Creating PDF files from Common Lisp

The CL-PDF library allows you to create PDF files directly from common lisp. The easiest way to use cl-pdf (or for that matter many other libraries) is to download and install LibCL. CL-PDF comes with LibCL and makes the installation a snap.

I have a hello world pdf program written.

	;; CL-PDF Hello World
	;;
	;; Use ASDF to load the CL-PDF library
	;;
	(asdf:operate 'asdf:load-op 'cl-pdf)
	;;
	;; Function to generate a Hello World pdf file.
	;; On calling this function, you should see a pdf file
	;; with a big Hello World in the center!
	;;
	(defun hello-world (file author title greeting)
	"Create a Hello World PDF file"
	(pdf:with-document (:title title :author author)
	(pdf:with-page ()
	(pdf:register-page-reference "page 1")
	(pdf:with-outline-level ("Page 1" "page 1")
	(let ((helvetica (make-instance 'pdf:font)))
	(pdf:in-text-mode
	(pdf:set-font helvetica 36.0)
	(pdf:move-text 200 400)
	(pdf:draw-text greeting)))))
	(pdf:write-document file)))
	(hello-world #P"d:/tmp/hello_world.pdf" "Sid H" "Hello World" "Hello World")

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Just run this and it will generate a PDF with a big Hello World!