[poppler] Creating PDF with poppler ?

[Thomas Freitag]

FWIW, pdfextract and pdfmerge don't work if the or one of the PDFs are 
encrypted. Because they don't look at it, the resulting PDF(s) become 
unreadable.

Thomas

Am 20.12.2010 16:15, schrieb 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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