PDFLib Package (Pure Ring library for generating PDF files)

[Mahmoud Fayed]

Hello

PDFLib Package (Pure Ring library for generating PDF files)

URL: ringpackages/pdflib: PDF library for the Ring programming language

PDFLib is a pure Ring implementation for generating PDF 1.4 files with no external dependencies. Output is compatible with most PDF viewers including Adobe Acrobat, Foxit Reader, and web browsers.

Install:

ringpm install pdflib from ringpackages

features:

• Page management — multiple pages, sizes (A4, Letter, Legal, etc.), portrait/landscape orientation, margins
• Text — 14 PDF standard fonts (no font files needed; supplied by every PDF viewer), sizes, colors, left/center/right alignment
• Paragraphs — word-wrapping with configurable line height and alignment
• Arabic / Unicode text — any TTF can be loaded and embedded; full shaping and RTL pipeline for Arabic; direct glyph mapping for Latin extensions, Greek, Cyrillic, and CJK; complex scripts (Devanagari, Thai, etc.) are not supported
• Shapes — rectangles, circles, ellipses, lines, polygons; stroke, fill, or both
• Tables — headers, alternating row colors, borders, explicit or auto column widths, Arabic-aware cell rendering
• Lists — bullet lists and numbered lists
• Charts — bar charts and pie charts with legends
• Images — JPEG (DCTDecode), PNG (FlateDecode, all color types), BMP (24-bit); pure Ring parsers, no C library required
• Page numbers — configurable format and position
• Headers / Footers — per-document text with alignment
• Watermarks — rotated text at arbitrary angle
• Graphics state — save/restore, line width, cap, join, dash patterns
• Document properties — title, author, subject, keywords, creator

Screen Shot:

Greetings,

Mahmoud

[Mansour Ayouni]

Hello Mahmoud,

A huge amount of work !

I enjoyed reading the pdfwriter.ring file. I did not know it is actually possible to create PDF directly without a C or C++ library.

All the best,

Mansour

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[Mahmoud Fayed]

Hello Mansour

>> "A huge amount of work ! I enjoyed reading the pdfwriter.ring file. I did not know it is actually possible to create PDF directly without a C or C++ library."

You are welcome :D

Different types of files could be generated directly from Ring using file processing functions & knowing the file structure & binary representation

We used to use C/C++ libraries for different reasons

(1) The C/C++ libraries already exist (i.e. they are already developed & tested) so using them save time

(2) Using C/C++ libraries could be necessary for specific libraries to get acceptable performance (for example video/images processing)

But in general, many useful libraries could be written in Ring itself and satisfy the needs of many applications.

Our Recommended Approached?

==> BOTH OF THEM, i.e. we provide C/C++ extensions & Also pure Ring libraries because each way comes with it's advantages.

Greetings,

Mahmoud

[Youssef Saeed]

Hello Mahmoud,

Thank you so much for sharing such a powerful library.

Best regards,

Youssef

[Mahmoud Fayed]

Hello Youssef

>> "Thank you so much for sharing such a powerful library."

You are welcome :D

Greetings,

Mahmoud

[Bert Mariani]

Hello Mahmoud

Lots of fantastic packages that you are creating !!

Regards

Bert Mariani

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[Mahmoud Fayed]

Hello Bert

>> "Lots of fantastic packages that you are creating !!"

Thank you very much :D

Greetings,

Mahmoud