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Download PDFlib 9.0.4
The PDFlib download packages contain combined binaries for PDFlib, PDFlib+PDI, and PDFlib Personalization Server (PPS). Download the software package by clicking on the appropriate language binding for your platform.
English PDFlib manuals are included in each of the packages.
German and Japanese language manuals are available for download at the end of this page.
Availability of Maintenance Updates
The latest PDFlib 9 maintenance release is available to customers who purchase a new license and to customers with an active support agreement. This differs from earlier versions where we offered maintenance updates on a voluntary basis even for customers without active support.
PDFlib / PDFlib+PDI / PDFlib Personalization Server (PPS) 9.0.4 (released 12/2014)
| Platform | Package for use with | ||||||
 Windows - see system requirements | |||||||
| Windows Server x86 and Windows XP/Vista/7/8 x86 | Java | Perl | PHP1 | Python | Ruby | REALbasic Xojo | |
| COM | .NET2 | ||||||
Windows Server x64 and | C, C++ | Java | Perl | Python | Ruby | ||
| COM | .NET2 | ||||||
 OS X- see system requirements | |||||||
| OS X 10.6 and above on x86/x64 | C, C++, Objective-C | Java | Perl | PHP1 | Python | Ruby | REALbasic Xojo |
 Linux/FreeBSD - see system requirements | |||||||
| Linux x86 | Java | Perl | PHP1 | Python | Ruby | REALbasic Xojo | |
| Linux Intel 64 | Java | Perl | PHP1 | Python | Ruby | ||
Linux on IBM zSeries | see below | ||||||
| FreeBSD 7/8/9/10 x86 | C, C++ | Java | Perl | PHP1 | Python | Ruby | |
| FreeBSD 7/8/9/10 Intel 64 | C, C++ | Java | Perl | PHP1 | Python | Ruby | |
| Oracle/IBM/HP - see system requirements | |||||||
| Oracle Solaris sparc 32-bit | Java | Perl | PHP1 | Python | Ruby | ||
| Oracle Solaris sparc 64-bit | C, C++ | Java | Perl | Python | |||
| Oracle Solaris x86 | Java | Perl | PHP1 | Python | Ruby | ||
| Oracle Solaris x64 | C, C++ | Java | |||||
| IBM AIX 5/6/7 32-bit | C, C++ | Java | Perl | PHP1 | |||
| IBM AIX 5/6/7 64-bit | C, C++ | Java | Perl | ||||
| HP-UX 11 IA-64 ILP32 | C, C++ | Java | Perl | PHP1 | |||
| HP-UX 11 IA-64 LP64 | C, C++ | Java | PHP1 | ||||
| Mobile and Embedded Systems - see system requirements | |||||||
| iOS | Objektive-C, C, C++ | ||||||
| Android | C,C++ | Java | |||||
| Embedded Linux and Windows Embedded Compact on request | |||||||
| IBM i5/iSeries and zSeries - see system requirements | |||||||
| i5/iSeries (AS/400) (OS V5 R3 M0 or above) | PHP3 | ||||||
| zSeries (USS) | |||||||
| zSeries (USS, 64-bit) | |||||||
| zSeries (MVS) | |||||||
| Linux-S390 (32-bit) | Java | Perl | |||||
| Linux-S390x (64-bit) | C, C++ | Perl | PHP | ||||
1) Please see the document PDFlib in PHP HowTo for details.
2) Please see the document PDFlib in .NET HowTo for details.
3) The AIX binary can be used for PHP on iSeries/i5. Please see here for details.
- PHP 5.3-5.6 are supported. See our PDFlib in PHP HowTo document for more info about PHP and PDFlib.
- Perl 5.8, 5.10, 5.12, 5.14, 5.16, 5.18 and 5.20 are supported.
- Python 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 3.2 and 3.3 are supported.
- Ruby 1.8, 1.9, 2.0 and 2.1 are supported.
If you want to check that your download was free of transmission errors, we provide md5 checksums for all download packages.
See the change log for all changes since version 9.0.0.
Additional Resources
For Chinese, Japanese, or Korean (CJK) text output with PDFlib you will find a package with many CMaps here.
PDFlib Manuals
The following PDFlib 9 documentation is available for download.
PDFlib 9 | ||
| The PDFlib 9 Tutorial provides a thorough introduction to PDFlib programming. The PDFlib 9 API Reference contains a complete description of the PDFlib API functions. It is a must-read for all PDFlib developers. | ||
| English PDFlib 9 Manuals | ||
 | PDFlib 9 Tutorial | The english editions of the PDFlib 9 Tutorial and the PDFlib 9 API Reference are also included in all PDFlib 9 packages |
 | PDFlib 9 API Reference | |
 | pCOS Path Reference for PDFlib 9 | English Path Reference for pCOS interface 8 in PDFlib+PDI 9 and PPS 9 |
| German PDFlib 9 Manuals | ||
 | PDFlib 9 Tutorial | German PDFlib Tutorial for PDFlib 9, PDFlib+PDI 9 and PPS 9 |
 | PDFlib 9 API-Referenz | German PDFlib API Reference for PDFlib 9, PDFlib+PDI 9 and PPS 9 |
 | pCOS Pfadreferenz für PDFlib 9 | German Path Reference for pCOS interface 8 in PDFlib+PDI 9 and PPS 9 |
| Japanese PDFlib 9 Manuals | ||
 | PDFlib 9 Tutorial | Japanese PDFlib Tutorial for PDFlib 9, PDFlib+PDI 9 and PPS 9 |
 | PDFlib 9 API Reference | Japanese PDFlib API Reference for PDFlib 9, PDFlib+PDI 9 and PPS 9 |
| pCOS Path Reference | Japanese Path Reference for pCOS interface 8 in PDFlib+PDI 9 and PPS 9 |