System Requirements

Overview

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)
• Microsoft Windows 2008 Server (x64, x86)
• Microsoft Windows 2012 Server (x64, x86)
• Microsoft Windows 2012 R2 Server (x64, x86)
• Microsoft Windows 2016 Server (x64, x86)
• Microsoft Windows 2019 Server (x64, x86)
• Microsoft Windows Vista (x64, x86)
• Microsoft Windows XP (x64, x86)
• Microsoft Windows 7 (x64, x86)
• Microsoft Windows 8, 8.1 (x64, x86)
• 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+)

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 2010
• Microsoft Visual Studio 2011
• Microsoft Visual Studio 2012
• Microsoft Visual Studio 2013
• Microsoft Visual Studio 2015
• Microsoft Visual Studio 2017
• Microsoft Visual Studio 2019
• Microsoft Visual Studio 2022

Supported Frameworks

The following .NET Framework versions are supported:

• .NET Framework 4.0
• .NET Framework 4.5.0
• .NET Framework 4.5.1
• .NET Framework 4.5.2
• .NET Framework 4.6.0
• .NET Framework 4.6.2
• .NET Framework 4.5.0
• .NET Framework 4.5.1
• .NET Framework 4.6.0
• .NET Framework 4.6.2
• .NET Framework 4.7
• .NET Framework 4.7.2
• .NET Framework 4.8.1
• .NET Standard 2.0 (.NET Core 3.1+)
• .NET 6.0
• .NET 7.0