sgcPDF ships in the sgcUI All-Access trial, one installer for Delphi and one for C++ Builder with all 17 sgcUI products. Download the fully functional trial, run the compiled demos with no IDE, or add the NuGet packages to a .NET project. Licenses are available on the pricing page.
One sgcUI trial installs every sgcUI product, sgcPDF included, with full functionality for evaluation.
New to sgcPDF? Start with the five QuickStart demos for Delphi (VCL) in Demos\PDF\Delphi\00.QuickStart and read the Getting Started guide (PDF), which walks through them step by step.
Fully functional evaluation for Delphi 7 through RAD Studio 13 with all 17 sgcUI products, sgcPDF included, and the demo projects.
Download Delphi Trial →Fully functional evaluation for C++ Builder 10.1 through 13. The same components with C++ header files and demo projects.
Download CBuilder Trial →Ready to run executables of every sgcUI product. The sgcPDF demos show PDF creation, the viewer, forms, text and image extraction, encryption, signatures, redaction, PDF/A, the signature pad and the image editor.
Download Demos →In Demos\PDF\Delphi, each with a C++ Builder twin in Demos\PDF\CBuilder.
A TsgcPDFSignaturePad with pen colour and width, pressure and velocity options, undo, redo and clear, PNG, SVG and JSON export, and a button that signs a PDF with the handwritten signature in the visible signature field. SignaturePadFMX does the same in FireMonkey.
A TsgcPDFImageEditor with crop, rotate and flip, pen, line, arrow, rectangle, ellipse, text and highlight annotations, undo and redo, zoom, and saving to PNG, JPEG, BMP or PDF. ImageEditorFMX does the same in FireMonkey.
| Item | Support |
|---|---|
| Delphi | Delphi 7, 2007, 2009, 2010, XE to XE8, 10 Seattle to 10.4 Sydney, 11 Alexandria, 12 Athens and 13, with runtime and design time packages for each version. |
| C++ Builder | C++ Builder 2007 to 13, with runtime and design time packages and generated headers. |
| .NET | .NET Standard 2.0, .NET Framework 4.7.2, .NET 6, .NET 8, .NET 9 and .NET 10, delivered as NuGet packages. The Windows Forms add-on targets .NET Framework 4.7.2 and .NET 8 on Windows, the WPF add-on .NET Framework 4.7.2, .NET 8, .NET 9 and .NET 10 on Windows, and the Avalonia add-on .NET 8, .NET 9 and .NET 10. |
| Operating systems | Windows (Win32 and Win64), Linux64, macOS, iOS and Android. The VCL viewer controls, the GDI renderer and the exporter are Windows only. |
| Dependencies | None. No DLL, no external PDF engine and no OpenSSL. |
| Source code | Full source code is included with the license. |
| PAdES signatures | The optional TsgcPDFPAdESSigner bridge requires sgcSign, licensed separately. |
The library also ships as NuGet packages for .NET Standard 2.0, .NET Framework 4.7.2, .NET 6, .NET 8, .NET 9 and .NET 10, pure managed code with no native DLL.
Install the free Community edition with dotnet add package esegece.sgcPDF.Community, or the registered edition with dotnet add package esegece.sgcPDF. Add esegece.sgcPDF.WinForms, esegece.sgcPDF.Wpf or esegece.sgcPDF.Avalonia for the viewer controls and esegece.sgcPDF.sgcSign for PAdES signatures through sgcSign, with the same .Community suffix for the Community edition.
26 Windows Forms demos covering creation, barcode and QR codes, forms, encryption, signatures, PDF/A, tagged PDF, text extraction and the viewer control. They need Windows and the .NET 8 SDK. SignaturePad, SignaturePadWpf and SignaturePadAvalonia show the signature pad, ImageEditor, ImageEditorWpf and ImageEditorAvalonia the image editor, and PDFBarcodeControl, BarcodeControlWpf and BarcodeControlAvalonia the barcode control, on WinForms, WPF and Avalonia.
Read about the .NET demos →Both editions have the same features. The Community edition is free for individuals and organizations under EUR 1M annual gross revenue with no more than 5 developers, and shows a brief startup notice. The Registered edition removes the notice and carries the commercial license.