PREFACE: Yes we're moving away from VSS in the next few months.
One of my web projects contains, as one of its files, a PDF. The PDF on our QA site is being pulled from VSS.
A QA tester recently told me he's being prompted for a password when he tries to open it. VSS says the file I have on disk is different than the one it has, so I updated it, but afterwards it's still being shown as different.
So basically VSS is mangling my PDF and the results are so wobbly that Adobe Acrobat Reader is confused and thinks it has a password.
I've tried adding it as Auto-Detect and as Binary. Same results.
Why does my PDF ask for a password after being retrieved from Visual SourceSafe and how can I prevent it?
Do you have the SourceSafe 2005 Update installed?
Handy list of known issues: http://blogs.msdn.com/richardb/archive/2007/06/06/list-of-bugs-fixed-in-sourcesafe-2005-gdr.aspx
The PDF bug was one of the most commonly requested hotfixes: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/925234
I've tried adding it as Auto-Detect and as Binary. Same results.
To be clear, are you adding a version of the file you know is not already corrupted? Even so, there are plenty of other bug fixes on the list above which can cause random file corruption -- try that first.
You can remove PDF password by this tool:
Advanced PDF Password Remover 5.0
Step 1: Import PDF files
Click the "Add File(s)" button, browse your computer to find the PDF files and load them.You can import as many as 200 PDF files into this program for every batch processing.The imported files are listed in the file list window as below.
Step 2: Set output folder
You can customize a folder to save the output files all together. The default folder is My Documents\Advanced PDF Password Removerr. Click "Brows" button to specify a folder on your computer, or you can make a new folder manually in the text box.
Step 3: Remove restrictions
Click "Start" button, and the files are processed one by one.
"SUCCEED" is displayed in the Result column after the removing process is finished.
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I want to add a link to some text within a PDF that will bring up another PDF that is located in the same folder. I wish to use relative addressing so that the PDF suite is transportable to other users and computers. I wish this to work on Linux and Macs.
LibreOffice Draw, despite promises, writes out the link address as a full path. Thus if taken to another computer with another user the link fails to work.
I tried manually editing the PDF files using vi and altered the link syntax so;
<</Type/Annot/Subtype/Link/Border[0 0 0]/Rect[940.9 480.3 1200.7 507.9]/A<</Type/Action/S/URI/URI(Content/Information.pdf)>>
where the target file, "Information.pdf" is in a subdirectory "Contents".
On Linux using Document Viewer, it works! On an Apple, Preview (a PDF viewer) interprets the target file needs to be opened by some application. Adobe Reader doesn't like this syntax either. I tried prefixing the filename with the keyword "file:" which works for a full path but not with relative addressing.
Does anyone know what syntax might work for me
Editing a PDF you can select text and add a hyperlink using LibreOffice Draw. It is then possible to edit the PDF file with a text editor such as vi.
To find the line with the link search for the filename of the target. One problem is that LibreOffice insists in using a fully qualified domain name to locate the file and this won't work after the file is moved, say to another computer. The unedited line should be similar to;
<</Type/Annot/Subtype/Link/Border[0 0 0]/Rect[940.9 480.3 1200.7 507.9]/A<</Type/Action/S/URI/URI(File:<fullpathname>/Content/Information.pdf)>>
Where Content/Information.pdf is the link target in the same directory as the linking pdf. This line should be changed to
<</Type/Annot/Subtype/Link/Border[0 0 0]/Rect[940.9 480.3 1200.7 507.9]/A<</Type/Action/S /Launch/F(Content/Information.pdf)>>
This works on Unix and MacOs
I am running Excel version 16.45 on Mac.
I have created a .iqy and saved it in the Queries directory alongside certain templates which were already there.
I go to Data/Get External Data/Run Web Queries. While the templates are accessible, my file is visible but greyed out (same thing happens if I save the file in a different directory).
Would anyone be able to help?
According to your information, I would like to confirm whether the issue occurs when you follow the steps as below:
1.Create a Word file, paste the web URL.
2.Save the Word as .iqy with .txt format.
3.Choose MS-DOS as coding.
4.Create an Excel file and click "Data >Get External Data >Run Web Query (Or Run Saved Query) " of the Bar
I was able to address the issue as follows.
