This is a library for generating PDF files. It aims to be very low level. It does not have its own document model, it merely exposes PDF primitives directly.
- Fully color managed using LittleCMS 2
- All fonts are embedded as subsets
- Not implemented in C
- Provides a plain C API for easy integration into scripting languages
- Ships with a
ctypes
Python binding - Minimal dependencies
- Reading PDF files
- Modifying PDF files
- Supporting any other backend than PDF
- Parsing any vector data files like SVG
- Data conversions in general (apart from colorspaces)
- Supporting PDF versions earlier than 1.7
Until 1.0 there is no guarantee of any kind. Anything can be changed. However we try not to change things without a good reason. Once 1.0 happens, we aim to provide the following:
- The plain C is both API and ABI stable
- The internal C++ implementation "API" is not stable in any way
- Only C symbols are exported so in order to get to the C++ API you have to change build settings. If you do that, there is no stability guarantee.
- The Python API shall be stable as well
The basic functionality is there but it's not even close to feature complete.