[poppler] Creating PDF with poppler ?

[Thomas Freitag]

Hi all!

How I promised long time ago, here now a patch for the poppler writing 
routines and some new helper function, together with two small sample 
programs using them.

In merging the writer routines I encountered, that some of the problems 
I found are solved in the meantime. So, where they are solved, I left 
the code as it is, but manually merging could always cause new problems.

The main changes beside solving some smaller problems are that I make 
the most writer routines static, and that I add a new parameter 
numoffset. The reason for this is the small sample program pdfmerge, 
which merges several PDF to one bigger PDF, so there I have no PDFDoc 
object for the resulting PDF, and I have to change the num values of 
each single PDF.

The other small sample program I add is to do the other way round: 
Extract one or more pages from a multi page PDF to several one page PDFs.

I'm not an expert in configure, so I just attach the single main cc's. 
Building the programs is simular topdftotext, they need parseargs and 
the poppler library. So I would appreciate any help on this.

I think the patch together with the samples could make it easier to file 
samples for bugs, i.e. extracting only the page or pages which causes a 
regression, or merge several sample PDFs which causing regressions.

What are You thinking about it? Helpful or not?

Best regards,
Thomas

Am 28.10.2010 15:49, schrieb Jennings Jay:
>
> Hi poppler folks,
>
> I am looking for a C++ example that creates PDF files using the 
> poppler library.  I have poppler compiled (Windows XP / Visual Studio 
> 2008) and I have working examples that **read** a PDF, but I don't see 
> anything in the poppler codebase, documentation, or mailing-list 
> archives to show how to **create** a PDF.  My real goal is to create a 
> Geospatial PDF, but any kind of simple PDF creation example would 
> probably help a lot.   Thanks for the pointer.
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