We have a old c++ programs that creates the PDF document. This program creates PDF Ver 1.2 document. PDF with text, tables and images were created fine, using this program.
Now I have to create a hyperlink in the pdf file. I have used the Streams and Objects as specified in the W3.org link(see, Example 4: Marking up link text using a /Link structure element). This link explains about the Pdf Ver-1.7. I guess these streams will not suit for Version 1.2. Applying these streams and objects are not creating the hyperlink.
So First, I want to make sure, does the PDF Ver-1.2 supports hyperlinks?
I don't see any document related to Ver-1.2. Can any one share, what kind of objects and stream need to create to construct hyperlink in Ver-1.2 ?
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As part of my application, my client has requested that I include an automated e-mailing system. As part of this system, I generate HTML code and use automation to send it via. Outlook.
However, they also require a PDF copy of the HTML document to be sent as an attachment. My initial attempts involved using libHaru, which proved difficult to use efficiently, as I was required to create the PDF document from scratch, which required computation of the position of each of the lines in a table, and positioning of all the text, etc.
I was wondering if there would be a way to programmatically convert HTML code (or an HTML file if need be) into a PDF document either by using Win32/MFC itself or an external library.
Thanks in advance!
EDIT: Just to clarify, I am looking for solutions which minimize external dependencies.
You should evaluate this utility wkhtmltopdf:
http://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/
You can call it from the command line without the need to run a setup.
I use it generating my output documents as html then cal a ShellExecute(...) to convert it to PDF. It's great!
Inside uses webkit + qt. So compability with modern HTML is OK.
Hope it helps.
I'd take a look at PDF Creator, which can be used as a COM object (that acts pretty much like a printer). I haven't used it to print HTML, so I'm not sure, but my guess is that you'll probably end up having to instantiate a web browser control to render the HTML, and then feed it from there to the PDF control.
Some possible answers are in this thread:
C++ Library to Convert HTML to PDF?
Not sure if they will satisfy your particular requirements, but these might at least get you started.
Edit:
Some other possible options here.
Not MFC but you can try QtWebKit. It can render and export HTML to PDF, PNG, JPEG
I have a webpage, where user has a possible to Print this page OR to save it on his/her computer.
How may I save it as a Word or PDF document?
Thanks.
For the MS Word requirement, most versions of Office can interpret basic html/xml. So you might consider the old cfcontent hack as a simpler alternative to POI. (The Word package is not quite as mature as the spreadsheet package.)
Basically you generate html, but use cfheader/cfcontent to tell the browser the content is really a Word document. It is obviously not a true MS Word file. But it is simpler than most options.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa155477.aspx
<cfheader name="Content-Disposition" value="attachment; filename=someFile.doc">
<cfcontent type="application/msword">
... your html code here ...
For microsoft office documents you can use the Apache POI project. This means in your coldfusion code you need to use some basic java code to call the poi methods.
However, if you choose the pdf document things are quite easier. You can use the cfdocument tag with the PDF format option
Using the POI or OpenOffice interface (depending on your version) you can create a Word doc. Using the built-in PDF generation tools, you can create a PDF doc. HOwever, you can only present that as an option.
There is no way to override the save/print menu functions. No matter how you handle it, I cna save the source document instead of the .doc or .pdf. Similarly, you cannot prevent me from printing the original document, instead of a prepared PDF.
Here is a method that has worked for me:
Create PDF or FlashPaper with ColdFusion
However, just like printing, you will have to sacrifice some graphics, so this would be best used for exporting content (but as you did not specify, I'm just clarifying that this is possible but at a cost).
Hope that helps.
Use cfdocument to display as a PDF, then they can just click the disk image to save it to their computer. Or you can use the filename= attribute of cfdocument to assign a filename to it, and it will prompt them to save it instead of displaying in the browser.
How can I perform automation of MS Word documents (.doc) or ODF documents (.odt) in Qt 4.5? I know using the QAxWidget, QAxObject.
I have data (QString) and few images as well. I have to add them into the document. I googled but I couldn't find any commands for MS- Word/ ODF. But I want the specific commands that should be passed in QAxObject::dynamicCall() function to perform my operations.
For e.g in MS Excel we have to use something like,
excel.querySubObject("ActiveWorkBook");
which will return the object of the Active workbook of the Excel document.
What are all the commands that are available for the generation of MS-Word or ODF (odt) documents? I am using Windows XP. Any links, examples are welcome..
Take a look at http://doc.trolltech.com/qq/qq27-odfwriter.html, Qt provides functionality to create OpenDocument Format (ODF) files.
The ActiveX commands related to the MS Word can be obtained by the VBAWD10.chm that is being installed along with MS - Word.
The details of the ActiveX help documents available can be obtained here.
The toughest part is to conform those in such a way that it can accessed through the ActiveQt Module.
I provided a similar solution to my question here
Hope it helps for those who are all looking similar solutions..
I am writing a Word add-in which is supposed to store some own XML data per document using Word object model and its CustomXMLPart. The problem I am now facing is the lack of IStream-like functionality for reading/writing XML to/from a CustomXMLPart. It only provides BSTR interface and I am puzzled how to handle UTF-8 XMLs with BSTRs. To my understanding an UTF-8 XML file should really never have to undergo this sort of Unicode conversion. I am not sure what to expect as a result here.
Is there another way of using Word automation interfaces to store arbitrary custom information inside a DOCX file?
The "package" is an OPC document (Open Packaging Convention), which is basically a structured zip folder with a different extension (e.g. .pptx, .docx, .xps, etc.). You can get that file in stream and manipulate it any which way you like - but not artibitrarily. It will not be recognized as valid docx if you put things in the wrong places (not just xml elements, but also files in the folders inside the zip file). But if you're just talking "artibitrary" meaning CustomXMLPart, then that's okay.
This is a good kicker page to learn more about the Open XML SDK and if you're up to it, which allows for somewhat easier access to the file formats than using (.NET) System.IO.Packaging or a third-party zip library. To go deeper, grab the eBook (free) Open XML Explained.
With the Open XML SDK (again, this can all be done without the SDK) in .NET, this is what you'll want to do: How to: Insert Custom XML to an Office Open XML Package by Using the Open XML API.
In C++ I'm generating a PDF report with libHaru. I'm looking for someway to append two pages from an existing PDF file to the end of my report. Is there any free way to do that?
Thanks.
Try PoDoFo
http://podofo.sourceforge.net/
You should be able to open both of the PDFs as PDFMemDocuments using PDFMemDocument.Load( filename ).
Then, acquire references to the two pages you want to copy and add to the end of the document using InsertPages, or optionally, remove all but the last two pages of the source document, then call PDFDocument.
Append and pass the called document. Hard to say which would be faster or more stable.
Hope that helps,
Troy
You can use the Ghostscript utility pdf2ps to convert the PDF files to PostScript, append the PostScript files, and then convert them back to a PDF using ps2pdf.