ComponentSource Topic | PDFlib

PDFlib 8.0.3 released

Thu, 25 Aug 2011 15:06:10 GMT

A PDF merge example in PDFlib.

Adds support for generating barcode fields, plus support for 3D models in PRC format.

PDFlib is a component that allows you to programmatically create PDF files from within your own server-side or client-side software. PDFlib doesn't make use of third-party software for generating PDFs, nor does it require any other tools. It offers a variety of new and improved functions, including a new table formatter, PDF/A output for longtime archiving, AES encryption, integrated pCOS analyzing tools, a repair and optimization mode for input PDFs, and numerous other new features. PDFlib+PDI includes all PDFlib functions, plus the PDF Import Library (PDI) for including existing PDF pages in the generated output and 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 is available for all major operating environments and development environments.

The following editions are available:

Updates in 8.0.3

Support for generating barcode fields (barcode fields don't work with Adobe Reader, but require Acrobat Professional)
Support for 3D models in the PRC format (in addition to U3D)
Adjust the size of imported PDF pages to work around problems with pages which contain content outside of all page boxes
The PDFlib Block plugin included with PDFlib Personalization Server (PPS) has been updated to version 4.3. It includes a redesigned user interface and offers Acrobat X compatibility on Windows and Mac OS X. The Japanese user interface is now also supported on the Mac.

About PDFlib

Munich-based PDFlib GmbH, founded in 2000, develops and sells leading edge components for server-centric generation and processing of PDF documents. PDFlib customers use the software for automated and high volume generation and processing of PDF documents in business and prepress workflows or for online billing systems. The components produced by PDFlib GmbH are readily available for all common environments (operating systems and programming languages) as commercial versions and partially as open source. PDFlib GmbH sells worldwide with main markets in North America, Germany and Japan.

PDFlib pCOS adds Acrobat X support

Wed, 17 Nov 2010 17:05:00 GMT

Retrieving PDF information with PDFlib pCOS.

PDFlib pCOS V3.0 supports the latest PDF standards and features including support for the Acrobat X file format.

PDFlib pCOS provides a simple and elegant facility for retrieving any information from a PDF document which is not part of the page contents. For example, PDF metadata, interactive elements (links etc.), or page dimensions can easily be queried with pCOS. With pCOS you can extract a variety of interesting items and create output for different purposes. By processing multiple PDF documents with a single call you can easily create summaries of document info entries, page formats, fonts, or any other property. Combined with tabular output this provides a powerful PDF administration tool.

Updates in V3.0

The new version brings pCOS up to date with the newest PDF standards and features including support for the file format of Acrobat X.

About PDFlib

PDFlib TET adds performance enhancements

Thu, 19 Aug 2010 17:54:00 GMT

Text extracted from a PDF with PDFlib TET.

Version 4.0 supports Unicode post-processing plus right-to-left and bidirectional text extraction.

PDFlib TET (Text Extraction Toolkit) is software for reliably extracting text information from any PDF file. It is available as a library/component and as a command-line tool. PDFlib TET makes available the text contents of a PDF as Unicode strings or structured XML, plus detailed glyph and font information. With PDFlib TET you can retrieve the corresponding Unicode values for text in a PDF document, as well as its position on the page.

The following products are available:

Updates in V4.0

New features in PDFlib TET 4.0:

Performance enhancements: faster for many classes of documents
Higher speed and smaller memory consumption for very large documents up to hundreds of thousands of pages
Extract right-to-left and bidirectional text for Arabic, Hebrew, etc.
Unicode post-processing:
Foldings preserve, remove or replace characters
Decompositions replace a character with an equivalent sequence, e.g. replace narrow or vertical Japanese characters with their standard counterparts.
Text can be converted to all four Unicode normalization forms, e.g. emit NFC form to meet the requirements for Web text or a database.
Improved shadow removal, word boundary detection, and dehyphenation
Improved super and subscript detection
Workarounds for non-conforming PDF documents to enhance robustness
Enhanced repair mode for successfully extracting text from damaged PDF
More information in TET's XML output (TETML), e.g. dehyphenation, dropcap, shadow, and super/subscript
Improved C++ and Perl language bindings

New features in PDFlib TET PDF IFilter 4.0:

Takes advantage of the improved TET 4.0 kernel
Automatic language detection for improved search results (find word stems, partial matches, etc.)
Support for SharePoint 2010

About PDFlib

PDFlib product family patched

Tue, 18 May 2010 21:46:00 GMT

A PDF merge example in PDFlib.

