DynamicPDF™ Merger for .NET - Overview
DynamicPDF™ Merger for .NET makes simple the task of merging and
adding new content to existing PDF documents. The assemblies are 100% managed
and use only safe code. The object model is intuitive and easy to learn, yet
very flexible allowing PDF merging, stamping, appending, form filling and page
placing, rotating and scaling. The Developer Editions offer royalty free
distribution of server and client based applications to an unlimited number of
servers or workstations.
Flexible Licensing
Merger for .NET is available in two licensing models. Server based
licensing is intended for developers who wish to install our software on their
server or web server. It is licensed per production server and allows an
unlimited number of installations on development workstations and servers. This
licensing model is ideal for those who wish to install our software on a
limited number of servers and allows us to offer a lower price to developers
who do not intend to distribute our software to a large number of servers or
workstations.
Developer based licensing is intended for developers who wish to distribute our
software to a large number of clients. It allows one developer to develop an
unlimited number of client or server based applications that use our product
and distribute them royalty free. Our assemblies can easily be deployed with
another application using XCOPY or a setup program.
Performance
Performance was a major consideration during the development of
Merger for .NET. The techniques used to parse and manage the imported data are
extremely fast and well designed. A configurable smart cache is employed that
caches the structure and used data from an imported PDF document. Only the
portions of the document that are used are cached and when a portion becomes
unused it is removed from the cache. This results in extremely fast
performance. Take a look at the examples page for
some performance statistics.
Ease of Use
The Merger for .NET object model is intuitive and easy to learn. Two
documents can be merged together and output to a file, Web Form, or Stream with
just two lines of code:
MergeDocument document = MergeDocument.Merge( @"C:\ DocA.pdf", @"C:\DocB.pdf" );
document.Draw( @"C:\DocOut.pdf" );
Documents can be appended to an instantiated MergeDocument with one line
of code:
document.Append( @"C:\DocC.pdf" );
A page (or range of pages) can be appended to an instantiated MergeDocument
object with one line of code:
document.Append( @"C:\DocC.pdf", 2, 1 );
Flexibility
The Merger for .NET object model is very flexible and can be used to
achieve many PDF manipulation tasks. The MergeDocument object can be used
to merge and append PDF documents. Pages from the resulting document can then
be accessed and new content can be added to the pages.
Merger for .NET also includes an ImportedPage object that can be used to add
content to an imported page using the Generator for .NET object model. This object
inherits from the Generator for .NET's Page
object and can have Page Elements or Custom Page Elements added to it. This is
ideal for form filling or using an existing PDF document as a template.
The included ImportedPageData
object is a Page Element object that allows an imported page to be placed on a
Generator for .NET page and be scaled, shifted or rotated. This allows multiple
pages from an existing PDF to be placed onto one page. This is ideal for
pre-press work as well and using existing PDF documents as templates for
portions of a page.
Objects and methods are also included for reading the content from an imported
page and for determining the number of pages in an imported PDF document.
Generator for .NET is included with Merger for .NET. In fact, Merger for .NET uses
Generator for .NET for all PDF output. When using Merger for .NET, you have access to the
Generator for .NET object model including the Custom Page Element API. See the feature chart for the exact features included with each version of
Merger for .NET.
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