Portable Document Format (PDF). PDF was developed by the Adobe Corporation to allow the exchange and viewing of electronic documents easily and reliably, independent of the environment in which they were created. This format lets you compress large documents to a size small enough to download very quickly. It is also becoming a powerful format for reproducing documents over the web.
The PDF Filter can:
- Save to the PDF v1.2, v1.4, and v1.5 file formats.
- Save to the PDF/A format
- Load files through PDF v1.6 (and may be able to load PDF v1.7 or later)
By default, the filter saves to PDF v1.2. Save to the PDF/A format by setting the SavePdfA property. Use the SavePdfv15 property to save the PDF file as a PDF v1.5 file. Use the SavePdfv14 property to save the PDF file as a PDF v1.4 file.
The following table summarizes the filter's capabilities:
| PDF Version | Version 16 Read | Version 16 Write Flags |
| PDF v1.2 | Supported | No flags |
| PDF v1.3 | Supported | N/A |
| PDF v1.4 | Supported | ESO2_PDF_V14 |
| PDF v1.5 | Supported | ESO2_PDF_V15 |
| PDF v1.6 | Supported | Read only |
| PdfA | Supported | ESO2_PDFA_PROFILE |
The PDF Filter loads AI (Adobe Illustrator) files from version 7 to version 10, which only have PDF data.
Note: Not all flavors of JBIG2 decompression are supported.
PDF support is included with the LEADTOOLS PDF Plug-in which is an add-on module for all LEADTOOLS Toolkits* and extends support for EPS, PostScript, and PDF formats.
*The PDF Plug-in is not available to add onto LEADTOOLS Multimedia.
The file constants associated with this file format are:
| RasterImageViewer.Save File Constant |
Read Support | Write Support | Description |
| RasPdf | Yes* | 1, 2, 4, 8, 24 BPP | Raster PDF uncompressed. |
| RasPdfG31Dim | N/A* | 1 BPP | Raster PDF with G3 1D Compression. |
| RasPdfG32Dim | N/A* | 1 BPP | Raster PDF with G3 2D Compression. |
| RasPdfG4 | N/A* | 1 BPP | Raster PDF with G4 Compression. |
| RasPdfLzw | N/A* | 1, 2, 4, 8, 24 BPP | Raster PDF with LZWCompression. |
| RasPdfJpeg | N/A* | 8 BPP (Grayscale) 24 BPP | Raster PDF with JPEG 4:4:4 Compression. |
| RasPdfJpeg422 | N/A* | 24 BPP | Raster PDF with JPEG 4:2:2 Compression. |
| RasPdfJpeg411 | N/A* | 24 BPP | Raster PDF with JPEG 4:1:1 Compression. |
| RasPdfJbig2 | N/A* | 1 BPP | Raster PDF with JBIG2 Compression |
Required DLL: Leadtools.Codecs.Pdf.Dll. The files required for reading PDF and writing PDF are different. For a listing of the exact DLLs needed, based on the toolkit version, refer to Files To Be Included With Your Application.
*NOTE: When you request file information on a PDF file,RasPdf will always be returned for the file format, regardless of the composition of the PDF file. LEADTOOLS can read PDF documents that are made up of both text and images. The text and images are rasterized into one raster image for each page of the document. LEADTOOLS can write PDF documents that are made up of raster images only.
Related Formats: PS - PostScript Document Format, RTF - Rich Text Format.