Free creating pdf documents software for linux

Print OpenOffice 2 documents is a service menu that enables the user to right click on an OpenOffice 2 document and print it.

Panda is a PDF generation API written in C.
The Panda PDF Generator is intended to make PDFs on the fly for the Web, but may be used to generate any PDF document you want.
Enhancements:
- As you may already be aware, the most important change in 0.5.4 is that the library is now available under the terms of either the GPL or LGPL (your choice). In order to accomplish this, the TDB code was removed, and either Enlightenment DB or Berkeley DB (version 4) must be linked to in its place.
- Other changes include the addition of link annotations (internal and external), pkg-config support, and an RPM. The main point of this release, however, was the licensing issue.

PDF Bookmarks provide a tree structure allowing you to jump to any part of the document with ease. extendedPDF allows you to create these PDF bookmarks directly from your existing document styles, with total flexibility. No extra work for you and a much better experience for your readers!
extendedPDF also converts hyperlinks to PDF hyperlinks, so that links work the same in your OpenOffice.org document and your PDF document.
Allow reviewers to read and add to the notes that you made on the OpenOffice.org original! extendedPDF can convert OpenOffice.org Notes to PDF Note Annotations. These can be read in both Acrobat Reader and Acrobat, and can be edited in Acrobat.
Main features:
- the link colour dialog should now work in all locales;
- documents with spacing before paragraphs are now processed correctly;
- extendedPDF is now compatible with OpenOffice.org 2.0, thanks to a fix from James Holgate;
- You can now change the way landscape pages are rotated;
- You can turn PDF security on and off without removing your settings.
Enhancements:
- This version was updated to work on OpenOffice.org 2.0.3.
- Internationalization support was added to aid translation into other languages.

PandaLex is the PDF parsing code from Panda, which has been split into its own project to increase its utility.

It is a flex and bison description of the PDF specification, which allows programmers to define callbacks to handle different document elements.

jpg2pdf PRO is the PRO version of jpg2pdf. jpg2pdf PRO offers you all the features of jpg2pdf 2.x plus these important features: convert every single jpeg to a single pdf (with -album to create a unique PDF) jpg2pdf PRO can automatic detect is the jpeg image is rgb or gray or cmyk and create the correct pdf. jpg2pdf PRO can automatic check if the jpeg image is rgb or gray or cmyk and create the correct pdf or pdf album.
NOTE: jpg2pdf PRO tries to detect if the cmyk image is made by Adobe Photoshop and will use inverted colours to create the pdf (it appears that Adobe Photoshop writes inverted data in CMYK JPEG files: 0 represents 100% ink coverage, rather than 0% ink as youd expect)
Main features:
- convert every single jpeg to a single pdf, to put every jpeg in a pdf album, like normal jpg2pdf, you can use the option -album
- jpg2pdf PRO can automatic detect is the jpeg image is rgb or gray or cmyk and create the correct pdf. Note: jpg2pdf PRO tries to detect if the cmyk image is made by Adobe Photoshop and will use inverted colours to create the pdf (it appears that Adobe Photoshop writes inverted data in CMYK JPEG files: 0 represents 100% ink coverage, rather than 0% ink as youd expect)
- center parameter will center evary jpeg image in the final pdf page
- Using image parameter (to set the paper format of the pdf page equal to the image) is possible to use border parameter to set a border around the image
- Its possible to set a directory where to put the pdfs (pdfdir) and the jpegs (jpgdir)
- Its possible to re-run infinitely jpg2pdf setting the wait seconds

PDF::FromHTML is a Perl module to convert HTML documents to PDF.

SYNOPSIS

my $pdf = PDF::FromHTML->new( encoding => utf-8 );
$pdf->load_file(source.html);
$pdf->convert(
Font => /path/to/font.ttf,
LineHeight => 10,
Landscape => 1,
);
$pdf->write_file(target.pdf);

This module transforms HTML into PDF, using an assortment of XML transformations implemented in PDF::FromHTML::Twig.

There is also a command-line utility, html2pdf.pl, that comes with this distribution.

jPdfCalendar project allows you to create printable calendar pages as a PDF document from any of your images. The iText library is used to create the PDF itself.
You can add your own "special days" for each month, customize colors, fonts, borders etc.
To create calendar file, you should prepare xml file which structure is described in dtd file. The dtd structure also is described in graphical manner in image file. These information can be found in dtd folder.
To create a sample, use bin/createme.sh script. This script will create sample/calendar_public_en_2007.pdf file according to sample/calendar_public_en.xml project and with images from sample/pictures folder.
Requirements
You need Java 1.5 (or higher) JRE in your OS.
This tool uses iText library (http://www.lowagie.com/iText/) to manipulate of PDFs.
Well-known problem
If image is too large, especially if a hight of image large when page hight, the auto scaling works not properly (the day table is pulled out on the next page). In this case it is necessary to use "scale" tag and set scale factor manually.
Additional tool
Also here is some additional tool, PdfImageRipper. This tool has been created to extract (rip) images from PDF files.
It uses iText functionality to do it and you can think about it as Front-End-Tool. To use this tool, get bin/imgrip.sh script.
Enhancements:
- Moon phases are now displayed in the days table.
- The first day of week is now dependent on the locale, but can be changed in XML.

konq-pdf are various KDE service menus for PDF documents.
1) pdftk service menu:
- Join selected PDF (alphabetic order)
- Add another pdf to selected file
- Extract pages
- Extraxt all even pages
- Extract all odd pages
- Burst PDF pages
- Repair
- Watermark pages of a PDF file
- Lock (give master password, give user password, select permissions)
- Unlock (with master password)
- Attach arbitrary file (not PDF only, but documents audio image movie too) (For now, you can view attached files with Acrobat Reader only)
- Extract all attached files (one or more) (Acrobat Reader not required for this)
(These are only useful when you want to edit PDF code in a text editor like vim or emacs)
- Uncompress PDF files (Remove PDF page stream compression)
- Compress PDF files (Restore page stream compression)
- Document information
- About
2) pdfjam service menu (pdf90, pdfnup, pdfjoin):
- Rotate -90 degrees pdf files
- Join selected documents
- Add another pdf to selected file
- 2 pages per sheet
- 4 pages per sheet
- 6 pages per sheet
- 8 pages per sheet
- Custom pages per sheet (Its possible to choose if you want framed or no-framed)
- About
Home installation: place the desktop files to ~/.kde/share/apps/konqueror/servicemenus/
System-wide installation (for *ubuntu): place the desktop files to /usr/share/apps/konqueror/servicemenus/