devexpress-office-file-api-pdf

Name: devexpress-office-file-api-pdf
Author: DevExpress

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How to install devexpress-office-file-api-pdf?

devexpress/agent-skills/devexpress-office-file-api-pdf

$npx -y skills add DevExpress/agent-skills --skill devexpress-office-file-api-pdf

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Summary

Build .NET applications with the DevExpress PDF Document API for creating, reading, editing, merging, signing, and extracting content from PDF files programmatically. Use when working with PDF documents, PDF generation, PDF graphics API, interactive PDF forms, digital signatures,

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SKILL.md

1	# DevExpress PDF Document API
2
3	The PDF Document API is a non-visual .NET library for creating, loading, editing, merging, splitting, signing, and extracting content from PDF documents — without requiring Adobe Acrobat. It supports both new document generation via a graphics API and processing of existing PDFs through `PdfDocumentProcessor`. Features include interactive AcroForm fields, digital signatures (PKCS#7, PAdES), password protection, annotations, bookmarks, hyperlinks, content extraction, and XMP metadata management.
4
5	## When to Use This Skill
6
7	Use this skill when you need to:
8
9	- Create new PDF files from scratch using a graphics drawing API
10	- Load and modify existing PDF files (rotate pages, add content, change properties)
11	- Merge multiple PDF files into one or split pages out of a document
12	- Add or reorder pages, copy pages between documents
13	- Draw text, images, rectangles, lines, ellipses, and paths on PDF pages
14	- Create interactive AcroForms (text boxes, check boxes, combo boxes, radio groups, signature fields)
15	- Read and write AcroForm field values, or flatten forms
16	- Apply digital signatures (PKCS#7, PAdES) using PFX files or custom signers (Azure Key Vault)
17	- Validate existing digital signatures in PDFs
18	- Protect PDFs with user/owner passwords and restrict permissions (printing, editing, copying)
19	- Add annotations (highlight, underline, sticky notes, redaction) to pages
20	- Add bookmarks, hyperlinks, and file attachments
21	- Extract text (with word coordinates), search text, or extract images from PDF pages
22	- Convert PDFs to PDF/A-1b, PDF/A-2b, PDF/A-3b compliance
23	- Read and write XMP metadata packets
24	- Print PDFs with custom printer settings
25
26	## Prerequisites & Installation
27
28	### NuGet Packages
29
30	\| Package \| Purpose \|
31	\|---------\|---------\|
32	\| `DevExpress.Document.Processor` \| Core PDF processing: create, load, edit, merge, sign, extract \|
33	\| `DevExpress.Pdf.SkiaRenderer` \| Cross-platform rendering and image export (.NET 8+) \|
34
35	### .NET (8/9/10+)
36
37	```bash
38	dotnet add package DevExpress.Document.Processor
39	dotnet add package DevExpress.Pdf.SkiaRenderer # For rendering/export on .NET 8+
40	```
41
42	### .NET Framework (4.6.2+)
43
44	```
45	Install-Package DevExpress.Document.Processor
46	```
47
48	On .NET Framework, GDI+ is used for rendering — `DevExpress.Pdf.SkiaRenderer` is not required. See [references/getting-started-dotnet-fw.md](references/getting-started-dotnet-fw.md) for assembly references.
49
50	Important: All DevExpress packages in a project must share the same version number. A valid DevExpress license is required.
51
52	### Non-Windows Development (Linux, macOS, Docker, Cloud)
53
54	The library uses a platform-specific drawing engine: GDI+ on Windows, SkiaSharp elsewhere. The SkiaSharp-based engine (via `DevExpress.Pdf.SkiaRenderer` and `DevExpress.Drawing.Skia`) is enabled automatically on non-Windows platforms. Enable `Settings.DrawingEngine` at app startup only to force Skia on Windows (e.g., to work around the 10K GDI-handle limit).
55
56	See [references/getting-started.md](references/getting-started.md#non-windows-platform-support-linux-macos-docker-cloud) for the full non-Windows setup and troubleshooting guide.
57
58	## Before You Start — Ask the Developer
59
60	If the host agent has a structured question-asking tool available, use it to ask these questions one at a time with clear options — for example, Claude Code's `AskUserQuestion` tool or GitHub Copilot's `askQuestions` tool. If no such tool is available, ask the questions directly in the chat response before generating code.
61
62	Before generating code, ask these questions to avoid rework:
63
64	### General Questions
65	1. Target framework: Are you using .NET 8+ or .NET Framework 4.x?
66	2. New or existing project?: Creating new or adding to existing?
67	3. Hosting model: Console app, ASP.NET Core, Blazor, MAUI, WinForms, WPF, or something else?
68
69	### PDF-Specific Questions
70	4. Operation type: Generate new PDF from scratch / read-extract from existing / merge-split / sign / protect / add interactive forms / add annotations?
71	5. Starting point: Create from scratch with graphics API / convert from another format / process an existing PDF?
72	6. **Out

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How to install devexpress-office-file-api-pdf?

devexpress/agent-skills/devexpress-office-file-api-pdf

$npx -y skills add DevExpress/agent-skills --skill devexpress-office-file-api-pdf

Installs into the current project.

