pdf-generation

I am using Ghostscript to convert source PDF file into array of PNG images. Before I convert PDF page into PNG image I would need to extract (delete) all text from PDF so that converted page image would contain all other elements, excluding text. Can I achieve this with Ghostscript or will I need to look into different tools? I would also be interested in a tool that can read-save my source PDF removing all the text. Since my previous answer, development has continued, and a new option is available now, which justifies a new answer. The most recent versions of Ghostscript support 3 new

I'm using Flying Saucer to convert XHTML to a PDF document. I've gotten the code to work with just basic HTML and in-line CSS, however, now I'm attempting to add an image as a sort of header to the PDF. What I'm wondering is if there is any way whatsoever to add the image by reading in an image file as a Java Image object, then adding that somehow to the PDF (or to the XHTML -- like it gets a virtual "url" representing the Image object that I can use to render the PDF). Has anyone ever done anything like this? Thanks in advance for any help you can provide! I had to do that last week so

The solutions for my school's assignments all have waterstamps on the PDFs with our username on it. I was wondering if you guys know how to do something like that using PHP? Do they run a script prior to the download process? Thanks. Although there are several very good PDF libs for PHP, if I were writing such a program I'd just shell out to run pdftk but you' still need to generate your watermark. $tempfile=tempnam(); system("pdftk input_file.pdf background watermark.pdf output $tempfile dont_ask", $errcode); if (!$errcode && $ih=fopen($tempfile, 'r')) { header('Content-Type: application/pdf'

EDIT : I completed this project using ABCpdf. For anyone interested, I love this product and their support is A+. Everything I listed as a 'Con' for the HTML -> PDF solution was easily doable in ABCpdf. I've been charged with creating a data driven pdf report. After reviewing the plethora of options, I have narrowed it down to 2. I need you all to to help me decide, or offer alternatives I haven't considered. Here are the requirements: 100% Data driven Eventually PDF (a stop in HTML is fine, so long as it is converted) Can be run with multiple sets of data (the layout is always the same, the

I have XPS documents being generated from XAML User Controls that act as templates. I want to convert the XPS documents into alternative formats, mainly PDF, programmatically with a .NET based API. What is the best way to do this? You can also use ABCpdf PDF Component for .NET . Version 7 can serve your purpose. see http://www.websupergoo.com/abcpdf-12.htm . it provides fully functional trial version unlike NiXPS and almost equally as fast as NiXPS. The way I have done this in the past is print my XPS file to a PDF printer. I use cutePDF for this. So when you select to print, you print to