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How to use the Print queue to avoid dropping pages

OK, I'm printing some stuff for work from C# using COM Interop with Office 2007 and BullZip PDF 7.1.1007. The issue I'm having is that if I don't tell the program to sleep for 2500 milliseconds, then the PDF printer drops pages. Which is weird. I'm wondering if anyone else has experienced this issue. I will post the code if that hel...

Generating pdf from latex

I have been using two computers to generating pdf files from latex file by Winshell, but the characters (or images) in the pdf files generated from latex file on one computer looks always much more clear than the pdf pdf file generated by the same file on the other computer. Could anyone tell me what the problem is, or how to improve the...

Limiting accress to Assests .pdf .jpg

I want to have users be able to upload .pdf and images and restrict the access to these files based on user's privileges. Has anyone done something similar? The basic plan of attach I thought of is a controller checks if the user has privileges to view the document or file. If they have the privileges the document is retrieved and displ...

pdf is shown but not printed

Hello, I use crystal reports of visual studio 2003. I generate a report and export it in PDF. PDF has embeded TT fonts. The pdf is shown correctly, but when printed the fonts aren't shown (neither the greek, nor the english). using print as images, solves the problem in some computers I tried, but others keep having the same problem. F...

Data Scraping from PDF and Excel

I am doing a little data scraping, There are 3 types of file from which i am scraping data. 1- HTML 2- PDF 3- Excel(xls) For HTML i am comfortable, i am using HTML Agility for that. For PDF and excel i need suggestions from anyone. Thanks in advance. ...

How do I extract sections (multiple sections per page, multiple pages) of a word document/pdf/image as separate images/word documents/pdfs?

Here's the basic problem: I have about 10,000 word documents that contain blocks of data. Each block is numbered and also has an accompanying image. I need to somehow store these individual blocks to a db as images (text would be great, but read note below), without the numbering. I can go through and have typists mark the beginning and...

Prawn gem: How to create the .pdf from an *existing* file (.xls)

Hi there, Can anybody show me (maybe copy/paste a simple code example) how to create the .pdf file from an existing (.xls) file, using the Prawn gem? (Basically, I'd need the command that "opens" the existing file.) (I'm asking because the Prawn documentation (http://prawn.majesticseacreature.com/docs/) seems to be gone since quite a w...

Get size of another application to place window scaled properly above it

Background: I work a lot with pdf's that are heavy in graphics. In fact, they are graphical representations of code. Sometimes I want to compare versions of the code, usually it's done by opening two pdf readers and swap between windows or put them next to each other. I got tired of that so I whipped up a simple app to contain a clipp...

Extract text from PDF

I have a bunch of PDF files that I need to convert to TXT. Unfortunately, when i use one of the many available utilities to do this, it loses all formatting and all the tabulated data in the PDF gets jumbled up. Is it possible to use Python to extract the text from the PDF by specifying postions, etc? Thanks. ...

looking for fast and free (none gpl ) pdf lib for c++

Hello all i need to create high volume of pdf's as output from c++ application what is the recommendation on fast pdf creation lib ? the pdf's forma is simple ( invoice's ) ...

how to create pdf file form using C# or VB.NET which is filled by the end users on a browser

The best example is the application forms which we genrally fill in for the most of the CIC Canada’s immigration websites. Please see the example link provided here... http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/pdf/kits/forms/imm0008egen.pdf ...

convert html file into PDF file?

Hello everyone, I am using VSTS 2008 + C# + .Net 3.5 + ASP.Net + IIS 7.0 to develop web application. I want to convert html file/page/string into PDF file. Any built-in solution from Microsoft to do this? The top issue is about paging, i.e. how to map html conent to converted PDF page? e.g. I want to display an html table and an image...

Pdf creation/manipulation from classic asp?

I'd like to do the following tasks on pdf files from classic asp get page count split pages save splitted pdf Is there a nice and easy library available? -Vivek ...

Options for WYSIWUG Form data entry on web

I'd like to have close to WYSIWYG form entry on the web. Turbo Tax does this. Basically government forms so would like them to be as close as possible to the paper look. Results go to a DB. PDF looks nice but does not seem to give complex validation (if field1 set, enable group input). Fast is always a plus. (IIS, .net). What options fo...

Packages/solutions to add online document editing to an on-premise web application

I'm doing research to find 3rd party packages/solutions/widgets/back-ends to allow users of a website to upload and edit office documents online in their browser, akin to Google Docs. I haven't had much luck so wanted to see if anyone has any advice or pointers. Integrating Google Docs is, sadly, not an option, as the documents have to...

Does anyone know of a fork of iText?

Now that iText has gone AGPL, I'm assuming someone is going to take the old (2.1.7 or 4.2.0) code and fork it to keep an LGPL version going. Does anyone know of such a fork already started? ...

Filling a PDF template with PHP

Hi there, I have a PDF file that functions as a template containing only textboxes. Is there any way I can fill the fields in via PHP? I have found examples of how to directly draw onto a PDF document when given x,y values, but I want to put values into my textboxes rather than doing that. ...

Rendering of PDF file partialy in ASP.NET

Hello All I am facing a problem for last 3weeks, I am fighting for its solution but still i am not getting anything which can be useful for me. Problem - i need to open pdf on my view(inside my applicant page), right now i am able to do this but i am not satisfied to this because it take load of time, the reason is time taken in pdf re...

How to programmatically convert pdf to xps

How to programmatically convert pdf to xps? Need library, but no finished software product. ...

Unable to parse pdf by Jpedal

Hye everybody I'm facing this problem while parsing a PDF with Jpedal. While reading the wordlist from the jpedal I get garbbled characters in the wordslist this also happens when used OCR, same happens when I copy the text from PDF and paste in word or simple text editor. What I came to know that this PDF was generated by Quartz PDf co...