## 1.1 Introduction

This is a plugin for Hollywood that allows you to easily create PDF documents from Hollywood scripts. On top of that, the PDF plugin can also open existing PDF documents and convert their pages into Hollywood brushes. In fact, when converting PDF pages into Hollywood brushes, the plugin will create vector brushes for you which can be scaled, rotated and transformed without any losses in quality (unless bitmap graphics are embedded inside the PDF document of course).

The plugin comes with over 200 functions for creating PDF documents of all sorts. It supports graphics primitives, text in different encodings including Unicode, embedding fonts as well as images and Hollywood brushes inside PDF documents. On top of that the plugin supports the creation of password-protected PDF documents, encrypted PDF documents, compression, file attachments, annotations, extended graphics states, info dictionaries, RGB, CMYK and gray color spaces, different viewing modes, transition effects, links, and permission flags for PDF documents. Transformation of PDF objects is fully supported too. Finally, the plugin can also create PDF documents with an easy-to-navigate outline that can be used as a table of contents as well.

The plugin also has support for extracting text from PDF pages, getting all bookmarks in a document, handling links on PDF pages, and it is also possible to search pages. Furthermore, the plugin allows you to query the position of text on PDF pages, making it possible to implement text marking functionality, for instance.

The plugin comes with extensive documentation in various formats like PDF (of course), HTML, AmigaGuide, and CHM that contains detailed descriptions about all functions and methods offered by the plugin. On top of that, over 25 example scripts are included in the distribution archive to get you started really quickly.

All of this makes this plugin the ultimate PDF tool for Hollywood that contains everything you need to empower your app with PDF support!

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