PDF and PostScript Documents

ImageGear can load, save, and process native PDF and PostScript documents. It provides full multi-page reading and writing support for the entire document as well as for the specified set of pages. You can detect, read, write, append, insert, replace, swap, and delete a specified page in the PDF document. It also allows rasterization of PDF and PostScript documents, by converting them to bitmaps, and provides you an ability of text extraction from loaded PDF and PostScript documents.

ImageGear PDF support is compatible with Adobe® PDF version 1.7 as defined in the Portable Document Format Reference Manual Version 1.7, distributed by Adobe Systems Incorporated. It provides reading capability up to the PDF version 1.7 and writing of the PDF 1.7 documents.

ImageGear PostScript support is compatible with Adobe® PostScript® 3.0 language as defined in the PostScript Format Reference Manual, distributed by Adobe Systems Incorporated. It provides reading capability up to the PostScript 3.0 Language Level 3 and writing of the PostScript 3.0 files with the Language Level 1, 2 and 3. This includes writing of the Enhanced PostScript (EPS) files with standard and extended preview as well as without preview at all.