joicodes/textplusplus

text++ : Programmable, Typesetting PDF Generation for the C Programmer

How to run Tests:

Installing Libharu:

Before installation the following dependecies are required:

sudo apt-get install automake autoconf zlib1g-dev libpng-dev libtool

Installing libharu

tar -xvsf libharu-X.X.X.tar.gz
cd libharu-X.X.X

Run the configuration scipt

./configure

If there is no configuration script

./buildconf.sh --force

Then try running ./configure again

Build the Library and install

make clean
make
make install

If there are errors about not being able to find the *.so file or a missing directory. Please execute the following:

ldconfig /usr/local/lib

Installing pdf2txt

pdf2txt is needed in order to run tests

sudo apt-get install python-pdfminer

Run Tests:

Assuming that LLVM, LLI, OPAM, OCAML, Ocamlbuild, etc are installed, run:

make

A file called text.pdf is produced.