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
- Primitive drawing elements
- Lines
- Rectangles
- Filled Rectangles
- Polygons
- Filled Polygons
- Bezier curves
- Bookmarks
- Barcodes (Code-128 & Code-39)
- Embedded images
- PPM
- JPEG
- PNG
- BMP
#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;
}
The source here is public domain. If you find it useful, please drop me a line at [email protected].
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.