What are the differences between Generator Edition and Viewer Edition?
The Viewer Edition is a superset of Generator Edition. The Generator Edition includes PDF features related to PDF generation and editing while the Viewer Edition includes everything in the Generator Edition plus PDF rendering capabilities. The Viewer Edition can render PDF pages to images including RAW, BMP, GIF, JPG, PNG and TIFF.
Document Features
Create and load PDF documents from files and streams
Grid layout and/or flow layout modes
Save PDF files in PDF/A-1B, PDF/A-2 B/U, PDF/A-3 B/U format
Save PDF files in PDF/UA-1 format
Save PDF files to disk and streams
PDF structure compression
Document information and custom properties
Document viewer preferences and display modes
XMP metadata
Document file attachments
Document level JavaScript and actions
Document outline (bookmarks)
Create CAD and geospatial enabled PDF files
Add, remove and read Bates numbers
Add and remove PDF pages
Page boxes – media box, crop box, art box, trim box and bleed box
Page labeling ranges (page numbering)
Extract pages from external PDF files
Append PDF pages
Fast PDF merging
Split PDF files into pages
Document incremental updates
Partial document loading and saving
Logical Structure and Tagged PDF and Accessibility
Logical document structure
Tagged PDF
Structure tree and structure elements
ID map
Role map
Structure element attributes
Attribute classes
PDF/UA-1
Automatic tagging of flow documents
Extraction of page content with associated logical structure information
Flow Document Features
Mixed formatted text
Superscript/subscript text
Images
Form XObjects
Annotations
Tables
Headers and footers
Table of contents
Automatic tagging for accessibility
Before/After draw events for flow content
