FxPDF.com a free native Action Script PDF library is live
In August 2009 I wrote in my blog article how to create PDF documents without using server side components (eg. Adobe LiveCycle). Our company colleague Piotr Chruścielewski compiled native C++ libHaru together with Adobe Alchemy. We have been using it in one important project but we have noticed PDF documents failed from time to time. We have spent many frustrating hours looking for the reason. We improved alchemized libHaru but it only solved some of our problems. More problems we have solved than more problems we have found. The root cause of this weird behavior was on bugs on Alchemy. We do know that Alchemy is in early beta stage and there is no decision so far from Adobe what they want to do with this project in the future. Sad, again I see that another big company publishes something really interesting and promising but finally completely freezes developing without any notice to the developers community.
So, what we can do. We have started from scratch and we have rewritten all original libHaru code from C++ to Action Script. After one month work Piotr wrote full ported library in Action Script 3 and now we are ready to show the results in our new site fxpdf.com
Full source code for pdf examples is provided under right mouse click.
The same as the original libHary our fxpdf library can:
1. Generate PDF files with lines, text, images.
2. Supports outline, text annotation, link annotation.
3. Embed PNG, Jpeg images.
4. Emebed Type1 font and TrueType font.
5. Encrypt PDF files.
6. Use various character sets (ISO8859-1~16, MSCP1250~8, KOI8-R).
7. Supports CJK fonts and encodings.
We are sill working on document compression.
You can find compiled libHary library (swc) written in Action Script with examples very similar to original. We have decided not to publish all sources, but you can be sure it will happen soon. Simple, we need to improve our code source quality and decide where we will publish all source code and finally we will give you a chance to play with it as much you like it!
You will also find that ported libHaru library is only the beginning. Hope I will provide more and more good news to Flex community.
So, so far have fun with compiled swc and do some tests yourself.
If you have any comments, suggestions or anything else please feel free contact with us by writing mail to fxpdf ( at) fxpdf ( dot ) com
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