Simple C PDF Creation/Generation library. All contained 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
- Primitive drawing elements
- Lines
- Rectangles
- Filled Rectangles
- Polygons
- Filled Polygons
- Bezier curves
- Bookmarks
- Barcodes (Code-128 & Code-39)
- Embedded images
- PPM/PGM (binary format only)
- JPEG
- PNG (Alpha Channels are not supported)
- BMP
#include "pdfgen.h" int main(void) { struct pdf_info info = { .creator = "My software", .producer = "My software", .title = "My document", .author = "My name", .subject = "My subject", .date = "Today" }; struct pdf_doc *pdf = pdf_create(PDF_A4_WIDTH, PDF_A4_HEIGHT, &info); pdf_set_font(pdf, "Times-Roman"); pdf_append_page(pdf); pdf_add_text(pdf, NULL, "This is text", 12, 50, 20, PDF_BLACK); pdf_add_line(pdf, NULL, 50, 24, 150, 24, 3, PDF_BLACK); pdf_save(pdf, "output.pdf"); pdf_destroy(pdf); return 0; }
The source here is public domain. If you find it useful, please drop me a line at andre@ignavus.net.
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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.