NextPDF Premium · Edition
NextPDF Premium
At a glance
Section titled “At a glance”NextPDF Premium is the commercial offering built on the open-source NextPDF engine. It includes two editions: NextPDF Pro and NextPDF Enterprise. These editions add advanced document generation, trusted digital signing, and standards conformance for regulated workflows. Both editions plug in behind the same public contracts exposed by the open-source core. You adopt Premium by buying and activating a license, not by rewriting your application.
NextPDF ships as four distributions: open-source NextPDF, the open-source NextPDF Server Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) service, NextPDF Pro, and NextPDF Enterprise. Pro and Enterprise are the two commercial editions. A signed license names the active edition, and the editions build on each other. Pro includes everything in the open core, and Enterprise includes everything in Pro.
Use these pages to navigate the public Premium documentation:
| Page | What it covers |
|---|---|
| Feature matrix | Compare the open core, NextPDF Pro, and NextPDF Enterprise by capability. |
| Licensing and activation | Buy, evaluate, and activate a license with no application code change. |
| Compliance and conformance | See which document, signature, and e-invoicing standards Premium capabilities conform to. |
| HSM and FIPS validation | Hardware security module (HSM) support, Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS)-validated cryptography, and the evidence you can request. |
What Pro adds
Section titled “What Pro adds”NextPDF Pro is the step up from the open-source core when your documents have outgrown one-off generation. Use it when your products compose, transform, and sign Portable Document Format (PDF) files as a routine part of the pipeline. Pro adds value in four areas:
- Richer generation. A flow layout engine, automatic table-of-contents generation, reusable templates, charts, and advanced font tooling help you create consistent, professional output without hand-built layout code.
- Document operations. Advanced merge, document comparison, classification, optimization, and structural manipulation help you process PDF files from many sources, not only the files you generate.
- Specialty barcodes. Industrial and retail symbologies cover logistics, supply-chain, and regulated labeling needs that the open core does not cover.
- Trusted output. Baseline digital signatures, sensitive-data detection, and text masking help you ship signed, privacy-aware documents before they leave your system.
Teams use NextPDF Pro for regulated documents, logistics and retail labeling, multi-source document pipelines, and privacy-aware output. When a workflow also needs long-term archival signing, hardware key custody, or audit-grade compliance evidence, it grows into NextPDF Enterprise.
What Enterprise adds
Section titled “What Enterprise adds”NextPDF Enterprise includes everything in NextPDF Pro. It adds the assurance, longevity, and operational tooling that regulated and high-scale deployments require:
- Long-term trusted signing. Trusted-timestamp and long-term archival signature profiles help keep a signature verifiable for years, well beyond the life of the signing certificate.
- Hardware key custody. Signing integrates with hardware security modules and FIPS-validated cryptographic modules, so private keys never leave certified hardware. See HSM and FIPS validation.
- Compliance and archival. Archival-grade document profiles, long-term validation data, conformance validation, and packaged evidence support audits and regulated retention.
- Forensics and intelligence. Tamper detection, document forensic analysis, and document intelligence help with investigation, discovery, and high-assurance review.
- Operational tooling. Entitlement, metering, billing, webhook delivery, and electronic filing support help you run NextPDF Enterprise as a managed service inside your own platform.
NextPDF Enterprise is for financial services, public-sector filing, regulated industries, and any organization that must prove what a document is, who signed it, and that it has not changed.
Compliance and assurance
Section titled “Compliance and assurance”Premium capabilities are built to conform to recognized document, signature, and e-invoicing standards, with clear assurance evidence for your auditors and buyers. The compliance page sets out the standards each capability conforms to, including archival document profiles, signature baseline profiles, the European e-invoicing semantic model, and the cryptographic-module assurance posture. It cites each normative claim to its standards body. The HSM and FIPS validation page covers hardware key custody and the validation evidence you can request before you buy.
NextPDF does not assert conformance on your behalf. It produces the artifacts a profile requires, and an independent validator or receiving authority decides whether a given file conforms. The conformance section documents that boundary in full.
Licensing and activation
Section titled “Licensing and activation”A NextPDF Premium subscription is delivered as one package, and the signed license selects the active edition. You evaluate with the full feature set. Evaluation output carries a visible watermark, which a paid license removes with no code change. Installing Premium does not by itself grant Pro or Enterprise; the license you activate determines which capabilities run.
You install and activate Premium; you do not migrate to it. Your application keeps targeting the same public contracts whether it runs the open core, Pro, or Enterprise, so the code you have already written stays intact. See Licensing and activation for the full flow, and start an evaluation or talk to sales at the license portal.