Unix Programming - C or C++ library for PDF creation?

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C or C++ library for PDF creation?

vasudevram

2006-07-17, 7:00 pm

Hi,

Is there any C or C++ library (free software or open source) for PDF
creation, other than PDFLib? [ PDFLib is good but it puts a watermark
across the PDF output. ]

I'm looking for such a library to use for:

1. Porting my xtopdf PDF creation/conversion toolkit - see
http://www.dancingbison.com/services.html - from Python to C or C++,
for reasons of a) possibly better performance, b) being able to wrap
the ported code as a Ruby/C extension, so that I can then generate PDF
from Ruby. [I do know about Ruby's PDF::Writer, but am exploring
different ways of doing the same thing].

2. Doing PDF generation from C or C++.

Both the above points are part of my overall plan of extending xtopdf
in different dimensions (more features, ports to more languages, etc.).

Thanks
Vasudev
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Vasudev Ram
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brasilino@yahoo.com

2006-07-18, 7:59 am

> Hi,

Hi :)

> Is there any C or C++ library (free software or open source) for PDF
> creation, other than PDFLib? [ PDFLib is good but it puts a watermark
> across the PDF output. ]
>
> I'm looking for such a library to use for:
> 2. Doing PDF generation from C or C++.

Well... I know panda library. I haven't used it and seems to be stale.

https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/panda/

But I have already used pslib... which output I convert to PDF with
ghostscript.

http://pslib.sourceforge.net/

Hope it helps

Lucas Brasilino

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