ABCpdf gets up close and personal! Because it doesn't use any print drivers and goes Direct to PDF™ it's incredibly fast. Because ABCpdf doesn't rely on any other software it can be completely multithreaded without any unpleasant bottlenecks.

ABCpdf is simple yet powerful. It's designed so you can get up to speed and productive within ten minutes. Yet if you want fine low-level control you can have that too with ABCpdf.

Create PDF documents from scratch or read and modify existing PDF documents. Add pages from other documents for seamless joining, insertion and stitching of multiple documents. Stream your documents direct to your client web browser without going via the disk.

Render your PDF documents in a variety of formats. Output your pages in raster formats like JPEG, GIF or JPEG 2000 in any of a variety of color spaces and bit depths. Alternatively choose vector formats like EMF or EPS for high resolution print work.

Add virtually any graphic into your PDFs. ABCpdf supports JPEG, GIF, TIFF, BMP, PNG, EXIF, WMF, EMF, JPEG 2000, PS, EPS and SWF (Flash). Additionally you can reference image data from multiple locations in your document - great for inserting watermarks and other frequently used graphics.

ABCpdf allows you precise control over the way that your text is laid out. Paragraph indent, kerning and tracking, word spacing, line spacing, paragraph spacing and horizontal justification are just some of the settings available. ABCpdf supports synthesized bold and italic typeface styles for situations in which you do not want to reference multiple typefaces.

ABCpdf supports Unicode and foreign languages. Reference fonts from the relevant foreign language pack or embed Unicode fonts for guaranteed fidelity of reproduction on any platform. Draw text horizontally or vertically and quickly subset large CJK fonts with minimal use of memory and impact on server load.

Import HTML / CSS pages from local or remote web sites. Placed HTML support means your HTML can be treated just like any other media - placed wherever you like on the page. Paged HTML support allows you to flow your HTML from one area to another - across pages or columns or both.

HTML styled text allows easy creation and layout of multi-styled text; supporting text box chaining to allow you to easily and automatically flow text through from one area to another.

Apply advanced transformations like rotation, magnification, skew and translation. This means you can draw rotated text, images and graphics all with only a few simple commands.

ABCpdf supports sophisticated color spaces. Mix and match RGB, CMYK, Grayscale, calibrated color spaces and spot colors. Any kind of graphic from text to lines to blocks of color can be drawn in in any of these color spaces. You can even perform complex operations like colorizing grayscale images using spot colors or converting from one color space to another.

ABCpdf supports direct import of ICC based RGB, CMYK and LAB images. This means you can produce high-quality, print-ready PDFs directly from your applications.

ABCpdf supports transparency everywhere. Any kind of graphic from text to lines to blocks of color can be drawn transparently using a simple alpha value to control levels of opacity. You can apply soft masks or chromakey style masks to images for selective transparency. Or you can draw transparent images such as GIF using simple calls.

Create encrypted or signed PDFs for secure storage of PDF documents. Apply user permissions and secure these permissions with encryption keys from 40 to 128 bits in size.

ABCpdf supports Fields and Forms. Use placeholder fields in your template documents to position and lay out dynamically created elements or assign field values directly.

ABCpdf is fully floating point for precise positioning of text, line and other objects at a fractional point level.

ABCpdf allows even more advanced control over any PDF object in your document. If you can't see how to accomplish a task using our simple to use methods then you can always access the raw PDF structure directly.

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