The royalty-free PDF component for you to use if you need to create, read, or manipulate PDF documents in your application or web service. The library is an "Any CPU" assembly and will JIT to 64 bit code when loaded into a 64 bit process and 32 bit code when loaded into a 32 bit process. The library has no additional dependencies. Docotic.Pdf has version for .NET Standard Library. Thus, you can use Docotic.Pdf in .NET Core and UWP projects. .NET Core apps can run on Windows, on Linux and on Mac. This article explains the basics to get you up and running to process PDF files in your .NET Core application.

Using Docotic.Pdf in .NET Core application

Setup your environment for .NET Core development as described here. In this article we will use Visual Studio Community 2015 on Windows, but you can use any appropriate OS and IDE.

Create a new .NET Core project. For example, console application.

Add Docotic.Pdf NuGet package to the project.

Add the following method to the project's source code

Call helloPdf() method from your code. Pass a path to output PDF file as a parameter. This will create a PDF document like that:

The library can be added to GAC (Global Assembly Cache) to ease adding references to it in new .NET projects.

Adding library to GAC
Make sure you have administrator privileges.

Run gac-install.ps1. You can find it in the installation package or in the samples repository.

The script expects to find BitMiracle.Docotic.Pdf.dll in the same folder.

Removing library from GAC
Make sure you have administrator privileges.

Run gac-remove.ps1. You can find it in the installation package or in the samples repository.

The script expects to find BitMiracle.Docotic.Pdf.dll in the same folder.



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