PDFFlow Library

PDFFlow is a cross-platform C# library for creating PDF documents. The library is based on the well-known libHaru.

With PDFFlow, you can create complex PDF documents fast and efficiently - you define documents as a set of layout rules and a sequence of paragraphs, tables, images, headers, etc. and the library does all the work to create a PDF document by applying the layout on the content stream.

You can create agreements, contracts, log books, invoices, tickets, catalogs, brochures, complex tax and regulatory forms, medical documents, school and university tests, books and magazines and many other kinds of documents.

Your documents can include:

• Text with different formatting, including special fields such as page numbers and URLs, and widow and orphan control.

• Built-in Base14 fonts, multibyte CID fonts, external TrueType and Type1 fonts, single-byte and multibyte encodings.

• Multilevel lists with easy-to-use styles.

• Tabulations.

• Images with configurable size and scaling.

• Barcodes *

• Lines, both vertical and horizontal.

• Tables taking data from a data source, with colspan and rowspan.

• Multi-page and book spread tables.

• Repeating areas: multiple headers, footers, left and right repeating areas, and repeating areas by coordinates.

• Document flow areas that define the location of the document main flow on the pages.

• Automatically generated table of content.

* You can use UPC-A, EAN-13, EAN-8 and GS1-128 barcodes and QR codes in your PDF documents created with PDFFlow. This feature is distributed as a separate free library for generating barcodes and QR codes Gehtsoft PDFFlow Barcodes that can be downloaded from NuGet. To install the library, follow the instructions provided in the Installing Gehtsoft.PDFFlowLib.Barcodes tutorial For more information please see Gehtsoft.PDFFlowLib.Barcodes documentation.

PDFFlow supports automatic pagination and layouting: the content is automatically continued on the next page if it does not fit in the current page.

You can configure any formatting settings of your document and its elements: fonts, colors, alignment, borders, indents, stroke styles, etc. as you need. This can be done using the corresponding methods in each case or through styles - you create your styles and apply them to quickly get the necessary formatting.

The PDFFlow library is supplied with real document samples accompanied by descriptive articles and tutorials with many working code examples that can be used as is or modified, and the API reference.

The included license allows you to use the library for free:

• In any open source or non-commercial project or products.

• To prototype, develop, and test commercial projects or products.

The commercial license is required to use the library in commercial projects on the production stage (including the products used to support the internal business). Please contact Gehtsoft USA LLC sales representative to get details about the licensing.