A i386 RPM and a SRPM for Panda 0.2 are now available. Feel free to provide me with any feedback you might have. These rpms are also signed with GPG. Details are provided on the menu to the left of your where your eyeballs are currently located.
Author: mikal
Panda 0.2
Panda 0.2 is now available. The new things with this version include: tiff support; major speed improvements; documentation improvements; and a configure script (although it needs more work). Please let me about any problems that you experience.
Relevant specifications
The following specifications are relevant to the development of Panda:
PDF Spec v1.3 2nd edition
PDF Spec v1.3
Postscript
A new version of the PDF specification?
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.
Man pages
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