Is there a problem with xml tags that have a dash in them?? I am trying to generate a pdf from and xsl and an xml.. I have the following for example: <car> <name>toyotoa</name> <color-value>green</color-value> </car> In my xsl I have something like <fo:inline font-weight="bold"> <xsl:value-of select="name" /> </fo:inline> th...
We are using a product called DynamicPDF to generate PDF's on the fly from dynamic data from a database. Their documentation says that their software leaves the image bytes intact and doesn't make any changes. Despite this, we have observed that the images we add seem to have quality loss on the resulting PDF output (at least that's how ...
I have a dynamically generated PDF that can be in one of two modes. If in a draft mode, the only real difference is a watermark that states DRAFT on each page. I am using a page event, so on the startpage I print the image, so that it is under everything. When I did this on the endpage event then it would be on top of everything, which ...
I have used TCPDF in the past to generate PDF's on-the-fly. Now I need to create a Form in PDF that would allow the user to enter data locally and then print/save the PDF locally. Which free PDF library should I look at? ...
Hi, I'm looking to create PDF files instantly online given user input in my html/php page. are there any FREE API's out there that will allow me to do this? ...
Does anyone have experience using XFDF for pdf's? Are there any pitfalls in using this approach? Step1 - I would need to create a pdf (adobe pro) with read only fields that are bound to elements in XML. This would act as a stencil to overly the data. Step2 - Create custom classes that generate the XFDF XML string from data in our ...
Hi folks. I'm using pdf-writer gem in ruby. While drawing a table, i need to set the shade_color and shade_color2 of table so that the rows get the alternate shade and shade2 colors. Can anyone tell me how to set them? Like table.shade2 = Color::RGB::Magenta But i have a hexa vaue like 989898. Now, how to use this. Any help is appr...
Hi! There is some tutorial about how to create a pdf using cocoa? I can't find anything. I looked for it on the web and it seems that I need Quartz to do it, but there aren't practical examples. Can you help me? Thank you in advance. —Albé ...
EDIT : I completed this project using ABCpdf. For anyone interested, I love this product and their support is A+. Everything I listed as a 'Con' for the HTML -> PDF solution was easily doable in ABCpdf. I've been charged with creating a data driven pdf report. After reviewing the plethora of options, I have narrowed it down to 2. I ne...
In reference to an earlier post (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1980890/pdf-report-generation) I have decided to use a solution similar to http://www.alistapart.com/articles/boom For those of you who don't want to read either reference - I'm creating a report and need it as a PDF. I've decided to go the HTML -> PDF route using .NE...
Hi All, I have an application that converts Word Document to PDF automatically. The issue is I am not able to use Full Text Search in the converted PDF. Whereas I can search in pdf if it is converted through Microsoft Word Application. Thanks in Advance for you support. ...
I have a web app that needs to be able to convert word documents into pdf programmatically just prior to send an email out. I've been using a 3rd party utility (aspose) but the client writes very complicated word documents and they need the formatting to come out perfectly on the pdf. Aspose isn't rendering everything correctly. I cal...
Is there a good python module to convert .xls file to PDF? ...
Hi, Is there any way to convert rtf format to pdf using PHP? Thanks ...
Hello, I'm using iTextSharp to generate a large document. In this document I want some specific pages in landscape. All the rest is portrait. Does anyone know how I can do this? Starting a new document is not an option. Thanks! ...
hi, can anyone please help me with creating forms in python using the reportlab lib. i am totally new to this and i would appreciate sample code thanks ...
Hi, I'm generating a PDF document using FOP. The source XML contains some text data which contains newlines. But when its being shown in PDF, all new lines are converted into spaces. I tried replacing all \n characters with 
 in the java code but that is not helping too. How can I display the new lines in PDF document? Can you...
I want to generate a technical report from lisp (AllegroCL in my case) and I studied various packages/project to help me do this. Requirements: Need to generate a PDF May create an intermediate format like RTF, Restructured TEXT, HTML, Word DOC or Latex Need to be flexible to be able to add content throughout my application Need to ...
Hi, I am generating a pdf file using FOP. My requirement is to limit the number of pages in pdf to 2 and the remaining contents can be discarded. Is it possible? Thanks in Advance. ...
I'm investigating how one can combine multiple PDF's into a single PDF. I'm looking for a library that is as reliable and robust as possible. Preferable a library that can preserve bookmarks. Ghostscript can concat where the bookmarks are preserved, but I experienced trouble where it in one case failed to generate any output.pdf. gs -...