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libHaru is a free, open-source, cross platform library for generating PDF files for applications written in C or C++. It is not intended for reading and editing existing PDF files.

It supports the following features:

• Generating PDF files with lines, text, images.
• Outline, text annotation, link annotation.
• Compressing document with deflate-decode.
• Embedding PNG, Jpeg images.
• Embedding Type1 font and TrueType font.
• Creating encrypted PDF files.
• Using various character sets (ISO8859-1~16, MS CP1250~8, KOI8-R).
• Supporting CJK fonts and encodings.

Supporting compilers and programming languages

libHaru is written in ANSI C and should compile easily with any compliant C compiler.

It tested in the following environment:

• Cygwin + GCC (Microsoft Windows).
• Cygwin + MinGW (Microsoft Windows).
• Microsoft VC++ (Microsoft Windows).
• Borland C++ (Microsoft Windows).
• GCC (Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, Solaris, MorphOS...).

libHaru can be used as a static library or as a dynamic library.

When you use it as static-library, it can be used by C and a C++. But when you use it as shared-library, it can be used by many development languages which support shared library.

libharu provides bindings for programming languages:

• C++
• C#
• Delphi
• FreeBASIC
• Free Pascal
• Python
• Ruby
• Visual Basic
• PHP
• Perl
• Lua
• JavaScript

References

1. libHaru
2. libHaru on SourceForge.net
3. "Open source PDF library for C/C++ application?". Retrieved 2010-01-20.
4. PocoPDF
5. Binding for PHP
6. Binding for PERL
7. LuaHPDF - binding for Lua
8. hpdf.js

• Free software programmed in C
• PDF software