I am attempting to use Automator to turn a folder of ArtPro (.ap) images into .pdf's, but I can't find any existing or downloadable actions to do anything other than open a .ap file with automator.
Does anyone know of an action I could download or a different way to automate the conversion of .ap to .pdf? Is it possible to do it using applescript instead?
It is only possible with ArtPro itself (manually) or Automation Engine's Action List. You can try recording your actions with "Watch-me-do" in Automator, but it's not a good idea. Apple Script will not help.
The problem is that Esko has its own file format which no other software can understand.
I could see some approaches:
a) open the document in ArtPro, then use the Print command and write out as PDF
b) (if Preview.app can read in .ap files) open the document in Preview.app and save as PDF
c) if there is no direct way (a) or b)), write out as TIFF and convert that intermediate file, for example in Acrobat or Preview
The ArtPro format is proprietary to Esko - you won't be able to open it in anything else.
Secondly, Esko favours selling its own automation solution (Automation Engine) - ArtPro will not allow you to automate it. It doesn't integrate with Automator and as far as I know it also doesn't publish AppleScript actions.
So basically I think your only option is using Automation Engine from Esko.
You need used task "Export ArtPro to Normalized PDF File" in esko automation engine
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Is there an IDE (that preferably uses C), that allows me to output the results of a program onto a PDF?
I am tasked with writing a program that does a specific set of computations in which the results of each individual computation needs to be output onto a PDF file that can be opened later normally. Is there an IDE that would allow me to do such a thing? I'm currently using Codeblocks and I'm not sure whether it can do what I need as I'm not too familiar with it.
If your question is simply how to printout your code as a PDF most if not all IDEs can do that via printing.
If its how to hand write a pdf with an ID Editor you need to learn how to hand code a pdf first.
However for code::blocks see 2.14 Source Code Exporter in the PDF User Manual
We have a program that processes PDF documents - Automated. We fail with certain PDFs because they are malformed . When we open the PDFs in acrobat, it opens it. I see that Acrobat goes to extra measures to fix the malformed PDFs. So in our case, someone manually has to open and save them to make them clean. Is there a way I can programmatically do this in Python or Powershell? Has anyone done this?
Thanks!
You might try this this link.
You can run a macro from powershell. You can also set up a scheduled task to run your powershell script in task scheduler at pretty much any interval you like (TASKSCHD.MSC) This particular example has a msgbox for the path to folder but it loops through all pdf files in a folder, flattens and saves. Perhaps flattening might not be required but might help with a malformed PDF.
** This relies on Acrobat and uses the javascript API through the excel ... I'm not sure if libreoffice draw has has a javascript api like acrobat. I'm not aware of any open source alternatives that have that sort of functionality. If anyone is please let me know.
I wasn't able to find anything on the internet and I get the feeling that what I want is not such a trivial thing. To make a long story short: I'd like to get my hands on the underlying code that describes the PDF document of a selected area from a .pdf file. I've been looking for libraries or open source readers but couldn't find anything useful yet.
Does there exist something that might be able to accomplish my needs here or anything that might be reused (like an open source reader) to get there a little faster and not having to write everything from scratch?
You can convert a whole PDF document to PostScript using pdftops, one of the utilities from the poppler PDF rendering library.
This utility enables you to convert individual pages, which is at least a start.
If you just want to extract bitmapped images, try pdfimages from the same package. This extraction can also be restricted to individual pages.
The poppler library was originally written for UNIX-like systems, but there are a couple of windows builds available.
The open source tool from iText called iText RUPS does what you want, showing you all the PDF commands for a particular PDF and allow you to visualize the structure and relationships.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/itextrups/
Someone knows how can I create one pdf file from multiple ppt files ?
Whether it to write script or computer program. However if it can be done with some program it will be the best.
I searched the web for something like this but I didn't get any results.
If you want to convert the PPT/PPTX files to PDF and then join those converted PDF files into a single PDF using either .NET or Java, you may try Aspose.Slides and Aspose.Pdf.Kit components.
Aspose.Slides allows you to convert the PPT/PPTX files to PDF and Aspose.Pdf.kit allows you to join the PDF files into a single PDF. Please see if this solution can work for your scenario.
Disclosure: I work as developer evangelist at Aspose.
Is there any way to generate PDF files from classic ASP? I have a bunch of user-entered data that needs to be turned into a PDF that the user can download. How can I do this? OpenOffice allows exporting documents to PDF, so could this somehow be leveraged?
I played around a bit with this (Persits ASPPDF): http://www.asppdf.com/
Maybe running an external application that could be using CrystalReports... and you just pass it as an xml?
That's how i would do it... (lazy mode)
See a full list of PDF components here: http://www.aspin.com/home/components/document/pdf Many of them are free.
It is also possible to use XSLT to output PDF but I am not sure if this is supported by the Microsoft XML Parser. I remember there were something stopping me when I tried to do this 3-4 years ago. Might be worth checking out know depending out the type of data you have as source.
However if these are static files or a one time job consider using a PDF converter on your computer and just upload the files to the server. There are heaps of tools for this, including Adobe Acrobat.