LibHaru explained

libHaru
Latest Release Version:	2.4.3
Latest Release Date:	2022-10-14
Latest Preview Version:	2.4.2
Latest Preview Date:	2022-11-09
Programming Language:	ANSI C
Operating System:	Cross-platform
Genre:	Software Library
License:	ZLIB/LIBPNG Licence

libHaru is a free, open-source, cross platform library for generating PDF files for applications written in C or C++.^{[1] [2] [3]} It is not intended for reading and editing existing PDF files.

It supports the following features:

• Generating PDF files with lines, text, images.
• Outline, text annotation, link annotation.
• Compressing document with deflate-decode.
• Embedding PNG, Jpeg images.
• Embedding Type1 font and TrueType font.
• Creating encrypted PDF files.
• Using various character sets (ISO8859-1~16, MS CP1250~8, KOI8-R).
• Supporting CJK fonts and encodings.

Supporting compilers and programming languages

libHaru is written in ANSI C and should compile easily with any compliant C compiler.

It tested in the following environment:

• Cygwin + GCC (Microsoft Windows).
• Cygwin + MinGW (Microsoft Windows).
• Microsoft VC++ (Microsoft Windows).
• Borland C++ (Microsoft Windows).
• GCC (Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, Solaris, MorphOS...).

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++^[4]
• C#
• Delphi
• FreeBASIC
• Free Pascal
• Python
• Ruby
• Visual Basic
• PHP^[5]
• Perl^[6]
• Lua^[7]
• JavaScript^[8]

Notes and References

1. http://libharu.org/ libHaru
2. http://libharu.sourceforge.net/ libHaru on SourceForge.net
3. Web site: Open source PDF library for C/C++ application? . 2010-01-20.
4. http://pocoproject.org/blog/?p=117 PocoPDF
5. http://pecl.php.net/haru Binding for PHP
6. http://search.cpan.org/~butilw/PDF-Haru-1.00/lib/PDF/Haru.pm Binding for PERL
7. http://luahpdf.colloquiki.com/ LuaHPDF - binding for Lua
8. https://github.com/manuels/hpdf.js hpdf.js