Rust bindings?

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   Are there any (official or third-party liberally licensed) Rust bindings for the QuickPDF library?

I have code in Python that I want to port to Rust (to see if I can get significantly better performance). I only need a subset of the QuickPDF API, but even that would be a lot of work, so if someone's already done it and would share it, I'd be happy to try it!

Thanks.

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quickpdfdeveloper Members Profile Find Members Posts Team Player Joined: 19 Mar 17 Status: Offline Points: 32	Post Options Post Reply Quote quickpdfdeveloper Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: Rust bindings? Posted: 10 Jan 18 at 2:55PM
	Are there any (official or third-party liberally licensed) Rust bindings for the QuickPDF library? I have code in Python that I want to port to Rust (to see if I can get significantly better performance). I only need a subset of the QuickPDF API, but even that would be a lot of work, so if someone's already done it and would share it, I'd be happy to try it! Thanks.

fschutt Members Profile Find Members Posts Beginner Joined: 24 May 18 Status: Offline Points: 1	Post Options Post Reply Quote fschutt Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 24 May 18 at 7:00AM
	Hi quickpdfdeveloper, I don't think Rust bindings for QuickPDF are available, but I've created a free (MIT) PDF library for writing PDF (not reading it, though): https://crates.io/crates/printpdf It doesn't support all features of QuickPDF, though, I mostly made it for creating graphics-heavy PDF files. But it is very fast, so there's that. Cheers Edited by fschutt - 24 May 18 at 7:01AM

quickpdfdeveloper Members Profile Find Members Posts Team Player Joined: 19 Mar 17 Status: Offline Points: 32	Post Options Post Reply Quote quickpdfdeveloper Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 27 May 18 at 11:17AM
	Yes, I've seen various PDF libraries on crates.io but of course none of them has anywhere near the functionality of QuickPDF, nor the subset I need. However, I found that it was quite straightforward to write my own Rust bindings for QuickPDF. So my only problem now is that I can never upgrade QuickPDF because (1) it is now a lot more expensive and (2) the upgrade doesn't appear to be royalty free anymore.