Description:

a4pdf 0.2.0

A4PDF
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.
Features

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

Things the library does not do

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

API stability guarantees
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

Status
The basic functionality is there but it's not even close to feature
complete.

License

For personal and professional use. You cannot resell or redistribute these repositories in their original state.

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