What is this?
The Haru PDF library is a great way to programmatically produce PDFs from programs. However, in many instances the best way to present data produced is as a grid (or table). To manually create and setup such tables int Haru PDF library is of course possible but only painstakingly so.
This C/C++ library libhpdftbl will facilitate the creation of tables with the Haru PDF library as well as handling the pesky issue of character conversion needed between UTF-8 and the internal standard used by PDF and Lib Haru. In addition to mere normal table the library also supports the creation of forms where each cell has a label similar to "formal" paper forms. This is a great way to present structured data from a DB.
This library provides a flexible abstraction for creating advanced tables with a model-view-controller like setup. This allows an easy way to separate the layout of the table from the actual data in the table.
Features
- Supports both OSX/Linux builds and their different dynamic library variants
- Fully supports UTF-8 with automatic conversion to PDF character encoding
- Supports multiple paradigms for creating and populating tables
- Directly store value in table cell
- Create a data structure (2D-Array) with all data to be set at once
- Use callback populating functions with identifying tags for each table cell
- Allow table to be serialized to JSON and read back
- Options ot use labels in table cell to create forms
- Row and column spanning of cells
- Support for predefined widgets in table cell to illustrate values
- Complete control of background color, fonts, and frame colors
- Possible to use table themes that provides pre-defined look-and-feel for table
- Allows theme to be serialized to JSON and read beck
- Both dynamic and static library provided
- Last but not least; extensive documentation which is also included in the distribution in both PDF and HTML format.
Some Examples
- Note
- All code examples can be found in the
examples/directory and in the Examples section in the documentations.
Example 1 - Plain table with header
Example 2 - Table with cell labels
Example 2 - Plain table with row/column spanning and table title
Example 3 - Table with labels and cell widgets
