	PDF Metamorphosis .Net - Powerful .Net component to convert RTF to PDF, HTML to PDF, Text to PDF, split and merge PDF documents
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Welcome to the PDF Metamorphosis .Net

Welcome to PDF Metamorphosis .Net documentation and thanks for interest our product!

Now the market presented a huge number of tools to convert HTML to PDF . But we offer a unique component for you - PDF Metamorphosis .Net.

You will ask why it's so unique?

Study formats such PDF, RTF, and HTML is not a simple matter. Therefore, much other converting components use standard Windows-dlls. For example, to parse HTML can be used mshtml.dll which comes with Internet Explorer.

We don't use any other dlls or dependencies. We know HTML, PDF and RTF formats . Therefore, our component is fully independent. It could open the HTML or XHTML file with CSS, or even download it from Internet. Read the contents of HTML, understand all the tags and transform document to PDF format.

SautinSoft Team

Overview and scope of use

PDF Metamorphosis .Net is a robust .Net component to convert Text, RTF, XHTML, ASPX and HTML to PDF.

The PDF Metamorphosis .Net is absolutely independent .Net assembly, it doesn't require any additional components. Our component reads HTML and RTF documents directly converts it to PDF without Adobe Acrobat® or MS Office®.

Typical applications

Conversion of HTML, RTF, Text documents to PDF for printing or exchanging
Convert ASPX page to PDF dynamically on server side
Merge or split PDF files
Server side, batch document conversion without user interaction

Functions

The PDF Metamorphosis .Net is just a class library. To deploy it you will need only two lines of code. By the instrumentality of PDF Metamorphosis .Net you will add these functions into your application:

- Convert HTML url, file, string to PDF;
- Convert Text and RTF file, string to PDF;
- Split and merge PDF documents.

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Platform Independence

The PDF Metamorphosis .Net requires only .Net 1.1 platform or above. Using the PDF Metamorphosis .Net you can easily create any type of a 32-bit or 64-bit .NET application including ASP.NET, Web Services and WinForms. Our .Net assembly is Multi-Platform component, you may use it to build your application with Mono platform for Linux and Mac (http://www.mono-project.com).

The PDF Metamorphosis .Net is completely created on C#.

Requirements

Nothing special, only .Net 1.1 platform or higher.

Supported File Formats

The PDF Metamorphosisis .Net can convert HTML, XHTML, RTF and Text documents into PDF documents.

Input formats:
- any version of HTML, like a HTML 3.2, HTML 4.01 with CSS and XHTML. Our component doesn't require any special version of HTML format it will work with any version. Component also support CSS styles, these styles are supported now.

font-family:	border-top-style:	width:
color:	border-right-style:	text-decoration:
font-weight:	border-bottom-style:	vertical-align:
font-size:	border-left-style:	page-break-before:
text-align:	border-top-width:	page-break-aftrer:
font-style:	border-right-width:	list-style-type:
background-color:	border-bottom-width:	margin-bottom:
font:	border-left-width:	margin-top:
top:	border-top-color:	margin-left:
left:	border-right-color:	margin-right:
height:	border-bottom-color:	text-indent:
	border-left-color:
	border:
	border-top:
	border-right:
	border-bottom:
	border-left:
	border-style:

- any version of RTF files and text files.

Output format: PDF 1.4. It's absolutely compatible with any PDF readers, like a Actobat Readear etc.

The PDF Metamorphosis .Net can convert XHTML, HTML and RTF to PDF documents with such advantages:

- converting of remote HTML documents;
- converts images (.gif, .jpg, .bmp and .png);
- converts remote http:// images;
- tables;
- nested tables;
- CSS styles;
- hyperlinks;
- font face, color, size;
- page alignment;
- bold, italic and underline, strike and other rich formatted text;
- special characters;
- automatic encoding select (UTF-8, Windows-1251, etc..);
- select page size (A4, B5, Letter...);
- select page orientation (Landscape or Portrait);
- select page margins;
- Supports all HTML tags and special characters, such as   & &lt,  - ÿ 	 - я etc.

Technical Features

- Created with only pure C#
- Absolutely standalone, you will need to include only "PdfMetamorphosis.dll" into your application
- No other dependencies
- Reads RTF, HTML files and writes PDF directly
- Does not require installed Microsoft Office ® or Adobe Acrobat ® on the computer
- Works on any .Net platform (.Net 1.1, 2.0, 3.0, 3.5 etc)
- Works with Windows and even with Linux and Mac (thanks to Mono project http://www.mono-project.com)
- Has great abilities to adjust an output PDF, see Methods and properties
- Works in Medium Trust level and shared hosting

Developers can use the PDF Metamorphosis.Net with VB.NET, C#, J#, ASP.NET, Delphi .Net etc.

Amusing to know

In this manual there a lot info about converting HTML and RTF documents to PDF format. But you will not find any information here how to convert PDF documents to Word. By the way you will find such stuff Here ...