PoDoFo is a C++ library to work with the PDF file format.
Questions tagged [podofo]
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Include OpenSSL in a CMakeList.txt file
I have a question for people who work with CMakeList.txt in C++. I want to use Podofo project (a project to parse & create pdf).
So my main function is simple as:
#include
#include
int main() {
PoDoFo::PdfMemDocument…

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PDF parsing in C++ (PoDoFo)
Hi so I'm trying to parse some text from some pdfs and I would like to use PoDoFo, now I have tried searching for examples of how to use PoDoFo to parse a pdf however all I can come up with is examples of how to create and write a pdf file which is…

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Copy Table of Contents from one PDF to another
You might find it as duplicate of Create a table of contents from a pdf file, but I didn't get any solution there. My scenario is like I am creating a PDF from existing PDF with some edits. That all works fine. My question is I want to add metadata,…

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Can I use C++ class members initialized in the initializer list, later in the list?
I am rewriting some code to eliminate global variables and made a class constructor/destructor handle cleanup of some third party library resources, but I am concerned about some code which initializes one member from another member in the class…

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What's the best approach for modifying PDF interactive form fields on iOS?
I've been doing some head banging on this one and solicit your advice.
I am building an app that as part of it's features is to present PDF forms; meaning display them, allow fields to be changed and save the modified PDF file back out. UIWebViews…

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Extract text from PDF document based on position c++
I am trying to extract a text from a PDF document based on it's coordinates, so I have came across two notions in the Adobe PDF Reference (chap. 5.3):
Text positioning operators
Text showing operators
For now I am interested in Td & Tm positioning…

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How can I use the PoDoFo library for annotating PDFs on iOS?
I would like to annotate PDFs within an iOS application. I came across the PoDoFo library, but I'm not sure how to use this in an iOS application.
Is it possible to use this library to annotate PDFs on iOS? If so, how?

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Preflight program for PDFs using PoDoFo or anything else open source?
I have to automate a preflight check on PDF documents. The preflight consists of:
Detect the resolution of images in an existing document and change them to 300dpi if they are not already at that resolution.
Detect the colorspace of images and if…

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How do you create a PDF with Annots?
I am trying to generate a PDF in code that has Annotations such as Widgets and Links. I can generate the PDF and modify the document info and the MediaBox of the page, but I can't figure out how to add to the Annotations. I try to add it to the…

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Copy only necessary objects from PDF file
I've got a huge PDF file with more than 100 pages and I want to separate them to single PDF files (containing only one page each). Problem is, that PoDoFo does not copy just the page, but the whole document because of the references (and so each of…

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Building PoDoFo library using CMake and MinGW
I am trying to build PoDoFo Library on my Windows Platform (for use as an API). It is done using CMake. The ReadMe file says the following. Unfortunately I am new to CMake and I can't make out much from it.
Building PoDoFo on Windows
CMake 2.6.x is…

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PoDoFo Extract text + coords from a pdf
I have been trying for a while to use the PoDoFo C++ library to extract text and lines (with their respective coordinates). But I have no way to do this.
This is what I have so far:
#include
#include
#include
#include…

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PoDoFo c++ PDF library, cyrilic characters
Sorry my English, i have a problem with cyrillic symbols in PDF.
I use PoDoFo library version 0.9.7 with fontconfig in Windows and Linux.
PdfMemDocument document;
document.Load("anyfile.pdf", true);
/***/
PdfFont *fontPtr = fontPtr =…

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Do C/C++ compilers typically remove duplicate libraries?
I'm compiling a Static (added static after reading comments) C++ library PoDoFo and some of its dependencies are optional, such as libJPEG, libTiff and libPNG. Though, a lot of the libraries have an option to depend on one another as well. For…

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Adding repetitive headers using the podofo library
Trying to add a text heading to a multi page PDF report created using the pofodo PDF library. Cant seem to find a function for doing this in the API documentation for pofodo. I'm trying to see if there is a function that can add a document wide…

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