I am going to start my final project for spring semester at school and looking at feasibility before I put my leg in it. One of my potential projects requires me to make an archiveable document of web sessions. These archives should be searchable (and if possible with pretty design). PDF and Open Document formats are in mind for now. Is there any thing else I can look into besides these ? I want to make sure that I pick the right plan before my school starts so that I can be confident about it. I have to use C#.NET for this.
Any suggestions are welcome.
Regards,
Lalith
If you want to convert logs into PDF, You can use Third Party Libraries. There are plenty of c# .NET VCL are present. Like,
iTextSharp(Not free for Commercial use)
Report.NET(free,No Support)
PdfSharp(free,No Support Yet)
Gnostice PDFOne .NET(Non Free,With full help,support)
But if you want to create PDF using c# yourself, it is a pretty hard work since PDF uses PostScript which may be very new and complex to you. First Study the format you are going to use and make sure you can implement it. I would suggest to stick with PDF since its platform,editor independent.
http://www.gnupdf.org/Category:PDF
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I've been tasked to build a program which provides a UI that creates, imports, edits and exports database files and generates PDF (or PDF convertible) reports based on the database information. I want to store and backup database files and folders using Dropbox. Database information will consist of text and images.
My problem is my only programming experience is in firmware design for microcontrollers or similar hardware at which I am proficient. I have minimal experience in software design though I have some basic fundamentals down from my college years. I've spent a lot of time working in C language and I have previous experience using java. I have no experience creating executables or working with database files or producing nice PDF reports from buffered information.
My primary question is where do I begin? What advice would you give on where to start? Is it realistic that someone with my experience could learn how to build this sort of program in a 4-6 month period? What tools would you use? Is there anything particularly difficult about what I'm trying to do? Do you know of any useful tutorials or learning programs that would help me get my foot in the door?
Thank you,
There's a lot of ways to tackle this problem. We all come from different backgrounds and experiences. Here is how I would approach the problem. However, there may be limitations based on your budget and licensing options!
I would utilize QT and its many supplemental libraries as the core framework for the system.
Use QML to create front end
Pass data between front end and controller c++ file. '[Expose c++ to qml]'2
Use QT database API to I/O with whatever you are targetting.
Use QPdf writer to write the PDF file.
For image processing use something like openCV
This solution would utilize mostly c++ and QML to tackle the project.
I work on windows and I need a very simple version track software to be able to check in/out a folder project, no matter what's inside. I downloaded few programs, but most of them are very complicated, team work, cloud, thousands of options, etc.
I need some simple version track of my files, locally. Can you recommend me something useful?
i'd recommend using simpy rar with datetime. Or as an option - just parameter to update archive instead of creating new one
There are a number of reasons why version control software have the number of options that they do, without understanding the basics of how the particular version control system that you are trying to use functions these options can seem overwhelming. To be able to use version control you will have to put in a little bit of effort to understand how it works. That being said I find that Bazaar from Canonical makes a pretty good introduction to version control for beginners. It has a pretty nice download page for various platforms and comes with a GUI client and comes with beginner friendly documentation.
However, having used other version control systems I personally don't like to use Bazaar. The choice of version control system should not make a difference if you are only looking to use it yourself and don't need any of the more advanced features. If you are willing to invest some more time however, I would recommend trying Mercurial it has some documentation for beginners and a fairly nice beginner friendly GUI for Windows in the form of EasyMercurial.
I am using netbeans to develop my project. I need to put a pdf on a website and according to certain conditions, only parts of the pdf should be view-able.For example, suppose payment made is rs.500. I will let the user view 2 chapters in the pdf for a period of one week. I have no idea how to do this.Can someone help me?
Since you're using NetBeans, I'll assume that you're using Java as your language.
You generate PDFs using either XSL-FO or something like iText. I prefer XSL-FO and Velocity templates, but your situation might be different.
The rules for what to display under different conditions need to be expressed in Java using controllers that accept a request, bind parameters to objects, execute rules, and stream the response as a PDF depending on the outcome. It's not an easy answer.
There are various Java viewers and several have plugins (there is one at http://www.jpedal.org/support_siNetBeans.php).
Your best bet would be to generate a copy of the PDF with just the pages allowed and then display that.
I've been asked to investigate the feasibility of adding watermarks to documents when printed through our application. The documents will consist of word, pdf and cad.
The interface of the application is vb6 with a plethora of vc6 dll's.
I can see a couple of possible solutions:
Convert all documents to PDF, add a watermark and then print.
Find a print driver that will add a watermark to all documents prior to printing and install it and reenable it at runtime if it gets disabled for any reason.
3rd Party suites are possibility (we use Volo View Express for viewing CAD files) but since this application is nearing end-of-life we wouldn't want to spend too much on it.
Has anyone had any experience of the above? Any gotcha's that will bog me down?
Tracker Software has a good set of PDF api's that that will allow you to implement the solution you already have in mind. I've used their Image and PDF libraries quite a bit with a lot of success in both VB6 and .NET. Single user licenses are not expensive (depending on how you look at it I guess), and I've found support to be excellent as well.
is there an open source solution that displays PDFs for online reading? It has to be searchable much like google books and if possible has the ability to display annotations?
By "online reading" I'll assume you mean without a PDF reader plugin on the client. In that case you'll need to convert to HTML
http://pdftohtml.sourceforge.net/
If you don't mind losing the ability to copy text then converting to PNG may give you a more accurate rendering
http://www.imagemagick.org/
Regardless of the output format you can manage your searching using the original PDF data. One technology for this is mnogosearch
http://www.mnogosearch.org/
Monogosearch uses pdftotext internally, you may find this useful if you want to write your own search routines. pdftotext is part of the Xpdf suite of utilities
http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/about.html
All of the tools listed above are available on Windows or Linux
You may also be interested in the Vuzit DocuPub Platform: http://vuzit.com/products/docupub_platform
The display technology itself is not open source, but they provide an API to access their service, so perhaps it is worth investigating.
Don't know if you are looking a software to install or some service to pay for...
I've read a lot about www.getbackboard.com (this is not advertising, only reporting something I've read about, that maybe fits your needs.. ;)
Not sure if they do annotations, but both of these will show PDFs quite well:
http://pdfmenot.com
http://docs.google.com
ICEPdf recently released their code as open source. It is Java based.
PyPdf is really nice. It supports reading the text as well as encryption which I know that itextsharp does not.
Of course you'd have to program in python as IronPython's class libraries aren't quite to the point where you can ref them from another language and use them. (But I imagine they will be someday soon)
PyPdf
This is not open source, but check it out anyways. You can download a free trial of their SDK to try it out. Reading PDF's and their annotations is not simple and I wouldn't trust a production app to open source decoders.
Here is an online demo.
http://www.atalasoft.com/ajaxannotations/default.aspx
Another good pdf reader is FoxitReader.