pdf-generation

Best pdf generator in PHP , mpdf or fpdf?

hi all, Which is th best pdf generator for php, i know some opensources libs mpdf and fpdf.. Thanx in advance ...

Converting PDF into workable text using C#

Is there a library that has a class to extract the text from a pdf file in c#.net? I've tried a few but documentation is terrible, so I haven't been able to get it off the ground. Also if it provides a class to extract images that would be a plus. Any suggestions? Thx in advance. Also I need to be able to implement it into an existing a...

Making a PDF output in raster format instead of vector using itextsharp

I have written C# code to save product specifications to a PDF document using iTextSharp, mainly with PdfPTable and Chunks/Paragraphs in the PdfPCells. However, I have been told that the output is unacceptable due to the fact that you can highlight and copy the text from the document and document storage and retrieval server software tha...

Generating .afm from .ttf

I'm working with generating .pdf's from PHP using this library: http://www.fpdf.org/ I am currently hung up, though, on adding new fonts, specifically the step on generating the .afm file from a .ttf font file. I'm following the instructions here: http://www.fpdf.org/en/tutorial/tuto7.htm Which state: The first step for a TrueType...

How to render Asian characters in a PDF using xhtmlrenderer

I was wondering what steps were needed to render Asian characters using the java based xhtmlrenderer (flying saucer) library? I am wanting to render the following: <html> <body>同名の映画のモデ</body> </html> Without any font settings being added to the HTML this renders fine in normal browsers, but I can't find anyway to render this to ...

How can I select papertray

How do I programatically select the papertray to use when I send a document to the printer? There is different papers in the trays (A5, A4, A4 with one tear off part or two tear off parts, Papers with logo and without logo). Today we use the setpapertray command directly in the postscript-file, but this is not very convenient especially...

HTML2FPDF print page results as pdf..

Hi all, I'm trying to user HTML2FPDF (http://html2fpdf.sourceforge.net/) to create a PDF of a page, but I can't seem to get it to work properly. My page consists of jQuery to show a graph. I want the graph and other text on the page to be exported as a PDF. http://portal.flyingstartlifestyle.360southclients.com/leanne/leanne.php <- th...

xml to PDF with JDF format

Hi all, I need to convert SVG (XML) format to printable format like PDF with JDF or eps, tcl, ppm, vdx. Pls guide me. ...

PDF Generation with High Resultion SVG Images (suggestions needed!)

Hi Folks Can anyone suggest/recommend a product that can be used to dynamically produce PDFs that can contain high-res images? We're currently using a product called Highwire from a company called Corda to produce PDFs of our HTML pages. Highwire is crap at producing PDFs though becuase it does not conform to HTML standards (i.e. it r...

(pdflib) Table of contents with dynamic page numbers

Hi, I'm on pdflib 7 under php5 and I'm drawing a statistical report with several sub topics over several pages. Now, I want to include a table of contents on the first page where every sub topic is listed with it's actual page number. Needles to say that I don't know those page numbers at the time I draw the table of contents. Is ther...

Any way to create a PDF so the text can't be copied/extracted back out?

I'm trying to help create a neighborhood directory and I want to discourage someone from harvesting contact info (especially email addresses) from that. Is there any easy way to prevent someone from copying and pasting that text from the PDF? Update Goal here is to make the PDF no easier to harvest email addresses from than the current...

Does a library exist to remove passwords from PDFs programmatically?

Does a library exist that will remove "owner" passwords from PDF documents so that the text can then be programmatically extracted from them? Something like PDF Technologies' Password Recovery tool, but callable from the command line or from Python. A GUI interface is not really useful to me, since the number of documents is so large. P...

iTextSharp : pdfPTable overlapping with other content

I am using iTextsharp to generate a PDF document from C# application. I am having a PdfPTable to display some tabular data. My problem in the table is overlapping with the other paragraph .Is there anyway i can place the table on a particular position ? then below is my code PdfPTable objTable = new PdfPTable(6); objTab...

Is there any API in C# or .net to edit pdf documents?

Hi, Is there any API in C# or .net to edit pdf documents? Like I need to retrieve particular text and replace it with my own text. Thanks nRk ...

Open PDF Programmatically in One Page View

I have a 2005 Reporting Services report that I display as a PDF through the report viewer control. I would like to know how I can have the PDF be viewed in the "one page at a time mode". Right now it's going to the scrollable page mode. ...

Put xml node's full path in attribute file and read the node's value from main xsl file in xsl fo

I have been using fop 0.95 to generate pdf files from xml data. I have three files involved in the process: test.xml, test.xsl and attributes.xsl. Naturally I have xml data in xml file. Here test.xml is the main xsl file which imports attribute sets from attributes.xsl file. For example, I have following entries in the attributes.xsl fil...

Open Flash Charts Save as PNG, JPG, any image format

Is there a way to do this in Ruby on Rails? Looking through the library i saw a upload_image.rb but it just says #todo...I know this is possible in the other languages (at least i saw in php) I've searched for awhile, has anybody found a way to do this in RoR? Or is there any documentation? What I want to do is save the image on my ser...

Recommended .NET PDF Renderer for multiple pages with form fields

We currently use TallComponents PDFKit.Net for rendering tedious state documents that have a number of form fields. Often we'll need to have a page that repeats many times within a single document. Most reports are 10 pages, with 3 unique template pages (pre formatted in Adobe), for example. We've worked with TallComponents to optimiz...

HTML to PDF vs. Programmatically creating PDF via PHP

I have a PHP application that needs to generate some PDF invoices and PDF timesheets with nice headers/footers. Some Stackoverflow users recommend using TCPDF to create the PDF documents. In my research, I discovered two approaches to generating PDFs: 1) Programmatically formatting the PDF like so: $tcpdf->SetFillColor(255, 0, 0)...

Crystal Reports "File Break"

I'm generating a Crystal Reports report which will ultimately need to be split into thousands of pdf files. What would be ideal would be if Crystal Reports had something like a "file break", like a page break, that you could insert into the file at the appropriate places. I will need reasonably fine control over the file names, as well....