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PDFlib offers methods for generating PDF documents with text, graphics, images, and interactive elements such as annotations or bookmarks. The PDFlib API supports PDF creation on different levels which can freely be mixed.
Low-level APIs allow you to place individual items on the page, using formatting information provided by the application. An application which already determined the layout (e.g. for screen display) can directly place text, images and other objects on the PDF page.
High-level APIs support powerful formatting features: - Single-line text output with various formatting controls.
- Textflow formatter for placing arbitrary amounts of text in one or more columns or pages. The text can be formatted in non-rectangular shapes, flow around images and contain interactive elements and structure information for Tagged PDF.
- The flexible table formatter supports all types of contents in table cells like text, images, graphics and annotations or form fields. Large tables can be placed on multiple pages. Details of table formatting are controlled by a variety of options.
- Image and SVG placement according to various fitting and formatting methods.
PPS: PDFlib Personalization Server
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Feature
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API functions
and parameters
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PDFlib
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PDFlib+PDI
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PPS
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Basic PDF
generation
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all except
those listed below
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✔
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✔
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✔
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Linearized
(Web-optimized) PDF
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linearize
option
in PDF_end_document()
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✔1
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✔
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✔
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Optimize PDF
(only relevant for inefficient client code and non-optimized imported PDF
documents)
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optimize option
in PDF_end_document()
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✔1
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✔
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✔
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Parsing PDF
documents for Portfolio creation
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password option
in PDF_add_portfolio_file()
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✔1
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✔
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✔
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PDF import
(PDI)
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all PDI
functions
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✔
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✔
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Query
information from PDF with pCOS
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all pCOS
functions
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✔
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✔
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Fill Blocks
with variable data
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PDF_fill_*block(
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✔
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Create Blocks
programmatically
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PDF_poca_new(
): option usage=blocks
PDF_begin/end_page_ext( ): option blocks
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✔
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Copy Blocks to
generated output
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PDF_process_pdi(
): option action=copyblock or action=copyallblocks
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✔
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Interactively
create PDFlib Blocks for use with PPS
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PDFlib Block
Plugin for Acrobat
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✔
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1Not available in PDFlib source code packages since
PDI is required internally for this feature
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System Requirements for PDFlib GmbH Products
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This document describes the requirements for using PDFlib GmbH binaries on various platforms. This list covers all platforms on which at least one product is supported. It should not be construed as a commitment regarding the availability of a certain product/platform combination.
To find out whether a PDFlib GmbH product is supported on a particular platform please check the downloadable binary packages at www.pdflib.com.
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Java on all platforms
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Java 8 or above is required for the Java binding.
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Windows
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Requirements:
Windows 10/11 on x86 or x64
Windows Server 2012 and above on x86 or x64
C and C++ bindings
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The delivered binaries (libraries) can be used to build applications with Visual Studio and compatible products.
Project files for the programming samples are available for Visual Studio 2015.
Newer versions of Visual Studio convert these automatically.
Embarcadero C++ Builder
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In order to use the shared library with Embarcadero C++ Builder 64-bit you must create an import library from the DLL with the "mkexp" command, e.g.
mkexp pdflib.lib pdflib.dll
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.NET
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The .NET binding is implemented as C# assembly using C# Interop with additional unmanaged code in a native shared library. It is distributed as universal package with support for the following environments:
- Windows x86, Windows x64, Linux x64, macOS x64 and arm64, Alpine Linux x64
- .NET Standard 2.0, e.g. .NET 6/7/8
- .NET Framework 4.6.1 and above
(Visual Studio 2017 Version 15.7 or above)
The examples are written for Target Framework net6.0 In order to deploy them with other Target Frameworks you may need to adjust the project files.
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Linux x64
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Requirements: GLIBC 2.12 or above and libstdc++.so.6.0.21 or above based system on x64
C and C++ bindings
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Compiler: g++ 5 or above
binutils: 2.26 or above
CFLAGS=-pthread
LDFLAGS=-pthread
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Linux ARM64
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Requirements: GLIBC 2.27 or above based system on ARM64
C and C++ bindings
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Compiler: g++ 5 or above
CFLAGS=-pthread
LDFLAGS=-pthread
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Alpine Linux
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Requirements: Alpine Linux 3.4 and above on x64 musl C library (instead of glibc)
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macOS
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Requirements: macOS 10.9 and above on x64/ARM64
The Gatekeeper protection feature blocks unsigned applications. This applies to all PDFlib GmbH command line tools.
If you want to use these tools you must inform the system that it is a safe application. Override Gatekeeper by Control-clicking the application icon and select "Open" from the top of the context menu.
This must be done only once per user account.
C, C++, and Objective-C bindings
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Compiler: Xcode 8 or above
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FreeBSD
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Requirements: FreeBSD 12/13 on x64
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AIX
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Requirements: AIX 7.2 and above
C and C++ bindings
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Compiler: xlclang/xlclang++ 16.1 and above
Other language bindings
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A C++ runtime implementation with support for C++11 and C++14 is required via a library called libc++.a. This library is available in a C++ runtime fileset called libc++.rte. Please refer to IBM documentation for more information.
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IBM System i
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Not all products are available for IBM System i. Please refer to www.pdflib.com regarding the use of AIX 32-bit binaries on i5 systems with PASE.
Requirements: System i 7.2 and above
Functional restrictions on System i:
- ICU 50.1.1; only Unicode 6.2 supported
- WOFF2-compressed fonts not supported
- networking support not available
- C-based PDI/pCOS resource manager implementation instead of faster C++ implementation
- Decompression of JPEG 2000 streams not supported
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IBM System Z
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Requirements:
z/OS 2.1 and above with USS (64-bit) or MVS (32-bit)
Functional restrictions on System Z:
- networking support not available
C/C++ binding
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The library for C/C++ has been built with xlclang++ (XL C/C++ V2.4.1 for z/OS V2.4). Applications must be linked with XPLINK.
MVS
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MVS versions of PDFlib GmbH products are not thread-safe.
Functional restrictions on MVS:
- ICU 50.1.1; only Unicode 6.2 supported
- WOFF2-compressed fonts not supported
- networking support not available
- C-based PDI/pCOS resource manager implementation instead of faster C++ implementation
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zLinux
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Requirements:
zLinux 64-bit (s390x)
GLIBC 2.19 (or later) based system.
C/C++ binding
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CFLAGS/CXXFLAGS: -W "c,float(ieee)"
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