I need to take an emergency flight in a couple of hours and I need to develop while on the flight.
Is there a way to access the opengl documentation offline? A pdf or a set of html files that I can download?
The OpenGL reference pages GitHub repo has the HTML files (the result of DocBook conversion) embedded within them. Clone or download that and you should be fine.
You can use the compact quick-reference-card from khronos.org or the core profile both in .pdf format.
Zealdocs provides quite a few offline documentatons.
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I have a very simple use case. I want to create a pdf from a html file that I have.
Problem:
I have checked this tool. But it does not work for css3. And gives errors while parsing bootstrap files.
xhtml2pdf
I am currently checking Prince (giving some issues when I am running it.)
Has anyone faced such an issue and have you been able to solve it ?
There is surprisingly very little options available when you are not prepared to pay for a commercial library. I had the same requirement from one of my clients that did not want to pay for any third party tools, so I had to make a plan. This is what I did, not the best solution, but it got the job done
I downloaded the newest version of wkhtmltopdf. Unfortunately the wkhtmltopdf tool did not display some of my google graphs embedded in my HTML when converting to PDF. So I used the wkhtmltoimage tool also included to convert to a PNG, which woked as expected and displayed all the graphs.
I then downloaded the newest version of imagemagick and converted the PNG to PDF.
I automated this process using C#. You should be able to do this using python as well (Please note that I have no knowledge of python, and could be wrong).
Unfortunately this is not the most elegant solution because you have to perform two conversions and do a bit of work to automate everyting, but this is the best solution I could come up with that gave me the desired results and quality.
Of course there are losts of commercial software out there that will do a faster and better job.
Just a side note:
The web page that I had to convert was devloped in HTML5 and CSS3 using version 3 of bootstrap and it contained some google graphs and charts. Everything was converted without any problems.
So, I've got an app that needs to deal with files created by Adobe InDesign (.INDD), and while the XMP Metadata is useful, there are additional things that I want to know about the files that do not appear to be in the metadata.
Specifically, I would want to know the number of actual pages (not just number of page previews created), and what the dimensions of those pages are.
Has anyone run across any toolkit, sdk, etc. that can get me this information?
This will be for a non-open source commercial app, so licenses are a potential roadblock. Also, this app will not be a plug-in for any Adobe product, so the InDesign Plugin SDK is not an option either.
C++ is the preferred language.
.indd is a proprietary format owned by Adobe. You are not allowed to interact with this format outside of InDesign. If the documents are saved in the .idml format, it's quite possible and not very difficult, but if all you have to work with is a bunch of .indd files that someone else created, you're gonna have to use a plugin or scripts together with InDesign.
I've jumped into a project that uses dotCMS. The problem is that there is only one book about this cms (which is pretty incomplete as far as I concern) and..even their official documentation is incomplete as well.
as far as I now, dotCMS is opensource, but I can't find any .java files.
Anyone knows if I can add/remove core functionalities of dotCMS?
I'm trying to add a new field to categories.
Sure you can. The dotCMS plugin architecture can provide 90% of most functionality you would be looking to add and have the added benifit of not breaking your upgrade path. If you want to modify the source (and the core), you also have access to the community code here:
See:
http://dotcms.com/community/svn-access.dot
for instructions on how to download the source files and see:
http://dotcms.com/docs/1.9/Installation#InstallingFromSVN
on how to get it running from source.
We're in the middle of deploying a new software system to lot's of users in lot's of places (200+ users over 8 countries). In the past we've written a manual for the users, then update it every so often. This works ok, in that all the users ahve the same manual and it covers the main things but it has it's problems, like it doesn't get updated that often, we sometimes miss updates, and some users will have old copies.
We've been talking about using a wiki during the testing and deployment phases to build a knowledge base about the system. Ideally we'd then like some way to convert that into some form fo electronic document that we can then 'pretty-fie' and send out as the official manual, as well as letting users use and update the wiki.
Has anyone else done anything similar ? Any suggestions for wiki systems, workflows, document formats etc?
Most wikis support export via PDF e.g.:
MediaWiki PDF Export
DokuWiki PDF Export
TWiki PDF Export
You can write something that generates LaTeX from the wiki and renders a manual to PDF. With packages like hyperref you can retain cross-references as hyperlinks.
Additionally, you can integrate content from multiple sources such as a data dictionary into the LaTeX document, which can be mixed and matched with the wiki content. You could also set the architecture up so it can support cross-referencing that goes either way.
Framemaker could also support this using generated MIF files, and you could also use Lout in a similar way or convert your wiki content to docbook, which would allow you to use any of the many rendering options available to that format.
As an aside, the following Stackoverflow postings discuss various systems for maintaining documentation.
Application (Not a Markup Language) for Producing a User Manual
Can LaTeX be used for producing any documentation that accompanies software?
What tools are used to write documentation?
What tools does your team use for writing user manuals?
How best to write documentation (ideally in latex) targeting both the web (html) and paper (pdf)?
Best tool(s) for working with DocBook XML documents?
What is the recommended toolchain for formatting XML DocBook?
Is a successor for TeX/LaTeX in sight?
Madcap Flare is a help-and-manual authoring tool that uses HTML for the source of each topic. You could pretty easily do a mass import of the Wiki pages. Would then require some cleaning but after that you have a nice single-source system that can output CHM, web-browsable help, PDF, DOC/DOCX, etc.
How are you storing the help source at the moment? Is it MS Word files, MS help, LaTeX?
If you put your help source files under version control then you will get all the benefits of a wiki without having to migrate to a new system - people can make edits to the help files easily - those changes can be tracked, reverted etc. and you get the prettified manuals as before.
I followed Node's links and came across some mediawiki pages that I thought were noteworthy.
Extension:OpenDocument Export
Extension:PDF Writer
Category:Data extraction extensions
I gave a previous answer which may be useful for the "wiki to PDF" part -- look at using the open source PediaPress code or functionality. You can get ODFs from it too, although their PDFs are already quite pretty (but you might want to rebrand it and restyle it for your company I suppose).
Does anyone know if it's possible to generate powerpoint ppts within ColdFusion? I can't rely on the approach of installing a copy of office and generate one through COM and I can't use ooxml since my client is still in the office 2003 era. Any suggestion is much appreciated.
You can try using Apache POI, specifically their Powerpoint support. Looks to be still in beta though:
http://poi.apache.org/slideshow/index.html
I've used POI to extra from Word docs before and it was rather easy in ColdFusion.
ColdFusion doesn't have built in PPT creation, but you may be able to make something work with OpenOffice.
Look into CFPresentation (CF8), it allows you to create web-based presentations - not actually PPT format, but displayed in the same way via Flash player.
Have you considered using PDF instead? For all intents and purposes except perhaps some animation, PDFs do well replacing PPTs. And CF has tons of PDF creation and manipulation features!
I know it's not a good answer, but ColdFusion 9 can turn a cfpresentation into a PowerPoint file, and creating a cfpresentation is pretty damned trivial...
However, this of course requires a server that's still in beta, and a large cash outlay once it's released if you're running your own server.
Dan