Great! Are metadata included ? Thanks,
R. 2016-03-05 18:27 GMT+01:00 Michael Van Canneyt <mich...@freepascal.org>: > Hi, > > I have committed a PDF generator to FPC Subversion: fcl-pdf. > > Why a new pascal PDF generator ? Mainly because the existing ones written > in Object Pascal suffer from > several disadvantages: - Font support usually incomplete or downright > buggy. > - Dependency on a GUI (LCL, VCL, Windows). > The latter is important because the PDFs must be generated on a headless > (no > display) webserver. > > So, the fcl-pdf package contains a PDF generating unit fppdf that does not > depend > on any external libraries or GUI system. > > The PDF generator has the following features: > - Support for basic shapes. > - Support for basic line styles. > - Dictionary support. > - Multi-page PDF. > - Image support. > - TTF Font support. > - Font embedding. > - Unicode font support. > - Stream Compression. > - Image embedding. > - Several paper types. > - Portrait/Landscape. > - Support for multiple measurement units. > - Rotation matrix system. > - PDF creator information. > - The generated PDF passes several PDF validators. > > The library is based on a library that came with FPGUI, with a feature set > which came closest to what I desired. It was completed for the company I > work for by Graeme Geldenhuys, and is heavily unit tested. > > It is not yet feature-complete, but the above should be ample for most > applications. > > In the near future, I expect to commit a reporting engine which, likewise, > does not need a GUI (but can use one) and uses the PDF generator as one > possible backend. > > Todo: > - Implement TFPCustomCanvas descendent (TPDFCanvas) that draws on a PDF. > (should allow easy integration in LCL) - Partial embedding of (unicode) > fonts (only used glyphs) for smaller PDFs. > - On windows (possibly mac), allow to use native font mechanisms for > extracting info from TTF files. > - Reduce memory usage by streaming finished pages to file. > > Optionally: > - PDF Forms ? > - Archive format ? > - Signatures ? > > Enjoy, > > I would welcome additional tests/demos, suggestions, bugreports, > improvements or patches. > > Michael. > > -- > _______________________________________________ > Lazarus mailing list > laza...@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org > http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus >
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