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Printing pdf without opening

Hello there, I want to open a PDF-print dialog (not regular browser dialog) without visually opening the document so that I can print a pdf without having the header and footer information from a regular webpage print. I know this is possible, because I have seen it in the past on a postal service website for printing postage labels, b...

Alternative to latex / a way to typeset good looking documents from Java to PDF

I'm working on application in Java that will maintain database of song lyrics in plain text and print out some songbooks/chordbooks(that is create PDF file from selected songs). I was planing that the Java application will generate source code for pdflatex and after compiling this source user will get PDF file. Lately I've run into a lo...

PHP to Mesh 2 PDF'S Together or not?

I have an already pre-designed PDF, and I would like to fill the PDF with some database information. So I'm curious if I should save the PDF into JPG's and render them out with the data on top of the image and re-create a PDF. Or is there a way to use the PDF already, and print data into the PDF that is already made? I am trying to fi...

Cocoa-Created PDF Not Rendering Correctly

I've created a PDF on the iPad, but the problem is when you have a line of text greater than 1 line, the content just goes off the page. This is my code: void CreatePDFFile (CGRect pageRect, const char *filename) { CGContextRef pdfContext; CFStringRef path; CFURLRef url; CFMutableDictionaryRef myDictionary = NULL; path = CFStringCr...

Adding text over existing PDFs using reportlab

I'm interested in filling out existing PDF forms programatically. All I really need to do is pull information from user input and then place the appropriate text over an existing PDF in the appropriate locations. I can already do this with reportlab by feeding the same sheet of paper into a printer, twice, but this just really rubs me th...

What is the process of turning HTML into Postscript programmatically

I am trying to understand what the process is of turning HTML into a PDF/Postscript programmatically All Google searches turn up libraries to do this, but I am more interested in the actual process required. I know you could just set up a Postscript printer and print directly to that, but some of these libraries appear to create the ...

PHP - How to combine / merge multiple pdf's

Hi, I have some pdf documents on a linux server that I want to combine together to form one document using PHP 5? Does anyone know if this can be done? Thanks ...

first using of JPanel with NB6.5

how to show a JPanel components from many other jPanel, provide me just a segment of java code ...

Can iTextSharp rasterize/export to JPEG or other image format?

I need to be able to export PDF's that I am creating to JPEG, so that users can have a screenshot/thumbnail of the end product, which is faster than opening the whole PDF. I am running this on an ASP.NET website running in Medium Trust in the Rackspace Mosso Cloud. I have yet to find a library that will either work in Medium trust, or ...

watermark existing pdf with ruby

Is there a way to watermark an existing pdf in ruby ? I want to add a dynamically generated text, Thanks, ...

Can I use iText to render PDF in my Swing application?

Can iText render PDF documents in Swing application ? Or do I have to use another library/framework for that? ...

How can I skip headers in Kohana 3 and just get raw output from a route?

I have a method that returns a PDF file using DOMPDF. It sends all the right headers. It is generated on the fly (not stored on the server anywhere). I now have to attach this PDF to outgoing emails. I did this in Kohana 3 $routeUrl = Route::get('secure_view_pdf')->uri(array('id' => $id)); $response = Request::factory(...

Is there a GUI for designing PDF reports generated by Java?

I've written some Java code using the iText library to generate a PDF report, but specifying the layout seems very manual and takes a lot of time, re-running the code to test small adjustments. Does anyone know of a report designer for PDFs which would work with Java? It doesn't have to be iText based, that's just what I'm using at the ...

have PDF form, need to port to website

So here is what I have: a PDF form (job application) that a client is requesting to put on their website as a form and the data gets sent to them when an applicant on the site fills the form out. My idea is as follows: dissecting the PDF, taking its fields and making the HTML form, then processing on the server side, creating the new PDF...

Recommendations for a simple 2D graphics python library that can output to screen and pdf?

Hello: I'm looking for an easy-to-use graphics lib for python that can output to screen as well as pdf. So, I would use code to draw some stuff (simple prims like ovals, rectangles, lines and points) to screen and then when things look good, have it output to pdf. Make sense? Thanks! Blue ...

LiveCycle PDF submit to .NET webservice as XML

I have a LiveCycle designed PDF that I want to make its submit button send the XML data in the form to a .NET webservice. I see how to do that, but I'm not really clear on the webservice side. What should my webservice's method signature be to accept the XML data? [WebMethod] public bool RecieveXML(XmlDocument input) or [WebMethod] ...

How to detect if a file is PDF or TIFF ?

Please bear with me as I've been thrown into the middle of this project without knowing all the background. If you've got WTF questions, trust me, I have them too. Here is the scenario: I've got a bunch of files residing on an IIS server. They have no file extension on them. Just naked files with names like "asda-2342-sd3rs-asd24-ut57" ...

Extracting text from PDF with Poppler (C++)

I'm trying to get my way through Poppler and its (lack of) documentation. What I want to do is a very simple thing: open a PDF file and read the text in it. I'm then going to process the text, but that doesn't really matter here. So... I saw the poppler_page_get_text function, and it kind of works, but I have to specify a selection rec...

pdf reading in the site

i need to provide pdf reading in my site, but i haven't done such before, so could you tell me how i can do it(just give me an idea, or some links...). thanks ...

Prawn PDF with Rails mailer?

Hi Everyone, I have successfully created an email that sends on creation of a Kase, but now I need to attach a PDF that is created on the fly by Prawn and Prawno. Basically when you visit a kase such as application.com/kase/1 you just append the URL with .pdf i.e. application.com/kase/1. I spent ages getting the PDF to work and look h...