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pdfio - PDF Read/Write Library
pdfio is a simple C library for reading and writing PDF files. The primary goals of pdfio are:
- Read any PDF file with or without encryption or linearization
- Write PDF files without encryption or linearization
- Extract or embed useful metadata (author, creator, page information, etc.)
- "Filter" PDF files, for example to extract a range of pages or to embed fonts that are missing from a PDF
- Provide access to objects used for each page
pdfio is not concerned with rendering or viewing a PDF file, although a PDF RIP or viewer could be written using it.
Installing pdfio
pdfio comes with a portable makefile that will work on any POSIX-compliant system with zlib installed. To make it, run:
make all
To test it, run:
make test
To install it, run:
make install
If you want a shared library, run:
make all-shared
make install-shared
The default installation location is "/usr/local". Pass the prefix variable
to make to install it to another location:
make install prefix=/some/other/directory
The makefile installs the pdfio header to "${prefix}/include", the library to
"${prefix}/lib", the pkg-config file to "${prefix}/lib/pkgconfig", the man
page to "${prefix}/share/man/man3", and the documentation to
"${prefix}/share/doc/pdfio".
The makefile supports the following variables that can be specified in the make command or as environment variables:
AR: the library archiver (default "ar")ARFLAGS: options for the library archiver (default "cr")CC: the C compiler (default "cc")CFLAGS: options for the C compiler (default "")CODESIGN_IDENTITY: the identity to use when code signing the shared library on macOS (default "Developer ID")COMMONFLAGS: options for the C compiler and linker (typically architecture and optimization options, default is "-Os -g")CPPFLAGS: options for the C preprocessor (default "")DESTDIR" and "DSTROOT: specifies a root directory when installing (default is "", specify only one)DSOFLAGS: options for the C compiler when linking the shared library (default "")LDFLAGS: options for the C compiler when linking the test programs (default "")LIBS: library options when linking the test programs (default "-lz")RANLIB: program that generates a table-of-contents in a library (default "ranlib")prefix: specifies the installation directory (default "/usr/local")
Xcode Project
There is also an Xcode project ("pdfio.xcodeproj") you can use on macOS which generates a static library that will be installed under "/usr/local" with:
sudo xcodebuild install
You can reproduce this with the makefile using:
sudo make 'COMMONFLAGS="-Os -mmacosx-version-min=10.14 -arch x86_64 -arch arm64e"' install
Legal Stuff
pdfio is Copyright © 2021 by Michael R Sweet.
This software is licensed under the Apache License Version 2.0 with an (optional) exception to allow linking against GPL2/LGPL2 software. See the files "LICENSE" and "NOTICE" for more information.