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PDF Output Device

The PDF Output device is still a work in progress, as its handling of fonts is incomplete. Nonetheless for certain classes of files it can be useful.

End users will probably prefer to use the document writer interface (see DocumentWriter DocumentWriter) which wraps this class up, rather than call it directly. Nonetheless this can be useful in specific circumstances when generating particular sections of a PDF file (such as appearance streams for annotations).

The PDF Output device takes the sequence of graphical operations it is called with, and forms it back into a sequence of PDF operations, together with a set of required resources. These can then be formed into a completely new PDF page (or a PDF annotation) which can then be inserted into a document.


\begin{lstlisting} /* pdf_page_write: Create a device that will record the gra... ...z_rect *mediabox, pdf_obj **presources, fz_buffer **pcontents); \end{lstlisting}