When navigating to the relevant directory with Finder, the '.iqy' file appears to be appropriately named (as per Image 1).
In fact, if you reach the file in Terminal, the file is saved as '.iqy.txt'.
So all I had to do is rename the file, simply removing the '.txt' string at the end.
Screen you see when navigating in Finder
I am not sure how to phrase this question. We have code that creates a PDF that is PDF/A compliant, we put in some xml data into the metadata section. We then display the PDF in a preview window where the user can download the PDF. As part of our users process they open up the PDF in a text editor and search for one of the xml tag, "vendor" while all the data is encrypted, the tag value of "vendor" is still visible, such that the search would work. And then the users submit these files to US Courts that export the data.
I am on a Mac and I follow this process and it works perfectly.
The issue we have is that on Chrome/Windows users when they download the PDF and try to search for "vendor" it doesn't work. The search fails. If the user opens up the document in Adobe Acrobat Pro and then just hit Save, then open it in their Text editor it then works. The problem is our users are now complaining about having to do those two extra steps.
This only occurs on Windows users with Chrome. It does not happen on Mac/Safari.
I wish I could attach a sample, but the documents are extremely confidential, and I can't make one up with non confidential data as that would then not match what happens in our application.
This is not a back-end programming question. I can only modify the markup or script (or the document itself). The reason I'm asking here is because all my searches for appropriate terms inevitably lead to questions and solutions about programming this functionality. I'm not trying to force it via progrmaming; I have to find out why this PDF is behaving differently.
So:
I have a bunch of links to PDFs on a page. Most of them open in new tabs, but one of them, the most recent, starts to open in a tab, but then the tab closes and the PDF gets downloaded as a file instead. All markup is consistent - there's nothing differnt about the odd-man-out except the actual URL.
You can see this here:
http://calwater.mwnewsroom.com/Investor-Relations/Financial-Reports/Annual-Reports
All annual reports up to 2012 open in a new tab, but 2013 downloads instead.
This leads me to believe that there is some meta-data property of the PDF itself that tells it how to open, and that, in this case, the 2013 PDF was created using different settings.
Apparently, the PDF was saved out to PDF from InDesign.
Does anyone have any insight?
Problem solved. There was simply an error in the string (like an extra period) that references the attachment such that it couldn't tell it was a PDF. Fixing the reference fixed the problem.
I've got a form that I downloaded, I'd like to prefill some content on the form (this is easy using cfpdfform).
Where it gets tricky is I would like to allow the user to modify the contents of that form, and then somehow have those modified contents accessible to me. I didnt build the source PDF so I dont know how to allow the user to "save" the new contents so they can be read.
Any ideas on where I might start on this one?
You can also use the cfpdfform tag to read/write data to a PDF file which has a form. The important thing is that the PDF document already have the form fields available, or that you add them.
I just recently completed a task where I had to have a user fill out a normal web form, and then create a filled version of an existing PDF document. It worked like a breeze!
I think that depending on what you are trying to accomplish, having the user fill out the data in a web form is less confusing than serving up a PDF and expecting them to save that to update a file on a remote server. Just my opinion, though.
http://www.cfquickdocs.com/cf8/?getDoc=cfpdfform#cfpdfform
It's possible for users to complete most PDF forms in Adobe Reader, but when user's try to save the changes they get a popup prompting them that the PDF cannot be saved and would need to upgrade to Adobe Acrobat to have this functionality.
Since Acrobat 7 (or possibly) 8 it's possible to create a form so that it can be completed and saved in reader. In Acrobat open your PDF, and select Advanced -> Enable usage right in reader from the menu. This will prompt you to save the form and then anyone using Adobe reader can complete it.
Once that's done you can open the form in ColdFusion, populate some of the fields and serve it up to the user. Once they fill it in, save it and get it back in ColdFusion you can read the contents using the PDF related tags.
Please note: It's currently not possible to set the "enable usage rights in reader" flag from ColdFusion, you need a copy of Adobe Acrobat or access to Adobe LifeCycle server to do this.
This document may help you:
http://www.adobe.com/education/instruction/teach/coldfusion/CF8-2_advanced_cf8_development_unit8.pdf