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#1 2014-11-01 08:39:06
- kirchfritz
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PDF Engine with Freepascal/Lazarus?
Can I use PDF Engine with Freepascal/Lazarus?
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#2 2014-11-01 16:51:23
- RalfS
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Re: PDF Engine with Freepascal/Lazarus?
In Win32/64, but not in Linux etc.
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#3 2014-11-02 08:34:12
Re: PDF Engine with Freepascal/Lazarus?
Under Lazarus, we may let TPdfDocument compiles, using the LCL instead of VCL.
But we would have to get rid of a lot of "Windowisms", e.g. for font embedding and so on.
TPdfDocumentGdi would need the ability to create an enhanced metafile - and I was not able to find a TMetaFile/TMetaFileCanvas emulation in LCL.
Even the component documented at http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/TMet … fileCanvas seems to have been removed.
So a lot of works may be needed...
A better alternative under Linux may be to use a third party library, like http://libharu.org/
Encapsulating it may be easier than rewriting all the low level graphical stuff in cross-platform pascal.
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