I have the need for a web tool that would enable me to rearrange quickly a list that I would input in a field as plain text, and then rearrange the elements using drag and drop, and then export again in plain text.
I know it's easy to program but if this was already done in a simple web tool, I would be delighted.
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There doesn't seem to be any pre made, dead simple tools for this, but most free todo list apps have this functionality. Trello, ToodleDo etc are good examples.
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Looking at various plugins, libraries to create PDF output. I'm trying to build out a application that allows admin user to upload/create their own template (complex print layouts) and a end user to create a PDF from that template with some rich editing tools. The original layouts are based in indesign/pdf. The final high res output is to printers / pdf download.
Basically a web to print project.
I'm trying to figure out to go with a commercial plugin like
https://customerscanvas.com
printui.com
https://www.chili-publish.com/chili-publisher
layoutbuddy.com
Or can someone make some recommendations or other similar projects
thanks
Really depends on your budget, will to keep hands on stuff, etc. Most of the tools you are quoting are great. Chili Publish is great, Pressero too. I don't know PrintUI myself but the owner and it's a serious enough sign of quality to me. All of those are turn-key solutions. Once that said, if you want to build your own tool, you can have a look at PDFChip but all the wrapping development belongs to you.
There are plenty others but those are the one i can talk about.
I design custom travel guides. I am going crazy trying to find a way to insert offline zoomable maps in them. I use indesign CC. So far all I have managed is to embed google maps in the document and export it as an interactive pdf, but it needs internet connection to load the map.
Is there any way to insert offline maps in the document? I would be willing to switch to another software or export format if needed.
I don't know about designs but If you want offline maps then you should use TileMill.Also if you want to explore other options, see this question. Not sure if this will be helpful to you but if you get someone to extract the PNGs for you, I suppose you could make it work.
I have what seems like a simple task. I wrote a Windows application using C++. Now I need to add to it a capability to print forms -- nothing fancy, just plain text, with lines, tables, and simple graphics. Besides printing, a user needs to be able to preview on the screen all forms being printed.
Previously I was able to get away with this task by using an embedded Internet Explorer control and design all forms in HTML (which I like -- the HTML part.) But the problem comes with IE... hmm... I wish I had a nickel every time I heard that phrase :) Anyway, IE can print an HTML page but it does not provide any easy way for users of my software to customize page size, page margins, etc.
I spent a good deal of the last week trying to make IE Print Templates work with what I need ... but eventually failed. That stuff is very poorly documented and what I was able to do seems to randomly crash on me. So at this point I gave up on IE...
So my question to you -- is there a way to incorporate printing into my C++ program for the purposes like I described above?
If I remember correctly, printers have their own HDC, and you can draw on it. That'll work if have something simple. If you want to render HTML page using pure WinAPI, you're in big trouble.
I'd advise to abandon winapi and try GUI framework instead.
Qt 4(and 5, most likely) has text editor that can display rich text, layout engine for rich text, component that can display web pages. Read documentation a bit, and you will most likely find a way to render web page onto printer instead of screen. So far it looks like exactly what you would need.
Using Qt will add dependencies (20+ MB of DLLs for your project), but, IMO< it is a better idea than trying to use IE COM interfaces.
If you don't want to use Qt, you could try something like WebKIT, but I had some bad experiences with it, plus Qt might be just easier to use.
Additional info on printing: Printing with Qt.
Try searching for GDI, if you want to use win32 builtins.
Or use another toolkit like wxWidgets. Or consider writing to PDF with some library. Or let LaTeX do the heavy lifting - writing text files is easy. The LaTeX-way works as long as you don't want to modify your output depending on the layout (one Use-Case that doesn't work with LaTeX is the "balance" at the top/bottom of each page.)
Consider having your program generate XML files and using XSLT to render them into HTML.
By attaching stylesheets you will make it much easier to customize the presentation.
I am currently developing a website. I would like to separate content and presentation. I am currently using a Dreamweaver Template to achieve this. However, I find that Dreamweaver's edit regions are very limiting in the design view. I have found that the same goal can be achieved by including the header and footer of my website.
What are the pros and cons of using includes rather than using templates?
First, if I were to rephrase your question, it's more like asking "Should I by a wire frame of a kite or by the glue to stick together what I'm making?" And then, you ask about the pros and cons of buying the wireframe against buying the glue. There are far too many variables as you can see...
And back on your your question... At some point your template will use include files. And for a start, it's worth knowing what you're thinking... Let's look at some basics.
Web design - usually refers to making websites that aren't really interactive. They don't have server-side elements. So most of the site has 'static' contents. If this were the case, you're better off with DreamWeaver, particularly if you're not into html/css editing.
Web development/programming - starts off with something as elementary as mailing a form, to highly interactive sites like FaceBook. Here you'll need to use some server-side language, usually like PHP, ASP or JSP. The choices are many but you've got to choose your own platform or combination of them.
Now to the second option (above). If for example, you were building a site using PHP, one of the nice things you'll do is to include your header, footer and side panels that need to be repeated across all pages. This way, you'll eliminate the need to re-write those sections. But if you were using a program like DreamWeaver, it does this duplication for you. Yes, it physically copy-pastes those sections into every file that needs it. Of course the end result may not be any different. But as a developer, you will be tied down to the DreamWeaver platform or for that matter, any other specific platform.
On the other hand, if you get used to working with an editor like NotePad++ or GEdit, you may switch between editors at any time. But you have the task of hand-coding everything from scratch. But then again, since you would use include files to bring in your headers and stuff, you save development time as well.
I don't know how much of html/css or php you know, but here's one of my demos to show you how to hand-code a site. This ain't complete but you should get an idea.
Link to the video introduction
Link to the video on youtube
Currently I'm using DokuWiki to manage my apps/scripts documentation, some articles I write and stuff like that... I like DokuWiki very much, it's simple and powerful but it's still too much for the use I've given it in the last 1/2 years.
I need something else, something different...
I'm looking for a way to integrate the little things I like in DokuWiki into my own website without needing a script, like DokuWiki, with it's own admin page. The website itself, my homepage, I like to code myself most of the things so it becomes exactly what I want. However, somethings I don't have much time for, that is why I'm using DokuWiki.
I want to ditch DokuWiki and scripts like these because I don't even use half of their capabilities. A wiki is a platform where people join their efforts and collaborate together to write stuff, it also has a revision system. These are two very important aspects about wikis that I don't care about for my own. I'm the only one writing stuff there and I don't care about revisions, never needed them.
What I like about DokuWiki is that I can point my browser to any URL within the wiki domain and create a page from there if it doesn't exist. I also like DokuWiki's syntax very much but sometimes it's very limited and I can't do what I want. The way you link between namespaces and such is also very nice. Too finish, a media/file manager is also very handy. These are probably the most important aspects for me in DokuWiki.
Basically, I'm looking for something, maybe a script, that would allow me to do the stuff I described above in a way I could integrate into my own website without needing a special administration area.
Does anyone know about such thing or I'm better off coding my own since my requirements are not that tricky to begin with, I just didn't want to have the extra work...
Or maybe any other suggestions?
Maybe you'll want to have a look at something like TiddlyWiki, which is a single-file wiki, that you can even put on a USB stick.
I chose xwiki over dokuwiki.
Another simple wiki is the one included with fogbugz. It is hosted for free for up to 2 users and might suit your project.
I may be off but very simple wiki with no administration and no users is LionWiki. I don't know how easy it's gonna be to integrate it into your website.
It's just one file and does not use database (like DokuWiki).
It does not have a lot of features though. It also uses a different syntax from that of DokuWiki.