PoDoFo 0.4.0 review

PoDoFo library is a free, portable C++ library

License: LGPL (GNU Lesser General Public License) File size: 0K Developer: Dominik Seichter

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PoDoFo library is a free, portable C++ library. PoDoFo library can parse existing PDF files and create new ones from scratch.

PoDoFo is a library to work with the PDF file format. The name comes from the first letter of PDF (Portable Document Format). A few tools to work with PDF files are already included in the PoDoFo package.

The PoDoFo library is a free, portable C++ library which includes classes to parse PDF files and modify their contents into memory. The changes can be written back to disk easily. The parser can also be used to extract information from a PDF file (for example the parser could be used in a PDF viewer).

Besides parsing PoDoFo includes also very simple classes to create your own PDF files. All classes are documented so it is easy to start writing your own application using PoDoFo.

As of now PoDoFo is only available for Unix platforms. But the code is portable C++ and a Windows version will be available soon.

Requirements:
fontconfig
freetype2
zlib
libjpeg

What's New in This Release:
This version has been ported to Mac OS X in addition to the current Linux and Windows versions.
Among the many new features is the support for generating Web optimized (so called linearized) PDF files from any PDF document.
XRef tables can be written as XRef streams now, which does result in smaller files.
Outline support has been completed in this release.
Garbage collection of unused objects in the PDF file is now possible.