[Lazarus] compiling PowerPDF on win32

[silvioprog]

2013/1/30 Tobias Diekershoff <tobias.diekershoff at gmx.net>

> Dear list,
>
> I have a problem compiling PowerPDF and seek your knowledge to solve it.
>
> I've written a program on Linux where the PowerPDF works perfectly, but
> when I tried to compile it on the machine at work (Windows XP) it gives
> an
>
> "Illegal type conversion 'Short String' to 'PChar'"
>
> in powerpdf/pdftypes.pas lines 1007, 1010 and 1146 (see below).
>
> I'm using Lazarus 1.0, FPC 2.6.0 and PowerPDF 0.9.9.
>
> Thanks in advance
>   Tobias
>
> ------ Code Sniplet (lines 1005 to 1011)-----
>   {$IFNDEF UNIX}
>   Len := MultiByteToWideChar(0, CP_ACP,
>     PChar(Value), Length(Value), nil, 0);
>   GetMem(PW, Len * 2);
>   Len := MultiByteToWideChar(0, CP_ACP,
>     PChar(Value), Length(Value), PW, Len * 2);
>   {$ELSE}
>
> ------ Code Sniplet (lines 1143 to 1147)-----
> // _WriteString
> procedure _WriteString(const Value: string; AStream: TStream);
> begin
>   AStream.Write(PChar(Value)^, Length(Value));
> end;
>

Hm... I'm using PowerPDF fine on Windows 7.

I even managed to remove the dependency of LCL to be able to create PDFs
and CGI applications:

https://lazarus-ccr.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/lazarus-ccr/components/powerpdf

http://silvioprog.com.br/cgi-bin/cgi2

program project1;

{$mode objfpc}{$H+}

uses
  Classes,
  FPimage,
  FPReadJPEG,
  FPWriteJPEG,
  PdfDoc,
  PdfFonts,
  PdfTypes;

  function CreateImage(AImage: TFPCustomImage): TPdfImage;
  var
    VWriter: TFPWriterJPEG;
  begin
    Result := TPdfImage.CreateStream(nil);
    VWriter := TFPWriterJPEG.Create;
    try
      with Result do
        try
          AImage.SaveToStream(Stream, VWriter);
          with Attributes do
          begin
            AddItem('Type', TPdfName.CreateName('XObject'));
            AddItem('Subtype', TPdfName.CreateName('Image'));
            AddItem('ColorSpace', TPdfName.CreateName('DeviceRGB'));
            AddItem('Width', TPdfNumber.CreateNumber(AImage.Width));
            AddItem('Height', TPdfNumber.CreateNumber(AImage.Height));
            AddItem('BitsPerComponent', TPdfNumber.CreateNumber(8));

PdfArrayByName('Filter').AddItem(TPdfName.CreateName('DCTDecode'));
          end;
        except
          Result.Free;
          raise;
        end;
    finally
      VWriter.Free;
    end;
  end;

var
  VPdf: TPdfDoc;
  VFile: TFileStream;
  VImage: TFPMemoryImage;
begin
  VPdf := TPdfDoc.Create;
  VFile := TFileStream.Create('print.pdf', fmCreate);
  VImage := TFPMemoryImage.Create(0, 0);
  try
    VPdf.NewDoc;
    VPdf.AddPage;
    VImage.LoadFromFile('image.jpg');
    VPdf.AddXObject('Image', CreateImage(VImage));
    VPdf.Canvas.DrawXObject(80, 650, VImage.Width, VImage.Height, 'Image');
    VPdf.Canvas.TextOut(90, 770, 'Print OK!');
    VPdf.SaveToStream(VFile);
    WriteLn('Print OK!');
  finally
    VImage.Free;
    VFile.Free;
    VPdf.Free;
  end;
end.

-- 
Silvio Clécio
My public projects - github.com/silvioprog
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