On our site we use Google's document viewer to let users view PDF and other documents in the browser. But Google's viewer is not very good, when used without being Google. Quite often it doesn't show anything, and the limit for the PDF file is around 10/20mb. The main issue is that it quite often just doesn't show any files.
So, we're looking for a way to show pdf (and other documents) on our site. It would be great if it could be done without us having to upload it to another service as this complicates the process.
The pricing is not an issue, so even if you know an expensive service, it would be great to let us know.
Or if anyone has other solutions then it would be great to hear of that too.
Thanks,
Tobias
Through another source we were suggested to use Scribd, and our first tests shows that it works great. The documentation is good-ish so it's easy enough to set up.
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I have a 300+ page PDF document which needs to have internal page links added to it to reference other pages in the document. The document is created in Visio, which does not support consistent hyperlink generation in PDF export, so the link generation needs to be done on the PDF itself, not up the chain. This is an annual need, and regularly takes over a week due to the amount of manual labor, time, and checking needed.
The text which is hyperlinked has the same format in every case (e.g., "See Section 8.18 - How to Hyperlink"), and I'm certain this can be automated, as there are commercial plugins which can do this, but they cost hundreds of dollars, and are not able to be used in this case due to restrictions imposed by my employer. Example: https://www.evermap.com/ABAddingHyperlinks.asp
I've been looking through the Acrobat Plugin SDK and it seems doable, but I know there is also a higher level scripting language available for Acrobat. Does anyone have experience working with PDFs or with the Acrobat scripting / SDK tools? Are there open source methods for doing this? I've looked everywhere! Willing to learn. I've looked at Ghostscript (Adding internal hyperlink to a pdf) but what I need is way more than just a Table of Contents, and links can appear in many places on the page with line breaks, so consistency is a challenge.
EDIT: I found a solution! Bluebeam software's Revu Extreme works pretty darn well, and can be used as a 30 day free trial of all features. Only limitation is that links which extend across a line break (multiple lines of text) do not properly work in Edge or Chrome's PDF viewer, as they don't properly support hyperlinks with multiple click regions. I've submitted a ticket requesting a feature be added to Revu that fixes this, but for now those links need to be manually fixed following the batch link. The process is described here: https://support.bluebeam.com/online-help/revu2018/Content/RevuHelp/Menus/Batch/Link/Batch-Link--T.htm
EDIT: I found a solution! Bluebeam software's Revu Extreme works pretty darn well, and can be used as a 30 day free trial of all features. Only limitation is that links which extend across a line break (multiple lines of text) do not properly work in Edge or Chrome's PDF viewer, as they don't properly support hyperlinks with multiple click regions. I've submitted a ticket requesting a feature be added to Revu that fixes this, but for now those links need to be manually fixed following the batch link. The process is described here: https://support.bluebeam.com/online-help/revu2018/Content/RevuHelp/Menus/Batch/Link/Batch-Link--T.htm
You can add hyperlinks to a document with Ghostscript, but you would need to know the location of the text to hyperlink and the destination in advance, you cannot automate it or in fact write any reasonably simple code to automate the task using Ghostscript. You'd need to modify chunks of the PDF interpreter, which is written in PostScript and is not a task for anyone not a PostScript expert.
You could probably do it with MuPDF, and probably using MuJS to script it, but I don't know enough to be certain. It would still require some coding effort, but it would probably be easier to use JavaScript at least.
I am having trouble in trying to find the solution for the below described problem.
Annotate the PDF file when user clicks on specific location in pdf and then finaly save the pdf which in future opens at annotated location.
How to approach this?
What I have tried.
I have tried to find various libraries irrespective of programming language (since programing language is not the dependency)- found few libraries like minipdf in python, pdfbox in java to mention few relevant ones. Finally selected pdfbox since it seemed to be mature enough to provide the solution closeby.
There are various hurdles now how to get user the location clicked by the user? since after getting the location I can able to perform various actions like annotating at the clicked location and then saving the pdf on the same specific location.
It seems I have to write whole pdf javascript to approach it but again how to do so?
