fpc/packages/fcl-pdf
michael c822e07f91 * Some minor changes:
- Added some utility methods: TPDFPage.SetLineStyle, TPDFDocument.Reset
  - Expose PDFTomm, PDFtoCM, PDFtoInches
  

git-svn-id: trunk@34804 -
2016-11-06 10:36:20 +00:00
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examples * Patch from Graeme Geldenhuys to add rotation support 2016-11-04 19:59:28 +00:00
src * Some minor changes: 2016-11-06 10:36:20 +00:00
tests * Further fixes/improvements from Graeme Geldenhuys: 2016-10-27 18:34:29 +00:00
utils * Patch from Graeme Geldenhuys to remove unneeded tools 2016-06-30 17:47:26 +00:00
fpmake.pp atari: disabled some more packages 2016-10-04 10:14:58 +00:00
Makefile * regenerated makefiles with latest fpcmake 2016-06-18 01:00:45 +00:00
Makefile.fpc
readme.txt

The fcl-pdf package contains a PDF generating unit fppdf that does not depend
on any external libraries.

The PDF generator has the following features:
- Support for basic shapes.
- Support for basic line styles.
- Dictionary support.
- Multi-page PDF.
- Image support.
- TTF Font support.
- Font embedding.
- Unicode font support.
- Stream Compression.
- Image embedding.
- Several paper types.
- Portrait/Landscape.
- Support for multiple units.
- Rotation matrix system.
- PDF creator information.
- Output validates by several PDF validators.

Todo:
- Implement TFPCustomCanvas descendent (TPDFCanvas) that draws on a PDF.
- Partial embedding of (unicode) fonts for smaller PDFs.
- On windows, allow to use native font mechanisms for extracting info from TTF files.

Optionally:
- PDF Forms.
- Archive format.
- Signature.
- File attachments.