CamlPDF is an OCaml library for reading, writing and modifying PDF files. It is the basis of the commercial "CPDF" command line tool, which is available at http://www.coherentpdf.com/.
Copyright Coherent Graphics Ltd 2007 - 2013. Released under the LGPL with special linking exception. See "LICENCE" for details.
If downloading from Github, obtain the correct source. This means choosing the tag for a particaular version, such as "v2.1.1". The head of the master branch is unstable.
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Run "make". This will build camlpdf.a, camlpdf.cma, camlpdf.cmxa and the documentation (in doc/camlpdf/html).
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If your environment has "ocamlfind", "make install" will install the library. Otherwise, use the built outputs as you will.
The API documentation, which is built by the makefile in doc/camlpdf/html, can also be accessed online at http://www.coherentpdf.com/camlpdf.
The file introduction-to-camlpdf.pdf will help the beginner.
Some level of knowledge of the PDF file format itself, which is large, may be required. The standard texts are the author's book:
http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920021483.do
and the ISO standard for PDF:
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/pdf/pdf_reference.html
The file miniz.c is a (very slightly modified) version of the miniz.c zlib implementation by Rich Geldreich, avalable here:
http://code.google.com/p/miniz/
The files flatestubs.c, pdfflate.ml and pdfflate.mli are a slightly modified version of some parts of CamlZip by Xavier Leroy. The originals are available here:
http://pauillac.inria.fr/~xleroy/software.html
OCamlMakefile was written by Markus Mottl. It is available here:
http://bitbucket.org/mmottl/ocaml-makefile
These works are also released under the LGPL with special linking exception, as described in LICENCE.