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TCPDF PDF forms, signing certificates and how to enable user's rights

This is driving me completely and utterly nuts... Basically I have a PDF form generated by TCPDF and want to set the user rights (using setUserRights) for that PDF so that users can save the form with the data they inputted. The TCPDF manual isn't really helpful at this particular point and states that you need a "signing certificate" to...

prawn PDF: I need to generate nested tables

I need a table where rows are actually 2 rows tables, a nested table that is.. How can I do that in prawn? Maybe I need an extension.. but which one? ...

Inclusion of hash marks in a LaTeX \indexentry aliased with a \newcommand

This is a strange one. I've had to do some interesting workarounds to get it to function even a little bit, but we have another stumbling block. I've been struggling to create a separate document which employs a large .ind file (index created using makeindex from catenated, small individual .idx files), the idea being that I will event...

Automated obscuring of PDF content

Hello I'm looking for a tool which will allow me to automate the task of obscuring a certain section of content contained within a PDF. The PDF content is essentially one big image which contains some sensitive information, and it is this information we need to ensure is not readable. Any tips for where I should start looking for such...

java2pdf,how to set the height of cell

java project well,i have to make pdf file. i use com.lowagie.text.Table and com.lowagie.text.Cell i put many Cell in one Table. each Cell's width can be assign.but the height cannot. so the pdf file is not very beautiful.the height really sucks me.anyone can help me ?thanks ...

Open a pdf with PHP and place text in it

I have a PDF which has an image on it (a logo) I want to open it with PHP and write some text over it and save it back to the file system. I've done this with the Zend framework before but this project is using code igniter so I need either a standalone lib or a code igniter plugin. thanks ...

Haskell: parsing PDF

What I need is to read pdf, make some transformations (generate TOC bookmarks) and write it back. I found this http://hackage.haskell.org/package/HPDF , but it only mentions generating pdf, not the parsing (although I could have missed it) Haskell is chosen purely for (self)educational purposes. ...

Use PHP to bind fields to a PDF template

I have various clients each sending me many pdf templates of application forms. My clients want me to export user information from my database and bind it to the templates. So for example, I have a pdf called "Fitness Form" and in it are empty fields (text, checkboxes) such as first name, last name, height, weight etc... I need to take...

PDF to FLASH Converter

Hi, Is there any free library available which I can use in asp.net and C# which convert pdf to flash/swf. Thanks ...

rendering pdf on webside ala google documents

In a current project i need to display PDFs in a webpage. Right now we are embedding them with the Adobe PDF Reader but i would rather have something more elegant (the reader does not integrate well, it can not be overlaid with transparent regions, ...). I envision something close google documents, where they display PDFs as image but a...

Crystal Reports Cutting Off Text in PDF

I saw the other post with a similar title but there was no answer to my problem and I was unable to post a comment so I'm asking a new question. I have a Crystal Report that contains a field within a text object (to control line spacing) and has "can grow" selected. When I export the Crystal Report to a PDF there are instances when th...

How do I display PDFs in browsers without Acrobat plugin

If similar question has been already posted, I am sorry for the duplicate. Our intranet site has links to a lot of pdfs. But most of our users dont have pdf plugin installed. So they couldn't see any of these files. Installing pdf plugins for the browsers in their machines has been ruled out. we dont know why, but it might be some se...

SSRS 2008 - PDF files cannot be opened

Hi there, For some time, PDF files generated with SSRS 2008 do not open in most versions of Acrobat Reader (it used to work with almost all versions of Acrobat Reader) Acrobat Reader 5, 8.1.3, 9.1.3, 9.2, Foxit Reader : works fine Acrobat 8.x (other than 8.1.3), 9.1.0, 9.3 : does not work, Acrobat Reader freezes. Sometimes it eventually...

how can i make a HTML submit button which hand you/generate a PDF?

Example provided would be helpful. ...

Barcode gnerator in a pdf document

Hi, I am using ASP.NET and I want to create a barcode in a pdf document by means of a third party component. Then I want to send this pdf document as an attachment. Do you have any ideas how can I do this? Thanks ...

iText - Modifying PDFWriter# Verticle Alignment manually

Ive hit upon a problem using iText (java), despite hours of looking thru the docs.. Most of the code I use goes via the Document# API which tracks (via the PDFWriter instance) the current Y position. HOWEVER, we need to use the PdfContentByte part of the API to insert some Java2d into the document, but in doing so this appears to bypas...

Create pdf file with ghostscript

Hello, I'm using SCO Unix, with old version of ghostscript (7.7). When I convert the postscript source file to pdf otput file, It's content is visible on the SCO machine. But when I copy the pdf file into windows, and open it with adobe acrobat, all I can see is a blank page. Does anybody have a solution to this? ...

What does the JS function 'postMessage()' do when called on an html object tag?

I was recently searching for a way to call the print function on a PDF I was displaying in adobe air. I solved this problem with a little help from this fellow, and by calling postMessage on my PDF like so: //this is the HTML I use to view my PDF <object id="PDFObj" data="test.pdf" type="application/pdf"/> ... //this actionscript live...

best way to export data from pdfs

Hi i work at a news paper and we are lookin a way to make archieve material available. Atm our pages come in pdf format so we need a way to export text and images from the pdf so that they can be added to a database. We've had a look at the News studio plugin for Adobe Acrobat from Iceni Technology, but just wondering if anyone else kno...

How do I convert a PDF file to HTML in PHP?

How do I convert a PDF file to HTML in PHP? Is there any lib or web service? I mean free, thanks! ...