What is Haru Free PDF Library?
HARU is a free, cross platform, open-sourced software library for generating PDF. It supports the following features.
1. Generating PDF files with lines, text, images.
2. Outline, text annotation, link annotation.
3. Compressing document with deflate-decode.
4. Embedding PNG, Jpeg images.
5. Embedding Type1 font and TrueType font.
6. Creating encrypted PDF files.
7. Using various character set (ISO8859-1~16, MSCP1250~8, KOI-8R).
8. Supporting CJK fonts and encodings.
You can add the feature of PDF creation by using HARU without understanding complicated internal structure of PDF.
Web site: http://libharu.org/wiki/Main_Page
What is new in version 2.1.0?
- Initial support for Alpha channel in RGB and palette-based PNG images.
- HPDF_GetTTFontDefFromFile() function.
- FreeBasic bindings. (Klaus Siebke)
- Python bindings. (Li Jun)
- U3D support. (Michail Vidiassov)
- New build system based on autotools.
The attached file contains the translation of the headers and examples to PowerBASIC. Preserve the directory structure when unzipping.
3 Mar 2009: Modified the examples to add the calling convention to the HPDF_Error_Handler callback procedure. Version 2.1.0 uses CDECL, whereas previous versions used STDCALL.