PDFlib allows you to programmatically create PDF files from within your own server-side or client-side software. PDFlib doesn't make use of third-party software for generating PDFs, nor does it require any other tools. PDFlib is available for all major operating systems and development environments. It offers a variety of new and improved functions, including a new table formatter, PDF/A output for longtime archiving, AES encryption, integrated pCOS analyzing tools, a repair and optimization mode for input PDFs, and numerous other new features.

The following editions are available:

Updates in 8.0.1

Changes in the PDFlib product family:

Automatic script and position (right/left) detection for bidi text
Process certain JPEG-compressed TIFF images which previously have been rejected
Better color handling for JPEG images with Exif data
More workarounds for damaged PDF and font input files
Improved treatment of Unicode CMaps for better handling of OpenType
Features in Japanese fonts and smaller PDF output
Various improvements specific to platforms and language bindings
Optimized file size and loading time of shared libraries
Enhanced build system
General bug fixes

Changes in the PDFlib Block plugin:

Support for the new automatic script and position detection
Improvements for the Japanese user interface (Windows only)
Re-introduced keyboard shortcuts
XML configuration file to control aspects of the user interface
Improved PDF form-field-to-Block conversion
Several minor bug fixes

About PDFlib

PDFlib 8 released

Fri, 18 Dec 2009 17:41:00 GMT

Displaying an example PDF converted by PDFlib.

Latest update adds eight new API functions, support for images with alpha channels and C++ binding improvements.

PDFlib is a component that allows you to programmatically create PDF files from within your own server-side or client-side software. It doesn't make use of third-party software for generating PDFs, nor does it require any other tools. PDFlib is available for all major operating systems and development environments. It offers a variety of new and improved functions, including a new table formatter, PDF/A output for longtime archiving, AES encryption, integrated pCOS analyzing tools, a repair and optimization mode for input PDFs, and numerous other new features.

The following editions are available:

Updates in V8.0

New PDFLib 8 API Functions
PDF_add_path_point(), PDF_add_portfolio_file(), PDF_add_portfolio_folder(),PDF_align(), PDF_begin_mc(), PDF_circular_arc(), PDF_close_font(), PDF_delete_path(), PDF_draw_path(), PDF_ellipse(), PDF_end_mc(), PDF_end_template_ext(), PDF_info_image(), PDF_info_path(), PDF_info_pdi_page(), PDF_mc_point(), PDF_set_option(), PDF_utf8_to_utf32(), PDF_utf32_to_utf8(), pDF_utf16_to_utf32()
PDFLib 8 C++ binding Improvements
The C++ binding now supports a wstring-based interface, but can be configured to use the plain C++ string type as in PDFlib 7.
PDFLib 8 Images
PDFlib 8 will by default interpret an alpha channel in TIFF and PNG images. If this is not desired it can be disabled with the "ignoremask" option of PDF_load_image().
PDFLib 8 Text output Default kerning
PDFlib 8 will apply kerning by default; in contrast, PDFlib 7 applied kerning by default only in Textflow, and only if the font had been loaded with kerning=true. In order to avoid kerning for compatibility with older versions, set readkerning=false when loading the font, or kerning=false when generating text output.
PDFLib 8 Performance
PDF_load_font(): unlike earlier versions, PDFlib 8 will read kerning values from all loaded fonts by default. If kerning is not required font loading can be accelerated with the "readkerning=false" option.
PDFLib 8 Stricter checks
The output intent for PDF/A and PDF/X must be set before calling any of the following functions:

PDF_begin_page_ext()
PDF_open_pdi_page()
PDF_setcolor()
PDF_load_image()

For more information visit:
http://www.pdflib.com/fileadmin/pdflib/pdf/PR/PR_PDFlib_8.pdf (PDF)