Aspose.Pdf

Features

The table summarizes features available in Aspose.Pdf for .NET and Aspose.Pdf for Java. There is only one edition type: Professional. Most of the features are provided with both of two products. The following table lists the features and the blue shows the differences.

 

Features

Aspose.Pdf for .NET

Aspose.Pdf for Java

General

Written completely in C#, works with .NET Framework 1.0, 1.1, 2.0 and 3.5

Yes

 

.Net Environment Required

Yes

 

Supports Windows Forms and ASP.NET applications

Yes

 

API Reference in HTML and Microsoft Help format

Yes

 

Fully featured demos in C# and Visual Basic .NET

Yes

 

Written completely in Java, works with J2SE 1.4.1, J2SE 5.0 and J2SE 6.0

 

Yes

Supports all Java applications

 

Yes

API Reference in JavaDoc format

 

Yes

Fully featured demos in Java

 

Yes

Programmers Guide in HTML format

 

Yes

Using in COM applications

Yes

 

Adding JavaScript

Yes

Yes

Adding XmpMetadata

Yes

 

Supporting Features

Combined XML,HTML

Yes

Yes

Combined FO,API

Yes

Yes

Compression

Yes

Yes

Document Properties: Open Type, Author, Title, Creator, Producer, Keywords, Subject

Yes

Yes

Page Properties: Width, Height, Cropbox, Bleedbox, Artbox, Trimbox, Page Transition, Page Orientation

Yes

Yes

Page Numbering

Yes

Yes

Header and Footer

Yes

Yes

FootNote and EndNote

Yes

 

Multiple columns

Yes

 

Table of Contents, List of Tables and List of Figures

Yes

 

Logical Units: Centimeters, Inches and Pixels for position and size

Yes

Yes

Page orientation : portrait and landscape

Yes

Yes

Different sizes for pages in the same document

Yes

Yes

Add XMP Metadata Information

Yes

 

PDF/A-1b (Beta version)

Yes

 

File Formats

Adobe Pdf 1.2, 1.3 and 1.4

Yes

Yes

Adobe Acrobat Reader 3, 4 and 5

Yes

Yes

Color Space

RGB

Yes

Yes

CMYK

Yes

Yes

Gray

Yes

Yes

Text

Single Segment and Multiple Segments

Yes

Yes

14 Core Fonts: Courier, Courier-Bold, Courier-Oblique, Courier-BoldOblique, Helvetica, Helvetica-Bold, Helvetica-Oblique, Helvetica-BoldOblique, Times-Roman, Times-Bold, Times-Italic, Times-BoldItalic, Symbol, ZapfDingbats

Yes

Yes

Text Alignment

Yes

Yes

Text Properties: Overline, Underline, Strikeout, Char Spacing, Line Spacing, Background Color

Yes

Yes

Text Properties: Word Spacing

Yes

 

Preserving Text White Spaces

Yes

Yes

First Line Indent

Yes

Yes

Left Hanging Paragraph

Yes

Yes

Full Justification

Yes

Yes

HTML tags in text

Yes

 

Rotating Text

Yes

 

Vertical Text

Yes

 

Right-to-left languages such as Arabic, Hebrew and Urdu etc. (Beta Version)

Yes

 

Headings

Auto Sequencing

Yes

Yes

Custom Labels

Yes

Yes

System defined Bullets

Yes

Yes

Custom Bullets

Yes

Yes

Rich Formatted List Labels

Yes

 

Floating Box

All types of paragraphs in floating box

Yes

 

Image Layering (Zindex)

Yes

 

Graphs

Common Graphs: Line, Circle, Arc, Curve, Rectangle, Ellipse, Round Rectangle

Yes

Yes

Dash and Ploy Dash

Yes

Yes

Graph Filling

Yes

Yes

Line Cap Mode

Yes

Yes

Coordination Transformation

Yes

 

Graph Title

Yes

 

Graph Note

Yes

 

Graph layer (Zindex)

Yes

 

Attachments

Attachment Type: File and Note

Yes

Yes

Attachment Icon Settings

Yes

Yes

Tables

Custom Borders

Yes

Yes

Background Color

Yes

Yes

Columns Span

Yes

Yes

Nested Table

Yes

Yes

Controlling Table Broken

Yes

 

Controlling Row Broken

Yes

 

Controlling table's first n rows repetition when the table splits into a new page.

Yes

 

Images

Image Type: Jpeg, Png, Tiff, Gif, Bmp, Emf, Exif, Icon, Wmf, Ccitt Fax

Yes

Yes

Image Open Type: Local File, Memory, URL

Yes

Yes

Image Scaling

Yes

Yes

Image Rotating

Yes

Yes

Inline Image

Yes

 

Image Layering(Zindex)

Yes

 

Image Opacity

Yes

Yes

MemoryBmp

Yes

Yes

Image Title

Yes

Yes

Image Note

Yes

 

Page Background Image

Yes

Yes

Hyperlinks

Hyperlink Type: Local Page, Other File, Other Pdf document, Web Page

Yes

Yes

Hyperlink Destination Open Mode

Yes

Yes

Hyperlink from image

Yes

 

Security

Encryption Type: 40 bits and 128 bits

Yes

Yes

Permission Type: Printing, Degraded Printing, Contents Modifying, Copying, Annotations Modifying, Form Filling, Screen Readers, Document assembling

Yes

Yes

Custom Fonts

Custom PostScript Fonts (AFM and PFM)

Yes

Yes

True Type Fonts

Yes

Yes

Custom Font Encoding

Yes

Yes

Custom Font Embedding

Yes

Yes

Unicode support for True Type fonts

Yes

Yes

Large Document Support

Writing PDF file directly

Yes

Yes

Form Field

Basic FormField, Text, List, RadioButton, Combo, Checkbox

Yes

 

Inline FormField

Yes

 

Converting other document to PDF

HTML to PDF (Beta version)

Yes

Yes

XSL-FO to PDF (Beta version)

Yes

Yes

Word to PDF (with Aspose.Words)

Yes

 

Excel to PDF (with Aspose.Cells) (Beta version)

Yes

Yes