DLI Implementation and Reference Guide - Datalogics

1.6 DLI Implementation and Reference Guide
Chapter 1: "Getting Started" (This chapter) This chapter introduces the Adobe
PDF Library and DLI, including an overview of page creation, and describes the
contents of this book, including enhancements in new releases of DLI.
Chapter 2: "Initializing and Terminating the Library" describes
initialization and termination of the Adobe PDF Library.
Chapter 3: "Beginning and Ending a Document" describes all of the
methods used to begin and end a document.
Chapter 4: "Fonts" discusses creation and arrangement of fonts.
Chapter 5: "Multibyte Text Work" discusses the DLI methods available for
creating and manipulating multibyte text.
Chapter 6: "Working with Pages" DLI assumes that pages will be added to the
end of the document only. A page is represented by a data structure named
DLPDFPAGE. This chapter explains the Page Interface and defines the calls available at
this level.
Chapter 7: "Containers within Pages" describes containers within pages, and
provides examples of various applications.
Chapter 8: "Working with Content" The Content Interface contains the bulk of
the interface. At this level, you make marks on paper. Those marks may be on a Page
or on a Forms XObject. They may be text, line drawings or images. A content element
is represented by the structure DLPDFCONTENT. This chapter explains the Content
Interface and defines the calls available at this level.
Chapter 9: "Working with Forms" Forms XObjects are represented via the
structure DLPDFFORM. This chapter explains forms, and defines the calls available.
Chapter 10: "Displaying Line Drawings" describes line drawings and the
different approaches, including directly-drawn and path-drawn methods.
Chapter 11: "Image Display" describes images as a predefined collection of
shapes and colors.