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Cross-platform / Guides
Apryse’s PDF Library ships with a simple to use API to bring accurate, reliable, and fast document reading, writing, editing, printing, and display capabilities to commercial applications.
Apryse’s fully supported PDF SDK is trusted by thousands of innovative startups, governments, and Fortune 500 businesses (see customers). Apryse technology is built from the ground up and is not dependent on any external third-party open-source software.
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Mobile
Desktop / server
| Format | Client only | WebViewer Server | Custom Server |
|---|---|---|---|
| PDF (1.x to 2.0) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| PDF/A 1,2,3 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| XFDF | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| FDF | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Requires Office & Templating Add-on
| Format | Client only | WebViewer Server | Custom Server |
|---|---|---|---|
| DOC, DOCX, DOCM | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| DOT, DOTX, DOTM | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| XLS, XLSX, XLSM | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| XLSB | ✓ | ✓ | |
| XLT | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| XLTX | ✓ | ✓ | |
| XLTM | ✓ | ✓ | |
| PPT, PPTX, PPTM | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| POT | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| POTX, POTM | ✓ | ✓ | |
| PPS | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| PPSX, PPSM | ✓ | ✓ | |
| VSD | ✓ | ||
| VSDX | ✓ | ||
| PUB | ✓ | Windows + Office* |
* Custom Server PUB are only supported via Office Interop (MS Office instance needs to be installed)
Requires Architecture, Engineering & Construction Add-on
| Format | Client only | WebViewer Server | Custom Server |
|---|---|---|---|
| DWG | ✓ | ✓ | |
| DWF | ✓ | ✓ | |
| DXF | ✓ | ✓ | |
| DGN | ✓ | ✓ | |
| RVT | ✓* | ✓* |
* RVT is only supported on Windows
| Format | Client only | WebViewer Server | Custom Server |
|---|---|---|---|
| JPG | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| PNG | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| JFIF | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| TIF | ✓* | ✓ | ✓ |
* See here for how to view tiff files on the client side
Requires WebViewer Server
| Format | Client only | WebViewer Server | Custom Server |
|---|---|---|---|
| SVG | ✓ | ✓ | |
| BMP | ✓ | ✓ | |
| WMF | ✓ | ||
| EMF | ✓ | ✓ | |
| GIF | ✓ | ✓ | |
| JP2, JPC | ✓ | ✓ |
Requires WebViewer Server & Media Add-on
| Format | Client only | WebViewer Server | Custom Server |
|---|---|---|---|
| AAI | ✓* | ✓* | |
| ARW | ✓* | ✓* | |
| CR2 | ✓* | ✓* | |
| CRW | ✓* | ✓* | |
| CUR, ICO | ✓* | ✓* | |
| DCM | ✓* | ✓* | |
| DCR | ✓* | ✓* | |
| DDS | ✓* | ✓* | |
| HEIC, HEIF | ✓* | ✓* | |
| MRW | ✓* | ✓* | |
| NEF | ✓* | ✓* | |
| ORF | ✓* | ✓* | |
| PICT | ✓* | ✓* | |
| PFM | ✓* | ✓* | |
| PSB, PSD | ✓* | ✓* | |
| RAF | ✓* | ✓* |
* Using the Apryse Advanced imaging module
Requires Media Add-on
| Format | Client only | WebViewer Server | Custom Server |
|---|---|---|---|
| MP4 | ✓ | ||
| OGG | ✓ | ||
| WEBM | ✓ |
* Video formats are supported via separate WebViewer Video build
Requires Media Add-on
| Format | Client only | WebViewer Server | Custom Server |
|---|---|---|---|
| MP3 | ✓ | ||
| WAV | ✓ | ||
| OGG | ✓ | ||
| FLAC | ✓ |
* Audio formats are supported via separate WebViewer Audio build
Requires Convert Add-on
| Format | Client only | WebViewer Server | Custom Server |
|---|---|---|---|
| RTF | ✓ | Windows Only | |
| ODT | ✓ | Windows Only | |
| ODS | ✓ | Windows Only | |
| ODP | ✓ | Windows Only | |
| HTML | ✓ | ✓ | |
| MSG | ✓ | Windows + Office* | |
| EML | ✓ | ✓^ | |
| TXT | ✓ | ✓ | |
| CSV | ✓ | ✓ | |
| XPS | ✓ | ||
| XOD** | ✓ | ||
| XAML | Using .NET |
* MSG conversion is only supported on Windows via MS Office installation and Office Interop
^ EML requires conversion using third party tools. See our Github example of EML conversion with third party tools
** XOD is available on all platforms but viewing encrypted XOD is only supported for Web
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