Introduction to HiQPdf for .NET
HiQPdf Library for .NET is a fast and flexible tool for creating complex and high-quality PDF documents in applications targeting .NET Framework, .NET Core and .NET Standard on Windows platforms.
The component is built around the HTML to PDF converter Classic engine which can render HTML content to PDF, images and SVG with very high accuracy. Besides the quick approach of generating a PDF document directly from an HTML document, the component can be used to create PDF documents in a classic manner by laying out PDF objects like text, HTML, SVG, images and graphics to an empty document or it can be used in a combined mode to generate from HTML an initial PDF document on which to layout additional objects.
The component can also be used to edit PDF documents by adding PDF objects on top of the existing content, merge and split PDF documents, extract text and images from PDF documents, search text in PDF documents, rasterize PDF pages to images or convert PDF to HTML.
For applications that need to run on both Windows and Linux platforms, the HiQPdf.Next.HtmlToPdf package provides a newer and highly accurate rendering engine designed for modern HTML, CSS, and JavaScript content.
The full HiQPdf.Next package allows you to create, edit, and merge PDF documents, convert HTML to PDF or images, convert Word, Excel, RTF, and Markdown documents to PDF, and convert PDF documents to text or images.
Who is this document addressed to?
This document is a reference material for the software developers using our component to create or edit PDF documents. It contains a detailed description of the software capabilities, code samples and a complete API reference.
Using the HiQPdf software component does not require any knowledge of the PDF format. The PDF objects are encapsulated in a high-level representation, the API is simple and well structured.