Free in pdf software for linux

Creates indexed pdf documents from text files. Designed to aid creating an electronic distribution method for legacy system reports, since many mainframe type print spools are plain text.
Allows indexing, customizing page settings, font size, font face, and super-imposing text over an image in the case of using pre-printed forms. Supports unlimited levels of indexing bookmarks in documents and system/user configuration files.
Suitable for use in an intranet gateway for generating PDF documents in real-time.
Enhancements:
- This fixes a bug for page breaking when the number of lines is a multiple of the lines per page, thanks to Carlo Benna

CL-PDF is a cross-platform Common Lisp library for generating PDF files.

It does not need any third-party tools from Adobe or others. It is used by cl-typesetting to provide a complete typesetting system.

JIndex is a beagle clone. It tries to mimic the functionality of Beagle. JIndex is written in Java.
Format support:
- Music (Mp3)
- Documents (PDF, Doc, Openoffice formats)
- Images
- IM conversations

PDFMap is a Python library which helps you create of high quality maps in PDF format. Objects of any type (either shapes or images) can be placed on a map and scaled and rotated to reflect their original dimensions and orientation. You can make each object clickable in Adobe Acrobat Reader (e.g., to access a Web-enabled application from which youve extracted the data used to create the map).

It serves successfully in drawing archaelogical objects on cave maps, but as the examples may show you, it can also draw things at a very high scale, e.g. an Europe or World map.

Each map can have an optional rasterized background which can be rotated automatically if it is not North oriented.

PDFMap can automatically draw objects on each map. Objects can be of any type (e.g. City, School, Archaeological objects, whatever you like), and are represented by shapes or images, scaled to the actual objects dimensions and orientation. Each object can also have an associated url which will render the object clickable in tools like Adobe Acrobat Reader (NB : the clickable area is always a rectangle of the actual objects dimensions, not of the representing shapes dimensions), the use of this feature depends entirely on your imagination : draw maps from a database and link back to a web enabled application which manipulates this database is just an example (and an interesting one at that, just
believe me).

PDFMap uses two types of input files :

Configuration files :

Those are used to tell PDFMap which shape or image should represent each type of object, as well as set different parameters for this objects type :pen thickness, colors, minimal and maximal size, etc...

Data files :

Those are used to feed PDFMap with lists of objects to draw. They are generally the result of an ASCII export from your favorite spreadsheet or relational database management system.

The tests/ subdirectory contains sample configuration and data files which are well commented. Read them and run the tests programs to learn how PDFMap works.

PDFBox is an open source Java PDF library for working with PDF documents. PDFBox project allows creation of new PDF documents, manipulation of existing documents and the ability to extract content from documents. PDFBox also includes several command line utilities.
Main features:
- PDF to text extraction
- Merge PDF Documents
- PDF Document Encryption/Decryption
- Lucene Search Engine Integration
- Fill in form data FDF and XFDF
- Create a PDF from a text file
- Create images from PDF pages
- Print a PDF
Enhancements:
- This release contains significant bugfixes and an overhaul of the encryption framework.

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::API2 is The Next Generation of Text::PDF::API, a Perl module-chain that facilitates the creation and modification of PDF files.
It features support for the 14 base PDF Core Fonts, TrueType fonts, and Adobe-Type1, with unicode mappings, embedding of bitmap images, compression via zlib, and a rich object-oriented API.
Main features:
- Works with more than one PDF file open at once
- It presents a object-oriented API to the user
- Modification of existing PDF Documents
- Import Pages from existing PDF Documents
- the 14 base PDF Core Fonts
- a subset of the base PDF CJK Fonts
- a subset of the Microsoft Webfonts (not embedded)
- Adobe-Type1 Fonts in both ascii and binary format (.pfa/pfb)
- TrueType fonts (.ttf)
- OpenType Fonts with TrueType Outlines (.ttf)
- OpenType Fonts with Postscript Outlines (.otf)
- Joint Photographics Experts Group images (.jpeg)
- Portable Network Graphics images (.png)
- Graphics Interchange Format images (.gif)
- Tagged Image File Format images (.tiff)
- Portable AnyMap images (.pbm/pgm/ppm)