Does anyone know a tool to convert JsDoc to PDF ? Or you have to do that trough convert HTML files into PDF ? Thanks for answer !
The JSDoc converters I'm aware of are written in JavaScript and are hard-coded to produce HTML tags.
The best HTML->PDF converter I'm aware of is WKHTMLToPDF. It uses web kit to render the PDF, along with QT's PDF library by the look of it.
So it need some sort of *NIX environment to run.
There are quite a few others floating about, some apps, some services. You can search the questions here for a more complete list.
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We have a Wiki-Page. Where we document our work and projects. From this page you can download the articles in different formats, like Text-File, HTML-File or as DocBook.
Now I need to transform the DocBook into a PDF. This part works, I did it with dblatex.
dblatex doc.xml
But the PDF-Document needs our Cooperate Identity (Headline & Foot-line). I have no idea how to do that.
Any suggestions?
I have done a lot of work with the DocBook XSLT stylesheets that produce Formatting Objects (FO). That's a different way to publish PDF from DocBook source.
There is an excellent set of documentation that explains how to customize PDF output if you're using the FO workflow. Here's the section about that:
http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/PrintHeaders.html
Learning how to customize the dblatex conversion might be a great choice. I have never used it so I'm offering the FO conversion as an alternative.
Good luck!
I would like to know on how wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/) creates PDF? It seem to be using some application at the back-end. Could anyone please let me know on how this is done?
Thanks
Srikanth
Wikipedia runs Mediawiki.
A Google check tells me that they have two PDF extensions.
This one is the one who's still mantained: PDF_Writer
It doesn't use a PHP HTML→PDF generator, (though there are some)
It actually does something trickier and more clever.
The PDF Writer uses the Python Reportlab libraries to generate PDF based on a
DOM derived from parsing mediawiki-markup using the mwlib parser.
To confirm ZJR's answer, these are the document properties:
I am brandnew to PDF Generation or rendering but have a project to, create a PDF Template system that allows users to save Template to Database,
and later generate a PDF document using the template and values from my database.
Language to use C#
Questions
a) Is there a PDF tool out there that can help me with this and documentation I can study to learn of this?
b) Are there free tools out there for this?
c) How do I create a PDF Template? XML?
Thanks in Advance!
You should have a look at xsl:fo.
Apache has a tool which might be helpful.
You can use PHP to create and modify PDFs. (Everything below is completely free.)
Here are two extensive tutorials on generating PDFs in PHP:
http://blog.eirikhoem.net/index.php/2008/04/28/populate-pdf-templates-with-php-fpdf-fpdi/
http://www.astahost.com/info.php/create-pdf-php_t4972.html
You can use the FPDF library located here to handle generating PDFs based off of templates.
If You are using Java, you could try Docmosis or JODReports - they work from templates and can produce PDF output dynamically based on data and those templates. Depending on your template requirements, you might also be able to use Jasper Reports or Apache POI. All have free versions.
If you are looking for an instant solution, take a look on http://pdfnow.com . You can upload your XSL/FO-Templates and simply generate PDF-Templates with a simple webservice call.
I would give a shot to jsreport. You can install it on premise for free or use it online. It supports html -> pdf transformation using phantomjs or xml -> pdf transformation using apache fop.
The idea is that first you create report template using javascript templating engines like handlebars in jsreport studio and then you get back pdf by calling jsreport api.
If you are in c# there is jsreport c# sdk for it.
Note: I am the author of jsreport
What I need is to read pdf, make some transformations (generate TOC bookmarks) and write it back.
I found this http://hackage.haskell.org/package/HPDF , but it only mentions generating pdf, not the parsing (although I could have missed it)
Haskell is chosen purely for (self)educational purposes.
There are a few tools for PDF manipulation, though they seem to bias towards generation, rather than parsing:
http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/
Pandoc is a great cross-markup library, but doesn't support PDF parsing (it does support PDF generation from a variety of formats).
There's also:
http://hackage.haskell.org/package/HsHaruPDF
http://hackage.haskell.org/package/pdf2line -- tool for extracting text from pdf
http://hackage.haskell.org/package/HPDF -- another pdf generation library
I'm not sure we have a good parsing tool yet.
Also as a learning exercise, I started a PDF parsing library in Haskell, but it's incomplete and has been languishing a bit from lack of attention. I'd be happy to share it with you, and would love feedback, improvements, etc. It's not currently hosted on hackage, but if you're interested in working with an incomplete implementation, let me know and I'll ask some colleagues for advice on getting it up there.
Here's a haskell binding to parts of xpdf:
http://hackage.haskell.org/package/pdf2line
Checkout pdf-toolbox library. It's support for PDF file generating is low level, but powerful enough for your task.
Here is an example how to change title of an existing PDF file using incremental update feature.
Another package to consider is rakhana which is also on hackage.
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).