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Haiku PDF Writer driver
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 Published by Philippe Houdoin
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 Date Posted:   September 4th, 2001
 Last Updated:   July 22nd, 2003
 License: BSD/MIT
 Downloads: 27,153 total; 104 recently
 Page Views: 115,650 total
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About Haiku PDF Writer driver:
A PDF printer driver for BeOS.

Print in PDF from BeOS into a file or to any PDF-aware printers.
This driver is now part of Haiku's printing kit sub-project.
Feel free to send any feedback.

Credits goes to...

Installation:

  1. Expand the zip file somewhere
  2. Open the newly created folder
  3. Run the Install script to install the driver
These steps are needed only if you don't have already set up a PDF Writer spooler:
  1. Open the Printers preference panel
  2. Click Add button
  3. Choose local printer (Network printing is untested, feedback welcome!)
  4. Type a name for your new PDF Writer spooler
  5. Select PDF Writer as kind
  6. Select port to output PDF (Print to file to generate PDF files)
  7. Click Add button
  8. Click Ok button
  9. Enjoy!

Latest Version
   
Details about this version:
PDFlib BeOS port source code is no more included to reduce file size.
See separate PDFlib BeOS port BeBits page for PDFlib source code.

New:

  • Updated to PDFLib Lite 5.0.0
  • Static linked to PDFLib: no more lib version conflicts, no dependency!
  • Basic support for stroke/fill opacity (aka transparency)
  • Image caching: should help reduce output size
  • Cleaner Advanced Settings window
  • Expanded/collapsed bookmarks support
  • Link destination added
  • Error/log window added
  • Some bugs fixed

Known bugs / currents limitations:

  • No security settings support.
  • Clipping to inverse BPicture not supported.
  • Please report! :)


 
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