I hate PDF
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Let the record show I hate everyone who has ever worked for Adobe. I have spent all night following the spec and I am totally, utterly unable to append a PDF and get a new text node to appear. I hate them all. Christian No offense, but I don't really want to encourage the creation of another VB developer. - Larry Antram 22 Oct 2002
C# will attract all comers, where VB is for IT Journalists and managers - Michael P Butler 05-12-2002
It'd probably be fairly easy to make a bot that'd post random stupid VB questions, and nobody would probably ever notice - benjymous - 21-Jan-2003 -
Let the record show I hate everyone who has ever worked for Adobe. I have spent all night following the spec and I am totally, utterly unable to append a PDF and get a new text node to appear. I hate them all. Christian No offense, but I don't really want to encourage the creation of another VB developer. - Larry Antram 22 Oct 2002
C# will attract all comers, where VB is for IT Journalists and managers - Michael P Butler 05-12-2002
It'd probably be fairly easy to make a bot that'd post random stupid VB questions, and nobody would probably ever notice - benjymous - 21-Jan-2003Christian Graus wrote: I hate them all. That is okay, just make sure you use their products ;P On record, there is enough information to even break the security :) Best regards, Paul. Jesus Christ is LOVE! Please tell somebody.
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Let the record show I hate everyone who has ever worked for Adobe. I have spent all night following the spec and I am totally, utterly unable to append a PDF and get a new text node to appear. I hate them all. Christian No offense, but I don't really want to encourage the creation of another VB developer. - Larry Antram 22 Oct 2002
C# will attract all comers, where VB is for IT Journalists and managers - Michael P Butler 05-12-2002
It'd probably be fairly easy to make a bot that'd post random stupid VB questions, and nobody would probably ever notice - benjymous - 21-Jan-2003PDF files do piss me off every time I have to deal with them. However, I think we should give Adobe some credit for some awesome apps like Photoshop.
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Let the record show I hate everyone who has ever worked for Adobe. I have spent all night following the spec and I am totally, utterly unable to append a PDF and get a new text node to appear. I hate them all. Christian No offense, but I don't really want to encourage the creation of another VB developer. - Larry Antram 22 Oct 2002
C# will attract all comers, where VB is for IT Journalists and managers - Michael P Butler 05-12-2002
It'd probably be fairly easy to make a bot that'd post random stupid VB questions, and nobody would probably ever notice - benjymous - 21-Jan-2003Christian Graus wrote: I am totally, utterly unable to append a PDF and get a new text node to appear. How are you doing this at the moment? ASP.NET can never fail as working with it is like fitting bras to supermodels - it's one pleasure after the next - David Wulff
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PDF files do piss me off every time I have to deal with them. However, I think we should give Adobe some credit for some awesome apps like Photoshop.
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Christian Graus wrote: I hate them all. That is okay, just make sure you use their products ;P On record, there is enough information to even break the security :) Best regards, Paul. Jesus Christ is LOVE! Please tell somebody.
So you've done some work with PDF ? The doc *looks* good, but I'm sure I followed it, and my text node is not appearing. Christian No offense, but I don't really want to encourage the creation of another VB developer. - Larry Antram 22 Oct 2002
C# will attract all comers, where VB is for IT Journalists and managers - Michael P Butler 05-12-2002
It'd probably be fairly easy to make a bot that'd post random stupid VB questions, and nobody would probably ever notice - benjymous - 21-Jan-2003 -
PDF files do piss me off every time I have to deal with them. However, I think we should give Adobe some credit for some awesome apps like Photoshop.
