PDF Generation Library on Server/Desktop

Document creation can be as simple as a blank PDF, or part of capturing content and combining it with a template PDF to streamline a report process, or a document whose structure your application computes at runtime. With the Document Creation API, create an end to end PDF.

With the Apryse Server SDK doc creation API:

• Create new documents from scratch or use existing documents as templates.
• Copy page content (individual graphical elements) from one page to another.
• Read/Write a PDF document from/to memory buffer or a file on a disk.
• Create new text, vector art, and images.
• Perform quick image embedding for TIFF, JPEG, and PNG.
• Support Type1, OpenType, TrueType, Type3, and CID Font embedding for accurate text reproduction.
• Support Unicode text and standard PDF encodings.
• Have dynamic font subsetting resulting in smaller files.
• Have full control over text positioning and character spacing.
• Support all PDF color spaces and advanced pre-press options.
• Have full control over content positioning and all graphical attributes available in PDF.
• Support PDF patterns (colored and uncolored tiling patterns) and shadings (7 types).
• Support image masks.
• Reuse resources such as images, fonts and color spaces through object sharing resulting in smaller and more efficient documents.
• Have intelligent element serialization resulting in small and efficient content streams.
• Support explicit and named destinations. Named destinations allow for changes to the document that will not invalidate existing bookmarks.
• Have extensive bookmark creation and editing API.
• Create PDF documents with 3D content (U3D support).
• Apply security to new documents.
• Have linearization (Fast Web View).

The document creation API adds flow layout:

• Describe a document as a content tree of paragraphs, tables, lists, shapes, charts and floats, instead of positioning every element on a page.
• Automatic pagination, text wrapping, and content that breaks across pages.
• Word-processor styling with fonts, colors, indents, justification, borders and tab stops.
• Sections that mix page sizes and orientations, with headers, footers and dynamic page numbers.
• Tagged, accessible PDF output by construction.

Use cases include:

• Invoice generation at volume: Company branding, line-item tables, page numbers, payment information, metadata, and configured page size and margins.
• Analytics and business reports: Structured content, charts or chart-like visual elements, branded headers, landscape pages, and custom page numbering.
• Contracts and proposals: Logos, hyperlinks to terms or support, disclaimers in footers, shapes used as signature placeholders, metadata, and multi-page layout.
• Statements, dashboards, labels, and other dynamically generated documents produced from operational systems, CRMs, ERPs, billing systems, and reporting tools.
• OEM teams embedding the SDK in their own product and needing programmatic PDF generation as part of it.

Get started

• Generate from Template to create a new document from a Template.
• Document creation API to build a document from a content tree and paginate it into a PDF.
• Create a new blank PDF document to create a new document as a blank PDF.