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Help => Graphics => Topic started by: Dajcok on February 01, 2021, 01:50:51 pm

Title: Is there a way to load PDF document into image buffer ?
Post by: Dajcok on February 01, 2021, 01:50:51 pm

Hello,
I'm making a project for one company. What they want from me is load a PDF document, make some stuff with it and then export it to a printer. I thought that SFML will be good library for this project since it is easy to use and it provides many useful functions for project like this. But I have a problem with the first step. I cannot see a way to load PDF file into SFML. Maybe I should convert PDF into JPG and then load it but it is too difficult and I'm looking for an easier solution if it exists. Any tips or tricks ?

Title: Re: Is there a way to load PDF document into image buffer ?
Post by: Laurent on February 01, 2021, 01:55:45 pm

Hi

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make some stuff

I think we'll need some details about this step.

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I thought that SFML will be good library for this project since it is easy to use and it provides many useful functions for project like this

I can't see any useful function in SFML for a project like this. It won't help in loading your PDF, modifying it, and printing it. It seems like the best answer we can give you is to find a better library (or a combination of better libraries) for this task.

Title: Re: Is there a way to load PDF document into image buffer ?
Post by: Dajcok on February 01, 2021, 02:10:09 pm

All the good stuff SFML provides is for that "some stuff" i need to make with that pdf. I need to position, rotate, scale other images and place them to this PDF file. After that i need to group these images and the pdf document into a single image and export it to a printer.

Title: Re: Is there a way to load PDF document into image buffer ?
Post by: Stauricus on February 01, 2021, 07:29:50 pm

then you need some image manipulation program... SFML is more suited to games and alikes, i'd say
maybe ImageMagick would suit you