Pdflib api reference

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PDFlib, PDFlib+PDI, PPS
A library for generating PDF on the fly
PDFlib 9.0.1
API Reference
For use with C, C++, Cobol, COM, Java, .NET, Objective-C,
Perl, PHP, Python, REALbasic/Xojo, RPG, Ruby

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iSeries, and zSeries are trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation. ActiveX, Microsoft, 
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company product and service names may be trademarks or service marks of others.
PANTONE® colors displayed in the software application or in the user documentation may not match 
PANTONE-identified standards. Consult current PANTONE Color Publications for accurate color. PANTONE® 
and other Pantone, Inc. trademarks are the property of Pantone, Inc. © Pantone, Inc., 2003.
Pantone, Inc. is the copyright owner of color data and/or software which are licensed to PDFlib GmbH to 
distribute for use only in combination with PDFlib Software. PANTONE Color Data and/or Software shall 
not be copied onto another disk or into memory unless as part of the execution of PDFlib Software.
PDFlib contains modified parts of the following third-party software:
ICClib, Copyright © 1997-2002 Graeme W. Gill
GIF image decoder, Copyright © 1990-1994 David Koblas
PNG image reference library (libpng), Copyright © 1998-2012 Glenn Randers-Pehrson
Zlib compression library, Copyright © 1995-2012 Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler
TIFFlib image library, Copyright © 1988-1997 Sam Leffler, Copyright © 1991-1997 Silicon Graphics, Inc.
Cryptographic software written by Eric Young, Copyright © 1995-1998 Eric Young ([e-mail])
Independent JPEG Group’s JPEG software, Copyright © 1991-1998, Thomas G. Lane
Cryptographic software, Copyright © 1998-2002 The OpenSSL Project (www.openssl.org)
Expat XML parser, Copyright © 1998, 1999, 2000 Thai Open Source Software Center Ltd
ICU International Components for Unicode, Copyright © 1995-2012 International Business Machines Corpo-
ration and others
Reference sRGB ICC color profile data, Copyright (c) 1998 Hewlett-Packard Company
PDFlib contains the RSA Security, Inc. MD5 message digest algorithm.

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