Essential PDF is a .NET library that can produce Adobe PDF files. It features a full fledged object model for the easy creation of PDF files from any .NET language. It does not use any external libraries and is built from scratch in C#. PDF can be used on the server side (ASP.NET or any other environment) or with Windows Forms applications.

Essential Pdf has support for drawing text in pdf documents with predefined and TTF fonts. It exposes a comprehensive set of drawing API's that can be used to draw variety of shapes. It has full support for loading images from streams, file on disk. Essential Pdf has interactive features like Annotations, Attachments, Bookmarks, Hyperlinks etc. It has support for inserting header, footer and various page settings. Some of the advanced features are file compression and security.