pdf-generation

PDF generation from XHTML in a LAMP environment

Hi, Can anyone recommend a good server-side PDF generation tool that would work in a Linux environment. I want easy as possible, pass it a XHTML file (with images) and have it generate a PDF from the rendered source. I don't have a massive budget, but anything under $1000 should be alright. Andrew ...

Automated PDF Creation from URL

Is there a PDF library that one can use to automate creating PDFs from URLs? The current approach I use is to "Print" a page and select a PDF plugin like PrimoPDF to generate the PDF document but I was wanting to automate that. ...

How does google make make those awesome PDF reports in Analytics and when you print a Google Doc etc?

When you print from Google Docs (using the "print" link, not File/Print) you end up printing a nicely formated PDF file instead of relying on the print engine of the browser. Same is true for some of the reports in Google Analytics . . . the printed reports as PDF's are beautiful. How do they do that? I can't imagine they use somethin...

How to best merge information, at a server, into a "form", a PDF being generated as the final output

Background: I have a VB6 application I've "inherited" that generates a PDF for the user to review using unsupported Acrobat Reader OCX integration. The program generates an FDF file with the data, then renders the merged result when the FDF is merged with a PDF. It only works correctly with Acrobat Reader 4 :-(. Installing a newer ver...

Combine PDFs c#

How can I combine multiple PDFs into one PDF without a 3rd party component? ...

Adobe Reader Error Codes

I am programmatically creating PDFs, and a recent change to my generator is creating documents that crash both Mac Preview and Adobe Reader on my Mac. Before Adobe Reader crashes, it reports: There was an error processing a page. There was a problem reading this document (18). I suspect that that "18" might give me some informat...

Generating a PDF document based on a Microsoft Word Template

I need to take a Word document that is a template of sorts...collect user input to populate specific fields in that template..then generate a PDF file that includes the completed template as well as a few other document types. Does anyone have a good suggestion on a component to achieve this? Preferably one that does not require Microsof...

What's the easiest way to merge (server-side) a collection of PDF documents into one big PDF document in JAVA

I have 3 PDF documents that are generated on the fly by a legacy library that we use, and written to disk. What's the easiest way for my JAVA server code to grab these 3 documents and turn them into one long PDF document where it's just all the pages from document #1, followed by all the pages from document #2, etc. Ideally I would like...

Generate PDF from structured data

I want to be able to generate a highly graphical (with lots of text content as well) PDF file from data that I might have in a database or xml or any other structured form. Currently our graphic designer creates these PDF files in Photoshop manually after getting the content as a MS Word Document. But usually, there are more than 20 rev...

Flash Charts and Graphs exported for use in PDF reports - automation

I want to put beautiful charts in a report that is available via html and pdf. I'd prefer to use just one API and that all processing occur server-side. I want to embed Flash charts in the html version of reports. I want to embed a static image (preferably vector-based format) in the pdf version. What is the best way to accomplish thi...

WPF to PDF

I have a WPF application and I want to be able to save the output of the application to a PDF document, the item I want to save can be a Visual a Drawing or a FixedDocument (I can create it as any of those options, and it's easy to convert between them). Is there any library that can convert directly from WPF to PDF (without writing cod...

Unicode in PDF

My program generates relatively simple PDF documents on request, but I'm having trouble with unicode characters, like kanji or odd math symbols. To write a normal string in PDF, you place it in brackets: (something) There is also the option to escape a character with octal codes: (\527) but this only goes up to 512 characters. How ...

Good way to create PDF from Office documents in Java

I'm looking for a good way to convert Office (mostly Microsoft) documents to PDF in Java. I've been looking at using the OpenOffice SDK but from the samples I've looked at it looks like this requires having OpenOffice running in server mode to do the work. Does anyone know of a good way to do this? Good meaning the less external require...

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....

Component for creating PDF files (.net)

What .net component for creating PDF files can you recommend ? One condition is that it has to be able to create PDF files from HTML EDIT: Preferably it would be free. ...

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 ...

PDFCreator and ASP.NET

Has anyone managed to get PDFCreator running on an ASP.NET 2.0 website ? On my development machine with Visual Studio webserver, it works just fine after following this procedure : create a com interop dll with tlbimp reference this dll write some code to use it However, when I deploy it to our test server, it fails miserably with t...

Exporting an MS Excel 2003 workbook to PDF via VBA

I have an Excel 2003 workbook that contains a macro to copy certain of its sheets across to a new workbook, then save and close the new workbook. It does this several dozen times, with slightly different sheet selections each time. I would like to add an extra step to the macro to export the secondary workbooks' spreadsheets to PDF. T...

How can I generate a report file (ODF, PDF) from a django view

I would like to generate a report file from a view&template in django. Preferred file formats would be OpenOffice/ODF or PDF. What is the best way to do this? I do want to reuse the page layout defined in the template, possibly by redefining some blocks in a derived template. Ideally, the report should be inserted into an existing tem...

C# - Placing a PDF inside another PDF

I have multiple logos of various companies in various formats that needs to be added to other PDFs. The format of these logos is not specified at the moment but it could be locked down to only certain formats if it causes issues. These other PDFs will be mostly posters and will be printed off by the user. Question: What is the best wa...