All features and tool possibilities at a glance

PDF 1.0 to 1.7

PDF 2.0

PDF/A-1, PDF/A-2, PDF/A-3

Type1

TrueType

OpenType

OpenType (CFF)

Create pages

Create form fields

General text fields and comb text fields

Check boxes

Radio button groups

List boxes

Combo boxes

Create new outline items and insert them at any position in the tree

Destinations: Named and direct destinations in the same document

Create new PDF content from scratch

Apply content to existing pages

Device colors: RGB, CMYK and grayscale

ICC color profiles

Transparency: alpha and blend mode

Single and multi-segment lines

Rectangle, circle, Bézier curves, ellipse, arc, pie

Filling, stroking, clipping, and multiple combinations

Line width, cap, join, dash array, dash phase, and miter limit

Inside rule: Nonzero winding rule, even/odd rule

Font size, character spacing, word spacing

Horizontal scaling, leading, rise

Enables simple text layouting

Standard PDF fonts, installed fonts

Font metrics: Italic angle, ascent, descent, cap height, character width

Unicode characters

Text stroke: Line width, line join, and dashes

Fill and stroke text, invisible text

Use text as clipping path

Bi-level: CCITT G3, G3 2D and G4, flate, LZW, PackBits, uncompressed

4-bit and 8-bit grayscale: flate, LZW, packbits, JPEG, and JPEG-6 (8 bit only), uncompressed

RGB: Flate, JPEG and JPEG-6, LZW, PackBits, uncompressed

Translation

Scaling

Skewing (horizontal, vertical)

Rotation

Web link annotations

File attachment annotations

Free text annotation

Sticky note annotation

Text stamp annotation

Custom stamp annotation

Circle annotation

Square annotation

Line annotation

Polyline annotation

Polygon annotation

Free drawing (“ink”) annotation

Selective deletion of content elements (without markup)

Geometric transformation of content elements (without markup)

Web link annotation target URIs

Markup annotation location, creation/modification date, subject, author, content

Delete fields and edit field values for:

• General text fields and comb text fields

• Check boxes

• Radio button groups

• List boxes

• Combo boxes

Document information entries: title, author, subject, keywords, creator, producer, creation date, modification date

Document XMP metadata

Document encryption settings

Embedded files

Page bounding boxes: media box, crop box, bleed box, trim box, art box

Page XMP metadata

Outline item tree: tree structure, item title, expanded/collapsed

Destinations: named and direct destinations in the same document

Viewer settings

Page and group content elements including:

• Bounding box

• Affine transformation

Group element

Image element

• Width and height in pixel

• Bits per component

• Color space

Image mask element

• Width and height in pixel

• Paint for filling the mask

Path element

• Alignment box

• Fill parameters including paint and fill rule

• Stroke parameters including line paint and line style

Shading element

Text fragments

• Bounding box

• Affine transformation

• Unicode string

• Fill parameters including paint and fill rule

• Stroke parameters including line paint and line style

Annotations: location

Markup annotation: type, location, creation/modification date, subject, author, content

Custom stamp annotations: appearance

Link annotations: location, target destination or URI

Signature fields: name, location, reason, contact info, date, visibility

Form field identifiers, export names, and user names, including form field hierarchy

Form field export and display content of:

• Push buttons

• Check boxes

• Radio button groups

• General text fields and comb text fields

• List boxes

• Combo boxes