Feature Comparison of PDFlib 8 Products

 

Feature

API functions and parameters

basic PDF generation

all except those listed below

inearized (Web-optimized) PDF

linearize

option in PDF_end_document()

1

optimize PDF (only relevant for inefficient client code and non-optimized imported PDF documents)

optimize

option in PDF_end_document()

1

Referenced PDF, PDF/X-5g and PDF/X-5pg

reference

option in PDF_begin_template_ext() and PDF_open_pdi_page()

1

Parsing PDF documents for Portfolio creation

password

option in PDF_add_portfolio_file()

1

PDF import (PDI)

all PDI functions

Query information from PDF with pCOS

all pCOS functions

Variable data processing and personalization with Blocks

all PPS functions for Block filling

PDFlib Block plugin for Acrobat

interactively create PDFlib Blocks for use with PPS

1Not available in PDFlib source code packages since PDI is required internally for this feature