Short: Pdflib (libpdf) and tools (68k and PPC) Author: Thomas Merz, Andreas R. Kleinert (port) Uploader: Andreas_Kleinert@t-online.de Type: text/misc Changes for Amiga 68k/PPC port are documented in in "CHANGES.amiga". For usage information, please refer to "README". PPC binary is called have .elf extension and can be executed from Shell when being used with ppc.library V46+ There are two link library versions included: libpdf.lib (68k) and libpdf.a (PPC). General information follows. -- ARK, 7/Mar/99 ************************************************************************ PDFlib V0.6 =========== Portable C library for dynamically generating PDF ("Adobe Acrobat") files. Thomas Merz (tm@muc.de) The PDFlib distribution is available from the following URL: http://www.ifconnection.de/~tm Overview ======== PDFlib is a C library for generating PDF files. It offers a graphics API with support for drawing, text, font and images. Call PDFlib routines from within your client program and voila: dynamic PDF files! For detailed instructions on PDFlib programming and the associated API, see the PDFlib Programming Manual, included in PDF format in the PDFlib distribution. Using a cute facility called SWIG, PDFlib can also be used from within the Perl, Tcl, and Python scripting languages. As of version 0.6, scripting support is only available for Unix systems. Features ======== - basic drawing lines, rectangles, arcs, Bezier curves, ... gray scale or RGB color - text text in different fonts and sizes, formatting type 1 font embedding, AFM support - output formats ASCII85, ASCIIHex, or binary - graphics file formats support for TIFF, GIF, and JPEG files - hypertext features bookmarks (outline entries) page transitions PDFlib application ideas ======================== - Dynamic PDF generation via CGI from a Web server - Directly convert text or graphics files to PDF - Report generator for applications such as databases - Substitute for Adobe's PDFwriter - ... you name it! Supplied Library Clients ======================== PDFlib includes some demo, test, and "real" client programs: - hello: simple "hello, world!" program - pdfdemo: illustrates many PDF features - imagepdf: convert GIF/TIFF/JPEG images to PDF - text2pdf: convert text files to PDF - pdfclock: generate a PDF file with one or more analog clock images - pdfgraph: draw a graph according to data read from a text file - the hello and pdfclock samples are also available in Perl, Tcl, and Python implementations ============================= Archive contents ============================= Original Packed Ratio Date Time Name -------- ------- ----- --------- -------- ------------- 46310 9499 79.4% 07-Mar-99 20:21:10 +afmparse.c 10593 3554 66.4% 07-Mar-99 20:21:10 +afmparse.h 6648 2237 66.3% 07-Mar-99 20:21:10 +ansi_e.h 85547 85547 0.0% 07-Mar-99 20:21:12 +acro_web.gif 88438 88438 0.0% 07-Mar-99 20:21:12 +bible.tif 840 395 52.9% 07-Mar-99 20:21:12 +graphdata 37406 37406 0.0% 07-Mar-99 20:21:12 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