Feature Comparison of PDFlib Products
| Feature | API functions and parameters |  |  |  |
Basic PDF generation | all except those listed below |  | | |
Linearized (Web-optimized) PDF | linearize option in PDF_end_document() | 1 | | |
Optimize PDF (only relevant for inefficient client code and non-optimized imported PDF documents) | optimize option in PDF_end_document() | 1 | | |
Parsing PDF documents for Portfolio creation | password option in PDF_add_portfolio_file() | 1 | | |
PDF import (PDI) | all PDI functions | | | |
Query information from PDF with pCOS | all pCOS functions | | | |
| Fill Blocks with variable data | PDF_fill_*block( ) | | ||
Create Blocks programmatically | PDF_poca_new( ): option usage=blocks | | ||
Copy Blocks to generated output | PDF_process_pdi( ): option action=copyblock | | ||
Interactively create PDFlib Blocks for use with PPS | PDFlib Block Plugin for Acrobat | | ||
| 1Not available in PDFlib source code packages since PDI is required internally for this feature | ||||