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Overview
 
Aspose.Pdf for Java is a non-graphical PDF® document reporting component that enables Java applications to create PDF documents from scratch without utilizing Adobe Acrobat®. Aspose.Pdf for Java is very affordably priced and offers a wealth of strong features including: compression, tables, graphs, images, hyperlinks, security and custom fonts. Aspose.Pdf for Java supports the creation of PDF files through API and XML template because Aspose.Pdf for Java is very easy to use.
 
Rich Content
 
With the help of Aspose.Pdf for Java, you can create PDF documents, having rich content, quickly and efficiently. Aspose.Pdf for Java allows the creation of PDF documents, while providing the support for, texts, tables, graphs, images, hyperlinks, headings, attachments, addition of Watermarks, creation of Bookmarks, adding Footnotes & Endnotes, creating List Of Contents, adding Form Fields, adding Floating Box, creating multiple column documents, support for adding different Graphs & Shapes and the capability of document compression. TrueType fonts, PostScripts Type1 fonts, Unicode, custom encoding and other PDF Core Fonts are also supported, as well as Font Embedding. You have the option of including replaceable symbols to change the corresponding text contents at runtime.
 
Ease of Use
 
Aspose.Pdf for Java allows for the creation of PDF documents in many different ways. You have the option of either creating PDF documents via XML or through the API or by using both XML and API. You can create PDF documents from both Windows Forms and Web Forms applications.
 
File Format Conversion
 
Aspose.Pdf for Java also allows you to create your PDF document by converting an existing file to PDF. The conversion of XML to PDF is supported. It also offers the capability to convert Image files into PDF format, either it's referenced by a static or a relative path. Aspose.Pdf for Java also supports the conversion of MS Excel (requires Aspose.Cells for Java) to PDF.
 
Security
 
With the help of Aspose.Pdf for Java you can encrypt your PDF documents with 40-bits or 128-bits security. You can also set Master and User passwords for PDF encryption. In addition to this, content modification, copying content, printing, form filling, degraded printing, annotation modification, PDF documents assembling and screen readers of the PDF documents can be restricted.
 
Tables
 
Aspose.Pdf for Java enables you to add great looking tables to your PDF document. You have the option of setting border style, Background Color, margin and padding of a table. The columns width, spanning and row splitting of a table can be controlled and the support for creating nested tables. In addition to this, default cell formatting can be applied on all table cells; rows and columns can be formatted; and nested tables are allowed.
 
PDF/A
 
The PDF/A formats specified in the ISO 19005 standard strive to provide a consistent and robust subset of PDF which can safely be archived over a long period of time, or used for reliable data exchange in enterprise and government environments. There are two flavors of PDF/A-1: PDF/A-1b (formally ISO 19005-1 Level B) ensures that the visual appearance of a document is preserved even after the long time, whereas PDF/A-1a (formally ISO 19005-1 Level A) is based on level B, and adds some additional properties: it adds structure information and reliable text semantics in order to preserve the document's logical structure and natural reading order.
 
inLine HTML
 
If the text being added to the PDF document contains HTML tags, Aspose.Pdf for .NET has the capability to render these tags and display contents in the same HTML format, rather than displaying the HTML tags over the document. It means that the text with embedded HTML tags will be processed by Aspose.Pdf for .NET and its appearance in the PDF document would be determined according to the HTML tags it contains.