PDFGen

PDFGen

Simple C PDF Creation/Generation library. All contained in a single C-file with header and no external library dependencies.

Useful for embedding into other programs that require rudimentary PDF output.

Supports the following PDF features

• Text of various fonts/sizes/colours/rotation (including TrueType Fonts)
• Primitive drawing elements
  • Lines
  • Rectangles
  • Filled Rectangles
  • Polygons
  • Filled Polygons
  • Bezier curves
  • Circles / Ellipses
  • Custom Paths
• Bookmarks / Links
• Barcodes
  • Code-128A
  • Code-39
  • EAN-13
  • UPC-A
  • EAN-8
  • UPC-E
  • QR codes
• Embedded images
  • PPM/PGM/PBM (binary & ASCII formats)
  • JPEG
  • PNG (Alpha Channels are not supported)
  • BMP
• Password protected/encrypted output (RC4 40-bit)

Example usage

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License

The source here is public domain. If you find it useful, please drop me a line at [email protected].

Builds

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Static Analysis

This is a code base that I use to test static analysis tools. As such the build system is quite a bit more complex than should be necessary for a project of this size.

Language Bindings

• RingPDFGen