pdf-generation

Tool for PDF conversion to black and white

Is there a freely available (preferably open source) tool or library for PDF conversion to black and white? Some customers want to print generated PDF documents in B&W to save toner. Unfortunately I cannot generate PDF in B&W directly, since we are merging two PDF pages together, one being official not available in B&W. Update: To be m...

PdfPTable as a header in iTextSharp

I need a table with about 12 cells to display as a header. The following code fails to do this. I am aware table2 does not have 12 cells. On the second page, only "testing" is displayed. What am I missing? Thanks in advance! Document document = new Document(); try { PdfWriter.GetInstance(document, new FileS...

How to export current ASPX page to PDF

Hi- I have a web page that uses a combination of gridviews and html elements to create a report. I would like to give the user an option to click and it will export to a pdf. I would prefer not to create the pdf on the server as that requires me to write another process to clean up files. Optimally, I'd like the current page to open a ...

Dynamic HTML to PDF

Hi guys I need to be able to convert dynamic HTML (html that is rendered on page load by javascript) to a PDF. I know there are plenty of HTML to PDF converters but none of the ones I have found thus far cope with dynamic HTML. The given tool should be able to successfully convert the following page - http://www.simile-widgets.org/tim...

Are there any services out there that will let me convert an URL to PDF and let the user download the result?

I have a lot of different sites written in PHP (Drupal) and more and more often clients ask me to create PDFs of various lists, product descriptions and so on.. I've been using dompdf and other pdf libraries but they are a pain to use and have a very limited functionality. Are there any services out there that'll let me generate a PDF ...

Displaying SVG using XSLFO

Hi, StackOverflow, First question from me; I'm currently fixing a graphing service that uses XSLFO to convert our syntax to FO, and converting it to PDF in the end. Previously we've been using PNG graphs from the web in the PDF exports, but this creates really ugly results, so we've decided to go with SVG for PDF instead. However, the...

Creating something printable in C#

Hi everyone, Just wondering if anyone could tell me of a simple way to create files for printing? At the moment I'm just scripting HTML, but I'm wondering if there isn't some easier way of doing it that would give me more control over what it being printed? Something along the lines of an Access printout, or Excel printout - where I cou...

How do I embed a source PDF onto an existing page in a PDF?

I need to programmatically embed an existing PDF (a small graphic) onto a specfic page on an existing PDF. Using iTextSharp I've been able to add a new page containing this embedded PDF, but what need is to modify an existing page by adding this graphic. Is this possible using iTextSharp or any other PDF-generation libarary? ...

Controlling Doxygen's LaTeX output for making PDF documentation

I'm using Doxygen to generate documentation for my code. I need to make a PDF version of this and using Doxygen's LaTeX output appears to be the way to do it. However I've run into a number of annoying problems, and not knowing anything about LaTeX previously haven't really got much of an idea on how to approach them, and the countless ...

Reporting Services makes everything smaller when exporting to pdf

I have a basic report in Reporting Services 2005, with a few header text boxes and a table with a header row and some detail rows. I have the page layout setup as an 8.5 x 11 with 0.3in margins set all the way around. The table and all the textboxes have a 7.625in width. In the viewer the report looks fine. In the viewer in the Print ...

Relative paths in Flying Saucer XHTML?

I am using Flying Saucer to render some PDF documents from strings to XHTML. My code is something like: iTextRenderer.setDocument(documentGenerator.generate(xhtmlDocumentAsString)); iTextRenderer.layout(); iTextRenderer.createPDF(outputStream); What I'm trying to understand is, when using this method, where are relative paths in the X...

TCPDF PDF forms, signing certificates and how to enable user's rights

This is driving me completely and utterly nuts... Basically I have a PDF form generated by TCPDF and want to set the user rights (using setUserRights) for that PDF so that users can save the form with the data they inputted. The TCPDF manual isn't really helpful at this particular point and states that you need a "signing certificate" to...

prawn PDF: I need to generate nested tables

I need a table where rows are actually 2 rows tables, a nested table that is.. How can I do that in prawn? Maybe I need an extension.. but which one? ...

Is it possible for a PDF produced by a component to match the line wrapping of a WPF TextBlock exactly?

We have a WPF application that has a print preview dialog. When we create the PDF to match this print preview dialog, we want the PDF to show a 100% match. For instance, we have a WPF TextBlock with a set height and width and some content that wraps in the text block. We then want to recreate this text exactly in the PDF. So far we h...

On the fly pdf creation with 16bit colour depth png support in php.

I'm trying to create pdf documents on the fly in an application, i.e. a user clicks a link and a pdf document is displayed to them with some text and some images. I'm currently using FPDF v1.6 (http://www.fpdf.org/) which supports 24bit (true colour) png's but the problem I have is that this is a legacy application and there's 1000's of...

Display Pdf Stream on page load with Binary Write

I have a pdf file being generated on the fly which I want to display inline on pageload, as below Response.Clear() Response.AppendHeader("Content-Disposition", "inline; filename=_Bulk_Print.pdf") Response.ContentType = "application/pdf" Response.BinaryWrite(docData) Response.End() If I put this in a click event it work...

How do I convert a PDF file to HTML in PHP?

How do I convert a PDF file to HTML in PHP? Is there any lib or web service? I mean free, thanks! ...

good PDF library for Delphi

is there a good and free PDF generator library for delphi ? I need one with multipage + graphics support. ...

Can I use XeTeX to produce a PDF/Xn file?

I am using the XeTex typesetting system on a Macintosh running Snow Leopard. I would like it to produce a PDF/X file. Is this possible? I am mainly concerned with ensuring the fonts are embedded. ...

Dynamic PDF Generation from HTML form tool

I would like to create a service that would take 2 fields (name & company name) from an HTML form and place it in a PDF document (a completion certificate that the user can print/save etc.) How would you recommend doing this? ...