PDF Settings

The PDF export options provides properties to manage PDF export behaviors. You can set the customization properties in the PDFOptions. Refer to the following code snippet to initialize the PDFOptions property.

writer.PDFOptions = new PDFOptions();

Export with complex scripts

To export reports with the complex script language texts, set the ComplexScript property of PDFOptions instance to true.

writer.PDFOptions.EnableComplexScript = true;

PDF conformance

You can export the report as a PDF/A-1b document by specifying the PdfConformanceLevel.Pdf_A1B conformance level in the PdfConformanceLevel property.

writer.PDFOptions.PdfConformanceLevel = Syncfusion.Pdf.PdfConformanceLevel.Pdf_A1B;

Embedding Custom PDF fonts

You can add custom fonts to the PDF exported document by adding the font streams to Fonts collection in PDFOptions instance.

To add custom fonts to the PDF exported document, follow these steps:

1. Add the font .ttf files to your application App_Data/Resources folder.

2. In the Solution Explorer, open the properties of the font file and set the Copy property to Output Directory as Copy always.

3. Initialize the Font collection and add the font stream to it.

   The key value provided in the font collection should be same as in the report item font property.

   //Load Missing font stream to the pdf document
   writer.PDFOptions.Fonts = new Dictionary<string, System.IO.Stream>
   {
   { "Segoe UI", new FileStream(System.Web.Hosting.HostingEnvironment.MapPath(@"\App_Data\Resources\Font_file_name.ttf"), FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read) }
   };

   If any fonts used in the report definition is not installed or available in the local system, then you should load the font stream like above code snippet.

Password Protected PDF document

Allows you to protect the exported PDF document from unauthorized users by encrypting the document using encryption password. The following code snippet explains how to encrypt the exported document with user-defined password.

writer.PDFOptions.Security = new Syncfusion.Pdf.Security.PdfSecurity
{
    UserPassword = "Password"
};