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Reorder PDF Page Order

Is it possible to reorder an already generated PDF file programmatically, and using as little resources as possible, as this will need to be ran on ~8000 PDFs every month or so? We are currently using iTextSharp to merge the PDF’s in to larger PDF’s, but iTextsharp’s Documentation does not really explain much. ...

What is the best XSLT engine for Perl?

I would like to know what of the many XSLT engines out there works well with Perl. I will use Apache (2.0) and Perl, and I want to obtain PDFs and XHTMLs. I'm new to this kind of projects so any comment or suggestion will be welcome. Thanks. Doing a simple search on Google I found a lot and I suppose that there are to many more. ...

Programatically Parse a PDF File

I have a PDF file, which contains data that we need to import into a database. The files seem to be pdf scans of printed alphanumeric text. Looks like 10 pt. Times New Roman. Are there any tools or components that can will allow me to parse this text? Any advice is appreciated. Thanks. ...

Converting MS Word Documents to PDF in ASP.NET

Similar questions have been asked, but nothing exactly like mine, so here goes. We have a collection of Microsoft Word documents on an ASP.NET web server with merge fields whose values are filled in as a result of user form submissions. After the field merge, the server must convert the document to PDF and stream it down to the browser....

Printing to a pdf printer programatically

Hello II am trying to print an existing file to PDF programmatically in Visual Basic 2008. Our current relevant assets are: Visual Studio 2008 Professional Adobe Acrobat Professional 8.0 I thought about getting a sdk like ITextSharp, but it seem like overkill for what I am trying to do especially since we have the full version of Adob...

Programming texts and reference material for my Kindle DX, creating the ultimate reference device?

(Revisiting this topic with the release of the Kindle DX) Having owned both generation Kindle readers and now getting a Kindle DX; I'm very excited for true PDF handling on an e-ink device! An image of _Why's book on my Kindle (from my iPhone). This gives me a device capable of storing hundreds of thousands of pages that are full text...

Create destinations for all bookmarks in a PDF file with iText API

I'd like to write some Java code that takes a PDF document, and creates named destinations from all of the bookmarks. I'm thinking that the iText API is the easiest way of doing this, but I have never used the API before. How would you go about writing this sort of code with the iText API? Open, find bookmarks, create destinations, sav...

How to generate pdf files _with_ utf-8 multibyte characters using Zend Framework

Hello, I've got a "little" problem with Zend Framework Zend_Pdf class. Multibyte characters are stripped from generated pdf files. E.g. when I write aąbcčdeę it becomes abcd with lithuanian letters stripped. I'm not sure if it's particularly Zend_Pdf problem or php in general. Source text is encoded in utf-8, as well as the php source...

Every now and then, ABCpdf runs out of memory

The project I'm on is using a 3rd party component to build dynamic PDFs in a VB.Net web system called ABCpdf.Net. (not a terrible tool, but not a great one either.) Every now and then, for reasons I can't fathom, the document object throws a SEHException. Digging futher, it turns out this is caused by a custom exception in the documen...

How can I automate HTML-to-PDF conversions?

I've been using htmldoc for a while, but I've run into some fairly serious limitations. I need the end solution to work on a Linux box. I'll be calling this library/utility/application from a Perl app, so any Perl interfaces would be a bonus. ...

Get the list of hyperlinks in a PDF file

I have a pdf file.I need to find all the hyperlinks available in that file and then make change on those links. I am using C# and I'd rather not to use a third party tool! ...

What is a good PDF report generator tool for python?

What is a good tool for PDF report generation in Python? I've checked out ReportLab, but it seems to be awfully low-level for what I want to do. My current hunch is to call TeX on the command-line and let it produce the PDF, but if there is something that is easier to work with (and looks professional - We'll send this to customers) I'd ...

Generating a Reporting Services 2005 PDF report and storing it on disk

Is there an easy way to generate a PDF report from an RDL that's been uploaded to Report Manager and put that file somewhere on the server's disk? I already have a location on disk to put the file, I just need to know how to programmatically generate the PDF. This is for SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services. Code in either VB or C# is fine...

How do I display a large pdf in a c# application?

I have a windows c# application and I want to display a pdf file, located on a webserver, in an acrobat com object added to my form. pdf.loadfile(@"http://somewhere.com/nowwhere.pdf") As my pdf is large, the application seems to hang till the entire file is loaded. I want to read the large file without the user being under the perc...

Cocoon 2.2? Is it worthwhile or bad news?

Hi, I am looking to use Cocoon for a couple of sites I am creating. I will make heavy use of xml, xsl and conversion to html, pdf and excel on the sites. I am attracted to coccon as it implements these functions quite well. I guess I am just wondering if anyone has used it and like it, or if they found it was more trouble than it's wo...

How can I convert my current page to pdf after some content dynamically added via AJAX?

I have found some libraries or web services in PHP that does the job. The problem is that the conversion is done when the page is fully loaded, I would like to convert the page to PDF after some content dynamically added via AJAX in onload event. Thank you very much, Omar ...

Firefox Links to local or network pages do not work

I have a .asp application where image files (.PDF) are stored in a directory (fed by a copier/scanner). The created filenames are stored in a database table, When a query is launched from the web page a link to the file is created. When clicked the image should be displayed. This functionality works 100% in Internet Explorer. No suck lu...

How to save a PDF file Using NHibernate and SQL Server 2005

I'm developing a webapp where the user is given the chance to upload his resume in pdf format. I'm using NHibernate as a data mapper and MS SQL SERVER 2005. I want to be able to save the .pdf file to a given table... any ideas? Thank you very much! ...

What is a good way to output an asp.net, C# GridView into a PDF.

I tried using the Microsoft ReportingControls but found them overly cumbersome, with too little documentation. I'd like a simple control that would convert a GridView control into a PDF document. I've started looking into PDFSHarp and am running into dead ends with documentation. Same thing with iTextSharp. I'm willing to dig into th...