PL/PDF SDK

PL/PDF SDK - Features


With PL/PDF you can easily produce:

  • Choice of measure unit, page format, margins, page numbers
  • Automatic page breaks
  • Use of rows and columns printang tables
  • Automatic line break and variable text alignment
  • Page header and footer
  • Shapes: lines, circles, ovals, rectangles
  • Images from the database
  • Fonts: type, size, colour, style, TrueType
  • Use of colours: font, fill, line
  • Compression of PDF
  • TrueType, Type1 and encoding support
  • TTF font subsetting resulting in smaller files

PL/PDF is more than a document generator for simple text. It includes:

  • Digital Signing PDF created PDF document
  • Creating ISO compliance PDF/A output for long term archiving.
  • Character encoding support. The default encoding is cp1252, but all encodings are supported, including Unicode encodings. Apart from the 5 standard Adobe fonts (Helvetica (Arial, Sans Serif), Courier, Times (Serif), Symbol, ZapfDingBats), True Type Fonts may also be used. All European, CJK (Chinese/Japanese/Korean) and Arabic/Hebrew characters are supported.
  • Native support for JPG and PNG. All other image formats are passed onto automatic conversion by Oracle Intermedia.
  • Many linear and 2D barcodes are supported with our Barcode package.
  • The Chart generator displays complex numbers in simple diagrams.
  • The Encryption package provides ways to limit what users can do with generated PDFs.
  • A Java based and a PL/SQL based LZW and Deflate compression is available to reduce the size of PDFs.
  • The Template feature makes it possible to add new content to an existing PDF document.