EVO PDF Software Release Notes
New Features in v14.0
In this release, we introduce
EvoPdf Next for .NET, a new generation of components designed for modern .NET applications.
The library enables you to create, edit and merge PDF documents, convert HTML to PDF or images, convert Word, Excel, RTF and Markdown to PDF,
extract text and images from PDF files, search text within PDF documents and convert PDF pages to images.
To get started, visit the product page:
EvoPdf Next for .NET. From there, you can access:
The
EvoPdf Next for .NET library was designed to coexist with the
EvoPdf Classic for .NET libraries, which have demonstrated efficiency, reliability and stability over many years of real-world usage.
The Classic tools will continue to be maintained and supported for future .NET versions.
Licensing and Upgrade Information
The same
EvoPdf Toolkit license works with both the
Classic and
Next product lines.
This means you can adopt EvoPdf Next in new projects while continuing to use Classic in existing applications.
Customers with an active maintenance subscription are entitled to upgrade to version 14.0 at no additional cost.
If your maintenance has expired, please visit the
License Renewal page for renewal options.
EvoPdf Next for .NET v14.0
Many features overlap between the Classic and Next components. However, the Next suite was specifically designed for improved portability and extensibility.
While the APIs are similar, there are architectural differences due to the distinct underlying technologies used by each suite.
Target Frameworks and Deployment
The EvoPdf Next library targets
.NET Standard 2.0 and can be used in applications targeting:
- .NET 10, 9, 8, 7 and 6
- .NET Framework 4.6.2 and later
It supports deployment on:
- Windows and Linux platforms
- Azure App Service and Azure Functions
- Docker containers
Modular Architecture
The library features a modular structure, with separate NuGet packages for each major component. This prevents unnecessary assemblies from being included in your applications.
All components share the
EvoPdf.Next namespace and can be used together within the same project.
Below is a summary of the main features:
- Create, edit and merge PDF documents
- Apply HTML stamps, headers and footers to PDF documents
- Generate password-protected and digitally signed PDF files
- Convert HTML (with CSS, web fonts and JavaScript) to PDF
- Convert HTML to JPEG, PNG and WebP images
- Convert SVG to PDF
- Convert Word (DOCX) to PDF
- Convert Excel (XLSX) to PDF
- Convert RTF to PDF
- Convert Markdown to PDF
- Convert PDF to text
- Search text within PDF documents
- Convert PDF pages to images
- Extract images from PDF pages
EvoPdf Classic for .NET v14.0
The
Classic Tools suite, which includes HTML to PDF Converter, Word to PDF Converter, Excel to PDF Converter,
PDF to Text Converter, PDF to Image Converter, PDF to HTML Converter, PDF Images Extractor, PDF Print, PDF Merge, PDF Split and PDF Security,
has been updated to ensure compatibility with:
- .NET 10
- Visual Studio 2026
- Windows Server 2025
The product packaging has also been improved to provide a more unified experience across modern .NET and the classic .NET Framework environments.
New Features in v12.0
Check the updated
live demo
and the
online documentation
for a complete example of how to use the new features
- A new Word to PDF Converter class has been added which allows you to convert Word DOCX to PDF, preserving the PDF page settings from the Word document or using custom PDF page settings to reflow the content
- A new PdfDocument class has been added which provides the necessary API to programmatically create PDF documents by adding text and image elements
- EVO PDF Chromium for .NET deployment to Linux machines, Azure App Service and Azure Functions for Linux has been significantly simplified
- New features for adding HTML with page numbering in headers and footers. You can now configure header and footer visibility on the first page, odd pages and even pages.
- New features for adding HTML stamps with page numbering to PDFs generated from HTML
- A new PdfEditor class has been added which provides the necessary API to add HTML stamps with page numbering to existing PDFs
- New features for converting only the regions from the HTML page selected by a CSS selector
- New features for excluding from conversion some regions of the HTML page selected by a CSS selector
- New features to retrieve the position in the PDF for HTML elements selected by a CSS selector
- Provided Dockerfile for deployment to Windows and Linux containers. The documentation includes examples of deploying the EvoPdf Chromium demo application and accessing it from outside the container
- Ensured compatibility with .NET Core 9 for all .NET Core libraries
- Various improvements and bug fixes
New features in v11.0
The new EvoPdf Chromium HTML to PDF for .NET library has been released. It integrates a Chromium-based rendering engine that enables the conversion of all modern HTML, CSS, and JavaScript content in conformance with the latest standards and technologies currently available.
The library can run on various Windows and Linux platforms and is compatible with Azure App Service and Azure Functions for both Windows and Linux.
The most important features of the new library are listed below.
A detailed list of features can be accessed on the
EvoPdf Chromium for .NET page.
