Open Source Linux PDF Generation Libraries

iText is an open-source PDF library available for Java and .NET (C#). iText allows you to effortlessly generate and manipulate standards-compliant PDF documents with a powerful and feature-rich SDK. With iText, you can create archivable and accessible PDFs, split and merge documents, fill and flatten forms, digitally sign documents, and more. iText add-ons enable additional functionality, such as PDF creation from HTML templates, secure redaction, OCR, and much more. The latest versions of iText build on the success of previous versions and feature an improved document engine, high and low-level programming capabilities, and a more efficient modular structure. iText represents the next level for developers looking to leverage PDF in document workflows. The main project page for iText is now on GitHub, and all the latest releases, code samples, open source add-ons and tools, etc. can be found at https://github.com/itext/.

Early Access iText, a PDF generation library in Java

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Reporting engine library written in C. Create one XML file and generate PDF, HTML, TXT, and CSV reports based on queries. Has support for MySQL, PostgreSQL, ODBC. Bindings for PHP, Java, Python.

FlyPDF is a shared object library (.so) which allows to generate PDF files without using any PDF library as dependency. You may use it for any kind of usage and modify it to suit your needs. FlyPDF has other advantages: high level functions.

This is a Java port of the original FPDF free PDF generation library for PHP.

This is intended to be library for easy creation of pdf documents dynamically from templates a database. It uses pdflib for pdf creation, phplib for database access. Currently templates can be imported only from Adobe Pagemaker.

this is a small JSP tag library which allows you to create PDF documents within your JSPs. All you need to do is add the jar file to your lib folder under WEB-INF and the tld file in a tld folder under WEB-INF and you are ready to use the tags.

The Umber project provides simple, flexible, "earthy" Java tool libraries for developers. The tools supplement common tasks like XML handling, data processing, and PDF generation, but without the complex and arcane APIs of most modern implementations.

Copperhead is a small and simple library providing a Swing user interface that allows one to automatically generate PDF documents from annotated objects using the iText PDF library. Copperhead is developed under GPLv3. Please download Copperhead 0.1b for iText 2 and 0.2b for iText5. Read more on http://byteality.ch/blog. Enjoy!

dompdf - the PHP 5 HTML to PDF converter. dompdf is a (mostly) CSS compliant HTML rendering engine written in PHP. It supports external stylesheets, inline style tags, and the style attributes of individual HTML elements. Requires PHP 5.

Rexx/PDF is a Rexx interface to the libharu PDF library. This interface allows a Rexx programmer to generate PDF documents by insertion of text, lines and images