Is it possible to try a Windows Mobile application made with ZPL without an actual printer? Like simulate the printing?
Also, is there any site/videoes/books about Zebra Programming Language for beginners?
I'm learning ZPL from here: it's provided by Zebra Website. I think it's very helpfull.
If you want simulate the printing, you can use labelary.
Have a look at my question and answer on PrintPage PrintPageEventHandler Is Printing Too Many Copies.
My issue was printing from a Windows Form, but you could do the same thing with Windows Mobile.
What you do is create a dummy Form with the same proportions as the document you want to print. Set labels all around with what you want them to say. Some fields will need to be INPUT fields so that your Windows Mobile app can call them and fill in those values.
For example, if you had a customer address you needed to set, the label on your dummy Form would be lblCustomerStreet, lblCustomerCity, lblCustomerState, and lblCustomerZip with public properties:
public string CustomerStreet {
get { return lblCustomerStreet.Text; }
set { lblCustomerStreet.Text = value; }
}
When you need to print, you make a ratio of your Form's size to the PrintDocument's Page Size. You use that ratio to either increase or decrease the size of the label so that the text fits on the page.
It does take some time to do, and there is a lot of trial and error involved.
However, the question and answer I posted up at the top will get you about 80% of the way. You would only be interested in focusing on the Document_Printed section of my code.
My example code included sizing for Panel controls, Label controls, one Image control (company logo), as well as a custom Barcode control that you can delete. The Image is printed first, then the Panels, then Labels, and finally the Barcode - because in my printout, the Barcodes are the most important, and the text on the labels is more important than the box lines made by the Panels. Panels just make your printout look pretty.
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Currently I want to create an application.multiscreen transitionstrong text
But I have a problem I do not know how to do these lines that divide the image into several parts. I want to cut the image into several parts and these parts you can handle, please at least some ideas.
If you want to split images up programmatically you are first going to have to choose a file format to support. I suggest PNG to begin with because their encoding is fairly simple to understand (see HERE) and c# has a class to decode it (see HERE.)
You'll want to think of the PNG file as a matrix of RGB values that you can split up and store into separate new smaller PNG files.
If you want to support other image file types you will have to do some research into their encoding formats and handle them differently.
Well I did. Of course other method as I create a WPF application. show image
This program is intended to control 3, 6 and 9 monitors connected by Raspberry Pi. As you can see in the image I want to first grid to have 2 buttons. The first button to set the image resolution of first grid. The second button can send images from the first grid to the first monitor and so on all grids.
Thank you very much for your help. Wait a few suggestions.
Is there a way to determine the text that will actually display in a PDTextField when the PDF prints? If I call setValue and then getValue, it returns all of the text even though it will not all display.
I am trying to fill out a form with a limited size multiline text field that has the notation to attach another page for more details. I would like to limit the text to that which will display and generate the added detail page.
Thanks for indulging a PDFbox newbie.
There is no direct way to find that out as the details of the text layout such as line breaks, padding, line spacing are hidden inside the non public class PlainTextFormatter inside the org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.interactive.formpackage. So you'd need to replicate that code.
PDFBox tries to resemble the calculations done by Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Reader but the details of such calculations are not part of the PDF specification. So doing your calculation is only valid for a similar layout model. Other form filling applications might have a slightly different layout model and as a result your results will not apply to these.
In addition to that Acrobat (and PDFBox) place text although it might be partially clipped. Look at the results of the AlignmentTest.javaunit test to see what I mean. So one might have a different expectation to what 'fitting' really means.
As I've thought about passing the information about which text fitted back to the calling application anyway I've opened an enhancement request https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-3413 for that.
I'm writing some logic to build a large single PDF file that our users can print at their convenience. I'm using Java's iText library (through Clojure's clj-pdf).
I'm trying to have the PDF show the same exact template form on every single page, however I can't seem to find any documentation or indication that one can have PDF content "fit to a page".
The text in these forms varies a little bit, so there's a chance it might require more of fewer text lines per page. This means that the content has a chance of spilling over to the next page, or being too short, making the next page creep up into the previous one, breaking the requirement of "one form per page" for the rest of the document.
I'm trying to figure out if my option is pretty much only to manually check the length of the text on each page and potentially crop it by hand if I goes over n lines, or if the PDF format somehow supports a smart way of having paragraphs+tables+headings all fit in one page. Some UI systems allow you to control how spill-over is handled, anywhere from cropping to resizing the font, so I'm curious if PDF supports anything of that sort.
Edit: ended up going with pagebreaks for simplicity, wasn't aware of that option when I wrote this question.
If you want to take control over the space taken by text, for instance to fit it on a single page, the way to go would be to create a ColumnText object and to add the content in simulation mode. If the text fits the page, add it for real. If it doesn't, use a smaller font size. This is demonstrated in the MovieAds example where snippets of text are fitted into AcroForm fields.
I have some forms that I need to add expanding text boxes to.
I already have Multi-Line selected. And yes the scroll-bar appears when field is full and you keep entering text. However, when you go to print, it doesn't print out the full text.
I know in Adobe LiveCycle you can make dynamic forms, that bump onto the next page. I have done this, but you lose so much functionality in LiveCycle. To be dynamic you lose the ability to position objects without using tables and therefore doing designs and graphics are not as easy.
Has anyone found a way to do this in Adobe Acrobat X Pro?
At this point, I think it would be easier just to convince people that a web form is much easier to update and style any way you want with print CSS stylesheet.
Thanks for any suggestions.
To be dynamic you lose the ability to position objects without using tables and therefore doing designs and graphics are not as easy.
That is not true. A form being dynamic or not has nothing to do with having flowed or positioned content. A static form renders once on the server, a dynamic form can be re-rendered on the client and thus is able to reflect layout changes like hiding objects or altering heights of objects (more info).
With either form type you can have both positioned and flowed content. The trick is to divide your form into subforms according to the structure of the data you want to display (tutorial).
To let the text field grow automatically with the amount of text, enclose it in a subform with flowed content, allow multiple lines and enable "expand to fit" (or "auto-fit).
I want to get the height necessary to display the full text in my RichTextBox (when the text extends beyond the set height of the control).
Reminder: Silverlight has no handy TextRenderer.MeasureText like WPF does, nor any other apparent way to measure text.
Doesn't seem like there's any way to do this. I've seen mention of people measuring text of a single font (not mixed as in my RichTextBox) by creating a TextBlock and getting it's Width. Even this doesn't work - it's perfect for some fonts and inconsistent for others.
My app is occasionally connected, so I can't call the server.
As you say, I don't think there's a good way to do this in Silverlight today. There are some functions available in the Document Toolkit by First Floor Software, however those are geared towards working with XPS documents. I'm not sure what you're trying to do, however in Silverlight 5 the RichTextBox does come with the ability to "overflow" text into multiple other RichTextBoxes when the first one cannot display all of the data. This allows you to more easily create a multi-column text layout.
Document Toolkit: http://firstfloorsoftware.com/documenttoolkit
SL5 Video: http://www.silverlight.net/learn/videos/all/silverlight-5-multi-column-linked-text/
SL5 Blog Post: http://10rem.net/blog/2011/04/13/silverlight-5-advancements-in-text