We are planning on implementing a solution for comparing different revisions of a PDF document in our .Net Windows Forms application. In Adobe Acrobat there is a nice feature for comparing two documents, but I have not been able to find any information about whether it is possible to create a plug-in (or something else) to this feature f...
I have pre-existing PDF files which I would like to send to a PrintJob in Flex 3. I can load the files fine with UrlRequest, but I need to somehow get the data into a Sprite to be included into a PrintJob. Is there a way to do this, or should I go another route? (I've seen the hidden iFrame example, but I was hoping for a way to do thi...
Is there any good Document Parsing Lib , in C or Python? I am trying to Parse Strings from Documents - PDF, Word Doc/Docx , Excel xls/x , PPT, ODF, and also Mac Formats. Please Recommand Solutions that would also work in Linux/Unix enviorment. ...
I'm trying to make an on-the-fly PDF generator using PHP, but I'm having one problem so far in that the pages I am trying to generate as a PDF have a bar graph generated by flot using a canvas. Does anyone have experience with this or know how to get canvas to print to pdf? I'm also open to the idea of simply having my client load a p...
I use a Windows Web Server 2008 with ruby, PDFCreator, Microsoft Office, and OpenOffice to convert files to PDF automatically. The setup works ok for Microsoft Office files but I have not been able to get it to work automatically with OpenOffice files (e.g. .sxw). PDFCreator is able to convert .sxw files without problem when I do it manu...
Hello. I'm thinking of the way I'd generate a university newspaper both in PDF and HTML (a website) where every news would contain picture(s) and wonder if there any tools to approach this problem declaratively so that unexperienced users would prepare structured data (text + pictures) and get PDF and website on output on their own with...
Hi, I've been playing around with git and hg lately and then suddenly it occurred to me that this kind of thing will be great for documents. I've a document which I edit in DOCX and export as PDF. I tried using both git and hg to version control it and turns out with hg you end up tracking only binary and diff-ing isn't meaningful. Alt...
Is there a way to reporting with javascript to generate pdf file? ...
I need to create a pdf file with several chart created by ggplot2 arranged in a A4 paper, and repeat it 20-30 times. I export the ggplot2 chart into ps file, and try to PostScriptTrace it as instructed in grImport, but it just keep giving me error of "Unrecoverable error, exit code 1". I ignore the error and try to import and xml file...
I'm trying to create an application which will be basically a catalogue of my PDF collection. We are talking about 15-20GBs containing tens of thousands of PDFs. I am also planning to include a full-text search mechanism. I will be using Lucene.NET for search (actually, NHibernate.Search), and a library for PDF->text conversion. Which wo...
I'm using iTextSharp in C# to create a pdf with numbers of cells which are containing both image and texts. Document document = new Document(rect, marginLeft, marginRight, marginTop, marginBottom); Table aTable = new Table(tableColumns); foreach (TitleAndCode s in samples) { ...
Find the field names of inputtable form fields in a PDF document? I have an editable PDF form that I'm trying to automate the entry of form fields into using python. In order to do this I must know the "names" of the form fields in the FDF data to input. See question for background: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1890570/how-can-i...
This is a very wierd issue - any thoughts/help/hints would be greatly appreciated. Our web app streams PDF files to the browser using the following code byte [] fileBytes = GetTheFileBytes(); string contentType = "application/pdf"; context.Response.Clear(); context.Response.ClearHeaders(); context.Response.ContentType = contentType; c...
I want to write a custom plugin which can open a pdf file for popular browsers(IE , Firefox, Chrome). I am going to use some open source pdf viewer code if I can and put some checks in that code for authentication and license validity. Actually the plugin should work with many file types(Video, audio, doc etc...), I am trying to develo...
I am creating PDF file using ItextSharp V1.1.4322 in ASP.NET Version 2.0. Everything works fine in IE/FF/Safari browsers in windows as expected. In mac/Safari PDF file opens correctly but printout is wrong, cutting page contents. I want the page to auto scale automatic as in windows. ...
I want to make a online PDF Creator and Reader in PHP which will support all features available in Adobe Acrobat like Bookmarking, Signing, Commenting, Editing, Header and Footer, watermark etc etc.. Can you please suggest me a good PHP Library which will help me to do that? ...
All, I have a PHP5 application written with Zend Framework and MVC style. My application allows multiple users to login and see content based on their privileges. I have a dropdown on the home page. Upon selecting the dropdown, an ajax call occurs which populates the page with a table. Also, it generates a PDF file with the table data u...
I get the error below when converting to PDF with flying saucer. I've removed the ampersand charector and it worked, so this seems to be the problem. How do I include ampersand's in my PDF documents? Thanks in advance. ERROR: 'The entity name must immediately follow the '&' in the entity reference.' ...
So far all the zoom of magnifying plugins I have found are for images and I need something that will work when hovered over an embedded object tag .pdf file. Any ideas? ...
Hello everyone, I've been searching online for a secure way to load files in php but I couldn't find any convincing solution. What I'm trying to do is loading a curriculum vitae by form uploading. This file should be viewed only by the website admin (the form will mail him the link) and obviously the form should be secure (even thought t...