Overview

PdfTron Systems’ PDF2SVG developer library is a licensable component that converts PDF (Portable Document Format) documents to SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics), and which can be used in third-party applications and services. The flawless conversion process produces high-quality conversion from PDF to SVG that maintains the original layout of the document and preserves hyperlinks, colors and font resources, and creates web-ready SVG documents that can be viewed using freely available SVG viewers and plugins. PDF2SVG has a simple application programming interface (API) that can be accessed through a C/C++ DLL or a 100% .Net component (for CLR languages such as C#, VB, J#, etc). The C++ library is available on Windows, Linux, Solaris, and Mac OSX. PDF2SVG .Net library is Windows only.

The following is a list headlining features available in PDF2SVG.

- Flawless and effortless conversion of PDF to SVG
- Automatic e-book style interactive HTML wrappers for converted SVG
- Complete transformation from PDF to an editable SVG document
- Unicode text
- Extremely fast
- Support for encrypted PDF
- Full color support, including ICC, DeviceN, CMYK, RBG, and Separations
- Availability of compressed and optimized SVG output
- Raster images can be embedded or linked
- Various SVG rendering options
- Ready for server-side, batch, or one-off conversions
- Font embedding capability for accurate document reproduction or font substitution option for smaller SVG files

Download a demo version of PDF2SVG SDK at: http://www.pdftron.com/downloads.html

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