Summary

Files · 1

View on GitHub

SKILL.md

1	# DevExpress PDF Document API
2
3	The PDF Document API is a non-visual .NET library for creating, loading, editing, merging, splitting, signing, and extracting content from PDF documents — without requiring Adobe Acrobat. It supports both new document generation via a graphics API and processing of existing PDFs through `PdfDocumentProcessor`. Features include interactive AcroForm fields, digital signatures (PKCS#7, PAdES), password protection, annotations, bookmarks, hyperlinks, content extraction, and XMP metadata management.
4
5	## When to Use This Skill
6
7	Use this skill when you need to:
8
9	- Create new PDF files from scratch using a graphics drawing API
10	- Load and modify existing PDF files (rotate pages, add content, change properties)
11	- Merge multiple PDF files into one or split pages out of a document
12	- Add or reorder pages, copy pages between documents
13	- Draw text, images, rectangles, lines, ellipses, and paths on PDF pages
14	- Create interactive AcroForms (text boxes, check boxes, combo boxes, radio groups, signature fields)
15	- Read and write AcroForm field values, or flatten forms
16	- Apply digital signatures (PKCS#7, PAdES) using PFX files or custom signers (Azure Key Vault)
17	- Validate existing digital signatures in PDFs
18	- Protect PDFs with user/owner passwords and restrict permissions (printing, editing, copying)
19	- Add annotations (highlight, underline, sticky notes, redaction) to pages
20	- Add bookmarks, hyperlinks, and file attachments
21	- Extract text (with word coordinates), search text, or extract images from PDF pages
22	- Convert PDFs to PDF/A-1b, PDF/A-2b, PDF/A-3b compliance
23	- Read and write XMP metadata packets
24	- Print PDFs with custom printer settings
25
26	## Prerequisites & Installation
27
28	### NuGet Packages
29
30	\| Package \| Purpose \|
31	\|---------\|---------\|
32	\| `DevExpress.Document.Processor` \| Core PDF processing: create, load, edit, merge, sign, extract \|
33	\| `DevExpress.Pdf.SkiaRenderer` \| Cross-platform rendering and image export (.NET 8+) \|
34
35	### .NET (8/9/10+)
36
37	```bash
38	dotnet add package DevExpress.Document.Processor
39	dotnet add package DevExpress.Pdf.SkiaRenderer # For rendering/export on .NET 8+
40	```
41
42	### .NET Framework (4.6.2+)
43
44	```
45	Install-Package DevExpress.Document.Processor
46	```
47
48	On .NET Framework, GDI+ is used for rendering — `DevExpress.Pdf.SkiaRenderer` is not required. See [references/getting-started-dotnet-fw.md](references/getting-started-dotnet-fw.md) for assembly references.
49
50	Important: All DevExpress packages in a project must share the same version number. A valid DevExpress license is required.
51
52	### Non-Windows Development (Linux, macOS, Docker, Cloud)
53
54	The library uses a platform-specific drawing engine: GDI+ on Windows, SkiaSharp elsewhere. The SkiaSharp-based engine (via `DevExpress.Pdf.SkiaRenderer` and `DevExpress.Drawing.Skia`) is enabled automatically on non-Windows platforms. Enable `Settings.DrawingEngine` at app startup only to force Skia on Windows (e.g., to work around the 10K GDI-handle limit).
55
56	See [references/getting-started.md](references/getting-started.md#non-windows-platform-support-linux-macos-docker-cloud) for the full non-Windows setup and troubleshooting guide.
57
58	## Before You Start — Ask the Developer
59
60	If the host agent has a structured question-asking tool available, use it to ask these questions one at a time with clear options — for example, Claude Code's `AskUserQuestion` tool or GitHub Copilot's `askQuestions` tool. If no such tool is available, ask the questions directly in the chat response before generating code.
61
62	Before generating code, ask these questions to avoid rework:
63
64	### General Questions
65	1. Target framework: Are you using .NET 8+ or .NET Framework 4.x?
66	2. New or existing project?: Creating new or adding to existing?
67	3. Hosting model: Console app, ASP.NET Core, Blazor, MAUI, WinForms, WPF, or something else?
68
69	### PDF-Specific Questions
70	4. Operation type: Generate new PDF from scratch / read-extract from existing / merge-split / sign / protect / add interactive forms / add annotations?
71	5. Starting point: Create from scratch with graphics API / convert from another format / process an existing PDF?
72	6. **Out

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