12Binding for libHaru, a pdf creation library.

libHaru is a free, cross platform, open source library for generating PDF files.

Overview

The basic entities libHaru provides you with to create a pdf document are:

• Text
• Images
• Lines and curves
• Outlines: A list of nodes that outline the structuer of a document. They can have a destionation set to them, so they act as links to i.e. chapter titles. A table of contents is an example for an outline.
• Annotations:
  • Text annotations ( sticky notes )
  • Link annotations ( a hyperlink to a destination in the current doc )
  • URI link annotations ( a hyperlink to a web page )
• Destinations: A view to a page that is displayed if
  • An link annotation that is associatd with it is clicked
  • An outline item ( i.e. table of contents ) that is associated with it is clicked.

Related to text are

• Fonts and font-size
• Encoding Encoding is a strong feature in libHaru. It supports Korian, Japanese and Chinese encoding sets.

Note: The encoding support in the falcon module is weak due to my lack of expertise. But I will catch up eventually :)

The Tutorial will show you how to create pdfs right away.

Contents of this module

• 12.1Tutorial
• 12.2Class Doc - Used to operate on a document object.
• 12.3Class Font - todo.
• 12.4Class Page - Used to manipulate an individual page.
• 12.5Enum TextAlignment - Specifies the text alignment to be used.