How do I programmatically create a PDF in my .NET application?
Please recommend a good library for programmatically creating PDF documents in .NET applications. ...
Get a preview jpeg of a pdf on windows?
I have a cross platform (python) application which needs to generate a jpeg preview of the first page of a PDF. On the mac I am spawning sips. Is there something similarly simple I can do on Windows? ...
Organizing Documents
I’ve got a lot of PDFs/CHMs and they are getting out of control. So I’ve decided to do something about it. First I hit Google and didn’t get very far - the range of programs are very naff. Then I hit metafilter and got a lot more results. From there I learnt there is a lot of programs that do exactly what I want, look stylish and some ar...
PDF Editing in PHP?
Does anyone know of a good method for editing PDFs in PHP? Preferably open-source/zero-license cost methods. :) I am thinking along the lines of opening a PDF file, replacing text in the PDF and then writing out the modified version of the PDF? I have programmatically created PDF files in the past using FPDF, but found it a little unwi...
PDF Creation Tutorials?
Are there any good tutorials or guides on the web for creating PDF files programmatically? I am especially thinking of discussing best practices in a language-agnostic way, though something tied to a language could also be useful. Do PDF libraries tend to have multiple APIs for different languages or are they usually tied to one particu...
Printing a PDF in .NET
It's the "printing question guy" again. Looking for a third-party solution to print PDFs, preferable from a service. I have seen some arguments against it, but due to our use case, this really is the preferred solution - the service will be receiving messages from a messaging bus, and there shouldn't be any sort of delay between the re...
Create PDFs from multipage forms in WebObjects
I would like to automatically generate PDF documents from WebObjects based on mulitpage forms. Assuming I have a class which can assemble the related forms (java/wod files) is there a good way to then parse the individaul forms into a PDF instead of going to the screen? ...
PDF generation from XHTML in a LAMP environment
Hi, Can anyone recommend a good server-side PDF generation tool that would work in a Linux environment. I want easy as possible, pass it a XHTML file (with images) and have it generate a PDF from the rendered source. I don't have a massive budget, but anything under $1000 should be alright. Andrew ...
Are e-book readers good enough for tech books?
I was wondering if the current generation of e-book readers (like the Kindle, or Sony's Reader) are big/high-res enough that you can comfortably use them for large paper-size PDFs, like most programming and other technical books? I've bought a few PDF books from Pragmatic Bookshelf lately, and it would be nice to have something to read t...
What's the best way to import/read data from pdf files?
We get a large amount of data from our clients in pdf files in varying formats [layout-wise], these files are typically report output, and are typically properly annotated [they don't usually need OCR], but not formatted well enough that simply copying several hundred pages of text out of acrobat is not going to work. The best approach ...
Python module for converting PDF to text
Is there any python module to convert PDF files into text? I tried one piece of code found in Activestate which uses pypdf but the text generated had no space between and was of no use. ...
Why is my PDF footer text invisible?
I'm creating PDFs on-demand with ColdFusion's CFDocument tag, like so: <cfdocument format="PDF" filename="#attributes.fileName#" overwrite="true"> <cfdocumentitem type="footer"> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"> <tr> <td align="left"><font face="Tahoma" color="black"><strong>My Client'...
Latex=>PDF Rights management
Im currently writing my bachelor thesis with latex and using TexnicCenter. I want to be able to send my generated pdf file to people and they should be able to write comments. It seems like commenting is not allowed by default, how do I change this? I am using straight to PDF with pdflatex and acrobat reader 9 to read and comment on the...
How do I display a PDF in Adobe Flex?
Looking for a way to display a PDF in Flex. I'm sure there are several ways. Looking for the easiest to maintain / integrate / most user friendly. I'm guessing it's possible to display a browser window in the app and render it, but if it goes off of IE / FireFox it's not acceptable for this project. Thanks... ...
Automated PDF Creation from URL
Is there a PDF library that one can use to automate creating PDFs from URLs? The current approach I use is to "Print" a page and select a PDF plugin like PrimoPDF to generate the PDF document but I was wanting to automate that. ...
File format for generating dynamic reports in applications
We generate dynamic reports in all of our business web applications written for .Net and J2EE. On the server side we use ActiveReports.Net and JasperReports to generate the reports. We then export them to PDF to send down to the browser. Our clients all use Adobe Reader. We have endless problems with the different versions of Adobe ...
What's a good method for extracting text from a PDF using C# or classic ASP (VBScript)?
Is there a good library for extracting text from a PDF? I'm willing to pay for it if I have to. Something that works with C# or classic ASP (VBScript) would be ideal and I also need to be able to separate the pages from the PDF. This question had some interesting stuff, especially pdftotext but I'd like to avoid calling to an external...
How does google make make those awesome PDF reports in Analytics and when you print a Google Doc etc?
When you print from Google Docs (using the "print" link, not File/Print) you end up printing a nicely formated PDF file instead of relying on the print engine of the browser. Same is true for some of the reports in Google Analytics . . . the printed reports as PDF's are beautiful. How do they do that? I can't imagine they use somethin...
How does one decrypt a PDF with an owner password, but no user password?
Although the PDF specification is available from Adobe, it's not exactly the simplest document to read through. PDF allows documents to be encrypted so that either a user password and/or an owner password is required to do various things with the document (display, print, etc). A common use is to lock a PDF so that end users can read i...
How to best merge information, at a server, into a "form", a PDF being generated as the final output
Background: I have a VB6 application I've "inherited" that generates a PDF for the user to review using unsupported Acrobat Reader OCX integration. The program generates an FDF file with the data, then renders the merged result when the FDF is merged with a PDF. It only works correctly with Acrobat Reader 4 :-(. Installing a newer ver...