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Title: PowerPDF
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| 1 | + | ### About | |
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| 3 | + | PowerPDF is a set of visual and non-visual components, which can be used to create [[PDF]] documents. | |
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| 5 | + | The output is a PDF version 1.2 document. PowerPDF is not made for reading existing PDF documents. | |
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| 7 | + | ### Author | |
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| 9 | + | The components were originally written by Takeshi Kanno. | |
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| 11 | + | The Lazarus port was done by Chtk and jesusrmx. Some Lazarus examples have been created by Xno. | |
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| 13 | + | ### Licence | |
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| 15 | + | The Delphi version of PowerPDF is licensed under the LGPL. The Lazarus port is as well. | |
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| 17 | + | ### Download | |
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| 19 | + | PowerPDF for Lazarus last version and the original port package and can be downloaded from the [Lazarus CCR SourceForge mirror](http://sourceforge.net/projects/lazarus-ccr/files/PowerPDF/). The original PowerPDF Lazarus port can also be found [here](https://web.archive.org/web/20110818160143/http://iquad.nl/files/powerpdf/) (Internet Archive; original link dead). | |
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| 21 | + | ### SVN | |
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| 23 | + | You can checkout the actual source from | |
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| 25 | + | [`svn://svn.code.sf.net/p/lazarus-ccr/svn/components/powerpdf`](svn://svn.code.sf.net/p/lazarus-ccr/svn/components/powerpdf) | |
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| 27 | + | The commandline to do this is: | |
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| 29 | + | `svn co `[`svn://svn.code.sf.net/p/lazarus-ccr/svn/components/powerpdf`](svn://svn.code.sf.net/p/lazarus-ccr/svn/components/powerpdf) | |
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| 31 | + | ### Requirements | |
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| 33 | + | PowerPDF for Lazarus has been tested with Lazarus 0.9.10 and the 0.9.11 nightly builds. Earlier versions have been untested. | |
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| 35 | + | ### Installation | |
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| 37 | + | 1. Unpack the .gz file to a place where Lazarus can find it (e.g. the components subdirectory). | |
| 38 | + | 2. Open the pack_powerpdf.lpk file in Lazarus. | |
| 39 | + | 3. Click the Compile button to check it compiles without problems. | |
| 40 | + | 4. Click the "Use \>\>" button and select "Install" | |
| 41 | + | 5. Lazarus will ask you if you want to rebuild it, press "Yes" | |
| 42 | + | 6. Lazarus will be rebuilt and restart | |
| 43 | + | 7. Make sure PowerPDF (pack_powerpdf) was successfully installed by checking under the 'Components-\>Package Graph' | |
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| 45 | + | ### Version | |
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| 47 | + | - 0.9 - In this version the following changes were made: | |
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| 50 | + | Previous version was unversioned now it's 0.9. | |
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| 52 | + | Fixed JPEG package dependency. | |
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| 54 | + | Converted some samples. | |
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| 56 | + | Added package to lazarus-ccr svn repository. | |
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| 58 | + | --- | |
| 59 | + | *From the Free Pascal wiki, page "PowerPDF", as it stood on 2020-01-29 after a change by Skalogryz, out of the wiki's dump of 2024-05-26. Copyright stays with the author who wrote it, according to the old wiki's [[Licensing]] page. If you have concerns about this material, [message the admin](/wiki-contact).* | |
| 60 | + | Category: Components | |
| 61 | + | Category: Lazarus-CCR | |
| 62 | + | Category: PDF |