what is the easiest(and fastest) way to perform this kind of transformation: "Data in XML" to "Some MS Word 2003 Supported format" to PDF using Java? My first guess was to fill the template with XML data (using Placeholders for example) and then save it and convert it to PDF. But I can't just put placeholders to DOC files, and I can't c...
Not sure exactly how to word this question ... so edits are welcomed! Anyway ... here goes. I am currently use Crystal Reports to generated Pdfs and just stream the output to the user. My code looks like the following: System.IO.MemoryStream stream = new System.IO.MemoryStream(); stream = (System.IO.MemoryStream)this.Report.ExportTo...
I often get a PDF from our designer (built in Adobe InDesign) which is supposed to be sent out to thousands of people. I've got the list with all the people, and it's easy doing a mail merge in OpenOffice.org. However, OpenOffice.org doesn't support the advanced PDF. I just want to output some text onto each page and print it out. Here...
I need a Java library to convert PDFs to TIFF images. The PDFs are faxes, and I will be converting to TIFF so that I can then do barcode recognition on the image. Can anyone recommend a good library (free or $$) for conversion from PDF to TIFF? ...
I've inherited a legacy application that is supposed to grab an on the fly pdf from a reporting services server. Everything works fine up until the point where you try to open the pdf being returned and adobe acrobat tells you: Adobe Reader could not open 'thisStoopidReport'.pdf' because it is either not a supported file type or ...
What is the best and easiest way of taking HTML and converting it into a PDF, similar to use CFDOCUMENT on ColdFusion? UPDATE: I really appreciate all the comments and suggestions that people have given so far, however I feel that people leaving their answers are missing the point. 1) the solution has to be free or open sourced. one pe...
Hi, I have an application where a user can download a PDF for printing. I want to be able to resrict the number of copies that can be printed. Is it possible to digitally sign/restrict a PDF in this way? Regards ...
Open source implementation will be preferred. ...
Hi, I have a SSRS report. When i tried to export to PDF it was taking 4 pages due to its width., where the 2nd and 4th pages were displaying one of my field from the table. So i tried to set the layout size in report properties as width=18in and height =8.5in. It gave me the whole table in a single page of PDF. But I am getting 2nd and ...
I have a situation where in a web application a user may need a variable list of PDFs to be printed. That is, given a large list of PDFs, the user may choose an arbitrary subset of that list to print. These PDFs are stored on the file system. I need a method to allow users to print these batches of PDFs relatively easily (thus, asking th...
Hi, I am giving link of a pdf file on my web page for download, like below Download Brochure The problem is when user clicks on this link then If the user have installed Adobe Acrobat, then it opens the file in the same browser window in Adobe Reader. If the Adobe Acrobat is not installed then it pop-up to the user for Downloading t...
Hi, I am using Scribd API (www.scribd.com) to display the PDF files in my website. I just want to know is there any other PDF API which i can use to embed the PDF in my website. FASTER and MORE customizable than Scribd, Mainly i want to put my company logo in that API, whereas in scribd they are displaying there logo. So just want to k...
We currently send an email notification in plain text or html format. Our environment is C#/.NET/SQL Server. I'd like to know if anyone recommends a particular solution. I see two ways of doing this: dynamically convert current email to pdf using a third party library and sending the pdf as an attachment or use SSRS to allow us...
Sorry if this is a little off-topic for regular stackoverflow questions, but we're tearing our hair out on this one. We've got a batch of about 3500 3-page PDFs to print (all ok so far) the problem we've got is that it's vital they print in a specific order (ascending by filename). Our spooler seems to randomize the printrun. Any ideas...
I'm signing PDF's using iText. I'm including a graphic in the signature. This works, but the green checkmark (or yellow question mark) that shows when the document is verified interferes with the graphic I inserted, making the end result look ugly. It either shows up above or below the signature graphic, but I can't get it to disappear....
In C++ I'm generating a PDF report with libHaru. I'm looking for someway to append two pages from an existing PDF file to the end of my report. Is there any free way to do that? Thanks. ...
Hi, Can anyone recommend a program to create user manuals with? Not a markup language (like LaTeX or DocBook) but more something interactive like Scribus. As I'm not the only one that will update the manual the software should be something that's easy for a novice to pick up but still has some advanced features (like linking in text f...
The company I work for we have a CBT system we have developed. We have to go through and create books out of the content that is in our system, I have developed a program that goes through and downloads all of the content out of our system and creates a offline version of the different training modules. I created a program that creates ...
I am looking for the bare minimum in PDF creation here. I need to specify fonts, and embed a few images, nothing fancy. ...
Can Doxygen create the HTML documentation as a single, very long file? I want something like the RTF output, but as HTML. The reason: I need my API published as a single, printable, document. Something that can be loaded into Word, converted to PDF, etc. Thanks. ...