libHaru is a free,

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for generating

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files for applications written in C or C++. It is not intended for reading and editing existing

files. It supports the following features: * Generating

files with lines, text, images. * Outline, text annotation, link annotation. * Compressing document with deflate-decode. * Embedding PNG,

Jpeg JPEG ( ) is a commonly used method of lossy compression for digital images, particularly for those images produced by digital photography. The degree of compression can be adjusted, allowing a selectable tradeoff between storage size and im ...

images. * Embedding Type1 font and

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font. * Creating

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files. * Using various

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s (ISO8859-1~16, MS CP1250~8, KOI8-R). * Supporting CJK fonts and encodings.

Supporting compilers and programming languages

libHaru is written in

ANSI C ANSI C, ISO C, and Standard C are successive standards for the C programming language published by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) and ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22/WG 14 of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and th ...

and should compile easily with any compliant C compiler. It tested in the following environment: *

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+ GCC ( Microsoft Windows). *

+ MinGW ( Microsoft Windows). * Microsoft VC++ ( Microsoft Windows). *

Borland C++ Borland C++ is a C and C++ IDE ( integrated development environment) for MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows. It was the successor to Turbo C++ and included a better debugger, the Turbo Debugger, which was written in protected mode DOS. Libraries ...

( Microsoft Windows). * GCC (

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, Solaris...). libHaru can be used as a static library or as a dynamic library. When you use it as static-library, it can be used by C and a C++. But when you use it as shared-library, it can be used by many development languages which support shared library. libharu provides bindings for programming languages: * C++ * C# *

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* Python *

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