DynamicPDF Core Suite for .NET Help Docs

This document provides help using the DynamicPDF Core Suite for .NET. Here you will find more support to help generate, merge, modify existing PDFs, and create new reports.

DynamicPDF Core Suite for .NET includes DynamicPDF Generator for .NET, DynamicPDF Merger for .NET, and DynamicPDF ReportWriter for .NET. DynamicPDF Core Suite for .NET is available in two editions, DynamicPDF Core Suite Essentials Developer Edition and DynamicPDF Core Suite Developer Edition. Refer to the Licensing and Editions documentation topic more information on the differences between the two versions.

Table of Contents

• Getting Started
  • Product Evaluation
  • Licensing & Editions
  • Core Suite Features
  • Legacy Core Suite Features
  • .NET Support
  • Product Limitations
  • Referencing the Assembly and Deployment
  • Coordinate System
  • Encoding Considerations
  • Examples
• Creating PDFs
  • My First DynamicPDF Document
    • Visual Basic .NET Web Form
    • C# Web Form
    • C# Console Application
  • PDF Creation Overview
  • Configuration
  • Creating a Document
  • Adding Pages
  • Adding Templates
  • Document Sectioning
  • HtmlLayout
  • PDF Document Output
  • PDF Linearization
  • Page Elements
    • Page Elements Overview
    • Standard Page Elements
    • Barcodes
    • FormattedTextArea
    • HTMLArea
    • Lists
    • Text/List Continuation
    • Grouping Page Elements
    • Tables
      • Table Overview
      • Table Continuation
      • Page Elements in Table Cells
  • Charts
    • Charts Overview
    • Chart Elements
      • Chart Elements Overview
      • Chart
      • Plot Area
      • Legend
      • Axis
      • Series
      • Stacked Series
      • Stacked Series Elements
      • 100% Stacked Series
      • 100% Stacked Series Elements
      • Axis Labels
      • Titles
      • Grid Lines
      • Tick Marks
      • Markers
      • Data Labels
    • Chart Types
      • Area Chart
      • Bar Chart
      • Column Chart
      • Line Chart
      • Pie Chart
      • XYScatter Chart
  • Images
    • Images Overview
    • Image Formats
    • Image Resolution
    • Tiff Images
    • Image Reuse
  • Fonts And Text
  • Colors
  • Outlines and Bookmarks
  • Security
  • Interactive Forms
    • Interactive Forms Overview
    • Form Elements
  • Adding Existing PDF Content
  • XMP Meta Data
  • PDF/X
  • PDF/A
  • PDF/UA
  • Advanced Topics
    • 3D Images
    • Actions
    • Events
    • JavaScript
    • Embedding Files
    • Packaging PDFs (Portfolios)
    • Performance Considerations
    • Custom Page Elements
    • Disk Buffering
    • Extending The Object Model
    • PDF Tagging
  • Digital Signing and Certifying
    • Digital Signing and Certifying Overview
    • Digital Signing
    • Digital Certifying
    • Adding a Timestamp to Signatures and Certificates
    • Longterm Validity and Archival
• Merging and Existing PDFs
  • Overview
  • Merging, Appending, and Adding Content
    • Merging Overview
    • Merging Documents
    • Merge Options
    • Adding New Content
    • Importing Pages
    • Placing Imported Pages
    • Document Optimization
  • Working with Acro Forms
    • Forms Overview
    • Form Filling
    • Form Flattening
    • Removing Form Fields
    • Reading Form Field Values
    • Retrieving Form Field Locations
    • Marking Form Fields as Read Only
    • Import Form Data
  • Working with XFA Forms
  • Reading Outlines and Bookmarks
  • Modifying Outlines and Bookmarks
  • Extracting Page Content
  • Extracting Text
  • Merger Performance Considerations
• Creating PDF Reports
  • Reports Overview
  • DynamicPDF Designer
    • Designer Overview
    • Report Flow
    • Designer Examples
    • LayoutData in Designer
      • JSON
    • User Interface
      • Designer GUI Overview
      • Designer Colors
      • Designer Fonts
      • Documents
        • Documents Overview
        • Document
        • Page
        • Report
      • Layout Elements
        • Layout Elements Overview
        • AztecBarcode
        • ContentGroup
        • DataMatrixBarcode
        • FormattedRecordArea
        • Image
        • Label
        • Line
        • LinearBarcode
        • Link
        • NoSplitZone
        • PageBreak
        • PageNumberingLabel
        • RecordArea
        • RecordBox
        • Rectangle
        • SoftBreak
        • Subreport
        • Symbol
      • Conditions
      • Expressions
      • Other Topics
        • SoftBreak and NoSplitZone
        • Columnar Layout
  • DLEX
  • Layout Data
    • Layout Data
    • Nested Layout Data
    • Using Events

DynamicPDF Core Suite Namespaces

The DynamicPDF Core Suite for .NET uses the following namespaces.

• ceTe.DynamicPDF
• ceTe.DynamicPDF.Cryptography
• ceTe.DynamicPDF.Forms
• ceTe.DynamicPDF.Imaging
• ceTe.DynamicPDF.IO
• ceTe.DynamicPDF.LayoutEngine
• ceTe.DynamicPDF.LayoutEngine.Data
• ceTe.DynamicPDF.LayoutEngine.Layout
• ceTe.DynamicPDF.LayoutEngine.LayoutElements
• ceTe.DynamicPDF.Merger
• ceTe.DynamicPDF.Merger.Forms
• ceTe.DynamicPDF.PageElements
• ceTe.DynamicPDF.PageElements.BarCoding
• ceTe.DynamicPDF.PageElements.Charting
• ceTe.DynamicPDF.PageElements.Charting.Axes
• ceTe.DynamicPDF.PageElements.Charting.Series
• ceTe.DynamicPDF.PageElements.Charting.Values
• ceTe.DynamicPDF.PageElements.Forms
• ceTe.DynamicPDF.PageElements.Html
• ceTe.DynamicPDF.Text
• ceTe.DynamicPDF.Text.OpenTypeFontTables
• ceTe.DynamicPDF.Xmp