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How does PDF's BitsPerComponent translate to Bits Per Pixel for images?

My goal is to convert a PDF into an image (specifically in TIFF). There is a PDF property called BitsPerComponent And According to description on the page, This property can take the value 1, 2, 4, 8 or 16. Other values are not supported in the PDF Specification Does that mean, 1, 2, 4, 8 or 16 translates to bits per pixel in im...

Acrobat Context Menu

When a user right clicks in acrobat the context menu that pops out, is it customizable Can I Add menu items to it ...

Best way to edit PDF's

I need to make additions and modifications to a PDF (Footnotes) What tool or tools are the best/easiest way to do it. ...

How can I compile first 2 pages of 24 pages in a Latex document?

My work has over 24 pages in Latex. I need only the abstract and introduction in pdf. How can you compile only the first two pages? ...

What are the best ways to convert MS word file to image or pdf preferably using java?

I want to convert MS word formatted documents to images and pdf. I am well versed with Java. I was looking for apis using which I can do the same. Can anyone please point me to that ? If you know the best alternatives even though they are for other languages , please update me about that. ...

Apache PDF digital signatures

Hi, I have a website with a directory listing of all the pdf files which I have uploaded via ftp. By clicking any of the file names, the pdf document will show up in your web browser. Is it possible for outside parties to digitally signed the document in the web browser and save it back into the server with a appended "signed" on the fi...

How to open a file using JavaScript?

I have a servlet that write a pdf file as a ByteArrayOutputStream to the servlet's output stream. If I open the servlet URL the browser opens the file. But if occur an error on the servlet, the browser opens an empty pdf with an error message. Sending an error through the ServletResponse the browser opens the default error page. I want ...

HTML to PDF - Bad performance

I´m using ExpertPDF (library for .NET C#) for converting HTML to PDF and my problem is that it takes a lot of time to do this. Are there any customizations that will improve the conversion? The HTML-page contains table-data with just a few images, so it is not that complex. Have anyone else ever experienced this problem, or do you re...

Redirect files to simple form before downloading

Hi I am trying to redirect all links to any pdf file in my site to a page with a form in it that collects user info before they can proceed to download/view the pdf. Eg I want to redirect *.pdf files in web site to request.php?file=name_of_pdf_being_redirected Where request.php is the page with the form on it asking for a few details ...

Generating a PDF file of an aspx page without displaying it.

From my code I display an .aspx page with infragistics chart controls in it. I want to send out the same .aspx page as a PDF attachement through email without displaying the .aspx page on the screen. How can this be done. ...

What's a good theoretical MAX_SIZE when managing email attachments?

I'm working on a part of a website where I generate PDFs, attach them to an email and send it off. Right now I am not tracking the current sum of the sizes of all the PDFs to be attached to the email, but I suspect at one point that I should. My question boils down to: What is a good theoretical *MAX_SIZE* that you should go by when ma...

XLS to PDF conversion inside .net

I've been looking extensively for a tool that takes an existing XLS file and converts it to PDF that then gets saved out to disk. The catch is I need to be able to call it from within my .net console application, which eliminates most tools I've looked at. Has anyone used something like this that they would recommend? My client is will...

Response.WriteFile PDF files - corrupted files

I am having problem with writing PDF files to browser. Other mime types work fine. PDF files become corrupted. FileInfo file = new FileInfo(Path.Combine(_module.FileDir, _file.FilePath)); Response.ClearContent(); Response.ClearHeaders(); Response.ContentType = _file.ContentType; Response.AppendHea...

LaTex for .NET

I am using ItextSharp to generate PDF. Part of our output, we have a lot of math related content. Maybe we can use some kind of Latex library to feed the result to ItextSharp to produce PDF. I have been googling for a while now but found nothing. Do you know if there is a latex library for .NET exists? Also, do you know if ItextSharp ...

Is it possible to have a PDF file open at a predefined magnification in Adobe Reader?

We have a downloadable PDF file which looks great at 72% magnification in Adobe Reader and not so good at 101%. When downloaded and opened in the reader, its default magnification is 101%. Is there a way to define the default magnification in the PDF file itself so that we ensure the best user experience? Thank you! ...

how to disable the default toolbar of pdf page

Dear All, I need to provide some security of pdf page by disable the toolbar, no right click, no text selection, no cope-paste. Can anyone please tell me how to achieve this ? ...

PDF Data source in Informatica

How does Informatica handle unstructured data sources like PDF. If a tabular report is stored as a PDF, can we read it out from PDF as a tabular data (like a data table in .net)? ...

C# Process object doesn't open PDF

I am creating dynamically a PDF file. After creating I want to open the pdf file. For that I am using this code: System.Diagnostics.Process p = new System.Diagnostics.Process(); p = new System.Diagnostics.Process(); p.StartInfo.FileName = CreatePDF(); // method that creats my pdf and returns the full path try { ...

Read Pdf with C

I want to be able to read the content of pdf files. I need to do that with C on Linux. The closer i can get to this was here but I think Haru can only create pdf and is not able to read them (not 100% sure). PS: I only need the plain text from pdf ...

Ruby: Reading PDF files

I'm looking for a fast and reliable way to read/parse large PDF files in Ruby (on Linux and OSX). Until now I've found the rather old and simple PDF-toolkit (a pdftotext-wrapper) and PDF-reader, which was unable to read most of my files. Though the two libraries provide exactly the functionality I was looking for. My question: Have I ...