDF/A formats
• Optimize PDF documents for viewing through the Web, also known as PDF Linearization
• Compression of images, graphics, and text heavily reduces the size of the resulting PDF file
• Load, create, and view layered PDFs
• Load FDF documents that contain data associated with a main PDF document
• Access to the internal PDF file structure through a comprehensive class architecture
• Add custom metadata to the XMP metadata stream of a PDF
• Add and extract attachments to and from PDF files
• Preserve fidelity of modified PDF documents through:
  • Precise positioning of objects in the output PDF
  • Resaving objects and images using their original color spaces
• Logging capabilities ensure detailed detection and warning of errors during PDF processing

• Unicode and CID font embedding enable support for a wide range of fonts including Asian (CJK) fonts
  
  • Support for OpenType®, TrueType® and Type1 fonts to ensure perfect portability
  • Ability to specify the location of external character maps (CMAPs)
• Text anti-aliasing improves on-screen document legibility (requires font installation on client PC)
• Search/Replace capabilities from the user-interface or programmatically
• Ability to do paragraph editing with reflow
  
  • Needed due to the nature of PDF files that are otherwise not easily editable
• Enhanced text editing operations such as highlighting and automatic text resizing

• Support for reading and writing multiple image compression formats such as JBIG2, JPEG2000, JPEG, CCITT, TIFF, PNG and GIF
  • 256-color compression algorithm introduced with v6.0 reduces image size and improves compression quality
• Direct support for opening Postscript and EPS files through the PDF Creator library
  • Includes an advanced Postscript 3 engine to render .ps and .eps files and resave to PDF format
• Support for transparencies and alpha-blending techniques
• Render a page or parts of a page to a device context controlled by the calling application
• Export PDF files into XAML in order to integrate with Silverlight controls
• Export PDF documents to a wide range of formats such as XPS, Excel, HTML, RTF, TXT, TIFF, JPEG or BMP
  
  • Specify a range of pages or export the whole document
• Export of PDF documents to HTML5 format including support for form fields

• Support for gestures and touch screen operations
• Area zooming and panning capabilities
• Enhanced functions for adding, inserting, deleting, and moving pages
  
  • Move one or multiple pages within a document or to another document
  • Thumbnail panel provides a preview of the pages with drag/drop capabilities
• View and create bookmarks using the bookmarks panel with drag and drop capabilities
• Automatic generation of hyperlinks and bookmarks by analyzing document content
• Ability to open a PDF document as a background or template for the main document

• Print a single page to multiple sheets or multiple pages to a single sheet
• Rotate and scale pages during printing
• Print a selection of page or the complete document with or without prompting the user
• Select paper tray options depending on the media type assigned to a page
• Create a single print job from multiple PDFs
• Preview documents using the “Print Preview” report state

• Optimized processing of PDF files containing large graphics
  
  • Delayed loading of JPEG and PNG images until they are required. This improves performance and memory usage during document processing
• Low memory consumption during the processing of large numbers of pages
  
  • Sophisticated page caching algorithm ensures that only a predefined number of pages remains in memory even when the document is modified
  • Saving documents page by page allows developers to create very large documents without overflowing memory
• Reduced output file size through high page compression and small embedded font size

• Redaction feature enables developers to remove sensitive information from PDF documents in a quick and secure way
• Prevent the display, modification or printing of PDFs with 40-bit, 128-bit or 256-bit AES encryption
• Ability to remove Metadata or other sensitive information from PDF documents

• Triggering of a number of events such as progress or keyboard events
• Ability to insert PDF417 barcodes within PDF documents
• Define your own object types that are completely managed outside of PDF Creator

• Windows 10, Windows Phone 10
• x86, x64 and ARM CPU architectures

• Free downloads of minor and major releases
• 1 guaranteed major release update
• 3 support incidents per year
• Access to technical notes and FAQ's
• Automatic enrollment in User Forum

Your maintenance plan is renewable prior to your current maintenance plan expiry date. Renewals past the expiry date must first purchase an update. Renew Now >