System Requirements

Overview

The API can be used to build applications on any operating system that supports .NET Standard 2.0 and later or .NET Framework 4.0.

To produce and manipulate PDF documents, the machine that Aspose.PDF for .NET runs on doesn’t need to have Adobe Acrobat installed: Aspose.PDF for .NET is a PDF document creation engine. To view PDF documents produced by Aspose.PDF for .NET, however, the machine does need at least an Adobe Acrobat Reader. It can be downloaded for free.

Supported Operating System

Windows

  • Microsoft Windows 2003 Server (x64, x86) SP21
  • Microsoft Windows 2008 Server (x64, x86)1
  • Microsoft Windows 2012 Server (x64, x86)1
  • Microsoft Windows 2012 R2 Server (x64, x86)1
  • Microsoft Windows 2016 Server (x64, x86)1
  • Microsoft Windows 2019 Server (x64, x86)1
  • Microsoft Windows 2020 Server (x64, x86)
  • Microsoft Windows 2022 Server (x64, x86)
  • Microsoft Windows Vista (x64, x86)1
  • Microsoft Windows XP (x64, x86)1
  • Microsoft Windows 7 (x64, x86)1
  • Microsoft Windows 8, 8.1 (x64, x86)1
  • Microsoft Windows 10 (x64, x86)
  • Microsoft Windows 11 (x64, x86)
  • Microsoft Azure

macOS

  • Mac OS X x64 (10.12+)

Linux

  • Linux x64 ( 6, 7 ,27, 9, 8.7+, 18.04, 16.04, 14.04, 18, 17, 42.3+, 12 SP2+)

Android

  • Android ( 8.0, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)

Development Environments

You can use Aspose.PDF for .NET to develop applications in any development environment that targets the .NET platform, but the following environments are explicitly supported:

  • Microsoft Visual Studio 20101
  • Microsoft Visual Studio 20111
  • Microsoft Visual Studio 20121
  • Microsoft Visual Studio 20131
  • Microsoft Visual Studio 20151
  • Microsoft Visual Studio 20171
  • Microsoft Visual Studio 2019
  • Microsoft Visual Studio 2022

Supported Frameworks

The following .NET Framework versions are supported:

  • .NET Framework 4.0
  • .NET Framework 4.8.1
  • .NET Standard 2.0 (.NET Core 3.1+)
  • .NET 6.0
  • .NET 7.0
  • .NET 8.0

  1. Aspose.PDF for .NET is supported with .NET Framework 4.0. However, since .NET Framework 4.0 is obsolete, this support is provided solely for compatibility purposes. Please note that we reserve the right to discontinue publishing the assembly for .NET Framework 4.0 at any time. ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎

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