I have just been looking at the Adobe website and have noticed that there is a new version of the PDF specification available. This version is 1.3 edition II, but the brief examination that I have given it shows that the document has chnaged a fair bit. It would appear that there is a lot more content in it, and the order of information is different. Hopefully they have also fixed some of the bugs evident in version 1.3… If I find anything of interest, then I will post a report here.
Author: mikal
Man pages
Panda comes with an increasingly complete set of man pages. Download panda to have a look.
Panda 0.1
Panda 0.1
Panda is a GPL‘ed
PDF generation library. This version is the initial release, and it only
builds simple hello world PDFs. Updates will be posted here as they are
developed.
The library provides a ANSI stdio.h style interface, which hides many
of the complexities of the PDF document format without reducing the power
of the developer.
Features
Here is a list of the various features currently available in Panda. After each main type of feature are listed some pointers to Panda functions implementing that functionality.
- Annotations
- Text annotations – panda_textannotation
- Line drawing
- Straight lines – panda_setlinestart, panda_addlinesegment, panda_endline, panda_strokeline, panda_fillline, panda_setlinewidth
- Polygons – panda_setlinestart, panda_addlinesegment, panda_endline, panda_strokeline, panda_fillline, panda_setlinewidth
- Curved lines – panda_addcubiccurvesegment, panda_addquadraticcurvesegmentone, panda_addquadraticcurvesegmenttwo, panda_endline, panda_strokeline, panda_fillline, panda_setlinewidth
- Closed lines – panda_closeline, panda_endline, panda_strokeline, panda_fillline, panda_setlinewidth
- Rectangles – panda_rectangle
- Line capping – panda_setlinecap
- Butt
- Round
- Projected square
- Line joins – panda_setlinejoin
- Mitre
- Round
- Bevel
- Line dashing – panda_setlinedash
- Coloured shapes and polygons – panda_setfillcolor
- Coloured lines – panda_setlinecolor
- Image support
- TIFF (including rotated) – panda_imagebox, panda_imageboxrot
- JPEG (including rotated) – panda_imagebox, panda_imageboxrot
- PNG (including rotated) – panda_imagebox, panda_imageboxrot
- Informational items
- Author – panda_setauthor
- Creating application – panda_setcreator
- Title – panda_settitle
- Subject – panda_setsubject
- Keywords – panda_setkeywords
- Font support
- Use of the 14 internal PDF fonts – panda_createfont, panda_setfont
- Font size – panda_setfontsize
- Font modes – panda_setfontmode
- Normal
- Outline
- Filled outline
- Invisible
- Filled clipped
- Stroked clipped
- Filled stroked clipped
- Clipped
- Arbitary character spacings – panda_setcharacterspacing
- Arbitary word spacings – panda_setwordspacing
- Arbitary horizontal scaling – panda_sethorizontalscaling
- Arbitary text leading – panda_setleading
- Document functionality
- Document creation – panda_open, panda_open_suppress, panda_close
- Page creation – panda_newpage
- Page templates (aka Form XObjects)
- Create and use template pages – panda_newtemplate, panda_applytemplate
- Text display features
- Display a text box, including at an angle – panda_textbox, panda_textboxrot
- Super and sub script support – panda_textbox, panda_textboxrot
- Document viewing features
- Hide the viewer toolbar – panda_hidetoolbar
- Hide the viewer menubar – panda_hidemenubar
- Hide the viewer window eye candy – panda_hidewindowui
- Fit the document to the viewer window – panda_fitwindow
- Centre the window on the screen – panda_centerwindow
- Change the page view mode whilst in non-fullscreen mode – panda_nfspagemode
- Force the document to be viewed in fullscreen mode – panda_fullscreen
- Chnage the direction of text flow (left to right vs right to left) – panda_textdirection
- Specify the maximum display time for a page – panda_pageduration
- Specify page transitions and their duration – panda_transduration, panda_transstyle
- Windows support
- Standard win32 DLL
- COM interface