having a bit of a weird issue that I can't for the life of me figure out how to solve. It may just be a blond moment on my part but I've been scratching my head with this one for a while.
Basically I've made a load of PS PDF files in CS6 and used Acrobat Pro DC to merge the files into one big file. Granted this may not be the most efficient way to work with PDFs but it seemed like the way that made the most sense to me. Anyway I've been doing this for a while and I've not really had any issues however when I did it today I hit a little snag. Several pages in the document come out with their text all mangled. The odd thing is that the text appears to look fine in the DC viewer but if I print them out or view them in Windows Reader they look deformed.
I've tried a load of different ways to try to solve the problem but I can't really find the answer I'm looking for. I've tried a number of different file formats and different printing settings (which I now realize are useless as it's messed up in Reader as well as in print). I've also tried rasterizing the text which seems to work but obviously the text becomes unselectable in the PDF views so I'd prefer to use this as a last resort and find the actual root of the problem.
I can only assume that it's an issue on photoshops side as the majority of the pages come out fine and they all use the same base template and same fonts.
Any insight into this will be really helpful.
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I receiving the following error when I try to knit into a pdf:
! Dimension too large.
\fb#put#frame ...p \ifdim \dimen# >\ht \#tempboxa
\fb#putboxa #1\fb#afterfra...
It's an extremely long line of code that I need to knit into a pdf (about 5000 lines). A lot of preprocessing data. The output itself is quite small maybe a line or more. Has anyone had this issue with huge blocks of code? If so, could you tell me how you solved it? I'm up for suggestions.
That's a LaTeX framed package error. RMarkdown tries to put all of that code into a single environment (I believe it's a snugshade environment, but I might be wrong), and that environment isn't ready for something that's going to stretch over many pages. The most I managed to get was about 1300 lines which were broken up into 48 pages of code.
The simplest solution would be to break that up into 4 or 5 pieces, but that might not be easy for you to do.
Next simplest might be not to show it as code at all: use echo = FALSE in the code chunk that runs it, and include it some other way (e.g. in a verbatim environment, or using the listings package). With that much code, showing it as a couple of hundred pages of text doesn't really make much sense anyway.
I am still learning zpl. I have created some simple labels using the Zebra designer and converted them to zpl files and added to printers. Now, I have been tasked to update existing labels for some of our customers and I do not have the file available in the designer. I have been successfully been able to do things like update a barcode type and add a field by directly updating the script. But, the changes the users want would be much easier if I could use designer (I know that is like cheating!). But, the timeline I have is short. I have found some older questions out there that say this is not possible, so I thought I would check to see if it may now be possible to use the script on the zebra printer, and convert it to text that the designer will recognize.
I would like to mention that the printers I work with are physically located in other countries, with most inside restricted manufacturing production areas. When testing, I have to coordinate with users who have access to these printers. This means that printing one label, and then receiving a picture of this label can take several hours. I am still waiting for results of one test we did yesterday! Thanks to this site, I have found a site on line that will kind of mimic the label, but the actual printed copy is the best test.
Thanks for your attention.
You cannot import the ZPL back into a designer, but there are two tools that are very helpful when you don't have a printer to test with:
Labelary Online ZPL Viewer
Chrome ZPL Plugin
I've used both and have been pleased with the results, but your experience may vary depending on the complexity of the label.
So my I swear by PHPStorm, I have been using it for over a year now and have had no issues up until now.
I have now come to slight problem in the form of sluggish editing.
I have a model file that is just under 4000 lines of code - nothing too big, but PHPStorm seems to be having some trouble with it. My other models seem to be just fine, but this one goes sluggish every few seconds while editing. Meaning, it will let me start typing and editing the code, but then it will freeze briefly for a few seconds and then complete the actions I entered... like lag.
I am assuming it has something to do with the fact that it's an SQL file since I have other control files that are larger.
Ultimate, I guess I can reduce the model in size to be separated into other models, but I would rather not.
Anyone else have experience with this?
Thanks
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I am a Ph.D student, and I usually write articles which are later proof-read by my supervisor. I usually do it in LaTeX and reviews are done to the PDF outputs in Adobe Reader itself. There are mostly grammatical ones and mostly I miss prepositions and conjuctions in fast writing. To re-phrase everything I have to manually enter everything in my LaTeX script again.
This seems to be hell lot of work and this goes on multiple times sometimes. Is there any software in current world that makes the task easier? For example, if a text stuck out for grammar errors and suggested alternatives, can I accept the changes to replace old one with new phrase or sentence and also able to blank out the striked text. Please suggest me a tool which really makes my life easier.
You may want to take a look at the following link. It has some good information about version controlling.
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Collaborative_Writing_of_LaTeX_Documents
You could attach the LaTeX sources to the PDF (with the attachfile2 package), so reviewers can directly edit the source and send that back. Or you try to accept comments to the PDF, but currently only Adobe Reader and Foxit allow that - and not on Linux.
I am trying to simplify a process where I currently use my hand calculations of X & Y Co-Ordinates of each value. Which works fine, but is causing me a lot of pain as I have to do quite a number of PDF's.
I know that I can open a PDF and insert "input fields" within Adobe Acrobat Pro, which it would be great if I could use PHP to connect to those input fields and insert a value from a PHP Form.
WORKFLOW::
PHP FORM >>> PHP PROCESSING ENGINE >>> TO FINAL PDF WITH FORM VALUES IN THE LOCATION OF THE ADOBE INPUT FIELDS.
If someone has some information on something like this it would be much appreciated.
I know this is not a direct answer to your question, but maybe it will save you some time.
We tried doing something similar and ended up abandoning the idea of doing this programatically ourselves. It was much more cost-efficient to just buy this product: http://www.evermap.com/automailmerge.asp?gclid=CPfW44DNsKYCFULNKgodyV6Rnw
as the cost of paying me to write similar functionality was not a good ROI.
However, a similar (but not exact duplicate) qhestion has been asked here, and you may be able to get ideas from it.
How to do mail merge on top of a PDF?
Your PHP script could generate an FDF that your PDF could import and obtain values from.