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Convert PowerPoint (ppt) to PDF using C/Objective-C (maybe even on an iPhone)

Greetings, I'd like to convert a PointPoint file to PDF using C/Objective-C (bonus points if you suggest a solution that could run on an iPhone directly). There are a number of Java libraries to work with MSFT files (odftoolkit, apache poi), but I'd really like to perform this operation on an iPhone device. Apple has built in libraries...

Help programmatically add text to an existing PDF

I need to write a program that displays a PDF which a third-party supplies. I need to insert text data in to the form before displaying it to the user. I do have the option to convert the PDF in to another format, but it has to look exactly like the original PDF. C++ is the preferred language of choice, but other languages can be inve...

Convert a file into PDF with a Visual Basic script

Hi, I'd like to know how to convert a file into PDF when I'm programming in VB. Do you have the script or if there is a pre-defined function, what is it's name? Thanks ...

itextsharp table text overlapping

Hi, A website im working on creates a pdf document using itextsharp xml but for some reason when content in a table row is split between two pages the content is falling into the next column and overlapping on the next page. Has anyone come across this issue before and if so any fizes? Any help would be much appreciated. John ...

pdf resize in browser before opening

Response.ContentType = "Application/pdf"; string FilePath = Server.MapPath("reliance.pdf"); Response.WriteFile(FilePath); Response.End(); How can we resize the pdf file before it gets open in browser....can you tell me? thanks ...

Winnovative HTMLtoPDF converter, add a Watermark

Has anyone used the Winnovative HTMLtoPDF converter to generate a PDF from HTML content? And if so, has anyone successfully put a watermark on any or all pages of that resulting PDF? ...

How to add pdfsharp lib in C#

i am new to C#.net,i had downloaded pdfsharp lib. but how to add those lib in our project. My project is create a pdf file.Plz provide me step/step instruction. After unziping it has 32 folders. i tried by coping it in my pro folder. but same error come. "The type or namespace name 'PdfSharp' could not be found (are you missing a using ...

(414) Request-URI Too Large when creating pdf in asp.net

I'm using the following code (asp.net) to show a pdf for the user: Response.ContentType = "Application/pdf"; Response.AddHeader("Content-Disposition", "attachment; filename=thePdf.pdf"); //data contains a pdf created with iTextSharp Response.OutputStream.Write(data, 0, datalength); Response.End(); Sometimes the users gets an error. I...

Adding external images to PDF using iText

I'm having trouble figuring out how to add an external image (referenced by a URL) to a PDF using iText. Is this kind of thing possible? The PDF spec in 7.1.5 says you should be able to reference a PDF via a URL by using a URL specification. This is what I've got so far: PdfFileSpecification pdfSpec = PdfFileSpecification.url(writ...

Comparing two PDF documents that are digitized faxes

I did a fair bit of looking around on the board before I posted here but I didn't see anything that captured what I was hoping to do. We receive a large number of inbound faxes (500+ pages/day) as separate documents (around 100+ documents/day). Quite often the sender (being a hospital) resends the same document a couple hours after the ...

Different colors for links when displayed on screen vs. in print?

Is it possible to have different colors for on screen and hardcopy display of hyperref links in the same file? In my thesis, I like the functionality of linking reference numbers to the reference entry in the bibliography and I like having the pubmed links in the bibliography work. Having the links be blue or red helps indicate that the...

how to copy only body of pdf file using itextsharp or pdfsharp in C#

I am still waiting for the reply from you all. I really need your support.......plz I am developing a project called pdf recovery. In that i want to just copy the body of file into another pdf file using itextsharp C# lib. i want to parse entire file as soon as i get body i.e. " 1 0 obj<<....>>endobj " according to pdf reference. t...

reading a pdf, adding text/images to it and write the modified pdf in rails

I want to use PDF::writer to put some dates on a calendar sheet. The calendar sheet itself is prepared as a prerendered template in PDF format. How could I read this PDF as template to write text on it? Is there an alternative? Fiddling with an HTML-to-PDF converter (like HTMLDoc) is no option. ...

Advanced PDF Parsing Using Python (extracting text without tables, etc.): What's the Best Library?

I'm looking for a PDF library which will allow me to extract the text from a PDF document. I've looked at PyPDF, and this can extract the text from a PDF document very nicely. The problem with this is that if there are tables in the document, the text in the tables is extracted in-line with the rest of the document text. This can be prob...

Close pop up window after binary file is sent to browser

Hi, Is there a way to close a pop up window after the page writes binary data (PDF) to the browswer? Here are the details: Whenever my web appilcation needs to print, it will pass some parameters over to a pop up window, which will display the print options. When the user clicks on the Print button, it will set the src of a iframe t...

How to add a form field to an existing pdf with itextsharp?

How to add a form field to an existing pdf with itextsharp? I have an existing pdf document, I'd like to add form fields to it without creating a copy and writing out a new document. ...

How can I programatically convert SVG files containing text to PDF files (specifically on CentOS 5.3 x86_64)?

I would like to programatically convert SVG files to PDF files. However, the SVG files contain text that must be searchable in the generated PDF files. Also, it has to work on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3 or CentOS 5.3 for the x86_64 architecture. It would be nice if it were Open Source or at least not very expensive. Here is what I've ...

Displaying PDF to user

We're providing a web form whereby users fill in their personal information; some of it is sensitive information (SSN, Birthday, etc). Upon user submission, the data is prefilled into a PDF which is then made available via a link. We are creating the PDF in a folder that has write access on the website. How can we safely create an...

How to have pdf viewer in ruby

How can I embeded pdf viewer in ruby on rail? Now I tried <embed src="MyPdfDocument.pdf" width="500" height="375"> but it doesn't work. I used firebug and see the error like this [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE) [nsIStreamListener.onStopRequest]" nsresult: "0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE)"...

modifying text in Editable Pdf files

Hi, I am working on a project and I need to insert data into specified fields in an editabble pdf file using a C# program.I am not very familiar with editable pdf files and programatically modifing field data using C#. Does anyone know of any C# open-source APIs available in .net for filling Editable pdf files? thanks nRk ...