Why the fuck are pdf libraries so expensive?
I need to generate pdfs for a client. Most of the commercially available libraries are very expensive.
Why?
Can someone recommend one that isn't expensive? I'm currently language agnostic.
>>54529818
I've had to do this as a sort of catalog style program. Didn't want to waste any time. I found an old deprecated library for Java. I tested it and it worked. Holy fuck setting up the formatting was ass. Took like 3 days or just messing around to make it look nice. It works though.
>mfw they still use it 5+ years later
>>54530178
iText 2?
I'm using that currently.
Newest version is 7 but the developer of it went full jew.
It's either AGPL or commercial license. AGPL is like FOSS cancer. Even if you just it as lib you have to make your project AGPL too.
Commercial license price is given out only on demand and from what I could find on the net is somewhat of $2000 upwards with various not so clear license models (volume, OEM, unlimited, etc.)
why not just shell out to a external program passing the filename to that program. then grab the generated pdf output.
>>54530235
be a little more specific please.
Into which program? How would I do that?
>>54530271
get/install a free pdf creator and call it from your program.
Windows 10 comes with a PDF printer.
>>54532744
1e-32 shekels have been deposited to your microsoft associate account. please come again
WTF are you talking about? There are a lot of simple free libraries available for any language. Or you can simply use some simple converter.
Prawn is Ruby and free.
>>54532840
All he did was make a valid point, and you decide to be a moron and give us even more reason to call you freetards faggots?
>>54532903
All he did was make a valid point, and you decided to be a sperg and make a retarded shitpost.
>>54533027
huh? If you're gonna shitpost at least be more clever.
>>54532840
>There are a lot of simple free libraries available for any language
list some please.
>>54533079
>>54530225
>Commercial license price is given out only on demand and from what I could find on the net is somewhat of $2000 upwards with various not so clear license models (volume, OEM, unlimited, etc.)
why not just ask
>>54533305
$2000 dollar is too much for the project I'm working on.
Also they want so much info from me just for the price. Not willing to do that.
