Imagine you have a large PDF file that comprises multiple sections and you want to share only specific sections of this large PDF file with your team members. Since you can’t share this whole PDF with them, you will want to split this PDF into parts so as to share specific sections with respective team members only. Splitting a large PDF has many advantages such as file size management, content organization, enhanced collaboration, and performance optimization.
Create and Manipulate PDF Files using iTextPdf in .NET
In our previous post, we talked about iTextPdf API for working with PDF files using C#/VB.NET in .NET applications. The API lets you create, edit and manipulate PDF documents without going into any internal file format details of PDF file format. Using iTextPdf is easy to work with and with just a few lines of code, you can start creating, reading, and manipulating PDF files.
In this article, we will talk about using iTextPdf in .
iText – An Open-Source .NET API for PDF Documents
iText for .NET is a free open-source .NET API for creating and working with PDF documents in C#/VB.NET applications. It lets .NET application developers write applications for generating, modifying, and extracting content from PDF files.
iText for .NET is a port of the original iText API, which was written in Java programming language. It was developed to provide PDF document processing features to .NET application developers. It is used in various domains such as document management systems, reporting tools, and other applications that require PDF generation and manipulation.
Malicious PDF files and How to Protect From These?
Portable Document Format (PDF) is a digital file format for sharing content on devices like computers, phones, tablets, and other e-readers. But how secure is the PDF file? Being popular for publishing content that includes text, images, hyperlinks, form-fields, rich media, signatures, and attachments, PDF files are often targeted by malware to compromise host devices and networks. In case, where PDFs are sent as email attachments, the malware can affect the mailbox as well as the host computers where these PDFs are downloaded and opened.
EPUB vs PDF: E-Publishing File Formats
With the increase in usage of smart devices, digital documents are replacing printed copies of the same. The ease of reading the content on your smartphone or tablet gives you freedom from carrying the hard copies of content everywhere. Several digital file reading formats are available for use, with eBooks taking an important role. PDF and EPub are the two most popular eBook file formats that are widely used for reading digital content.
PDF File Formats
PDF file format has been adopted as a widely used digital document format for publishing contents and sharing over the internet. In its initial days, PDF files were used for desktop publishing of documents such as posters, flyers, and other similar types of files for physical printing. With the passage of time, PDF introduced new standards including PDF/A, PDF/E, PDF/VT, PDF/UA, and PDF/X. These, along with introduction of PDF Reader software, added additional features of being light weight and compatible, resulting in PDF becoming the file standard for fixed documents.