cpdf-source/README.md
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cpdf-source
===========
Free for non-commercial use. See LICENSE for details. Copyright Coherent
Graphics Ltd 2022.
This code builds two things:
a) The CPDF PDF Command Line Tools, which are a popular commercial command line
tool for editing PDF files.
b) cpdf as an OCaml library, for which presently-scanty documentation is here:
[https://coherentpdf.com/cpdf/](https://coherentpdf.com/cpdf/)
Prerequisites to build
----------------------
The OCaml compiler
[http://ocaml.org](http://ocaml.org)
The camlpdf library
[http://github.com/johnwhitington/camlpdf](http://www.github.com/johnwhitington/camlpdf)
The ocamlfind library manager
[http://projects.camlcity.org/projects/findlib.html](http://projects.camlcity.org/projects/findlib.html)
If you are using the OPAM package manager:
[http://opam.ocamlpro.com](http://opam.ocamlpro.com)
these can be installed by:
```
opam install camlpdf
```
To build
--------
If downloading from Github, obtain the correct source. This means choosing the
tag for a particular version, such as "v2.5". The head of the master branch is
unstable.
1. Type `make` to make the cpdf executable and the library
2. Type `make install` to install the OCaml cpdf library.
The `cpdf` executable should be manually placed somewhere suitable.
Alternatively, the library and command-line binary can be installed by
```
opam install cpdf
```
Documentation
-------------
The file `cpdfmanual.pdf` in this folder is the documentation for the command
line tools. The documentation for the cpdf OCaml library is in `doc/html/cpdf/`
in this folder once the library has been built.
C API
-----
A C interface to cpdf is available, in source and binary form:
[https://github.com/johnwhitington/cpdflib-source](https://github.com/johnwhitington/cpdflib-source)
[https://github.com/coherentgraphics/cpdflib-binary](https://github.com/coherentgraphics/cpdflib-binary)
Python API
----------
A Python interface to cpdf is available:
[https://pypi.org/project/pycpdflib/](https://pypi.org/project/pycpdflib/)
Contact
-------
[contact@coherentgraphics.co.uk](mailto:contact@coherentgraphics.co.uk)