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 |
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Written completely in C#, works with .NET Framework 1.0, 1.1, 2.0 and 3.5 |
Yes |
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.Net Environment Required |
Yes |
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Supports Windows Forms and ASP.NET applications |
Yes |
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API Reference in HTML and Microsoft Help format |
Yes |
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Fully featured demos in C# and Visual Basic .NET |
Yes |
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Written completely in Java, works with J2SE 1.4.1, J2SE 5.0 and J2SE 6.0 |
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Yes |
Supports all Java applications |
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Yes |
API Reference in JavaDoc format |
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Yes |
Fully featured demos in Java |
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Yes |
Programmers Guide in HTML format |
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Yes |
Using in COM applications |
Yes |
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Adding JavaScript |
Yes |
Yes |
Adding XmpMetadata |
Yes |
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Supporting Features |
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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 |
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Multiple columns |
Yes |
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Table of Contents, List of Tables and List of Figures |
Yes |
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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 |
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PDF/A-1b (Beta version) |
Yes |
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File Formats |
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Adobe Pdf 1.2, 1.3 and 1.4 |
Yes |
Yes |
Adobe Acrobat Reader 3, 4 and 5 |
Yes |
Yes |
Color Space |
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RGB |
Yes |
Yes |
CMYK |
Yes |
Yes |
Gray |
Yes |
Yes |
Text |
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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 |
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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 |
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Rotating Text |
Yes |
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Vertical Text |
Yes |
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Right-to-left languages such as Arabic, Hebrew and Urdu etc. (Beta Version) |
Yes |
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Headings |
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Auto Sequencing |
Yes |
Yes |
Custom Labels |
Yes |
Yes |
System defined Bullets |
Yes |
Yes |
Custom Bullets |
Yes |
Yes |
Rich Formatted List Labels |
Yes |
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Floating Box |
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All types of paragraphs in floating box |
Yes |
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Image Layering (Zindex) |
Yes |
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Graphs |
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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 |
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Graph Title |
Yes |
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Graph Note |
Yes |
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Graph layer (Zindex) |
Yes |
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Attachments |
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Attachment Type: File and Note |
Yes |
Yes |
Attachment Icon Settings |
Yes |
Yes |
Tables |
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Custom Borders |
Yes |
Yes |
Background Color |
Yes |
Yes |
Columns Span |
Yes |
Yes |
Nested Table |
Yes |
Yes |
Controlling Table Broken |
Yes |
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Controlling Row Broken |
Yes |
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Controlling table's first n rows repetition when the table splits into a new page. |
Yes |
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Images |
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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 |
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Image Layering(Zindex) |
Yes |
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Image Opacity |
Yes |
Yes |
MemoryBmp |
Yes |
Yes |
Image Title |
Yes |
Yes |
Image Note |
Yes |
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Page Background Image |
Yes |
Yes |
Hyperlinks |
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Hyperlink Type: Local Page, Other File, Other Pdf document, Web Page |
Yes |
Yes |
Hyperlink Destination Open Mode |
Yes |
Yes |
Hyperlink from image |
Yes |
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Security |
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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 |
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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 |
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Writing PDF file directly |
Yes |
Yes |
Form Field |
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Basic FormField, Text, List, RadioButton, Combo, Checkbox |
Yes |
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Inline FormField |
Yes |
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Converting other document to PDF |
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HTML to PDF (Beta version) |
Yes |
Yes |
XSL-FO to PDF (Beta version) |
Yes |
Yes |
Word to PDF (with Aspose.Words) |
Yes |
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Excel to PDF (with Aspose.Cells) (Beta version) |
Yes |
Yes |