I know about PDFRenderer ICEpdf JPedal Ghostscript to convert PDF->PS, then print with javax.print.* My primary concern is printing a PDF file to a printer. The other features like displaying, PDF modifications, ... are nice-to-have. All libraries promise similar features, but I'm afraid that when I choose one I might encounter prob...
I have just written a report using the Matrix control in SSRS 2005. I have coloured the rows and columns and when I preview the report the colouring is applied. Same with export to pdf. Only when I view the exported report in Excel do I get a problem. The report colours are rendered properly other than the Matrix controls. (they are re...
Hi, I'm ramping up on a Silverlight 2 project that leverages the Bing Maps control. One thing our UX guys are wondering is whether it is possible to customize the look of the map completely. For example, draw countries as simple outlines with different color interiors. Or draw the ocean as white and countries as black dotted shapes. Do...
I've just noticed a project in a company I'm working in that says - Supports IE6 only. Sure enough, I've opened it up in an IE 8 and Chrome and the Buttons and the text were way off their original positions, and basically all sense of formatting was gone. I'm not authorized to see the code yet, but I was wondering what the differences ...
Hi, I creating a program which send newsletter with a background image. It works fine on Office 2000-2003, thunderbird, but the background image does not show on Outlook 2007. I read that Microsoft changed the rendering engine and did not support the background css property (it is possible but only applied to the Body). Is it achievabl...
Hi, I have 3 machines which I would like to setup as a cluster for distributed rendering of 3d graphics, more specific Direct3d. I can do this with Opengl using Wiregl (http://graphics.stanford.edu/software/wiregl/) or better yet Chromium. Does a solution exist for doing the same with Direct3d? Thanks in advance ...
Steps to reproduce: Create a new solution/add new WPF Application project. place just a canvas in the main window. create a RotateTransform + PageUp/Down events for incrementing the angle with +-10. place 50 polygons on the canvas Press PageUp/Down (and keep pressed) On my PC the CPU usage is 80%. Now try placing 1000 polygons and ...
Is there any way to control the order of which the GridView control renders it's thead, tbody and tfoot child elements? According to W3C, the correct order is: thead tfoot tbody The GridView control renders out: thead tbody tfoot I am extending the GridView control, and I'm using the "first column controls the width of all col...
Hi, I am rendering my report in excel from reporting services. Sometimes, when a cell value contains mutiplelines of text, it just stops with the first line. I found a kind of work around in this link http://www.kodyaz.com/articles/reporting-services-excel-rendering-autogrow.aspx But it doesnt work everytime. I compared the xml with othe...
I know how to do this in MVC: <title> <%= Model.Title %> </title> I also know how to bind a SQLDataSource or ObjectDataSource to a control on a form or listview. But how do I render a field from my SQLDataSource or ObjectDataSource directly into the HTML? ...
I'm creating a space game in actionscript/flex 3 (flash). The world is infinitely big, because there are no maps. For this to work I need to dynamically (programatically) render the background, which has to look like open space. To make the world feel real and to make certain places look different than others, I must be able to add filt...
I am load testing web applications to compare performance of different rendering engines with the goal to rate NDjango view engine (an implementation of the Django Template Language on the .NET platform NDjango ). I compare Django with ASP and ASP.MVC rendering technology. Can you recommend me some other rendering engines that really ...
Is it possible to use the WebBrowser control as a UI interface in C#? I like to write a string of HTML directly into the control and get an event and read the value of the hyperlinks when such a link is clicked. HTML is a great rendering language and it seems to be a waste if we could not use this technology in applications. If this ...
I have about a hundred short-text data items (this number can vary substantially) that I would like to put in a page and have the browser manage that into three columns within a surrounding div, arranged with the items going down and then across, like this: A F L B G M C H N D I O E K ... Is there a way t...
I am currently struggling to identify where the bottleneck is in an enterprise web app. The app is extremely javascript heavy & only runs on IE, not my design or architecture but my task to improve. I know IE 6 is notoriously slow for javascript, other than fiddler are there any other IE tools I can use to measure the speed of the page...
I have a ruby on rails application which has two models - ltests and sub_tests. An ltest has a 'has_many' association with sub_tests. In the show method for ltests is as follows. respond_to do |format| format.html # show.html.erb format.xml { render :xml => @ltest } end This renders the ltest object. However the sub_tests belongi...
Hi, I've a specific requirement of rendering Javascript onto a master page of an asp.net site. There are two specific requirements of it: 1) The position - It should be rendered at the very end of the page just before BODY tag 2) Control - Render it only when requested. I solved #2 by creating a web-part which will render the javascri...
Hello, I'm having a problem that's intriguing me. I decided make a few changes (in a link and inserting metatags) in the index.php file from my company's site: http://www.expresssignproducts.com and after I uploaded the header pictures were all misaligned in IE7 (others were fine). So I uploaded the previous version of the file... same b...
I have page which contains 2 gridview and 2 mschart. ı want to export this page to excel. For this purpose I took these controls into a panel and write this code: Response.Clear(); Response.ContentType = "application/vnd.msexcel"; Response.AddHeader("content-disposition", "attachment; filename=rapor.xls"); Respon...
The page here (http://skergeth.net/slidingfooter/) contains a footer that slides up when you click on contact us. It then shows a contact form. However in IE8 it slides up and the div containing the form stays white until it is hovered by the mouse. I also tried the approach that the footer-div has overflow:hidden but since there are ot...