PDFGen

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

#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

The source here is public domain. If you find it useful, please drop me a line at [email protected].

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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