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Looking for a library to draw an org cart in Java

I have a tree structure that represents an org chart and I need to output the tree in PDF form. I have looked at Prefuse, JFreeChart, yFiles and JGraph but all seem to require that I write some logic. Has anyone done this before? Can anyone recommend a good library to use? Jeff ...

How to automate repetitive actions in pdf and Irfan view

I am doing some repetitive actions in pdf (like Document -> Crop Pages -> select top bottom etc and in irfanview (File -> Batch Conversion -> Advanced -> Load Settings etc) Can someone please suggest what is the best way for automating it. (Too boring to do it manually :( ) ...

How to transfer pdf file from the mail box to our iphone app?

Hi, I want to transfer a PDF received in my inbox to my application. Once I received an email with a PDF attachment and on clicking the attachment it is asking for "view it" and shows the application which supports opening PDF, after clicking the app pdf is opened in that app.In my case I have created an app which will open a pdf file. ...

Extracting text from PDF : PDFLib vs PDF extract vs pdf2xml

Hi there, I am looking for a library (if possible available in Java or PHP) in order to extract text from a PDF. There is a lot of software available, including: 3-Heights™ PDF Extract http://www.pdf-tools.com/pdf/pdf-extract-content-metadata-text.aspx PDFlib TET – Text Extraction Toolkit http://www.pdflib.com/products/tet/ PDF2XML ht...

Writing PDF using PHP (PDFLib)

Hi! I'm currently writing a code to output a pdf file in PHP using PDFlib from http://www.pdflib.com/. The problem is all html tag is also written in the output file. How can be able to cancel out all those tags? Here is my sample code. $postVariable = $_POST; $contentData = ""; foreach($postVariable as $ke...

PDF upload by user in Drupal

Hello all, I am developing a site for an International Conference. I want the registered users to upload their research papers in pdf format using a form. I have no previous experiences working with a CMS. ...

.NET 3.5 - Open a PDF directly from stream in native viewer.

I'm working on a WinForms C# 3.0 / .NET 3.5 project involving building some canned reports. One of the requirements of the project is to export to PDF format, and currently doing so to disk is working just fine. The question was raised, however, if it's possible to export the file to a stream and open it directly in the native viewer o...

TCPDF Wrapping Text around an object.

Simple question. Let's say that I have a Cell full of text and I want to have a smaller Cell in the middle that has some related information in it. Is there function or feature in TCPDF that allows text in the bigger cell to wrap cleanly around the text in the smaller, inner cell? ...

Embed a local PDF in HTML page

Situation: Web application running on a remote server is displaying PDFs. PDF document is stored on client's PC (location is known). Is there any way to embed that PDF into HTML page with local path? p.s.: So far i tried "object", "embed" and "iframe" and with no success. I tried with file://, file:///, and without, URL with slashes a...

Offline dataentry options

Are there any options available to do offline surveys and questionnaires. Something in the line similar to Adobe Lifecycle that allows coded pdf files. Its costly and there are about 10-15 templates which will also add up to the license cost. MSWord and MS-Excel are options but there could be users that do not have these installed or us...

Viewing pdf bytestream without saving it in Android

Ref: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2883355/how-to-render-pdf-in-android/ I have a bytestream with PDF contents and want to display the same in my android app. Is there a way I can do that without saving it as a physical file? For security reasons: I want the user to be able to just view the PDF and not store it in the phone memory ...

Any good FDF tutorial?

Does any one know of a good tutorial on how to fill a pdf document fields using the fdf file format? I could find some but mostly in php (which I don't know). If it's in any of the following programming languages, that'll be great: VB6 C# VB.NET Visual Foxpro Thanks in advance, EGB ...

Rendering a PDF in a Grails Web Flow end state

I am using the Rendering plugin to generate a PDF from within a Web Flow. The problem is that I cannot get my end state to return the PDF response. If I call: renderPdf(template: "/letter/generate/createpdf", model: [letter: flow.letter], filename: 'doc.pdf') From within my end state action, it still tries to return an end state view....

PDF: How to Optimize Filesize & Convert to PNG (embedded fonts problem)

I have a PDF with embedded fonts that I can't seem to work with. Right now, I'm using GhostScript and trying to do 2 things: Minimize filesize of PDF: gswin32c -dSAFER -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -dQUIET -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=output.pdf input.pdf Convert PDF to PNG (super sample, to be used for creating other thumbnails): gswin32c -dS...

PHP: How to tell if PDF has embedded fonts?

Given a PDF document, is there a way to tell if it has embedded fonts? I'm working on the problem posted here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3774995/pdf-how-to-optimize-filesize-convert-to-png-embedded-fonts-problem. Perhaps I can rework some of my application's logic based on whether a PDF has embedded fonts or not. ...

Set PDF document to first page on browser refresh.

I am embedding PDF documents within html (using embed) and been trying to force set it to first page whenever there's refresh inside the browser but to no result and almost exhausted all methods I could think of already, namely: Adding page=1 to the url parameter.- Adding random hash value to the end of the filename as extra parameter....

Creating pdf from .net mvc view

Hello Everyone, i m using asp.net mvc2 for my application. i have a view that accepts a model and renders its data in some format. i want this page to be converted into pdf file so it can be sent via attachment or created and downloaded on the fly. i have some success creating pdf with itextsharp library but they say it has very basic s...

Adobe Reader plugin forbids embedding PDFs from ouside domains

One part of web application is local digital signing using activex component. But I want to display a PDF that gets signed beforehand and after. Since documents can be quite large I would'n really want uploading them and then again downloading for displaying. Therefore I wanted to embed a PDF using local path (eg. file:///) but Adobe th...

Extract text from PDF at bookmark.

I need to extract the text from a PDF right at the place where a bookmark is. PDFBox extracts the whole page where the bookmark is, as explained here . But i need to extract the text starting with the bookmark. ...

Saving a PDF document to disk using Quartz.

Hello, I am trying to draw a pdf page onto a pdf context and then save it to disk. I cannot seem to figure out what is wrong. Can someone give me a few pointers. Thanks. - (void)testQuartz:(NSData *)pdfDocumentData { //Create the pdf document reference CGDataProviderRef dataProvider = CGDataProviderCreateWithCFData((CFDataRef...