PDFlib 8 Windows COM/.NET Tutorial

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Date Changes Feb. 20, 2000 > Changes for PDFlib 3.0 Aug. 2, 1999 > Minor changes and additions for PDFlib 2.01 June 29, 1999 > Separate sections for the individual language bindings > Extensions for PDFlib 2.0 Feb. 1, 1999 > Minor changes for PDFlib 1.0 (not publicly released) Aug. 10, 1998 > Extensions for PDFlib 0.7 (only for a single customer) July 8, 1998 > First attempt at describing PDFlib scripting support in PDFlib 0.6 Feb. 25, 1998 > Slightly expanded the manual to cover PDFlib 0.5 Sept. 22, 1997 > First public release of PDFlib 0.4 and this manual
Index A Acrobat plugin for creating Blocks 277 Active Server Pages 32 Adobe Font Metrics (AFM) 118 advanced linebreaking 222 AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) 79 AFM (Adobe Font Metrics) 118 ArtBox 73 artificial font styles 155 AS/400 69 ascender 153 asciifile parameter 69 auto: see hypertextformat autocidfont parameter 144 automation 30 autosubsetting parameter 144 B backslash substitution 113 baseline compression 181 Basic Multilingual Plane 99 Big Five 107 bindings 27 BleedBox 73 Blocks 277 plugin 277 properties 279 BMP 99, 183 Byte Order Mark (BOM) 100, 111 bytes: see hypertextformat byteserving 81 C C binding 35 C++ and .NET 45 C++ binding 38 capheight 153 categories of resources 63 CCITT 183 CCSID 102 character metrics 153 character references 113, 114 characters and glyphs 99 characters per inch 154 Chinese 106, 107, 172 CIE L*a*b* color space 86 circle(): problems with VB 33 CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) configuration 105 custom fonts 174 standard fonts 105 Windows code pages 107 CLI 38 clip 73 clone page boxes 197 CMaps 105, 106 Cobol binding 29 code page: Microsoft Windows 1250-1258 101 COM (Component Object Model) binding 30 commercial license 12 content strings 108 content strings in non-Unicode capable languages 110 coordinate system 70 metric 70 top-down 72 copyoutputintent option 259 core fonts 135 CPI (characters per inch) 154 CropBox 73 current point 74 currentx and currenty parameter 153 custom encoding 103 D default coordinate system 70 defaultgray/rgb/cmyk color space 88 descender 153 DLL (dynamic link library) 31 downsampling 179 dpi calculations 179 E EBCDIC 69 ebcdic encoding 101 ebcdicutf8: see hypertextformat embedding fonts 143 encoding CJK 105 custom 103 fetching from the system 102 encryption 78 environment variable PDFLIBRESOURCE 66 error handling 59 errorpolicy parameter 190 escape sequences 113 EUDC (end-user defined characters) 117, 175 evaluation version 9 Index 321
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ABC PDFlib, PDFlib+PDI, PPS A libra
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Contents 0 Applying the PDFlib Lice
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5.2 Unicode Characters and Glyphs 1
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8.4 Matchboxes 243 8.4.1 Decorating
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0 Applying the PDFlib License Key R
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Licensing options. Different licens
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1 Introduction 1.1 Roadmap to Docum
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1.2 PDFlib Programming What is PDFl
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1.3 What’s new in PDFlib/PDFlib+P
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1.3.3 PDFlib Block Plugin and PDFli
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1.4 Features in PDFlib Table 1.1 li
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Table 1.1 Feature list for PDFlib t
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1.6 Additional Features in PPS Tabl
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2 PDFlib Language Bindings Note It
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2.3 COM Binding COM (Component Obje
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Supply your license key at runtime
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eference calls for an int type argu
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2.5 C++ Binding (This section is on
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2.7 .NET Binding Note Detailed info
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2.8 Objective-C Binding (This secti
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2.10 PHP Binding (This section is o
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2.12 REALbasic Binding Installing t
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2.14 Ruby Binding (This section is
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3 Creating PDF Documents 3.1 Genera
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Enable warning logging in the devel
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Table 3.1 Resource categories suppo
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myencoding=myencoding.enc . ICCProf
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2 GB file size limit: The PDF/A-1 s
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Visualizing coordinates. In order t
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Table 3.2 Minimum and maximum page
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Instead of creating a path object w
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Proxy for the target page. PDFlib c
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3.3.2 Protecting Documents with PDF
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3.4 Web-Optimized (Linearized) PDF
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Cookbook A full code sample can be
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HKS® colors. The HKS color system
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Use the file name determined in the
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3.6 Interactive Elements Cookbook C
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3.7 Georeferenced PDF Cookbook A fu
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Examples for projected coordinate s
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4 Unicode and Legacy Encodings This
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4.2 Single-Byte (8-Bit) Encodings 8
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exclam 33 0x0021 ... If no Unicode
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p.set_parameter("SearchPath", "/pat
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Objective-C > Python > REALbasic >
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If an escape sequence cannot be res
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Character references are not substi
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5 Font Handling 5.1 Font Formats 5.
