Manually Packaging PDF Dependencies

The Deployment Packaging Wizard (DPW) helps to package all the libraries, resources, and dependencies listed below (except for Microsoft runtime).

To manually distribute an application that uses ImageGear.Formats.PDF namespace you must include into the distribution package the native ImageGear PDF library - igpdf25nu.dll along with the ImageGear .NET assembly and the following PDF resources:

Adobe PDF libraries:

DL150ACE.dll
DL150AdobeXMP.dll
DL150AGM.dll
DL150ARE.dll
DL150AXE8SharedExpat.dll
DL150BIB.dll
DL150BIBUtils.dll
DL150CoolType.dll
DL150JP2KLib.dll
DL150PDFL.dll
DL150PDFlattener.ppi
DL150PDFPort.dll
DL150pdfsettings.dll
DL150XPS2PDF.ppi
Icucnv40.dll
Icudt40.dll

Adobe PostScript libraries:

DL100ACE.dll
DL100AdobeXMP.dll
DL100AGM.dll
DL100Bib.dll
DL100BIBUtils.dll
DL100JP2KLib.dll
DL100nserver.dll
All Adobe PDF libraries listed above

The PDF component needs the following Microsoft component to be installed:

Visual C++ CRT 10.0

This can be installed with one of the following merge modules:

Microsoft_VC100_CRT_x86.msm (Windows 32-bit version)
Microsoft_VC100_CRT_x64.msm (Windows 64-bit version)

Distributing PDF and PS Fonts with an Application

The ImageGear toolkit comes with multiple PDF and PS fonts that can be used for developing an application based on ImageGear. However, only four fonts are pre-licensed for distribution:

The two MultiMaster PDF fonts, AdobeSansMM (zx______.mmm) and AdobeSerifMM (zy______.mmm), located in Bin\resource\PDF\Font\zx_______.mmm.
The two PostScript fonts, Courier and NotDefFont, located in …\Bin\resource\PS\fonts\Courier.

These fonts are the property of Adobe® Systems and are fully licensed for distribution with your application.

If you need to distribute the additional fonts, you need to get a license for the redistribution of those fonts. You are however not limited to the fonts supplied with ImageGear; it is possible to add other fonts to be used with ImageGear PDF/PostScript support. To do this, place your fonts to the PDF Resource directory as follows:

CID fonts (if any) to ...\Resource\PDF\CIDFont
CMaps fonts to ...\Resource\PDF\CMap
PDF fonts to ...\Resource\PDF\Font
PostScript fonts to ...\Resource\PS\Fonts

Please also note that the fonts that are pre-licensed for distribution (i.e., AdobeSansMM, AdobeSerifMM, "Courier" and "NotDefFont") provide the substitution capabilities for the other fonts, so they are likely to be enough for many cases.