I had similar problem and have solved it the other way. In my case I am not opening PDF in Adobe reader, but in browser. So what I did is converted the pdf to html using python libraries (Let me know if you are interested, I will share different library names with their pros and cons).
Now that html can be edited easily. We can put hyperlinks, highlights everything there as source code is with us.
This workaround may be applicable to you if your front end is web based.
PS: Wanted to post this workaround as comment, but couldn't due to little less reputation count as of now. Hope, it won't be downmarked :)
I have been searching the web however I have come up empty so felt the need to ask. We want to render a PDF file on iOS, Android and UWP through Xamarin Forms and the most important part, from a Stream.
I have come across answers like this however they just reinforce the notion of loading from a file or url.
We are not allowed to store the PDF files unencrypted on disk so the only 2 possible options I can see are to:
Find a viewer that can render from a Stream
Implement/expand a viewer that can render from a Stream
I haven't been able to find much based on these options so I am either hoping for someone to know of some framework or method of achieving this or at least some form of starting point library wise.
PDFTron PDFNet SDK is available for all the listed platforms, and Xamarin, and supports opening and viewing a PDF from a stream (no disk access required).
https://www.pdftron.com/pdf-sdk/xamarin-library
https://www.pdftron.com/documentation/xamarin/guides
While PDFTron was the only supplied answer I encountered great difficulty firstly getting any information from the company themselves in order to get costing information and secondly the trial downloads and samples wouldn't even compile.
I actually did some further research in to paid for solutions and found that SyncFusion offered a PDF viewer control that could also render from a Stream. They also provided answers to all my questions and got us up and running within less than a day.
I have searched using many different terms and phrases, and waded through many pages of results, but I have (remarkably) not seen anyone else addressing, even asking, about, this issue. So here goes...
Ultimate Goal: Allow a user viewing a content-based page (may contain both text and images) within a Windows Store app to share that content with someone else.
Description
I am working on taking a fair amount of content and making it available for browsing/navigating as a Windows 8/WinRT/Windows Store (we need a consistent name here) application. One of the desired features is to take advantage of the Share Charm, such that someone viewing a page could share that page with someone else.
The ideal behavior is for the application to implement the Share Source contract which would share an email message that contained some explanatory text, a link to get the app from the Windows Store, and a "deep link" into the shared page in the application.
Solutions Considered
We had originally looked at just generating a PDF representation of the page, but there are very few external libraries that would work under WinRT, and having to include externally licensed code would be problematic as well. Writing our own PDF generation code would out of scope.
We have also considered generating a Word document or PowerPoint slide using OpenXML, but again, we run up against the limitaions of WinRT. In this case, it is highly unlikely the OpenXML SDK is useable in a WinRT application.
Another thought was to pre-generate all of the pages as .pdf files, store them as resources, and when the Share Charm is invoked, share the .pdf file associated with the current page. The problem here is the application will have at least 150 content pages, and depending on how we break the content down, up to over 600. This would likely cause serious bloat.
Where We Are At
Thus we have come to sharing URIs. From what I can tell, though, the "deep linking" feature is only intended for use on Secondary Tiles tied to your application. Another avenue I considered was registering a protocol like, "my-special-app:" with the OS and having it fire up the application but that would require HKCR registry access, which is outside the WinRT sandbox.
If it matters, we are leaning towards an HTML/JS application, rather than XAML/C#, because the converted content will all be in HTML and the WebView control in WinRT is fairly limited. This decision is not yet final, though.
Conclusion
So, is this possible, and if so, how would it be done or where can I find documentation on it?
Thanks,
Dave Parker
I have a lot of different sites written in PHP (Drupal) and more and more often clients ask me to create PDFs of various lists, product descriptions and so on.. I've been using dompdf and other pdf libraries but they are a pain to use and have a very limited functionality.
Are there any services out there that'll let me generate a PDF file from a URL and let the user download the result? That would definitely save my day :)
Best regards,
Thomas
If you are trying to convert html to PDF, then there are a couple of services out there which can do that for you (search), but from the top of my head a2ps does a pretty ok job. The basic idea if that if you can generate PostScript from your source, then creating a PDF is not an issue.
If you are looking for a more feature full library then iText can do it (Java though and not free for commercial use).