Open-source pdf library in c

Question

Hi folks,

I am currently looking for open-source pdf generation (and manipulation) library written in C. I found libHaru which seems to be quite nice. I actually do not need all the features of pdf and libHaru seems to be very low-level. Are there any good alternatives you could recommend and that are maybe a little bit more abstract?

Update: I need this for some server-side document generation running in a small vm. Linux only would be fine.

Answer 1

Update: apparently these are all rendering libraries, not able to generate a new document. This answer does not adequately address the question.

KDE's Okular and the GNOME Evince multi-format readers both use the Poppler library, which itself is based on xpdf. I would start the search there.

I don't have any experience dealing with PDF in the open source space, so I can't offer much more than that.

Answer 2

I've used the Perl interface of PDFlib Lite with greate success.