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Features
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Aspose.Pdf for .NET
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Aspose.Pdf for Java
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General
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Written completely in C#, works with .NET Framework 1.0, 1.1, 2.0 and 3.5
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Yes
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.Net Environment Required
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Yes
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Supports Windows Forms and ASP.NET applications
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Yes
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API Reference in HTML and Microsoft Help format
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Yes
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Fully featured demos in C#, Visual Basic .NET and Java
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Yes
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Written completely in Java, works with J2SE 1.4.1, J2SE 5.0 and J2SE 6.0
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Yes
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Supports all Java applications
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Yes
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API Reference in JavaDoc format
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Yes
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Fully featured demos in Java
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Yes
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Programmers Guide in HTML format
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Yes
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Using in COM applications
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Yes
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Adding JavaScript
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Yes
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Yes
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Adding XmpMetadata
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Yes
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Supporting Features
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Compression
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Yes
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Yes
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Document Properties: Open Type, Author, Title, Creator, Producer, Keywords, Subject
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Yes
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Yes
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Page Properties: Width, Height, Cropbox, Bleedbox, Artbox, Trimbox, Page Transition, Page Orientation
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Yes
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Yes
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Page Numbering
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Yes
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Yes
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Header and Footer
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Yes
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Yes
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FootNote and EndNote
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Yes
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Adding watermarks, Creation of BookMarks,
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Yes
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Yes
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Multiple columns
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Yes
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Table of Contents, List of Tables and List of Figures
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Yes
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Logical Units: Centimeters, Inches and Pixels for position and size
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Yes
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Yes
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Page orientation : portrait and landscape
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Yes
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Yes
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Different sizes for pages in the same document
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Yes
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Yes
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PDF/A-1 (Beta version)
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Yes
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File Formats
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Adobe Pdf 1.2, 1.3 and 1.4
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Yes
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Yes
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Adobe Acrobat Reader 3, 4 and 5
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Yes
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Yes
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Color Space
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RGB
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Yes
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Yes
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CMYK
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Yes
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Yes
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Gray
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Yes
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Yes
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Paragraph
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Widows/Orphans control
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Yes
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Keep with next
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Yes
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Keep together
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Yes
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Text
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Single Segment and Multiple Segments
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Yes
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Yes
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14 Core Fonts: Courier, Courier-Bold, Courier-Oblique, Courier-BoldOblique, Helvetica, Helvetica-Bold, Helvetica-Oblique, Helvetica-BoldOblique, Times-Roman, Times-Bold, Times-Italic, Times-BoldItalic, Symbol, ZapfDingbats
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Yes
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Yes
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Text Alignment
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Yes
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Yes
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Text Properties: Overline, Underline, Strikeout, Char Spacing, Line Spacing, Background Color
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Yes
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Yes
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Text Properties: Word Spacing
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Yes
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Yes
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Preserving Text White Spaces
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Yes
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Yes
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First Line Indent
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Yes
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Yes
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Left Hanging Paragraph
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Yes
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Yes
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Full Justification
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Yes
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Yes
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inline HTML (HTML tags in text)
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Yes
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Rotating Text
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Yes
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Vertical Text
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Yes
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Right-to-left languages such as Arabic, Hebrew and Urdu etc. (Beta Version)
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Yes
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Auto adjust font to display Unicode
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Yes
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Auto hyphenate
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Yes
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Headings
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Auto Sequencing
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Yes
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Yes
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Custom Labels
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Yes
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Yes
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System defined Bullets
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Yes
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Yes
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Custom Bullets
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Yes
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Yes
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Rich Formatted List Labels
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Yes
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Floating Box
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All types of paragraphs in floating box
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Yes
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Image Layering (Zindex)
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Yes
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Graphs
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Common Graphs: Line, Circle, Arc, Curve, Rectangle, Ellipse, Round Rectangle
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Yes
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Yes
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Dash and Ploy Dash
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Yes
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Yes
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Graph Filling
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Yes
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Yes
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Line Cap Mode
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Yes
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Yes
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Coordination Transformation
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Yes
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Graph Title
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Yes
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Graph Note
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Yes
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Graph layer (Zindex)
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Yes
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Attachments
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Attachment Type: File and Note
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Yes
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Yes
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Attachment Icon Settings
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Yes
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Yes
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Tables
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Custom Borders
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Yes
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Yes
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Background Color
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Yes
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Yes
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Columns Span
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Yes
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Yes
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Nested Table
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Yes
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Yes
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Controlling Table Broken
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Yes
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Controlling Row Broken
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Yes
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Controlling table's first n rows repetition when the table splits into a new page.
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Yes
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Images
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Image Type: Jpeg, Png, Tiff, Gif, Bmp, Emf, Exif, Icon, Wmf, Ccitt Fax
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Yes
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Yes
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Image Open Type: Local File, Memory, URL
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Yes
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Yes
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Image Scaling
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Yes
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Yes
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Image Rotating
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Yes
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Yes
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Inline Image
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Yes
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Image Layering(Zindex)
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Yes
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Image Opacity
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Yes
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Yes
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MemoryBmp
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Yes
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Yes
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Image Title
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Yes
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Yes
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Image Note
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Yes
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Page Background Image
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Yes
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Yes
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Hyperlinks
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Hyperlink Type: Local Page, Other File, Other Pdf document, Web Page
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Yes
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Yes
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Hyperlink Destination Open Mode
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Yes
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Yes
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Hyperlink from image
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Yes
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Security
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Encryption Type: 40 bits and 128 bits
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Yes
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Yes
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Permission Type: Printing, Degraded Printing, Contents Modifying, Copying, Annotations Modifying, Form Filling, Screen Readers, Document assembling
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Yes
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Yes
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Custom Fonts
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Custom PostScript Fonts (AFM and PFM)
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Yes
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Yes
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True Type Fonts
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Yes
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Yes
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Custom Font Encoding
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Yes
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Yes
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Custom Font Embedding
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Yes
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Yes
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Unicode support for True Type fonts
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Yes
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Yes
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Large Document Support
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Writing PDF file directly
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Yes
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Yes
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Form Field
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Basic FormField, Text, List, RadioButton, Combo, Checkbox
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Yes
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Inline FormField
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Yes
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Converting other document to PDF
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HTML/Aspx to PDF (Beta version)
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Yes
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Image File to Pdf
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Yes
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Yes
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Word to PDF (with Aspose.Words)
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Yes
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Excel to PDF (with Aspose.Cells) (Beta version)
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Yes
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Yes
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