3-Heights™ PDF Creator Library

Overview
Functions
Advantages

Areas of Use
Technical Details


Overview

The 3-Heights™ PDF Creator Library is a component for creating documents compliant with PDF/A-1. The interface is based on an intelligible object model that is in turn based on the function scope for PDF/A-1. The interface is designed to enable easy extension.

It is continuously adapted to new requirements, for instance, further developments to the PDF/A standard. The component ensures compliance with all PDF/A rules such as formatting specifications, embedding fonts and colour profiles, etc.

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Functions

  • Paths
    • Single and multi-segment lines
    • Rectangle, circle, ellipses, Bezier curves
    • Fill, stroke, clip and combinations thereof
    • Line width, line cap, line join, line dash array and dash phase, miter limit
  • Text
    • Font size, character spacing, word spacing
    • Horizontal scaling, leading, rise
    • Standard Type 1 fonts, TrueType and OpenType fonts
    • Unicode characters
  • Colours
    • RGB and CMYK colors
    • ICC color profiles
  • Images
    • Bitonal: CCITT G3, G3-2D and G4, Flate, LZW, Packbits, uncompressed
    • 4-bit and 8-bit gray scale: Flate, LZW, Packbits, JPEG and JPEG-6 (8-bit only), uncompressed
    • RGB: Flate, JPEG and JPEG-6, LZW, Packbits, uncompressed
  • Transformations
    • Translation
    • Scaling
    • Skewing (horizontal, vertical)
    • Rotation
  • Pages
    • Size, rotation
  • Metadata
    • Document information: title, author, subject, keywords, application, custom entries

As part of the package, there are examples available, which illustrates the usage of all these functions. A resulting PDF document can be viewed here: Creator Sample Document.

PDF Creator Library


Advantages

Features and Benefits

The component is characterised by high performance and an extensive function catalog. It will be extended analog to the further development of the PDF Standard and will also support future formats such as PDF/A-2.

Performance Characteristics

  • Embedding of metadata
  • Platform-independent
  • Performance

Areas of Use

PDF Generation

Programmatic creation of any PDF/A-compliant document, whereby its content can stem from any source such as a database or webpage form.

Other Areas of Use

  • Creation of customised documents such as quotes, policies, mail merge, etc.
  • Mass production of invoices, reports, etc.
  • PDF creation "on-the-fly" in web server applications
  • "Save as PDF/A" function in application programs
  • Import images and text in PDF/A documents

Technical Details

Output Formats

  • PDF/A-1b

Compliance

  • Standards: ISO 19005-1 (PDF/A-1), ISO 32000 (PDF 1.7)

Operating Systems

  • Windows 2000, XP, Vista, 7
  • Windows Server 2003, 2008,
    2008 R2 – 32 and 64 Bit
  • HP-UX – 32 Bit and Itanium
  • IBM AIX – 32 and 64 Bit
  • Linux (SuSE and Red Hat on Intel)
  • Mac OS X
  • Sun Solaris

Programming Languages

All program libraries are written in efficient and thread-safe C++. A selection of the following programming languages is offered in the API:

  • C#, VB .NET, J# via .NET
  • Java via JNI
  • MS Visual Basic, Borland Delphi, MS Office products such as Access and C++ via COM
  • C and C++ via native C

Product Variants

  • API (Programming Interface)

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