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...).
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