Re: [Boost-users] Building PDF with Open Source Solution

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Building PDF with Open Source Solution
From: Júlio Hoffimann (julio.hoffimann_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-06-07 13:09:27

2012/6/7 John Maddock <boost.regex_at_[hidden]>

> This is slightly off topic.
>>
>> I have a question how pdf's are build within the boost build system.
>> As far as I could figure it out the build system uses a proprietary
>> solution called RenderX XEP or so. I'm wondering if there are open
>> source solutions out there that could be used to generate boost's
>> documentation as pdf files?
>>
>
> Apache FOP is the only open source solution I know of:
> http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/**fop/ <http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/>
>
> Unfortunately it still hasn't got past a 1.0 release, and last I checked
> it's rendering was still far inferior to XEP - basically building with XEP
> is pretty much a "fire and forget" process, while building with FOP quite
> often either mangles the docs or uses rather unfortunate pagination choices
> :(
>
> John.
>

I don't know if is in the same category of software you're discussing, but
i found a library sometime ago for generating PDFs from C++:
http://libpdfxx.sourceforge.net/doc/index.html

Seems it's not maintained for a while, though.

Regards,
Júlio.