What is devexpress-office-file-api-pdf-new?

A guide for using DevExpress’s newer .NET API to create and edit PDF files. PDF is a document format that preserves page layout across systems; this API is currently a preview release.

Generating, loading, modifying, securing, printing, tagging, and managing forms or text in PDFs on Windows, Linux, or macOS. The preview status makes it unsuitable for mission-critical production use.

It explains how to work with pages, text, images, annotations, forms, metadata, attachments, encryption, and document structure through one object model.

devexpress-office-file-api-pdf-new — Skill for Claude Code by DevExpre

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent

npx skills add DevExpress/agent-skills --skill devexpress-office-file-api-pdf-new

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/DevExpress/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install dx-office-file-api, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 10 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

README.md

[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/devexpress/agent-skills/devexpress-office-file-api-pdf-new/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/devexpress/agent-skills/devexpress-office-file-api-pdf-new)

Your own site

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/devexpress/agent-skills/devexpress-office-file-api-pdf-new"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/devexpress/agent-skills/devexpress-office-file-api-pdf-new/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

Your own site · 80×15

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/devexpress/agent-skills/devexpress-office-file-api-pdf-new"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/devexpress/agent-skills/devexpress-office-file-api-pdf-new.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>

Per session 159 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 4,804 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.

Security scan B 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits

NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026

SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

medium Privilege Escalation · line 70
Commands invoke sudo or root privileges. Verify this elevated access is necessary and justified.

Fix: Avoid sudo/root unless strictly required. Prefer least-privilege patterns. If elevation is needed, document the justification and scope.

How audits are shown

Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.

Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00159	$0.04804
Opus 5	$0.00079	$0.02402
Sonnet 5	$0.00032	$0.00961
Haiku 4.5	$0.00016	$0.00480

Measured 13d ago against content hash b62a0592de7a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

devexpress-office-file-api-pdf-new scanned grade B with 1 finding against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 13d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Asks for rootmediumPrivilege escalation

A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.

On **Linux**, also install the font libraries: `sudo apt-get install -y libc6 libicu-dev libfontconfig1` (Debian/Ubuntu) or `sudo yum install -y glibc-devel libicu fontconfig` (RHEL/CentOS/Fedora).

plugins/dx-office-file-api/skills/devexpress-office-file-api-pdf-new/SKILL.md · 413 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 413 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

DevExpress New PDF Document API (CTP)

[!IMPORTANT] Community Technology Preview (CTP) The DevExpress.Docs.Pdf library is currently available as a CTP. Do not use it in mission-critical production applications. Try the library, share feedback, and await the official release. The legacy DevExpress.Pdf (PdfDocumentProcessor) API remains fully supported.

The new DevExpress PDF Document API (DevExpress.Docs.Pdf) is a cross-platform .NET library with a strongly-typed, object-oriented document model. It lets you create, load, modify, save, print, encrypt, and structurally tag PDF documents. The entry point is PdfDocument, which exposes pages, fragments, annotations, form fields, metadata, structure tree, and attachments as first-class typed collections. Works on Windows, Linux, and macOS.

When to Use This Skill

Create new PDF documents with text, images, shapes, and reusable templates
Load and modify existing PDF files (edit content, add/remove pages, manage annotations)
Manage interactive forms: create, fill, flatten, import/export AcroForm data
Find, format, redact, or permanently remove text from PDF documents
Encrypt PDF documents and set granular permissions (print, modify, extract)
Build tagged/accessible PDFs (PDF/UA) using the structure tree API
Merge PDF documents or reorganize pages (clone, reorder, rotate, resize)
Embed file attachments or ZUGFeRD/Factur-X electronic invoice XML
Print PDFs cross-platform (Windows, Linux/macOS via CUPS)
Migrate existing code from PdfDocumentProcessor to the new PdfDocument API

Prerequisites & Installation

CTP Warning: This package is a pre-release. Pin to the exact v26.1 version to avoid unexpected changes.

NuGet Packages

Package	Purpose
`DevExpress.Docs.Pdf`	New PDF Document API (CTP)

.NET (8/9/10+)

dotnet add package DevExpress.Docs.Pdf

.NET Framework (4.7.2+)

Install-Package DevExpress.Docs.Pdf

Read the full file on GitHub · 413 lines

Files

What ships with it

11 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

13d ago First seen · 413 lines · 159 tokens per session scan B b62a0592de7a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

devexpress-office-file-api-pdf-new is a skill published in the GitHub repository DevExpress/agent-skills (53 stars, last pushed 25d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 159 tokens to every session and 4,804 once invoked, about $0.0008 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (asks for root). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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