Short: pdflib (libpdf) and tools (68k and PPC)
Type: text/misc
Uploader: Andreas_Kleinert@t-online.de
Author: Thomas Merz, Andreas R. Kleinert (port)

 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.

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 ARK, 7/Mar/99

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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