ABCpdf gets up close and personal! Because it doesn't use any print drivers and goes Direct to PDF™ it's incredibly fast. Because ABCpdf doesn't rely on any other software it can be completely multithreaded without any unpleasant bottlenecks.

ABCpdf is simple yet powerful. It's designed so you can get up to speed and productive within ten minutes. Yet if you want fine low-level control you can have that too with ABCpdf.

Create PDF documents from scratch or read and modify existing PDF documents. Add pages from other documents for seamless joining, insertion and stitching of multiple documents.

Add virtually any graphic into your PDFs. ABCpdf supports JPEG, GIF, TIFF, BMP, PNG, EXIF, WMF and EMF. Additionally you can reference image data from multiple locations in your document - great for inserting watermarks and other frequently used graphics.

ABCpdf allows you precise control over the way that your text is laid out. Paragraph indent, kerning and tracking, word spacing, line spacing, paragraph spacing and horizontal justification are just some of the settings available. ABCpdf supports synthesized bold and italic typeface styles for situations in which you do not want to reference multiple typefaces.

ABCpdf supports Unicode and foreign languages. Reference fonts from the relevant foreign language pack or embed Unicode fonts for guaranteed fidelity of reproduction on any platform. Draw text horizontally or vertically and quickly subset large CJK fonts with minimal use of memory and impact on server load.

ABCpdf supports HTML and HTML styled text. Import HTML from local or remote web sites. HTML styled text allows easy creation and layout of multi-styled text; supporting text box chaining to allow you to easily and automatically flow text through from one area to another.

Apply advanced transformations like rotation, magnification, skew and translation. This means you can draw rotated text, images and graphics all with only a few simple commands.

Create encrypted PDFs for secure storage of PDF documents. Apply user permissions and secure these permissions with encryption keys from 40 to 128 bits in size.

ABCpdf supports Fields and Forms. Use placeholder fields in your template documents to position and lay out dynamically created elements.

ABCpdf supports RGB, CMYK and Grayscale colors. This means you can produce high-quality print-friendly PDFs directly from your application.

ABCpdf is fully floating point for precise positioning of text, line and other objects at a fractional point level.

ABCpdf allows even more advanced control over any PDF object in your document. If you can't see how to accomplish a task using our simple to use methods then you can always access the raw PDF structure directly.

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