ok, here's the problem: the format of the vector graphics could be either SWF or SVG, which is up to me to choose the text can have about any font both text and graphics can be rotated and moved, and graphics can be scaled too i considered doing this on clientside, which is flash player 9, using alivePDF, but 1. it does not support m...
I'm looking for an easy way of printing output to a pdf file for users, especially data grids. Formatting options would be a plus. Potential scenario -> Users view page with 2 data grids -> Users click print -> Page opens a pdf file that they can save/print Our budget is tight, so a free solution would be ideal, but I'd like to look in...
Is anyone using Prawn / Prawnto with Jruby on rails? I installed prawn 0.5.01 and rails 2.3.2. I just installed prawn and prawnto and started playing with the PDF generation capabilities. I am concerned that the pranwto web site is no longer online - http://www.cracklabs.com/prawnto Is this rails plugin dead? Or has it moved somewhe...
Hi all, I've seen people speaking about that on the web, I've been advised to do that, but it looks like the iText rendering engine is far from matching MS word (openoffice, TeX). And interpreting a .doc is far from trivial anyway (J.Spolsky explained why) so I'm a little bit of skeptical. I'd really like to do that for a project, but ...
I want to export a .pdf file. That step is ok. But the problem I have is that this PDF does not show our native language. An example, English words are fine, but Chinese words are not shown in the report. How can we show the Chinese words too? We are programming in VB.NET. ...
For the longest time now I've been trying to convert HTML pages containing large tables to PHP. These are styled with CSS and can be several pages long. I first tried DOMPDF. It works great, until a document is more than one page. None of the fixes I've found work. Either it errors out, or any element that would be even partially on the...
Hi, I've got a project where I need to generate PDF reports from a template. The report will have a header, details and a footer, and can potentially run on multiple pages. I was going to use iTextSharp for that. For the templates i was thinking of two options: PDF Form template HTML template Can you comment on the pros and cons of...
What OSS (or free) tools are available for drafting a single source for documentation that can be used to generate manuals? Specifically, in the following formats: HTML website PDF document Embedded (within an application; possibly HTML)1 Text (optional) Man pages (optional) Additional requirements: Tool is suitable for technical w...
Hi guys. I am creating a pdf from a list of image files and I was wondering if it was possible to create each page of my pdf to be the size of whatever image I am currently adding - so they all fit and none of the larger ones get cropped or whatever. Currently I'm creating pages like this: my $page = $pdf->page(); I have an object of...
Is there any way to create PDF dynamically against receiving texts and images? ...
Ok when im gonna make reports with Java I use iReport for JasperReports Template designs. But with python the alternative is html2pdf - pisa. It would be great to see an example of this. Any hint would be appreciated. Tks. ...
Is there a way in iText (the java version) to draw a rectangle into a pdf document? ...
Hi,I want to export gridview to pdf by using itextsharp library.But problem is some turkish characters such as İ,ı,Ş,ş etc... are missing in the pdf document.Code used to export pdf is ; protected void LinkButtonPdf_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) { Response.ContentType = "application/pdf"; Response.ContentEncodi...
I'm working with ExpertPDF's Html-to-PDF conversion utility for this question (although I'm open to other libraries if there's sufficient documentation). In short, I have a view that is formatted a specific way and I would like to render it as a PDF document the user can save to disk. What I have so far is a PrintService (which impleme...
I'm attempting to create a PDF file from an HTML file. After looking around a little I've found: wkhtmltopdf to be perfect. I need to call this .exe from the ASP.NET server. I've attempted: Process p = new Process(); p.StartInfo.UseShellExecute = false; p.StartInfo.FileName = HttpContext.Current.Server.MapPath("wkhtmltopdf.e...
Hi %, I've found a strange behaviour in pdflib while trying to get a text rotated in a table, in order to save page space. The pdflib documentation states, that: fittextflow={rotate=90} Should produce the effect I want. The strang is, that my pdf creation codes failes to run, loging: ExceptionHandler: cell in column(s) 1 and row(s...
I'm using Automation to populate and save a set of Adobe LiveCycle created forms from a database. For testing, I have the form visible while populating it and can see the checkbox values being properly set. But when saving the form, everything EXCEPT the checkboxes/radiobuttons settings are being saved with the form. I can manually op...
I am trying to render about 100,000 - 80 column records through FOP and it tanks pretty much everytime (OutOfMemoryException). I know iText could handle that kind of load but I can't use it because of the LGPL license. Are there any alternative Java libraries to iText that can handle rendering a high volume of data to PDF? ...
For my django powered site, I am looking for an easy solution to convert dynamic html pages (generated using django views and templates datas generated using GET forms) which also contains some graph charts from google visualisation api(it is javascript, yet including these graphs is a must for me) to pdf. Cheers ...
I would like to add a tool link at the top of my admin change_list.html, which I have already done, and have this link basically be able to produce some sort of printable document version of my models data based off of my current filter settings. Basically a print button in the admin change_list.html. so far I have overridden the chang...