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Welcome to Apryse. Go for the Apryse SDK is supported on Windows and Linux. To get started, choose your preferred platform from the tabs below.

Linux Go PDF library integration

This guide will help you run Apryse samples and integrate the Apryse SDK into Go applications on Linux. Your free trial includes unlimited trial usage and support from solution engineers.

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Prerequisites

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Running PDFTron Go in your project

  1. Create a directory for your project and a main.go file within. Add the following code to your main.go.
package main

import (
    . "github.com/pdftron/pdftron-go/v2"
)


func main() {
    PDFNetInitialize("YOUR_APRYSE_LICENSE_KEY");
    doc := NewPDFDoc()
    page := doc.PageCreate()     // Start a new page
    doc.PagePushBack(page)       // Add the page to document
    doc.Save("output.pdf", uint(SDFDocE_linearized)); // Save the document as a linearized PDF
    doc.Close()
}
  1. Initialize your go.mod
go mod init
  1. Fetch the dependencies for your project.
go get
  1. Run your created application.
go run main.go

Running PDFTron Go samples

  1. Navigate to your go path where you installed the library, and search for our repository. It may be within this path based on your version of Golang.

$GOPATH/pkg/mod/github.com/pdftron/pdtron-go/v2@version

  1. Navigate to the ./samples directory and modify the runall_go.sh and set your LICENSE_KEY. If using Apryse modules such as CAD, MODULE_PATH to the directory where your modules are stored.

  2. Run the runall_go.sh. All sample tests will be run. a. If you wish to run a specific test, this can be done by specifying the test ./runall_go.sh AddImageTest

Output files will be created in ./TestFiles/Output

Running a specific version of PDFTron Go

This can be done by modifying your go.mod via this command in your project directory.

go mod edit -require github.com/pdftron/pdftron-go/v2@v2.0.0`
go get

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