Vanilla.PDF Documentation

Cross-platform toolkit for creating and modifying PDF documents.

Getting Started

• Overview
• Installation & Build Guide
  • Installation Methods
  • Build Requirements
  • Build from Source
  • Dependency Management
  • Build Configuration
  • Running Tests
  • Troubleshooting
  • Building packages
• Licensing

Developer Guide

• Interface Overview
  • Types
  • Memory leaks
  • Error handling
  • Debugging
• Architecture
  • Error handling
  • Object ownership
  • File layer
  • Function callbacks
  • Dependencies
• PDF Fundamentals
  • File structure
  • Document semantics
  • Page contents
  • Complete file example
• Signature Verification Guide
  • Overview
  • Supported Signing Algorithms
  • Verification Status Codes
  • Weak Algorithm Detection
  • Creating a Trust Store
  • Configuring Verification Settings
  • Verifying a Signature
  • Command Line Usage
  • Security Recommendations
• Examples
  • Integration Examples
  • API Usage Examples
  • Utilities
  • Additional Resources
• FetchContent Integration Example
  • Features Demonstrated
  • Quick Usage
  • Dependency Management
  • Continuous Integration
• Packaging
  • Automated Package Building
  • Debian Packages
  • Homebrew Packages
  • NuGet Packages
  • Configuration Notes

API Reference

• Documents
  • ByteRangeCollectionHandle
  • ByteRangeHandle
  • CatalogHandle
  • CharacterMapHandle
  • EmbeddedCharacterMapHandle
  • UnicodeCharacterMapHandle
  • DeveloperExtensionsHandle
  • DeveloperExtensionsIteratorHandle
  • DeveloperExtensionHandle
  • DigitalSignatureHandle
  • DocumentHandle
  • DocumentEncryptionSettingsHandle
  • DocumentInfoHandle
  • DocumentSignatureSettingsHandle
  • InteractiveFormHandle
  • NameDictionaryHandle
  • PageContentsHandle
  • PageLabelsHandle
  • PageLabelHandle
  • PageObjectHandle
  • PageTreeHandle
  • ResourceDictionaryHandle
  • ViewerPreferencesHandle
  • PageRangeHandle
  • PageSubRangeHandle
  • Common Data Structures
  • Fonts
  • Fields
  • Outline
  • Annotations
  • Destinations
• Files
  • FileStructureIssueSeverityType
  • FileStructureIssueCodeType
  • FileHandle
  • FileStructureIssueHandle
  • FileStructureValidationResultHandle
  • FileStructureValidator
  • FileWriterHandle
  • FileWriterObserverHandle
  • FilterBaseHandle
  • FlateDecodeFilterHandle
  • DCTDecodeFilterHandle
  • ASCII85DecodeFilterHandle
  • ASCIIHexDecodeFilterHandle
  • LZWDecodeFilterHandle
  • JPXDecodeFilterHandle
  • Objects
  • Cross-Reference Tables and Streams
  • Name Constants
• Page Contents
  • ContentInstructionType
  • ContentObjectType
  • ContentOperationType
  • ContentOperatorType
  • BaseFontRangeHandle
  • ContentInstructionHandle
  • ContentInstructionCollectionHandle
  • ContentInstructionCollectionIteratorHandle
  • ContentObjectHandle
  • ContentObjectTextHandle
  • ContentObjectInlineImageHandle
  • ContentOperationHandle
  • ContentOperationGenericHandle
  • ContentOperationTextShowHandle
  • ContentOperationTextShowArrayHandle
  • ContentOperationTextFontHandle
  • ContentOperationBeginTextHandle
  • ContentOperationEndTextHandle
  • ContentOperatorHandle
  • ContentParserHandle
• Utilities
  • IOStrategyType
  • MessageDigestAlgorithmType
  • PDFVersion
  • SignatureVerificationStatusType
  • TextStringEncoding_Detect()
  • TextStringEncoding_PDFDocEncodingByteToUnicode()
  • BufferHandle
  • BufferArrayHandle
  • EncryptionKeyHandle
  • Errors
  • InputOutputStreamHandle
  • InputStreamHandle
  • LibraryInfo
  • LicenseInfo
  • Logging
  • MemoryBufferOutputStreamHandle
  • MiscUtils
  • ObjectDiagnostics
  • OutputStreamHandle
  • PKCS12KeyHandle
  • SignatureVerificationSettingsHandle
  • TrustedCertificateStoreHandle
  • SignatureVerificationResultHandle
  • SignatureVerifier
  • SigningKeyHandle
  • IUnknownHandle
• Types
  • error_type
  • boolean_type
  • real_type
  • ushort_type
  • integer_type
  • offset_type
  • size_type
  • bigint_type
  • biguint_type
  • string_type
  • byte_array_type
  • Boolean Types
  • Error Types