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PDF Library

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Introduction

With the PDF Library, you can generate PDF documents directly from the ST/X System without the use of any other software.
This can also be used as the basis of custom PDF applications. In addition, you can use this as a PDF printer plugin for your existing programms, or to generate reports and documentation in a professional way.

Motivation and Features

This framework was written due to a need for PDF report generation. In a first try, puplic available java tools where used. Although these did generate acceptable PDF documents, all of the available tools were very slow AND required huge amounts of memory (in addition to the need to provide and support an installable java runtime environment).

Advantages to other PDF generation schemes (based on java) are:



Framework Overview

On the low level, you can control the layout and look of every individual character you write to the PDF document. The PDF library is able to parse and care for font metric information; thus allowing for proper adjustment of text and tables.
On a higher level, easy to use wrappers provide easy generation of Tables, Images etc.

Parameters which can be controlled are (among others):

Licensing

This addOn package is licensed separately from the base ST/X system.
Please contact eXept for license information & pricing.


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