Open source PDF library for C C application

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I want to be able to generate PDF output from my  native  C   Windows application  Are there any free open source libraries available to do this   I looked at the answers to this question  but they mostly relate to  Net

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LibHaru     Haru is a free  cross platform    open-sourced software library for   generating PDF written in ANSI-C  It   can work as both a static-library   a     lib  and a shared-library   so     dll     Didn t try it myself  but maybe it can help you

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jagpdf seems to be one of them  It is written in C   but provides a C API

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http   wxcode sourceforge net docs wxpdfdoc   Works with the wxWidgets library

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Try wkhtmltopdf    Software features  Cross platform  Open source  Convert any web pages into PDF documents using webkit  You can add headers and footers  TOC generation  Batch mode conversions  Can run on Linux server with an XServer  the X11 client libs must be installed   Can be directly used by PHP or Python via bindings to libwkhtmltox

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It depends a bit on your needs  Some toolkits are better at drawing  others are better for writing text  Cairo has a pretty good for drawing  it support a wide range of screen and file types  including pdf   but it may not be ideal for good typography

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muPdf library looks very promising  http   mupdf com   There is also an open source viewer  http   blog kowalczyk info software sumatrapdf free-pdf-reader html

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If you re brave and willing to roll your own  you could start with a PostScript library and augment it to deal with PDF  taking advantage of Adobe s free online PDF reference

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PDF Hummus  see for http   pdfhummus com  - contains all required features for manipulation with PDF files except rendering

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LibHaru seems to be used by many    A non-open source approach is  PDF Creator Pilot which provides more language options  including C    C   Delphi  ASP  ASP NET  VB  VB NET  VBScript  PHP and Python

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I worked on a project that required a pdf report  After searching for online I found the PoDoFo library  Seemed very robust  I did not need all the features  so I created a wrapper to abstract away some of the complexity  Wasn t too difficult  You can find the library here   http   podofo sourceforge net   Enjoy

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