https://github.com/AndreRenaud/PDFGen

Simple C PDF Writer/Generation library
https://github.com/AndreRenaud/PDFGen

c pdf pdf-document pdf-generation simple-api

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Simple C PDF Writer/Generation library

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/AndreRenaud/PDFGen
• Owner: AndreRenaud
• License: unlicense
• Created: 2013-05-29T02:01:38.000Z (over 11 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2024-04-20T22:46:46.000Z (10 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-08-04T10:02:48.142Z (6 months ago)
• Topics: c, pdf, pdf-document, pdf-generation, simple-api
• Language: C
• Homepage:
• Size: 923 KB
• Stars: 487
• Watchers: 33
• Forks: 116
• Open Issues: 5
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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PDFGen

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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

Example usage

=============

```c

#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;

}

```

License

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[![License: Unlicense](https://img.shields.io/badge/license-Unlicense-blue.svg)](http://unlicense.org/)

The source here is public domain.

If you find it useful, please drop me a line at [email protected].

Builds

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Build status: [![GitHub Actions](https://github.com/AndreRenaud/PDFGen/workflows/Build%20and%20Test/badge.svg)](https://github.com/AndreRenaud/PDFGen/actions)

Appveyor status: [![Build status](https://ci.appveyor.com/api/projects/status/3qpsmr06xg5gx74j/branch/master?svg=true)](https://ci.appveyor.com/project/AndreRenaud/pdfgen/branch/master)

Code Coverage: [![Coverage Status](https://coveralls.io/repos/github/AndreRenaud/PDFGen/badge.svg?branch=master)](https://coveralls.io/github/AndreRenaud/PDFGen?branch=master)

Coverity scan: [![Coverity scan](https://scan.coverity.com/projects/11942/badge.svg)](https://scan.coverity.com/projects/andrerenaud-pdfgen)

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](https://github.com/ring-lang/ring/tree/master/extensions/ringpdfgen)