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SING fonts usually contain only a s
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5.2 Unicode Characters and Glyphs 5
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complex script shaping and OpenType
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5.3.2 Converting Unicode Values to
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5.4 Loading Fonts 5.4.1 Selecting a
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Glyphid encoding. PDFlib supports e
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If you know the character code you
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TrueType and OpenType fonts. The fo
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.tte .ttf .otf .gai .afm .pfm .ttc
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The keywords are case-insensitive.
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Caveats. Note the following when wo
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Add Gaiji characters to a font. Thi
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Legal aspects of font embedding. It
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5.6 Querying Font Information info_
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Query the font-specific name of a g
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6 Text Output 6.1 Text Output Metho
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descender = p.info_font(font, "desc
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6.3 OpenType Layout Features Cookbo
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Table 6.1 Supported OpenType featur
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will prevent them from being replac
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6.4 Complex Script Output Cookbook
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Requirements for shaping. A font fo
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6.4.3 Complex Script Shaping The sh
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You can use the writingdirx keyword
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6.5 Chinese, Japanese, and Korean T
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The keepnative option is false by d
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The vert feature (vertical writing)
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7 Importing Images and PDF Pages PD
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String optlist13 = "OPI-1.3 { ALDIm
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GIF images. PDFlib supports all GIF
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channels which are identified by na
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In order to colorize an image with
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You can not re-use individual eleme
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Encrypted PDF documents without the
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Positioning an image in the box. We
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Fig. 7.4 The rotate option Fig. 7.5
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Fig. 7.8 Adjusting the page size. L
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8 Text and Table Formatting 8.1 Pla
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Generated output Option list for fi
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To illustrate the size of the match
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Long Distance Glider with sensation
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8.2 Multi-Line Textflows In additio
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normal text. Font, font size, and e
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leftindent = 15 parindent = 20 lead
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Explicitly setting options. Note th
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leftindent = &indent parindent = -
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To fold the famous rocket looper pr
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8.2.8 Controlling the standard Line
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Our paper planes are the ideal way
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French text. As a result, the guill
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String imageoptlist = "scale=2"; p.
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8.3 Table Formatting The table form
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tbl = p.add_table_cell(tbl, 1, 1, "
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In addition, we want the baseline o
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8.3.3 Table and Column Widths When
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if (tbl == -1) throw new Exception(
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esult = p.fit_table(tbl, llx, lly,
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Figure 8.38 shows how the Textflow
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Continue the table in the next fitb
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To increase the box height to match
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Fig. 8.43 Using the image matchbox
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9 The pCOS Interface The pCOS (PDFl
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10 PDF Versions and Standards 10.1
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Table 10.1 PDFlib features which re
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10.3 PDF/X for Print Production 10.
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Table 10.2 Operations which must be
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10.3.3 Output Intent and Standard O
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Table 10.5 Compatible PDF/X input l
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10.4.2 Generating PDF/A-conforming
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Additional requirements and restric
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While PDFlib can correct certain it
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Table 10.13 Predefined XMP schemas
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