On the PDF back end

[Graham Douglas]

Hi All

 

I just discovered Lout and am

looking forward to getting to know it.

 

A big thanks to Dr Jeff Kingston for

writing it and thanks too to Uwe for

porting to Win32.

 

I saw a few posts about the PDF

back end. There is a *superb* PDF C

library called PDFlib at

www.pdflib.com

which *might* be a starting

point for a full PDF back end.

 

The library documentation

is of the very highest quality.

 

The license issue would need

looking at carefully

 

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From pdflib.com:

 

A commercial PDFlib license is required

for all uses of the software which are not

explicitly covered by the Aladdin Free Public License

(see bottom), for example:

 

> shipping a commercial product

which contains PDFlib
> distributing (free or commercial) software

based on PDFlib when the source code is

not made available
> implementing commercial Web services

with PDFlib

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Full details on the site. Whether PDFlib is of any

interest to anyone, I don't know but I thought

I'd mention it ;-)

 

By the way, two questions if I may:

 

1. Can you import EPS files with binary

previews (TIFF on the PC) or do you

need to read/process the 30-byte

binary header?

 

2. Does it require use of the

libtiff library (or similar) to be

able to import TIFF files by

converting them to EPS?

 

Again thanks Jeff for making

Lout available.

 

Best wishes

 

 

Graham Douglas