Haru Free PDF Library

What is Haru Free PDF Library?

HARU is a free, cross platform, open-sourced software library for generating PDF. It supports the following features.

1. Generating PDF files with lines, text, images.
2. Outline, text annotation, link annotation.
3. Compressing document with deflate-decode.
4. Embedding PNG, Jpeg images.
5. Embedding Type1 font and TrueType font.
6. Creating encrypted PDF files.
7. Using various character set (ISO8859-1~16, MSCP1250~8, KOI-8R).
8. Supporting CJK fonts and encodings.

You can add the feature of PDF creation by using HARU without understanding complicated internal structure of PDF.

Supporting platforms

HARU is written in ANSI-C and should compile easily with any compliant C compiler.
I tested HARU in the following environment and make files for these environments are included in a package.

1. Cygwin + GCC (Microsoft Windows)
2. Cygwin + MinGW (Microsoft Windows)
3. Microsoft VC++ (Microsoft Windows)
4. Borland C++ (Microsoft Windows)
5. GCC (Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD...)

SITE:http://libharu.org/wiki/Main_Page