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Need some help getting a pdf export to work properly

I'm using a 3rd party tool (TCPDF) to export data to PDF. If I use a form and post the data to the export php page it works fine. However, I have another need to call the same exporter page and pass it the params it needs via ajax to output the pdf file that way. Everything seems to be working fine, except when I get the output for th...

Convert PDF to images in php

Hello everybody, These are the steps I am trying to achieve: 1) Upload a PDF document on the server. 2) Convert the PDF document to a set of images, and saving them. Any ideas for doing #2 using php?? ...

Why are asian unicode characters not appearing on PDF using FPDF in PHP?

I am using FPDF to create a PDF and tFPDF to allow for unicode characters, such as Chinese, Japanese, or Korean. I am using the ex.php that was in the tFPDF example files. I added some Japanese and Chinese Characters to the Hello World.txt file, but those characters are not showing up, even in the default DejaVu font that was included...

Open Source Javascript PDF viewer

Is there any open source Javascript based PDF Viewer available? Any guide to developing this kind of script that renders PDF docs would be helpful. ...

Fill PDF Form using Visual Basic 6.0 (Not VB.NET)

I have PDF Form with editable field. How can I Fill editable form fields (like textbox, checkbox) using Visual Basic 6.0 code? I can find bunch of third-party tools. I need free library for PDF Form Fill. I think I can use iTextsharp but not sure. Any example code will be very helpful. ...

Problem with pagebreak in splitting a row of a table

hi i want a solution to eliminate splitting the data of a row in two pages in iReport 3.0.0,i want to have data 's of a row entirely in one page in a PDF.how should i do? thank you ...

Getting PDF document outline

I'm using Quartz 2D to render PDF on the iPad, this works fine. Now I need a way to get the document outline (table of content), I found the following function CGPDFDocumentGetCatalog which seems to be relevant, but the returned info is an opaque dictionary from which I don't know the keys. I want the outline in a tree with the page nu...

open pdf at specific page using vbscript

I have an application that manages multiple magazine PDFs on the hard drive. I need to open the PDF files into a specific page. I am able to call vbscript from my own software so I am looking for some vbscript snippet to open a PDF with a specific page loaded. I am a mac developer doing cross platform software, windows is not my standard...

PHP/MySQL/PDF: charset and how to handle strange characters

Hi, I am designing a small registration system. In this system, people write their name and surname in a form. This information is later saved in a database. The admin can later generate a personalized PDF containing this information (kind of pre-filled form). I am struggling to understand how I should plan the database and the PDF ge...

Problems saving PDF files in iOS4

I want to have my iPhone application create a PDF file and store it in an appropriate place - probably the iBooks folder so it can be easily retrieved using iTunes, but that's a change for later once I have the saving part working. I've followed the PDF saving tutorial on the Apple site to the letter, including swapping out CGContextBegi...

Best tool tool for inspecting PDF files?

What tool do you recommend for inspecting PDF files? Use case: I'm trying to programmatically generate PDF files (using iText). I'm having trouble achieving certain layouts, but I have PDF files with text laid out the way I want (generated from Word). I would like to reverse engineer how they do it. PDF Inspector seems to be good, bu...

Convert data into pdf using google docs for iphone

Hi Everyone, I am really struck in a problem. I have an iphone application where i need to convert my data in pdf and excel format using google docs. By spending some time on R&D i came to know that i will have to send my data in HTML format. Other than that i came across nothing. Please provide me clue how to implement it. Some sample ...

Processing Illustrator or pdf files into XAML

What are the alternatives to process illustrator files or PDFs into XAML. My Current workflow works like this: Open the PDF file in Adobe illustrator Save the file as .ai (Adobe Illustrator) file Open in Expression Design Do some processing, mainly separating elements to layers and removing unneeded parts. Save as XAML Add XAML to B...

Printing PDF to HDC (MFC device context)

Hi, I'm modifying a C++ application and I'd like to add the ability to print and existing PDF using the MFC printing logic (OnPrint...) Is there any method to print a PDF into the MFC? Now I'm converting the PDF to a BMP but sometimes the quality is not so great. ...

Stack Overflow exception on htmlparse method of iTextSharp.dll version: 4.0.4

I am geting stackoverflow exception on htmlparse method when I have any image in my html file. I am using iTextSharp 4.0.4 dll. I also tried iTextSharp 5.0.2 dll. In that i can not find htmlparse method at all. Here under is my code: Document doc = null; XmlTextReader reader = null; MemoryStream msHtml = null; ...

Need .NET library fo converting TIFF files to PDF

Does anyone know of a good .NET library to convert TIFF files, that may be multi-page, to PDF files? The TIFF files are stored on a file share, and the PDF files need to be stored in the same location as the TIFF file. The tool is supposed to be used for converting high volumes of TIFF files. ...

Print without the print-specific CSS

I'd like to print http://www.delicious.com/tags/engmark to PDF (Using Firefox on Linux, if possible), but the result looks rubbish. How can I print without taking into account the print-specific CSS (which I think is loaded by the enormous JS on the site)? I tried to disable print CSS in the Web Developer extension, but that didn't affec...

Populating a FieldType: Choice field with multiple options using an FDF via Pdftk in PHP

I am using Pdftk and pdftk-php (which is based on forge-fdf). I'd like to generate an FDF that can be merged with a PDF to fill out a dropdown text box with multiple options. The way pdftk-php works by default, it will only fill dropdowns with a single value; passing it an array doesn't work. Here is the relevant output from pdftk filen...

Getting data from a PDF using C#

I have a preexisting PDF with several drop down combo boxes. I would like to be able to get the list of options from these combo boxes in a C# program. I have looked at iText but have not been able to figure out if it can do what I want it to. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance! ...

What does setTextMatrix of contentByte class in iText do?

I am using iText and am very new to it. There have been several situations where I think I could have figured out the problem with my code if I knew what I was doing - I use examples without knowing the workings behind the code, and even as I look at the source I can't figure out what the programmer was thinking. What does setTextMatri...