CL-PDF is a cross-platform Common Lisp library for generating PDF files.
It does not need any third-party tools from Adobe or others.
It is used by cl-typesetting to provide a complete typesetting system.
From the change log:
08 February 2004: Release 2.1
Added auto-generated tarballs of the current repository version
Added custom encodings. [Thanks to Dmitri Ivanov]
Fonts without font data. [Thanks to Dmitri Ivanov]
Added a few with-standard-io-syntax so that the pdf are generated
correctly when people change the printer settings.
Added a :stacked-series option to the histograms.
Changed zlib (again!) for dynamic loading of the library in delivered
applications.
Added a *default-encoding* special variable.
Added pdf meta information to documents.[Thanks to Eric Marsden]
Corrected handling of the min/max-value in the charts.[Thanks to Eric
Marsden]
Corrected pfb file loading.
Font names are case insensitive now.
Added improved code128 barcodes [Thanks to Lars Rustemeier].
The cl-pdf home page is here:
http://www.fractalconcept.com/asp/html/cl-pdf.html
Marc