Features

Aspose.Pdf.Kit for .NET

Aspose.Pdf.Kit for Java

General

.Net Environment Required

Yes

Supports Windows Forms and ASP.NET applications

Yes

API Reference in HTML and Microsoft Help format

Yes

Fully featured demos in C# and Visual Basic .NET

Yes

Written completely in Java, works with Jre from v1.4.2 to v1.6.0

Yes

Supports all Java applications

Yes

API Reference in JavaDoc format

Yes

Fully featured demos in Java

Yes

Programmers Guide in HTML format

Yes

Encoding Type Support

7 encoding types

Yes

Yes

Unicode support

partially

（see known-issues）

Font Style Support

14 core fonts

Yes

Yes

Type 1 fonts

Yes

Yes

TrueType fonts

Yes

Yes

Type 3 fonts

Yes

Yes

CJK font support

Yes

Yes

AcroForm Support

Create AcroForm

Yes

Yes

Modify AcroForm

Yes

Yes

Data Extraction (Beta Version)

Extracting Images

Yes

Yes

Extracting Texts

Yes

Yes

Extracting Texts in Rectangle

Yes

Extracting Attachments

Yes

Yes

Extracting BookMarks

Yes

Yes

Extracting Links

Yes

Yes

Extracting Annotations

Yes

Yes

Data Creation/Navigation/Annotation

Create, Modify and Delete BookMarks

Yes

Yes

Create Links(WebLink, LocalLink, PdfDocumentLink, ApplicationLink)

Yes

Yes

Create and Delete Annotation(Text, FreeText, Markup, Popup)

Yes

Yes

Create and Delete Attachments(Sound, Movie)

Yes

Yes

PDF File Editor Support

Append Pages

Yes

Yes

Concatenating PDF files

Yes

Yes

Inserting pages

Yes

Yes

Split to pages

Yes

Yes

Delete pages

Yes

Extracting pages

Yes

Yes

Making Booklet

Yes

Yes

Making NUp

Yes

Yes

XMP Metadata

Yes

Zooming pages

Yes

Rotating pages

Yes

Pagesizing

Yes

Yes

Moving Page Postion

Yes

Fill Form Fields

Read and Fill Text Fields, Check boxes, Radio button, List boxes and Combo boxes

Yes

Yes

Fill Image Field

Yes

Yes

Flatten Field(Specified or All)

Yes

Yes

Import Field data from fdf/xml/xfdf file

Yes

Yes

Export Field data into fdf/xml/xfdf file

Yes

Yes

AutoFiller(Import field data stored in System.Data.DataTable into PDF template.The dataTable contains all the data from database or other data source)

Yes

Yes

Conversion to Other Formats

Convert to Images(Supported Formats: TIFF, BMP, PNG, JPG ) (Beta Version)

Yes

Yes

Convert fdf/xml/pdf/xfdf to the OLEDB/OdbcDB

Yes

Yes

Convert OLEDB/OdbcDB to the data in fdf/xml/xfdf

Yes

Yes

Create PDF Form Fields

Create or Modify PDF Form Fields (Text Fields, Check boxes, radio buttons, List box, Combo box And Push Button

Yes

Yes

Modify Visual Appearance

Yes

Yes

Meta Information Support

Read and Modify meta information of PDF file

Yes

Yes

Pdf File Editing Support

Adding Texts and Images

Yes

Yes

Replace Text

Yes

Yes

Replace and delete image

Yes

Yes

Editing comment/annotation

Yes

Yes

Editing Bookmark

Yes

Yes

Security

Encrypting or decrypting a PDF file

Yes

Yes

Changing the security setting(Modify Password and Priveleges)

Yes

Yes

Secure PDF with digital certificate

Yes

Yes

Digitally Signature

Digitally sign/validate Pdf

Yes

Yes

4 certification level

Yes

Yes

3 validation mode

Yes

Yes

Signature visibility

Yes

Yes

Removing digital signature

Yes

Stamping/Watermark

Adding Image as watermark(transparent, rotated and Custom Positioning are supported)

Yes

Yes

Adding PDF as watermark(transparent, rotated and Custom Positioning are supported)

Yes

Yes

Adding Text as watermark(transparent, rotated and Custom Positioning are supported)

Yes

Yes

Adding Page Number

Yes

Yes

Create Shape(Line, SquareCircle, Polygon, PolyLine, Curve)

Yes

Yes

PDF Privilege Support

9 kinds of Privileges

Yes

Yes

PDF Viewer (PDF Printing) (Beta Version)

Viewing PDF files in visual mode

Yes

Yes

AutoSize and AutoRotate

Yes

Zooming PDF Pages

Yes

Yes

Printing Preview and Printing

Yes

Yes

Print setting

Yes

Yes

printing in landscape

Yes

Yes

Pdf searching

Yes