- Can natively run on both Windows and Linux 64-bit platforms
- Compatible with .NET Core 9.0, 8.0, 7.0, 6.0, 5.0 and .NET Standard 2.0
- Compatible with .NET Frameworks from 4.6.2 to 4.8.1
- Compatible with Azure App Service and Azure Functions for both Windows and Linux
- Create PDF documents from HTML with CSS, SVG, Web Fonts and JavaScript
- Support for the latest standards and technologies used in modern web pages
- Merge multiple HTML documents into a single PDF document
- Create PDF headers and footers with page numbering from HTML templates
- Repeat HTML table headers and footers in PDF pages
- Control PDF page breaks using CSS attributes in HTML
- Create a PDF document outline with bookmarks from HTML heading tags
- Create a table of contents with page numbers from HTML heading tags
- Create tagged PDF documents for accessibility features
- Automatic and manual conversion triggering modes
- Render for screen or print media types
- Set PDF viewer preferences to control the PDF document display
- Create PDF documents with security features and digital signatures
- Access the HTML page using GET or POST HTTP methods
- Add HTTP headers when requesting the HTML page
- Add cookies when requesting the HTML page
- Convert HTML pages that require authentication
- Convert HTML and web pages to JPEG, PNG and WEBP raster images
EVO PDF Tools for .NET have been updated to version 11.0. The most important changes are listed below:
- Ensured compatibility with .NET Core 8 and 9 for all .NET Core Libraries
- Addressed the vulnerabilities introduced by some dependency Microsoft packages in .NET Core libraries
- Various improvements and bug fixes
New features in v10.0
- EVO PDF Server was extended to support all the PDF Tools from EVO PDF Toolkit in addition to HTML to PDF Converter support
- New EVO PDF Client library for .NET to include all the EVO PDF tools under EvoPdfClient unique namespace
- New EVO PDF Client Library for .NET was tested to ensure the compatibility with Windows, Linux, MacOS, Azure App Service, Azure Functions, Xamarin, Mono, UWP and any other platform supporting .NET Standard 2.0 or .NET Framework 4.0 and above including NET Core 7, 6, 5, .NET Framework 4.8.1, 4.7.2, 4.6.1, 4.0 and above
- New EVO PDF Client demo projects for HTML to PDF, Word to PDF, Excel to PDF, PDF to Text, PDF to Image, PDF to HTML and PDF Images Extractor for .NET Core and .NET Framework using the new EvoPdfClient namespace
- New and Updated NuGet Packages for all products
- Ensured compatibility with .NET Core 7 for all .NET Core Libraries
- Various improvements and bug fixes
New features in v9.0
- The .NET Core libraries are now built for .NET Standard 2.0 and are compatible with .NET Core 2.0, .NET Core 3.1, .NET Core 6.0 and later
- New demo applications were created for .NET Core 6.0
- The demo projects were updated for the new Visual Studio 2022
- All libraries and installers were tested and validated on Windows 11
- The Azure Cloud Services were updated to support the new Azure Cloud Services Extended Support environment and deployment model
- Various improvements and bug fixes
New features in v8.0
- New libraries for .NET Core 2.1 , .NET Core 3.0 and later runtimes were created besides the regular libraries for .NET Framework
- New ASP.NET Core, MVC and Azure Cloud sample applications were created for .NET and .NET Core libraries
- New Edition (NE) libraries for HTML to PDF Converter to support ECMAScript 6, WOFF 2, HTTP2 and TLS 1.3 standards
- New feature to set the User Agent to be used when accessing HTML pages to be converted to PDF to mimic various browsers
- New Azure Service Fabric Application to host the HTML to PDF Server for solutions targeting other platforms than Windows
- New client libraries for .NET Core 2.1, .NET Core 3.0 and later runtimes and for Universal Windows Platform ( UWP )
- New ASP.NET Core and MVC sample applications were created for .NET and .NET Core client libraries
- Various improvements and security updates
New features in v7.0
- Rendering engine improvements to support new HTML5 and CSS3 features
- New feature to set the zoom level of the HTML content. See the
Control HTML Scaling in PDF Page demo page for more details
- New feature to merge the table of contents from multiple HTML documents added to the same PDF document. See the
Merge Table of Contents from Multiple HTML Pages demo page for more details
- New feature to include a PDF document before the table of contents in the final PDF document. See the
Insert PDF Pages Before Table of Contents demo page for more details
- New PDF encryption algorithms and security features. See the
Set Permissions and Password of the Generated PDF Document demo page for more details
- New proxy settings to bypass a list of hosts. See the
Access a HTML Page Through a Proxy demo page for more details
- New features to exclude the local files and local resources from conversion
- Azure HTML to PDF Service can be deployed now as a Web Role accessible through an URL. Secured connections are possible with this server type
- HTML to PDF Service can be deployed now as a simple ASP.NET web application accessible through an URL. Secured connections are possible with this server type
- Various tweaks, improvements and bug fixes
New features in v6.0
New features in v5.0