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

#include"pdfgen.h"intmain(void) {
structpdf_infoinfo= {
.creator="My software",
.producer="My software",
.title="My document",
.author="My name",
.subject="My subject",
.date="Today"
};
structpdf_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);
return0;
}

License

The source here is public domain. If you find it useful, please drop me a line at andre@ignavus.net.

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