Hi, I'm building a pet project which needs to convert pdf and ppt files to flash swf files on the server side. This should look similar to what Scribd, Docstoc or Slideshare these websites do. But after some googling, I couldn't find any open source tools or libraries to do this except the OpenOffice wrapper. So I'm wondering how those ...
Does anybody know of a open source Java library that will do robust diffing the text parts of pdf files? Ideally I would like something that would produce a diff in the for of a patch. ...
We've got 4 printers with identical trays/paper configured in a pool. Multiple jobs can be submitted and it will kind of round-robin send the jobs to the printers per whichever one is idle. That works good, but.. We're working on a new application that is web-based and produces PDF output files. A "set" of data might involve 3 different ...
Hi, When I assign a new command and call it at the beginning of a \par the space between the variable text and next word is missing. \newcommand{\testcmd}{This is a test} \par \testcmd foobar. Will be rendered as: This is a testfoobar. \par foo \testcmd bar. Renders fine as: foo This is a test bar. Anyone come across this before ...
What is the preferred method of creating simple reports on the iPhone-SDK platform? I'm thinking that ideally I could create PDFs and display them, is this feasible? Are there some built-in facilities, some available libraries? ...
Hi, i wanna convert any Excel or Doc file to PDF with C# (ASP.NET) .. Is there any component or any other solution for this ? Thanx ...
I need to be able to take multiple images and save them to a file that can then be read by a graphics program like Photoshop or Illustrator and edited. I need to be able to do this in a C#/.Net environment. It looks like PDF's have the capabilities to do layers but I am not sure if any of the free components like PDFSharp will support ...
Yesterday I was trying to batch convert a group of PPTs into PDFs for a friend, and I decided to have a look at PowerShell, since it's been sitting on my HD for a while. Here's the code I've come up with. $p = new-object -comobject powerpoint.application # I actually don't know why I have to set the window to visible, # but it doesn'...
I have a link to a file not on my server: <a href="history.nasa.gov/monograph15b.pdf">NASA</a> I would like to make it so that when a visitor clicks on the link to download, the name that would pop up for the PDF would be NASA.pdf, and not monograph15b.pdf. Is this possible in any language? Thanks ...
Hi I need to be able to take EPS and PDF's and convert them to JPEG/PNG on the fly to display on a website - using .net code. I used ADC PDF from WebSupergoo for this like 3 years ago, and it worked fine - but some other and better options could easily have surfaced since then. ...
I need to choose a good template engine to generate documents in our application. The requirements are: Generate Microsoft Word and PDF at least Good templating capabilities including support for simple replacable parameters, arrays/lists, and hierarchies if possible Allow to include custom graphics Ideally templates should be editable...
Hello, how can I can export the data shown on a DBgrid to a pdf file? ...
I want to read PDF files from my .net application. Are there any free libraries available to do this? ...
How do I change this bit of code so that I only allow pdf files to be uploaded: unless @file.content_type =~ /^image/ errors.add(:file, "is not a recognized format") return false end ...
Clutching at straws here, I think I remember seeing a solution to this somewhere but can't find it now. The issue is that I need a Windows application (not .Net) to be able to generate PDFs. The "standard" solution is to use something like PDF995 or CutePDF which create a dummy printer that your application can then print to and it is ...
I have a web page (XHTML 1.0 Transitional) which I want to convert to PDF on server and mail the same to an email id as attachment. The web page is dynamically loaded with information that comes from 4 different table from MySQL. So it is not a static HTML page. The solution should work on almost servers whether they are linux or windo...
We're webifying a winforms app with a mix of active reports and crystal reports. All will somehow be converted to PDF. There are so many tools out there. Anyone have experience with/recommendations for tools that we can use? SQL Reports are one possibility, but I'd like to explore other options instead of just taking what initially seem...
I want to write a script to rename downloaded papers with their titles automatically, I'm wondering if there is any library or tricks i can make use of? The PDFs are all generated by TeX and should have some 'formal' structures. ...
Is there a tool or programming method available to take the layout defined in a PDF and import it into Sql Server Reporting Services 2005? Quite a few layouts are created as PDFs by third parties. It would make development a lot easier if I could use some of the layout already defined. ...
I have a daily cron job that email PDFs to customers. I want to get a measure of how many of those PDF files are opened. What techniques are available? The standard technique in a web page is to include an img tag with a src reference to a server endpoint that records the ping. But it seems that PDF doesn't allow external image refere...