Are there any solutions for Rendering MS-Word 2003 Documents (WordML) into PDF without MS-Word? I found Aspose.Words which seems good but has some problems. Is there any other solution out there?
You could use OpenOffice. It reads and writes Word documents and can save documents as PDF.
Another solution might be is Altsoft's xml2pdf
Antiword. I used this awhile ago to have a Linux web app read MS Word documents and it worked fine.
Consider ZamZar.
On-line file conversion between many file formats: Upload the source file specifying target file type and an Email address; receive the converted file in your inbox.
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I have a PDF file with other PDF files attached to it. Acrobat shows them in "Attachments" tab and allows to open them in turn.
QPDF documentations says something about extracting attachments but I failed to find any particular commands that do that.
Is it possible to extract these attachments and have them stored on the disk as separate PDF files?
UPDATE: Just a notice to explain better what you can see in the UI: "Attachments" tab was present in older versions of Acrobat, as well as a special page of the container document recommending to download newer version of Acrobat (this page seems to be really existing as it is shown in other viewers as well as on preview image). Latest versions of Acrobat (Reader) skip this page and get you to the first attached document, with the list of all attachments shown on the left side of the screen.
I found an old GitHub issue which a little bit clarify the possibilities of attachment extraction.
It is possible to extract attachments from PDF files using the qpdf
library by understanding the PDF file structure and pulling the
attachments out "manually" by knowing which objects to extract. There
is nothing in the public API at the moment nor in the command-line
tool that enables you to work with attachments as a first-class thing,
but there is an item in the TODO list, and there is some private code
used internally to detect cases where attachments are encrypted
differently from the rest of the file. The main reason, aside from
lack of time, that attachments are not more directly supported is
because there have been various ways that they are stored in the file,
and I don't know whether I have examples of all of them. I'm reluctant
to add a feature for attachments that may miss some attachments in
some older PDF files.
https://github.com/qpdf/qpdf/issues/24
So, it seems it is possible but you should examine the details of the pdf file.
Starting with qpdf 10.2, you can work with file attachments in PDF files from the command line. The following options are available:
http://qpdf.sourceforge.net/files/qpdf-manual.html#ref.attachments
I began writing a docx document to do a project of mine.
Recently, I realized that it would be easier to manage that data if it was in a database.
So, I wanted to import that data into MS Access automatically, to avoid copying and pasting the data manually.
Is there anyway to do it? I have only encontered ways of opening Word application via Access. I also know that docx has a XML structure, so I imagine if I can open that structure, it would be easy to do a parser in VBA
There are two basic ways information can be taken out of a Word document and put into an Access database: automating the Word object model using VBA code running in either Word or Access OR extracting the WordOpenXML that makes up the Word document. You indicate you lean towards the second option.
Here, again, there are a number of approaches available:
Use VBA in Word or Access to extract the WordOpenXML of the document open in the Word application user interface.
Use VBA in Access together with non-VBA tools to "crack open" the Zip file and extract the XML.
Use the tools available in the .NET Framework to extract the content of the ZIP file and write it to Access using an OLE DB connection.
I understand your goal is to be able to recreate the document at a later point for printing, so you want to preserve all the formatting. In addition, you want to be able to read the content from within Access.
I believe this will require a minimum of four fields in the Access table:
ID
Title
Text of song
The complete WordOpenXML for re-creating the document
You don't mention (4) in the discussion and problem description, but if you want to store the formatting AND you want to be able to read the content I believe this is necessary. While WordOpenXML is "readable", there's a lot of mark-up in there which doesn't make reading comfortable.
All things being equal, I'd go for either VBA working on the open Word document or the .NET approach, using the Open XML SDK (free download .NET library you can reference in Visual Studio and distribute with solutions).
One important thing to keep in mind is storing the Word Open XML in the database. Unless something has changed in Access, you can't store the ZIP file - you need a "streamable" format. That would be the OOXML OPC flat-file format.
When you read the WordOpenXML from a document using VBA, that's what you get, which is why that would be an option for me. The Open XML SDK doesn't have that option, but there is code available from Eric White's blog for doing this.
When you later want to recreate and print the document it should be enough to stream the WordOpenXML to a file with the .xml extension. Or you could convert it back to a docx zip file (same blog).
Using VBA outside of the MS-Office suite of applications, is there a good way to create a PDF document, or another light-weight document that can be converted to a PDF?
I have data within classes, which I want to get into a PDF, how do I do that quickly, without resorting to opening up MS Word, MS Excel, etc?
This link seems like it might be helpful with solving your issue.
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/840511
According to the information there you can print to the adobe pdf virtual printer and it will generate the file. The people on that forum were doing something with emailing the file afterwards and generating the file from access data, but it looks like a solution that will work for any VBA project.
Someone knows how can I create one pdf file from multiple ppt files ?
Whether it to write script or computer program. However if it can be done with some program it will be the best.
I searched the web for something like this but I didn't get any results.
If you want to convert the PPT/PPTX files to PDF and then join those converted PDF files into a single PDF using either .NET or Java, you may try Aspose.Slides and Aspose.Pdf.Kit components.
Aspose.Slides allows you to convert the PPT/PPTX files to PDF and Aspose.Pdf.kit allows you to join the PDF files into a single PDF. Please see if this solution can work for your scenario.
Disclosure: I work as developer evangelist at Aspose.
Is there any way to generate PDF files from classic ASP? I have a bunch of user-entered data that needs to be turned into a PDF that the user can download. How can I do this? OpenOffice allows exporting documents to PDF, so could this somehow be leveraged?
I played around a bit with this (Persits ASPPDF): http://www.asppdf.com/
Maybe running an external application that could be using CrystalReports... and you just pass it as an xml?
That's how i would do it... (lazy mode)
See a full list of PDF components here: http://www.aspin.com/home/components/document/pdf Many of them are free.
It is also possible to use XSLT to output PDF but I am not sure if this is supported by the Microsoft XML Parser. I remember there were something stopping me when I tried to do this 3-4 years ago. Might be worth checking out know depending out the type of data you have as source.
However if these are static files or a one time job consider using a PDF converter on your computer and just upload the files to the server. There are heaps of tools for this, including Adobe Acrobat.