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Open-Source C PDF Software

3 open-source PDF tools written in C.

C

libharu

Library

ANSI C library for generating PDFs from scratch: lines, text, and images (PNG/JPEG with CMYK/alpha/CCITT support); Type1/TrueType/CJK font embedding; outlines, text and link annotations; document encryption; Deflate compression; and PDF/A-1b compliant output.

C

PdfiumViewer

Library

WinForms PDF viewer control built on Google's PDFium, providing PdfDocument (document access), PdfRenderer (rendering with zoom/scroll), and PdfViewer (toolbar UI for printing and saving) for embedding PDF viewing in .NET applications.

DepreciatedStale
C

pdfroff

Cli

Wrapper script for `groff` that produces PDF documents, including support for a cover page and table of contents.