PDFlib+PDI

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Generate PDFs on the fly. PDFlib is a development tool for PDF-enabling your software or generating PDFs on your server. PDFlib offers a simple-to-use API for programmatically creating PDF files from within your own server-side or client-side software. PDFlib doesn't make use of third-party software for generating PDF, nor does it require any other tools. PDFlib+PDI includes all PDFlib functions, plus the PDF Import Library (PDI) for including existing PDF pages in the generated output. PDFlib is available for all major operating environments and development environments.

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PDFlib+PDI V7.0.3 - 1 Machine License

PDFlib+PDI V7.0.3 - 5 to 9 Machine Licenses

PDFlib+PDI V7.0.3 - Upgrade from PDFlib+PDI or PPS V5 or V6

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What's New in V7.0?

A New Table formatter - automatically places rows and columns according to user preferences, and splits tables across multiple columns or pages

Textflow enhancements

• Links and other interactive elements can automatically be created from text fragments in a Textflow
• Space for images can be reserved in a text column
• The Textflow formatter supports leaders,e.g. repeated dots between an entry in a table of contents and the corresponding page number
• Text contents and formatting options can be supplied separately to the Textflow engine in an arbitrary number of steps. This eliminates the need for creating a buffer containing the full text along with inline formatting options
• Character classes for formatting decisions can now be redefined, e.g. specify whether the »/« character will be treated as a letter or punctuation in formatting decisions

Other formatting features

• Decimal tabs and leader characters are supported in single-line text (in addition to multi-line Textflows)
• A new stamp function calculates optimized size and position for text stamps across a rectangle
• Improved query functions for text geometry

Note: For more information, please refer to What's New Document from the Evals & Downloads page

PDFlib is a library which allows you to generate files in Adobe’s Portable Document Format (PDF). PDFlib acts as a backend to your own programs.

PDFlib doesn't make use of third-party software for generating PDF, nor does it require any other tools. PDFlib is available for all major operating environments and development environments.

PDFlib offers many useful functions for creating text, graphics, images, and hypertext elements in PDF.

A PDFlib program can be used for dynamically generating PDF – reflecting user input or dynamic data retrieved from web or database servers. The PDF Import Library (PDI) can be used to integrate pages from existing PDF documents into the generated output. With the PDFlib Personalization Server (PPS), server side personalization of PDF files becomes possible.

With the programmer only being responsible for producing the data from whatever source, PDFlib takes the task of generating the PDF code which visually represents the data.

PDFlib can generate PDF data directly in memory (instead of on file), resulting in better performance and avoiding the need for temporary files, thus being the fastest PDF-generating method.

PDFlib makes PDF generation possible without wading through the PDF specification. While PDFlib tries to hide technical PDF details from the user, a general understanding of PDF is useful. In order to make the best use of PDFlib, application programmers should ideally be familiar with the basic graphics model of PostScript (and therefore PDF). However, a reasonably experienced application programmer who has dealt with any graphics API for screen display or printing shouldn’t have much trouble adapting to the PDFlib API as described in the PDFlib manual.

API: PDFlib offers an easy-to-use programming interface for the application programmer. The PDFlib API shields the programmer from the technicalities of PDF generation. Any programmer with decent graphics or print output experience is able to use PDFlib quickly. The PDFlib reference manual explains the basics of PDFlib programming, and provides a detailed reference to all API functions. Sample programs are provided for all supported environments.

Server Deployment: PDFlib is thread-safe, i.e. it can safely be used in multi-threaded server applications. The COM edition is both-threaded for improved performance. C or C++ library clients can install their own memory management and error handling routines. PDFlib's memory management has been rigorously engineered and tested for memory leaks in order to guarantee 24-hour deployment without any shutdown periods.

The PDFlib 5 line is available in four different products:

• PDFlib includes functions for generating PDF output
• PDFlib+PDI includes all PDFlib functions, plus the PDF Import Library (PDI) for including existing PDF pages in the generated output
• PDFlib Personalization Server (PPS) includes PDFlib+PDI, plus additional functions for automatically filling PDFlib blocks. PPS also includes the PDFlib Block Plugin for creating blocks interactively
• PDFlib PLOP (PDF Linearization, Optimization, Privacy) is the tool for the high volume, high performance PDF workflow. PLOP is a standalone tool that can read, linearize, optimize and encrypt PDFs without the need for additional third-party software