pdf-create

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This is yet another PDF creation library, developed as part of the Signum!-Document-Toolbox. In some respect, it's a prototype for missing parts of the [pdf] crate.

Rationale

The main goal of this crate is the ability to use custom Type3 fonts to create a document. The main design philosophy is the idea of storing all data as rustic types and serializing them through a trait similar to the std::fmt API.

As a PDF is fundamentally a list of objects that are linked using their IDs and serializing some struct requires the referenced IDs to be known, this crate has a high-level and a low-level component that represent the document before and after assigning global IDs.

Features

Basic Usage

This example creates a single empty A4 page with no text:

```rust use chrono::Local; use pdf_create::{ common::Point, common::{PdfString, Rectangle}, high::{Handle, Page, Resources}, };

// Create a new handle let mut doc = Handle::new();

// Set some metadata doc.info.author = Some(PdfString::new("Xiphoseer")); doc.info.creator = Some(PdfString::new("SIGNUM (c) 1986-93 F. Schmerbeck")); doc.info.producer = Some(PdfString::new("Signum! Document Toolbox")); doc.info.title = Some(PdfString::new("EMPTY.SDO")); doc.info.moddate = Some(Local::now()); doc.info.creationdate = Some(Local::now());

// Create a page let page = Page { media_box: Rectangle { ll: Point { x: 0, y: 0 }, ur: Point { x: 592, y: 842 }, }, resources: Resources::default(), contents: Vec::new(), };

// Add the page to the document doc.pages.push(page);

// Write the PDF to the console let stdout = std::io::stdout(); let mut stdolock = stdout.lock(); doc.write(&mut stdolock)?; ```

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