PL/PDF - Features
PDF Creation
- Create PDFs programatically from scratch
- Generate PDF reports from databases
- Create PDF documents on a Web server in real time
- Create report layouts in MS Word
- Use text, PL/SQL code and repeating row placeholders (Rich Text content control)
- Put dynamic images in your layouts (Picture content control)
- Use the GROUP Control (equivalent to FOR-LOOP) to create repeating table rows
- Use the Master-Detail function for groups, to create structured tables
- Paragraphs
- Images
- Tables
- Lists
- Headers from one through six
- Sup-Sub tags
- Digitally sign PDFs (digital signatures)
- Encrypt PDFs
- Control document permissions (allows printing, copying, modification, etc)
- Set open passwords
- Create PDF forms
- Form field support for text, pushbutton, checkbox, radiobutton, choice, and signature
- Advanced control of form field appearance
- Extensive support for JavaScript in form fields
- Add document level JavaScript
- JavaScript support for form fields
- Standard fonts
- CJK (Chinese Japanese Korean) fonts
- Subsetted fonts
- TrueType fonts
- Powerful utility functions required for working with fonts
- Lines, arcs, ellipses, rectangles, circles, rounded rectangles
- Full control over color, shading, blend modes and transparency
- Full support for graphics state (load state and save state)
- Clipping regions
- Support for adding barcodes to documents
- Compress content
- Compress fonts
- Compress images
- Document properties (filename, title, author, subject, keywords, pdf producer, pdf version, etc)
- Initial view preferences (page layout, page mode, magnification)
- Embed files in PDFs
- Set measurement units to be used in document
- Create bookmarks
- Set bookmark destination and action (JavaScript, OpenFile,etc)
- Utility functions for working with bookmarks
- Code39 barcode
- Code128 barcode
- EAN13 barcode
- UPC-A barcode
- 2 of 5 interleaved barcode
- PDF417 2D barcode
- PostNet barcode
- Add images from the database
- Compress images
- Draw images onto documents
- Draw text on documents
- Draw text cells and rows
- Draw multi-line and wrapped text boxes
- Control text size, font, color and position
- Utility functions for working with text
- Precisely control the layout and style of new pages
- Draw table rows, shapes, text and images onto pages
- Utility functions for working with the page layout
- Automatic page breaks
- Automatic line break and variable text alignment
- Page header and footer
- Bar chart
- Line chart
- Pie chart
- Full Unicode support
- Creating ISO compliance PDF/A output for long term archiving.
- Character encoding support.
- Template feature