tclhpdf

tclhpdf is a Tcl interface to Haru Free PDF Libray.

tclhpdf is written in C and using TEA build system. So it may work with many platforms. I tested it on Windows2000 and tcl8.4/8.5.

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.

License †

• Haru Free PDF Library license is simillar to zlib and libpng's one.
• tclhpdf license is BSD license.

Version History †

• 2007-09-23
  First release 0.1.

Download †

• source
  http://reddog.s35.xrea.com/software/tclhpdf0.1.tar.gz
• win32 binary (static link with required libraries)
  http://reddog.s35.xrea.com/software/tclhpdf-0.1-win32-bin.zip

How to Use †

package require Hpdf
set pdf [hpdf::new]
set font [$pdf getFont "Helvetica"]

set page [$pdf addPage]
$page setSize b5 landscape
$page setFontAndSize $font 64
$page beginText
$page textOut 50 [expr [$page getHeight] - 80] "HELLO WORLD"
$page endText

$pdf saveToFile test.pdf

see also demo files...

Comment †

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