I am currently exploring Merge and Split functionality of Navigator application and observed some interesting thing about TXT files.
I have configured ICN Desktop to use Daeja ViewONE Vitual viewer for all non-MS OFFICE files. I can see Merge and Split menu option does not get displayed for TXT files whereas it gets displayed for most of other format files like TIFF, PDF, JPG, etc.
As per my understanding, because TXT files do not have pages, the said functionality is not applicable to these files. Is that the only reason behind it or there is something more?
I tried to look for IBM documentation but could not find any.
Any pointers would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.
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I would like to ask the following if possible. We have a client that wants a separate pdf document, embedded in a main pdf document and opens when you click it. Like the function in MS Word where you can attach another Word document inside a Word document (Word-ception, lol) and you can still open it.
I've tried it in Acrobat Pro with the Attachment and Link tools. Another option was to put the link document in an ftp server for accessibility. but our client really wants this functionality. Is this possible in Indesign?
Thank you!
Using Word as your example vehicle there are several ways to link 2 documents.
One is an appendix to the other, in PDF terms is a merge or binding but its one flowing document with separate sequential sections/chapters.
Another way is to link to an external file, in PDF terms a hyperlink to a relative second file, which can be locally folder relative or a web absolute reference. You have tried that.
In Word we can add objects internally with icons, in PDF that can be an annotation comment attachment to save externally and action accordingly. You also seem to discount that approach.
Finally PDF offers an Adobe Specific Structure where multiple PDFs attachments can be imbedded in an overall PDF wrapper. These are called Portfolios and not! to be confused with their portfolio service
They are unpopular since in a browser without Adobe Reader they should only offer the cover page.
Whilst in securer offline readers the files may well be shown as attachments that you need to save or independently open to view them.
Only some non Acrobat viewers may view them as a collection. And in the past that required runing insecure SWFlash, But I understand that has changed ?
Here is how the 3 internal PDF files seen above were shown in older Acrobat 9.
Possibly the best experience is using Foxit Reader
I'm new on shiny and flexdashboard.With flexdashboard I've written a .Rmd file to make a nice shiny application (I'm just a statistician).
I want to export some calculations (by a download button)in a report with a pdf file. In shiny examples, I need again to create another Rmd file, as an example of report.Rmd. I can open my application in the browser, and i'm successful to download a pdf file. But it's not working online (with shinyapps.io). I have two files with .rmd extension, and another one with .r extensions(my functions). Can it be the problem of the two.rmd?Do you Have any idea or example working?
thanks a lot in advance
It may be that the server is expecting the function files (*.R) in a certain folder and you are uploading it to another (or in the base folder).
I believe the convention is to put source files into a sub-folder called "R": /R/
If that doesn't work then try \www\. This is where icons are normally sourced from.
How can I programmatically and reliably create PNG images from CHM and EPUB files? The page that's needed is only the first one, as in "cover image thumbnail generation".
Could this even be done just from the command line?
I have already looked at the open-source CHM QuickLook plug-in for MacOSX for source that does this and at Calibre, the latter to no avail.
In CHM, the default page is a webpage (a .html file). Of course it can only contain one page.
An extracter program is easy to do based on chmlib or Free Pascal's libs, but it will need the html parsed to also find names of other programs to extract. Roughly the algorithm would be:
use some "list" function of a cmdline extract tool to get the default page's name. (this is stored in an internal record)
extract it, and parse it for img and other referencing tags.
extract those.
The biggest picture downloaded in the previous step is probably "it"!
I know that it's possible to read excel and word (modern)file in xml format, but i would like to know if exists a library useful only to present file content in a view... i don't need edit or manipulate files, i need to create a simple viewer.
I searched here for Excel/Word iOS viewer and library but i found nothing useful.
What do you suggest ? Is it possible create a views for these kind of file ?
You can use QuickLook framework for generating previews for documents, that can be handled by system (like iWorks or MS Office). See more information about this at http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#DOCUMENTATION/QuickLook/Reference/QuickLookFrameworkReference_iPhoneOS/_index.html
I am looking to create and save either a rtf, doc or docx file on an iPad (iOS).
The scenario is that we'd like to assist a user in creating content on their iPad and then let them email this as an editable document cross-platform (OS X, WIN).
I am open to other solutions besides the rtf, doc or docx file format.
Thanks,
James
RTF is going to be the easiest, because it's a plain text format. It's kind of like HTML, but without closing tags. Here is a class for writing an RTF, but it requires a lot of dependencies from elsewhere in the framework.
DOCX would be rather difficult. It's actually a zip file, containing a few XML files. You can examine the format yourself by changing the .docx extension to .zip and unzipping it. But even though XML is a fairly easy to write format, the way the text attributes are organized is still rather complicated. Also, I recall that it has to be zipped in a very specific way to be read properly.
As for DOC, it will be very difficult because it's such a complex format. You could look into some open source projects, like Abiword or Word2x. Be careful using their code because the licenses may not agree with the App Store rules.
I've seen doc & docx readers for iPhone (App store entry linked here), but I don't know of any open source frameworks you can make use of.
RTF format should be pretty simple to write, if you're up to the challenge. There is no built in framework support for it (here's a related question, b.t.w.).
Maybe you could write out something in a regular TEXT format and e-mail that?
Docmosis has a cloud service that you can reach from iOS. You can ask it to render a doc in various formats (doc, rtf, pdf, odt etc) and email it off or stream it back - though you have to be connected. Previewing DOC on iOS is possible but a little flaky. One option is to stream PDF back for display on iOS and email editable document (which can be done in one call).