pdf-generation

As part of an investigation into enterprise level server side document generation I have come across Open XML. For those that have used this, how successful were you? Would you recommend it? Can you save the OpenXML to PDF directly or would I need to make use of a 3rd party component? If a 3rd Party component is required, which one did you use and which one would you recommend? Thanks Gineer Dave Markle The nice thing about the Office OpenXML is that it's the language of Microsoft Office -- if you live your "office life" in Word and Excel (2007 and later), that's the format you want. Can you

I am trying to learn the PDF file format. To this end I downloaded Adobe's PDF specification file, which is huge. So to help me study the details of PDF, I want to follow its abstract explanations by looking in parallel at some real-world PDF files. For example, one idea was to create a PDF file (using LaTeX) which has only one page and as content even only one character, a . But when I open this PDF file in a hex editor (or in other tools that can show the internal PDF structure), there is a lot of binary or compressed content inside this PDF. For an example for what I see, look at the

There are nice projects that generate pdf from html/css/js files http://wkhtmltopdf.org/ (open source) https://code.google.com/p/flying-saucer/ (open source) http://cssbox.sourceforge.net/ (not necessarily straight pdf generation) http://phantomjs.org/ (open source allows for pdf output) http://www.princexml.com/ (comercial but hands down the best one out there) https://thepdfapi.com/ a chrome modification to spit pdf from html from I want to programatically control chrome or firefox browser (because they both are cross platform) to make them load a web page, run the scripts and style the page

I am using iText to write a PDF. In some cases, I need to sign the PDF with the SetVisibleSignature function. With this function, we need to designate the rectangle that we will write the content into. But it's hard for me to calculate how wide the string will be, so that I can set the rectangle before setting a signature on the PDF. How can I calculate the string width in iText? You can use BaseFont.getWidthPoint(String text, float fontSize) to get the width of the string in pt. Or put the string in a Chunk and do chunk.getWidthPoint() The accepted answer BaseFont.getWidthPoint , won't work

Can you please point me to open source or a reasonably priced comercial product capable of generating PDF from HTML? We currently use ABCpdf in one of our more complex applications. It has served us well and is not very expensive at all. I like that fact that I can send it raw HTML text and it will render it to a PDF in memory or as a file so we use to generate PDFs on the fly and serve them up via the web without actually ever saving it disk ever. We have been using it for about 3 years and early on I had to use their support for a very odd issue that was very specific and the support was

I am creating an iPad application, in that i have to use different PDF forms. I got some methods to generate PDF files through code using Quartz2D. But I have to write entire forms through code. I may have to update the PDF forms in future, so again I have to write the code. So I heard that there is a component called iTextSharp for .net pdf creation - is there something similar for iOS? So that I can use some XML templates to create the PDF files. Please help, thanks I do this in my app using the iOS print subsystem and the UIMarkupTextPrintFormatter. The trick is to write your own custom