PDF4QT

(c) Jakub Melka 2018-2022

Mgr.Jakub.Melka@gmail.com

https://jakubmelka.github.io/

This software is consisting of PDF rendering library, and several applications, such as advanced document viewer, command line tool, and document page manipulator application. Software is implementing PDF functionality based on PDF Reference 2.0. It is written and maintained by Jakub Melka.

Software works on Microsoft Windows / Linux.

Software is provided without any warranty of any kind.

1. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

This software is based in part on the work of the Independent JPEG Group.

Portions of this software are copyright © 2019 The FreeType Project (www.freetype.org). All rights reserved.

2. LEGAL ISSUES

Both library and viewer uses more benevolent LGPL license, so it is more usable in commercial software, than GPL code only. Please see attached file - LICENSE.txt to see details. This software also uses several third party software, and user of this software must also respect licenses of third party libraries.

3. FEATURES

Software have following features (the list is not complete):

• multithreading support
• hardware accelerated rendering
• encryption
• color management
• optional content handling
• text layout analysis
• signature validation
• annotations
• form filling
• text to speech capability
• editation
• file attachments
• optimalization (compressing documents)
• command line tool
• audio book conversion
• internal structure inspector
• compare documents
• static XFA support (readonly, simple XFA only)
• electronically/digitally sign documents
• public key security encryption
• 3D PDF support (planned in year 2022)
• create fillable forms (planned in year 2023)
• watermarks / headers / footers (planned in year 2023)
• presentation application (planned in year 2023)

4. THIRD PARTY LIBRARIES

Several third-party libraries are used.

1. libjpeg, see https://www.ijg.org/
2. FreeType, see https://www.freetype.org/index.html, FTL license used
3. OpenJPEG, implementing Jpeg2000, see https://www.openjpeg.org/, 2-clause MIT license
4. Qt, https://www.qt.io/, LGPL license used
5. OpenSSL, https://www.openssl.org/, Apache 2.0 license
6. LittleCMS, http://www.littlecms.com/
7. zlib, https://zlib.net/

5. CONTRIBUTIONS

If you want to contribute to this project, it is required, that you (contributor) fill and digitally sign document Contributor License Agreement, because I want to have a freedom to do whatever I want with my library, without obligation to someone else. But I would strongly prefer, if you want to contribute, to contribute in a form of testing, consultation, giving advices etc. I would like to write this library entirely by myself.

6. COMPILING

Compilation on Windows and Linux is available. To compile this project, compiler supporting C++20 is needed. On Windows, you can use Visual Studio 2022 or mingw. On linux, only GCC 11.2.0 was tested.

Compilation instructions (both Windows/Linux)

1. Download Qt 6.4 or higher, and VCPKG package manager (https://vcpkg.io/en/index.html)
2. Open Qt Creator and configure the project
3. Build

CMAKE Compilation Options

Several important compilation options is available and should be set before building. On Windows, CMake can prepare Wix project to create *.msi installer package.

Option	Platform	Description
PDF4QT_INSTALL_MSVC_REDISTRIBUTABLE	Windows	Includes MSVC redistributable in installation
PDF4QT_INSTALL_PREPARE_WIX_INSTALLER	Windows	Prepare .msi installator using Wix installer
PDF4QT_INSTALL_DEPENDENCIES	Any	Install dependent libraries into installation directory
PDF4QT_INSTALL_QT_DEPENDENCIES	Any	Install Qt dependent libraries into installation directory

Following important variables should be set or checked before any attempt to compile this project:

Variable	Platform	Description
PDF4QT_QT_ROOT	Any	Qt installation directory
QT_CREATOR_SKIP_VCPKG_SETUP	Any	Enable or disable automatic vcpkg setup
CMAKE_PROJECT_INCLUDE_BEFORE	Any	Should be set to package manager auto setup
CMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE	Any	Should be set to toolchain

Sample setup on Windows

Following set of variables gives sample setup for MS Windows. It is minimal initial configuration to be able to built Debug build on MS Windows.

Key	Value
CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE	Debug
CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER	%{Compiler:Executable:Cxx}
CMAKE_C_COMPILER	%{Compiler:Executable:C}
CMAKE_GENERATOR	Ninja
CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH	%{Qt:QT_INSTALL_PREFIX}
CMAKE_PROJECT_INCLUDE_BEFORE	%{IDE:ResourcePath}/package-manager/auto-setup.cmake
CMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE	%{Qt:QT_INSTALL_PREFIX}/lib/cmake/Qt6/qt.toolchain.cmake
PDF4QT_QT_ROOT	C:/Programming/Qt/6.4.0/msvc2019_64
QT_QMAKE_EXECUTABLE	%{Qt:qmakeExecutable}

Tested Compilers - Windows

• Visual Studio 2022 (Microsoft Visual C++ Compiler 17.1)
• MinGW 11.2.0

Tested Compilers - Linux

• GCC 11.2.0

7. DISCLAIMER

I wrote this project in my free time. I hope you will find it useful!