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1.4 Features in PDFlib/PDFlib+PDI/PPS 7Table 1.1 lists the major PDFlib features for generating and importing PDF. New or improvedfeatures in PDFlib 7 are marked.Table 1.1 Feature list for PDFlib, PDFlib+PDI, and the PDFlib Personalization Server (PPS)topicPDF outputPDF flavorsPDF inputBlocksGraphicsFontsText outputInternationalizationImagesfeaturesPDF documents of arbitrary length, directly in memory (for Web servers) or on disk fileSuspend/resume and insert page features to create pages out of orderPDF 1.3 – 1.7 (Acrobat 4 – 8), Tagged PDF, PDF/A, PDF/XLinearized (web-optimized) PDF for byteserving over the WebImport pages from existing PDF documents (only PDFlib+PDI and PPS)pCOS interface for querying details about imported PDF documents 1Delete redundant objects (e.g. identical fonts) across multiple imported PDF documents 1Workarounds for malformed PDF input 1PDF personalization with PDFlib blocks for text, image, and PDF data (only PPS)PDFlib Block plugin for creating PDFlib blocks interactively in Adobe AcrobatTextflow blocks can be linked so that one block holds the overflow text of a previous blockList of PANTONE and HKS spot color names integrated in the Block plugin 1Common vector graphics primitives: lines, curves, arcs, rectangles, etc.Smooth shadings (color blends), pattern fills and strokesTransparency (opacity) and blend modesLayers: optional page content which can selectively be displayed; annotations can be placed on layers 1 ;layers can be locked 1TrueType (TTF and TTC) and PostScript Type 1 fonts (PFB and PFA, plus LWFN on the Mac)OpenType fonts (TTF, OTF) with PostScript or TrueType outlinesAFM and PFM PostScript font metrics filesDirectly use fonts which are installed on the Windows or Mac host systemFont embedding for all font types; subsetting for Type 3 1 , TrueType and OpenType fontsUser-defined (Type 3) fonts for bitmap fonts or custom logosText output in different fonts; underlined, overlined, and strikeout textGlyphs in a font can be addressed by numerical value, Unicode value, or glyph name 1Kerning for improved character spacingArtificial bold and italic font styles 1Proportional widths for standard CJK fontsDirect glyph selection for advanced typography 1Configurable replacement of missing glyphs 1Unicode strings for page content, interactive elements, and file names; UTF-8, UTF-16, and UTF-32 1 formats,little- and big-endianSupport for a variety of 8-bit and legacy CJK encodings (e.g. SJIS; Big5) 1Fetch code pages from the system (Windows, IBM eServer iSeries and zSeries)Standard CJK fonts and CMaps for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean text 1Custom CJK fonts in the TrueType and OpenType formats 1Embed Unicode information in PDF for correct text extraction in AcrobatEmbed BMP, GIF, PNG, TIFF, JPEG, JPEG2000, and CCITT raster imagesAutomatic detection of image file formats (file format sniffing)20 Chapter 1: Introduction

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