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This is the QPDF package. Information about it can be found at
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http://qpdf.qbilt.org.
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QPDF is copyright (c) 2005-2009 Jay Berkenbilt
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This software may be distributed under the terms of version 2 of the
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Artistic License which may be found in the source distribution as
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"Artistic-2.0". It is provided "as is" without express or implied
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warranty.
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Building on UNIX/Linux
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======================
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For UNIX and UNIX-like systems, you can usually get by with just
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./configure
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make
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make install
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For more detailed general information, see the "INSTALL" file in this
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directory.
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Building on Windows
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===================
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QPDF is known to build and pass its test suite with mingw (gcc 4.4.0)
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and Microsoft Visual C++ .NET 2008 Express. In both cases, cygwin is
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required to run the test suite. Either cygwin or MSYS is required to
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build as well in order to get make and other related tools. The MSVC
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build has only been tested under cygwin. The mingw build requires
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MSYS and will probably not work with cygwin.
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For details on how to build under Windows, see README.windows.
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Additional Notes on Build
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=========================
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QPDF's build system, inspired by abuild (http://www.abuild.org), can
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optionally use its own built-in rules rather than using libtool and
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obeying the compiler specified with configure. This can be enabled by
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passing --with-buildrules=buildrules where buildrules corresponds to
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one of the .mk files (other than rules.mk) in the make directory.
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This should never be necessary on a UNIX system, but may be necessary
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on a Windows system. See README.windows for details. There is a
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gcc-linux.mk file enable "gcc-linux" build rules, but it is intended
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to help test the build system; Linux users should build with the
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"libtools" rules, which are enabled by default.
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The QPDF package provides some executables and a software library. A
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user's manual can be found in the "doc" directory. The docbook
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sources to the user's manual can be found in the "manual" directory.
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The software library is just libqpdf, and all the header files are in
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the qpdf subdirectory. If you link with -lqpdf and your system does
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not know how to read libtool .la files, then you will also need to
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link with -lpcre and -lz.
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To learn about using the library, please read comments in the header
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files in include/qpdf, especially QPDF.hh, QPDFObjectHandle.hh, and
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QPDFWriter.hh. You can also study the code of qpdf/qpdf.cc, which
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exercises most of the public interface. There are additional example
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programs in the examples directory.
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