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Looking for a free PDF Render library or command line utility

Good Day, I spent many hours looking for a free PDF (.NET or ActiveX) rendering library or command line utility that can be used in a commercial application. There are a few well-known tools and libs under GPL and numerous of expensive PDF Rendering libraries. GPL: xpdf, poppler, mupdf, GhostScript Commercial: PDFVew4Net, AbcPDF, Tall...

Automating Report Writing with Microsoft Office

I write compliance reports for work. I fill in a PDF form and click 'Yes' or 'No' to indicate whether the company is in compliance with a particular statute. I would like to have this form autopopulate my compliance report in Word with the company's name and the appropriate findings and corrective actions. Is this possible? If not, can...

HTML to PDF in c#

Hello, I'm trying to create an application that converts a file from the HTML format to the PDF format. The approach I am using is: HTML to XHTML XHTML to Formatting Object Formatting Object to PDF I'm having a bit of trouble with the whole XHTML to FO(or xsl). Can you please tell me how to transform the XHTML to FO? Or maybe a...

this operation is not permitted error in reader 6.0

Whenevar i try to fill the form and sumbit it by email one window is pop n say "this operation is not permitted". Please any one does know about it then please Help me out ...

joomla: How to force a php webpage to save as a pdf file

As an example, I have actually been able to generate excel files by changing the content-type for an html document. In this scenario, I would use php to generate the table cells with information gathered from the database and then set the content-type before the page is rendered. Is there a way to do this for pdf's? ...

Cannot view xps file inside iFrame. If iFrame is expanded than file shows up.

This only happens on windows XP and works fine on Windows 7. In our application we display many different file types. One them is xps. If iFrame window is big enough it displays fine but I make it smaller than I get the followin error: Event Type: Error Event Source: Application Error Event Category: None Event ID: 1000 Date: 10/13...

PDF Fields Parser using PDFBox

Hi, From PDF, i need to read the co-ordinates of the fields such as, ascent descent of the fields, using PDFBox API. The COS dictioanary object contains those information i guess. As of now i can able to retrieve the rect box of the fields which includes x,y,height and width. But i need to get the baseline which in turn depends on ascen...

iOS: Get "Received memory warning" after use of image created from PDF and used as background.

The task: create an image from a PDF file as fast background preview for my PDF displayed with the CATiledLayer (slower, higher resolution). Problem: I get pretty fast an error warning on my iPad "Received memory warning. Level=1" and shortly after "Received memory warning. Level=2" .. then the app crashes. - (void) drawSinglePage:(CAL...

PDF with embeded 3D content

Hi guys, Does anybody knows how in practice is possible to generate a PDF file with 3D content. I mean there is a help of Adobe itself on subject, but there are on JavaScript language basically, without specification (at least I didn't find it) how to use in practise. Does anyone of you did something like: get an STL file and embed it...

Inserting JavaScript into a PDF file with FOP

Hello, Does anyone know how to add JavaScript to a PDF file with the Apache FOP framework? We are already generating PDF files from our application which are presented to the user. But in addition to that we want to include the option to automatically print the document when it opens. After a lot of googling the only useful site we f...

Parse a pdf file

Hi ! I got a pdf like this one : 81 11005589 THING MAXIME 4 PC2I TR1 - MERCREDI DE 07H45 A 09H45 4A7 71 11007079 STUFF QUENTIN 1 PC2I TR1 - LUNDI DE 10H00 A 12H00 1B4 74 10506940 HAHA YEZHOU 2 PC2I TR1 - LUNDI DE 13H30 A 15H30 2D5 http://i.imgur.com/hbXg2.png And I need to parse it. What I mean by that is take the 4th column, add the...

PDF creation on iPhone: <Error>: invalid Type1 font: unable to stream font

Hi! I'm creating a PDF on the iPhone and this works almost brilliant. I just get one annoying error in the console when I draw text: <Error>: invalid Type1 font: unable to stream font I'm using the following code to do the text drawing: [title drawInRect:textRect withFont:[UIFont fontWithName:@"Helvetica-Bold" size:16]]; I've tri...

Compatibility with various PDF versions

As briefly discussed in this post and in a comment by the same author in this post, it seems as though as of PDF version 1.5 (circa 2003), Adobe is encoding the file format in their native applications (distiller, acrobat, etc.), which renders most open-source libraries unable to parse those files. PDF's generated by open-source librari...

How do I attach a rendered .pdf to an email in Rails?

My application creates a .pdf file when it is rendered by passing it to the URL (for example, domain.com/letter/2.pdf) It doesn't get saved anywhere. How can I make that actual pdf an attachment in an outbound email. Here is my mailer: def campaign_email(contact,email) subject email.subject recipients contact.email f...

PDF rendition on Sharepoint

I'm currently running a SharePoint 2007. The documents in my libraries will get a PDF rendition when they are approved. Is there a way to show the PDF rendition in stead of the file when browsing the libraries. Users should be able to edit these files when selecting edit from the context menu. Thanks ...

Accessing PDF-Content

Hi, I would like to access parts of pdf content. ABBYY-FineReader recognizes well the layout and tables but how can I access now these results? I tried with the pdf-a standard or the java library PDFBox without success. Thanks! ...

Change PDF metadata on iPhone using Quartz 2d

Hi all! How can I change the metadata of a PDF using Quartz 2d on iPhone? That's the way I get the CGPDFDictionaryRef: CFDataRef pdfDataRef = (CFDataRef)pdfData; CGDataProviderRef providerPDF = CGDataProviderCreateWithCFData(pdfDataRef); CGPDFDocumentRef pdfDocumentRef = CGPDFDocumentCreateWithProvider(providerPDF); CGPDFPageRef page...

PDF forms with LaTeX: how to create \TextField of exactly 4in width?

I'm using PDFLaTeX to create forms and ran into a problem with the \TextField macro that defines input fields: \TextField[width=4in,name=sample]{} The resulting field is a little wider than 4 inches and I don't understand why. The following example illustrates the problem by resulting in an overfull hbox which gets highlighted because...

how to convert text data to an pdf file and then attatched to mail

i have some data in text format and i want to convert that data to pdf format and then attatch to mail.. i dont want to open that pdf in app... ...

Can I extract Tables from PDF using Perl?

I need to extract table objects from PDF documents preferably programmatically using Perl. I am able to cut and paste to Excel, but the table would require quite a bit of manual editing once the data is imported into Excel. I've done some search, but so far it seems though most forums suggest that most APIs are very primitive. ...