The Cookbooks published by PDFlib GmbH are a collection of source code which facilitate the daily work with PDFlib products. They contain a steadily growing collection of stand-alone topics that help users in getting their job done with PDFlib products. All in all, the Cookbooks help you get started faster, and get your job done in less time.

The Cookbook topics are written in the Java language, but can easily be ported to other programming languages since the PDFlib API is almost identical for all supported language bindings. For some topics, code in other languages like PHP or C is provided. Each Cookbook topic denotes the PDFlib product required for its execution.

The PDFlib Cookbook

The PDFlib Cookbook contains topics with sample code related to the PDFlib Product Family. The PDFlib Cookbook topics complement the PDFlib Tutorial and Reference manuals. They help you get started with important PDF and PDFlib concepts for graphical and interactive features, provide a starting point for your own coding, introduce topics which are not known to everyone (e.g. spot colors, PDF/A), and give a helping hand on rarely used features (e.g. Type 3 fonts).

The pCOS Cookbook

The PDFlib pCOS Cookbook offers a collection of programming examples which demonstrate how to write PDF querying applications based on the pCOS programming interface. The Cookbook contains stand-alone Java programming examples which can be used as a starting point for your own programming.