AjaxPDF enables a ground-breaking new way of viewing, navigating, printing, filling and saving PDFs. AjaxPDF is an ASP.NET 2.0 Web Control that presents Portable Document Format (PDF) documents inline within a Web page. The portable document format (PDF) is the standard in high-fidelity documents and forms, however, PDFs are often criticized as slow, disconnected (yet frequently essential) parts of hundreds of thousands of Web sites. With AjaxPDF, PDFs can now be interactive, integrated features of any Web site.

AjaxPDF improves and then extends the way users interact with PDFs - opening the door for more engaging PDF-based Web applications and ensuring the site's design branding and navigation controls are always available.

Users need only the free Adobe Reader (v7.0.9 or later) - no additional software is required. AjaxPDF's functionality degrades gracefully for user whose systems don't meet the minimum system requirements.

AjaxPDF is a Web component used with Visual Studio 2005 or Microsoft's new free Express editions and served via ASP.NET 2.0. AjaxPDF consists of 5 Web Controls - the presentation control, plus button, drop-down, link, separator and textbox toolbar Web controls. You may also use the many third-party or standard Visual Studio Web controls as toolbar items.

Much of AjaxPDF's functionality can be set declaratively, requiring no or very little code. Alternatively, developers can make use of the rich client and server-side APIs to customize and extend AjaxPDF using JavaScript, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), and any of the supported .Net languages.

AjaxPDF includes a sample ASP.NET 2.0 Web site with nearly 20 functional, documented examples of AjaxPDF including form population from files and databases, dynamic loading of PDFs, client and server-side event management and creating and displaying PDFs dynamically.