is it possible to export the content of the Radgrid to Powerpoint? if so, can someone tell me the logic for it.
I believe you could do this by generating Office HTML-compliant code. I haven't tried that, but I think you can get the Word output from RadGrid and stream it as a PPT file directly. Of course you will have to set the corresponding content-disposition and content-type headers.
You can find some documentation on this format here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa155477%28office.10%29.aspx
Download the EXE file and extract it. The documentation is packed in CHM format.
Again, this is just an idea so don't take my words as 100% truth. Hope this helps.
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I want to create a document from an existing Word 2010 document and convert it to PDF using docx4j 3.1.0. I've built upon the sample in
https://github.com/plutext/docx4j/blob/master/src/samples/docx4j/org/docx4j/samples/ConvertOutPDF.java
The Word document already contains a header with text and an image that I do not modify in my processing. The resulting PDF document, however, doesn't contain the header.
Is this someting that is supposed to work? If yes: how can I find out what I am missing?
Yes, if you can see the header when you "save as PDF" in Word, then you should also see the header in docx4j's PDF output.
To have it fixed, we'll need to see the docx.
Just for the curious reader: the specific cause for the missing header turned out to be a wrong approach of setting page margins on the document. Instead of modifiying the existing settings via body.getSectPr().getPgMar() (or even simpler: setting it in the template right away), the code created new PageDimensions and set a new SectPtr on the body, thereby somehow overwriting or removing the header.
Does anyone have any suggestions for generating RTF, PDF and MS XML reports from XCODE ?
I was thinking of creating some Objective-C classes to help do this but no doubt some may already exist.
To answer my own question...
Subclass NSDocument and generate formatted text using NSAttributedString, NSTextBlock, NSParagraphsStyle and so on...
Add the attributedString to the NSDocuments textStorage.
Add some methods to NSDocument to provide the list of supported output formats available from NSAttributedString to the Save As dialog.
It's not simple but works OK and can be used to generate formatted documents.
Things I can't figure out how to do are the following:
Make use of RTF \stylesheets so that MS Word picks up the styles used
by the different programs.
Creating new Sections, Chapters and Pages (e.g. RTF tag \page)
Creating Headers and Footers.
If anyone knows whether any of these are supported by the Apple text system please let me know. I can do this with custom RTF generator but would prefer to stick to standard API's if they exist.
Thanks
I'm working on a tool in Python to extract highlighted passages from PDF files. I regularly highlight PDFs in Preview on OS X Lion but haven't found a good tool to extract these passages. Other apps exist that do allow you to highlight and export such as Skim but I figure there has to be a way to extract the ones I add in Preview.
I figured that the highlights would be stored in the HFS+ extended attributes for the PDF file but after looking at them using xattr it seems that they're stored elsewhere. I also looked at PDFKit but I only saw how to create annotations rather than locate them.
If someone could tell me where to find the highlights/annotations or point me at some documentation that explains this I would really appreciate it.
When using PDFKit you can get annotation from any PDFPage instance.
[myPDFPage annotations] will return an array of annotations for that particular page.
See the docs for more info.
Technically speaking, highlighting parts of a PDF is adding an annotation to the file. These annotations are PDF objects defined in the PDF specification. They are stored inside the PDF file itself, i.e. they do modify the original file! That's why you'll not find a trace of the highlights in the HFS+ extended attributes...
So the answer to the question of your title line is: Preview stores the highlights inside the PDF file as fully compliant PDF objects.
The answer to your real question implied in your text ('I want to extract the highlighted passages') was well answered by sosborn.
So, I have a local .rdlc file with some text formatted using strikethrough formatting. My issue is quite simple to explain, but I do not know if it is just a limitation of PDF, or a bug with the .rdlc exporting to PDF.
When I write this code:
var localReport = new LocalReport();
...
byte[] pdf = localReport.Render("PDF");
System.IO.File.WriteAllBytes("MyReport.pdf", pdf);
None of the strike-through formatted text transfers over the the .pdf file properly.
If instead, I export to Word using .Render("Word"), the strikethrough does work on the .doc format. So, I know it isn't a problem with the .rdlc report itself.
Has anyone encountered this? Any solutions or workarounds?
I found this: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sqlreportingservices/thread/b35ca474-046d-4a38-a765-6c38c3d33105/
which suggests that missing strikethrough in PDFs was a known limitation. (But as mentioned in comments to the question, I couldn't reproduce with 2008r2.)
The two workarounds given there look painful.
(A) finding a font which itself as the strikethrough built into each
glyph/character. (B) trying to mimic a strikethrough using a line
report item. Note that for (B) overlapping items are supported only in
PDF, Print & TIFF formats.
I suppose if it were mine, I would play around with option B if the text is a small amount. Also, it may be worth test some of the html passthrough enabled when a placeholder is set to render as HTML. Maybe using a strikethrough style there would work?
While exporting RDLC report on word, I faced this issue. So while fetching data I replaced style for Strike formatting with strike tag from HTML and it worked.
right now i am working on one ipad application where i am giving facility of opening the pdf file and also to customize it,now i want to add one functionality like i want to convert that pdf file in .doc format.
I researched but did not get any way around. Can anybody help me out?
Thanking you in advance.
I wrote an article on PDF to text conversion issues. If you look at some of the existing PDF to Word conversion tools (ie BCL) you will see what is realistically possible with a lot of work.
It’s not possible to convert a generic PDF back into a text format. I guess you could render the PDF into images and create a DOC from those, but that doesn’t sound very useful.