What's New in v6.x

Highlights

The most comprehensive PDF development toolkit for your server and desktop applications
Built on top of our PDF printer driver technology, leveraging its speed and versatility
Unmatched ease of use and performance without sacrificing powerful features
Produces high quality PDF outputs that are Adobe Acrobat compatible (version 4 or higher)
Supports PDF generation of PDF/A-1b, PDF/X-1a and PDF/X-3 for long term archiving and reliable prepress data interchange
Supports in-memory processing of PDF files to optimize performance
Supports both 32-bit and 64-bit Windows O/S

XFA form field support: Previous versions of BCL easyPDF SDK's Document API supported setting and getting values to and from AcroForm type form fields. Version 6.1 extends this support to XFA (XML Forms Architecture) form fields as well.

In-memory PDF post-processing: Earlier versions of BCL easyPDF SDK's Processor API required opening and closing a PDF, and reading and writing it from and to the file system, each time an operation (e.g., getting the page count) or modification (e.g., adding a watermark) was done to it. In version 6.1, many post-processing operations are allowed in memory. This means that a PDF file can be opened just once (either from a physical file or from memory) and have many operations performed on it without needing to repeatedly close and reopen it or accessing the file system. For workflows that require extensive PDF post-processing, this can offer substantial performance gains. For the specific post-processing operations that are allowed in memory, please see the PDFProcessorHandle object.

PDF/A/X generation API: BCL easyPDF SDK supports PDF Generation of PDF/A-1b, PDF/X-1a and PDF/X-3 for long term archiving and reliable prepress data interchange. BCL APIs enable developers to easily create 100% PDF/A/X compliant documents.
CMYK Output API: Within the PDF/A/X specification

PDF to EMF image conversion: EMF stands for enhanced metafile format. EMF is a vector graphic format, which means it's infinitely scalable, much smaller in size, and contain real text, lines, rectangles, instead of pixels.
PDF to Enhanced Metafile is a new feature in PDF Converter API version 6.0.However, ImagePrintJob would still support WMF to PDF and EMF to PDF conversion.

XPS Support (Supports XPS to PDF conversion. Requirement: .NET Framework 3.0 or above) .
Handles "Invalid Margin" errors in MS Word by giving developers options to either scale the document or crop the the unprintable areas outside of the invalid margins.
Compression for B&W images (greatly reduce file size, which is many times more compact than ZIP).
Automatic and CSS-driven pagination (smarter page break, developers can also manually control whether they want to have page break or not).
Added support for transparent image.
Added wait time for loading website page (For an HTML page containing an embedded object such as Java applet, they are sometimes not printed correctly because the applet rendering can happen after the page is completely loaded. Developers can now use this property to wait until the rendering from the embedded object is finished.).
Several enhancements and fixes to improve stability, speed, and performance. Some examples include: Office, Visio, hyperlink, bookmark, etc.
Standard hatched pattern brushes.
Support for single-page old-style JPEG TIFF.
Added EnableAutoMacros as a new Boolean property in ExcelPrintJob. It specifies whether auto execute macros are enabled.

Support Merge Batch (Merges a sequence of PDF files into one)
Add Digital Signature and Set Document Info XMP to existing PDF Files without recreating PDFs.
Adds a non-annotation type of file attachment to a PDF file
Adds a TrueType text entity to the document's content
Added CropBox support which allows the visible page area of a PDF to be adjusted (in other words the whitespace surrounding the document's content can be cropped)