Demos

The repository includes a demonstration app, SampleApp. Each demo builds one PDF and shows one feature. Click a preview to open the PDF, Source to read the code that made it, and the last link to read the guide for that feature.

Every PDF on this page is rebuilt from the current code each time the site is published.

To run the demos yourself, clone the repository and run these commands from its root:

dotnet run --project src/SampleApp -- list
dotnet run --project src/SampleApp -- run
dotnet run --project src/SampleApp -- run --example Fonts Text

list shows every demo and what it covers. run writes one PDF per demo into output/, and prints the source of each one first. Use --example to run only some demos, and --no-code to hide the source.

HelloWorld

One page, one string, and the document's metadata.

Fonts

Families, weights, slants, sizes and decorations.

Unicode

WinAnsi against Unicode encoding, and how each face is embedded.

International

Right-to-left order, complex-script shaping, and font fallback.

Orientation

Page sizes, portrait and landscape, and /Rotate.

Images

Sizing, stretching, fitting, cropping and rotating one image.

ImageFailures

An image that cannot be read, and the event that says why.

Text

Placement, spacing, painting and links.

Vectors

Every shape XGraphics draws, and the pens, brushes and transforms behind them.

Gradients

Radial and linear gradients, extended past their ends and transformed.

Barcodes

Code 3 of 9, interleaved 2 of 5, OMR marks and an ECC200 data matrix.

Layout

Wrapping, alignment, columns, lists and truncation.

Tables

A PinataLayout table that breaks across pages.

PageResize

Shrinking a finished document, links and destinations with it.

Bleed

A photograph bled off three edges of a page that will be trimmed.

Assemble

Merge, import, reorder, duplicate, split, prune and consolidate.

Imposition

XForm and XPdfForm - stamps, watermarks, two-up and a booklet sheet.

Protect

An encrypted document: two passwords, eight permissions, and the way back in.

Open it with the password open-me.

Signing

A signed PDF, the hole its signature lives in, and what verifying it proves.

Compress

Every PdfDocumentOptions setting, measured in bytes.

Inspect

Reading a page's own content stream back with ContentReader.

FacturX

A ZUGFeRD / Factur-X invoice: PDF/A-3 with its own XML inside it.

Extract

PdfTextExtractor: the text of a page, and where on the page it is.

Revise

Incremental update: three revisions in one file, none of them overwritten.

Forms

An interactive AcroForm: text, choice and button fields.

Annotations

Notes, links, text markup, stamps and attachments.

Outline

A tree of bookmarks, each landing on its own heading.

Invoice

Letterhead, line items, totals and terms.

Structure

PinataLayout's TOC, automatic bookmarks, sections, lists and cross-references.

Accessibility

Tagged output, and a PDF/UA-1 claim that is enforced rather than stamped on.

Footnotes

Notes at the foot of the page, and the four settings that shape them.

Ddl

A document written to PinataLayout DDL, read back, and rendered from the copy.

Charts

All eight chart types, combination series, and the two routes into the engine.

Newspaper

A broadsheet front page in five columns.

Magazine

A feature opener with a drop cap and a pull quote.

SideWrap

Text flowing beside a shape, on each of the four wrap styles.