buttercup
buttercup

Reputation: 1116

How to write a PDF editor?

How would you write a PDF editor in C++ or C#?

Would you recommend any PDF libraries, such as a PDF visual editing toolkit?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2677

Answers (3)

Mayur Kothawade
Mayur Kothawade

Reputation: 544

You can actually write your own editor for annotations using incremental approach mentioned in PDF document 1.7 .

Upvotes: 0

mark stephens
mark stephens

Reputation: 3184

Why don't you have a look at PDFedit if you want see what is possible in a PDF editor and what is under the hood in PDF. I wrote an introductory blog about it at http://www.jpedal.org/PDFblog/2010/09/useful-pdf-tools-pdfedit/

Upvotes: 0

Mohamad Alhamoud
Mohamad Alhamoud

Reputation: 4929

There are a lot of libraries that can help you, See iText

Upvotes: 3

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