How to display PDF thumbnails in ASP page
There is no built in functionality for ASP to process and manipulate PDF files. You will need to install a custom component on your server, make sure your webhost allows this, or ask them for a list of installed objects as they often have ones that will do what you want.
A good free on is GFlax:
http://download.cnet.com/GFLAx/3000-10248_4-10327603.html
It will allow you to chop a PDF up into seperate JPEG files, and from there you can get the object to resize the JPEGs into different thumbnail sizes for your needs.
The GFlax documentation should get you started.
Have you looked at this? Mapsoft ThumbNails
you can use Ghost script sharp for displaying pdf thumbnail . Here is the code
GhostscriptWrapper.GeneratePageThumb(filepath, thumbnailPath, 1, 20, 20);
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I have a webform with and want to open it on smartphone - than take pictures of some documents which need to be merged in one PDF, and on the end this file need to be uploaded to server.
My solution is to use Google Drive to upload PDF (scan) to GDrive and then somehow download this file from gdrive to server via some sort of widget (any links appreciate) installed on website.
Maybe someone have a better idea?
I know its late but my answer might help others. I also face the same challenge and implemented a custom solution based on Javascript and Since you are using web form so this solution will perfectly fits on your need.
You have to use JSPdf javascript library, JSPdf provide you pdf object in your browser and you can upload it download it and there are many other thing to play with.
First you have to initialize JSPdf object as per your requirement. I am creating PDF with page size width:500px and height 500px.
pdf = new jsPDF("l", "pt", [500,500]);
Simply when you will take picture from camera you will have each picture in form of base64, that base64 format you have to insert in JSPdf object
pdf.addImage(imgData, 'JPEG', 0, 0);
you can repeat the above code to add pictures from camera as much as you want, at the back-end these images are compiling and creating pdf document where each page have each images in sequence.
Once you are done, you can get PDF object in form of base64 object using below code that you can upload to any server.
pdf.output('datauristring')
above is only pdf part, you can find complete working example including camera part here Javascript Component to Scan Document
I'm developing a UWP app for tablet and i need to generate a PDF with data from SQLite. I need to do this completely offline because where I will use the app there is no connection. What could I do?
I'd prefer not to use paid libraries like Syncfusion and XFinium so I'm trying to find an alternative solution.
I tried with iTextSharp but unfortunately I can't find a good documentation to render a complex PDF or to export a Bitmap generated from a Grid Component to a PDF File.
Why not render your data into a webpage displayed with a WebView control? Then you can use any permissive licensed javascript library to generate the PDF.
If it hasn't changed much, then you can only send text back and forth between your WebView and UWP app, but that's workable. Your final PDF result can be read back as a base64 encoded string.
A very quick search found this one that seems easy to use and you can just download the source to put into your app:
https://github.com/MrRio/jsPDF
There is any possibility to upload a file with different sizes in DropzoneJs?
I'm using vue-dropzone which is made with dropzonejs and i have to upload the same file with different sizing for srcset.
Example:
I want to upload the file test.png which is 1000x500 px. There is any possibility to upload it at the same time in original resolution and also in 500x250px?
Image resizing in the browser has been a seat-of-the pants experience for a long time. Web assemblies are the way of the future for processing-intensive tasks in web apps. I came across this project the other day. It looks fantastic and I really can't wait to strip out our home-baked image resizing with canvas and replace it with this.
The usual reason for doing this is to avoid large uploads. It's a little bit weird to want to resize in the browser then upload the original. You might be better resizing on the server. You'll save bandwidth and the server libraries will be more mature than what's available on the client.
Along with the original image object you can add one more your custom resized image to the array of images by using resize config of dropzone. You can do the above on drop event or adddedFile event of dropzone.
I'm evaluating Fine Uploader compared to various other options, specifically JQuery File Upload.
I generally prefer the Fine Uploader approach as it's more lightweight, compared to JQuery File Uploader which has dependencies on Bootstrap and JQuery UI.
However it's important to be able to resize images: e.g., a user may select a large file from their camera and this may be very large - uploading the full resolution photo may take a very long time. JQuery File Upload doe this.
Additionally we don't have much use for very high resolution files.
If possible (I'm aware some browsers may not support this), I'd like to be able to resize images client size.
Is this possible?
Fine Uploader does not currently have any native support for image manipulation. This is a feature in our backlog, but we have not had many users tell us they are interested in this. This is one of the reasons why such a feature has yet to be implemented natively. There is a case, #707 that marks the start of native image-editing support for Fine Uploader. It is tentatively scheduled for 4.0.
However, you can certainly make use of FileReader and Canvas to resize the image. You can then submit this resized image as a Blob to Fine Uploader via the addFiles API method. At that point, the file has been submitted and Fine Uploader is ready to upload the item.
Essentially, the steps you would follow to handle this specific scenario, before Fine Uploader natively supports image manipulation:
Provide your own file input element(s) or make use of Fine Uploader's file/folder drag and drop support to get a handle on some files selected by the user.
Use FileReader to read the contents of the image.
FileReader will provide you with a URL for the image, assign that to the src attribute of an img element.
Draw the img onto a canvas element. This is where the resizing occurs.
Grab the URL of the resized image from the canvas element (canvas.toDataURL(...)).
Convert the URL to a Blob.
Pass the Blob to the addFiles API method of Fine Uploader.
The intent is to take care of most if not all of this for integrators such as yourself in the future by adding native image manipulation support to Fine Uploader.
Hope this helps.
I'm currently writing a QuickLook plugin, and I wondering how I can display an image and some information about that image at the same time, similar to http://www.code-line.com/software/sneakpeekphoto/ .
There is only one way to do so: Convert your content to an already supported one. This means either PDF or HTML. There are two options you have:
For static information you create a simple PDF preview by rendering a view into a PDF. (Use -dataWithPDFInsideRect: method of NSView)
For dynamic information create a HTML page with links and so on. QuickLook will then show it. (I think this is also the way your example does it.)
We have not found a way to create complex previews on ur own and had to stick to one of the methods, too. Keynote and Pages do the same -- they convert their presentations to multi-page PDF previews...