[Lispweb] PDF

[Marc Battyani]

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From: "Reini Urban" <rurban at x-ray.at>
To: <lispweb at red-bean.com>
Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 20:35
Subject: Re: [Lispweb] PDF


> Marc Battyani schrieb:
> > From: "Vladimir Tsichevski" <wowa at jet.msk.su>
> > > See http://www.fastio.com/ for the ANSI C library for creating PDF
> > > files (you only have to write the glue code for List, of course :-).
> >
> > I have downloaded it but:
> > It's a commercial product. (and not really cheap)
> > It's in C
> > It's rather big. (it's more than a PDF only lib)
>
> I used to use this with perl and php:
>
> * ghostscript (AFPL or GNU)
>   GNU has the free license, AFPL license is not that bad either.
>   don't know how good the API for FFI's is.
>   I drive it via command-line interfaces: ps2pdf
>   http://www.cs.wisc.edu/%7Eghost/doc/gnu/6.52/Ps2pdf.htm
>
> * http://www.ps2pdf.com/ is the commercial version of the free ps2pdf
version
>   with GNU Ghostscript.
>
> * php_pdf.dll/libpdf.so:  http://php.net/pdf
>   based on PDFLib, http://www.pdflib.com/pdflib/
>   non-free for commercial use
>
> * php_cpdf.dll/libcpdf.so: http://php.net/cpdf
>   based on ClibPDF, http://www.fastio.com/
>   also non-free for commercial use. very similar to thomas merz´ pdflib
>
> And of course the Adobe Distiller which I don't use.

I stopped looking at libraries and I'm rather reading the PDF Reference
manual.
>From what I see I'm sure that it is very simple indeed. (or I have missed a
point)

Marc