Photoshop is OK, but I think it's a little busy. Besides, they wrote it because they've had time to. Christian No offense, but I don't really want to encourage the creation of another VB developer. - Larry Antram 22 Oct 2002
C# will attract all comers, where VB is for IT Journalists and managers - Michael P Butler 05-12-2002
It'd probably be fairly easy to make a bot that'd post random stupid VB questions, and nobody would probably ever notice - benjymous - 21-Jan-2003 -
Christian Graus wrote: I am totally, utterly unable to append a PDF and get a new text node to appear. How are you doing this at the moment? ASP.NET can never fail as working with it is like fitting bras to supermodels - it's one pleasure after the next - David Wulff
I'm trying to do it in a text editor, creating the field, the index, the suffix, and calculating the byte offsets in a hex editor. The main PDF still shows, but my appended text node does not. Christian No offense, but I don't really want to encourage the creation of another VB developer. - Larry Antram 22 Oct 2002
C# will attract all comers, where VB is for IT Journalists and managers - Michael P Butler 05-12-2002
It'd probably be fairly easy to make a bot that'd post random stupid VB questions, and nobody would probably ever notice - benjymous - 21-Jan-2003 -
Photoshop is OK, but I think it's a little busy. Besides, they wrote it because they've had time to. Christian No offense, but I don't really want to encourage the creation of another VB developer. - Larry Antram 22 Oct 2002
C# will attract all comers, where VB is for IT Journalists and managers - Michael P Butler 05-12-2002
It'd probably be fairly easy to make a bot that'd post random stupid VB questions, and nobody would probably ever notice - benjymous - 21-Jan-2003Christian Graus wrote: Photoshop is OK, but I think it's a little busy. Photoshop's interface is not very intuitive - maybe it is a Mac thing, but functionality of the app is just outstanding. I am only working with it for just over a year and once I was over the initial confusion/shock I really like the application. Christian Graus wrote: they wrote it because they've had time to. :)
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PDF files do piss me off every time I have to deal with them. However, I think we should give Adobe some credit for some awesome apps like Photoshop.
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Well, the same is true about many other software companies...
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I'm trying to do it in a text editor, creating the field, the index, the suffix, and calculating the byte offsets in a hex editor. The main PDF still shows, but my appended text node does not. Christian No offense, but I don't really want to encourage the creation of another VB developer. - Larry Antram 22 Oct 2002
C# will attract all comers, where VB is for IT Journalists and managers - Michael P Butler 05-12-2002
It'd probably be fairly easy to make a bot that'd post random stupid VB questions, and nobody would probably ever notice - benjymous - 21-Jan-2003I feel your pain, I've been there :-) The specs for the PDF format are deceptively simple. But what I've found is that they can be a litte TOO flexible. From version to version there is more than one way of doing the same thing. Your best bet might be to first do it using Acrobat Writer or the Acrobat COM API's (which have plenty of memory leaks by the way) if you have access to that (or some other free tool) and then do a diff between the text files you got manually and what you got from Writer, to see where you might have gone wrong. ASP.NET can never fail as working with it is like fitting bras to supermodels - it's one pleasure after the next - David Wulff
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So you've done some work with PDF ? The doc *looks* good, but I'm sure I followed it, and my text node is not appearing. Christian No offense, but I don't really want to encourage the creation of another VB developer. - Larry Antram 22 Oct 2002
C# will attract all comers, where VB is for IT Journalists and managers - Michael P Butler 05-12-2002
It'd probably be fairly easy to make a bot that'd post random stupid VB questions, and nobody would probably ever notice - benjymous - 21-Jan-2003 -
I'm trying to do it in a text editor, creating the field, the index, the suffix, and calculating the byte offsets in a hex editor. The main PDF still shows, but my appended text node does not. Christian No offense, but I don't really want to encourage the creation of another VB developer. - Larry Antram 22 Oct 2002
C# will attract all comers, where VB is for IT Journalists and managers - Michael P Butler 05-12-2002
It'd probably be fairly easy to make a bot that'd post random stupid VB questions, and nobody would probably ever notice - benjymous - 21-Jan-2003Maybe this http://www.pdflib.com/pdflib/index.html helps you?
What is PDFlib?
Want to spice up your generated documents with PDF?
Tired of HTML formatting issues?
PDFlib is a development tool for PDF-enabling your software,
or generating PDF on your server. PDFlib, available since 1997,
saves you the intricate details of PDF generation by offering
a simple-to-use API for programmatically creating PDF files
from within your own server- or client-side software.PDFlib doesn't make use of Adobe Acrobat for generating PDF,
nor does it require any other third-party software.The PDF import library (PDI)
PDI is a companion product to PDFlib which allows you to
process existing PDF documents. With PDI you can open PDF
files and incorporate one or more pages into PDFlib-generated
output.
With the PDFlib+PDI combo you can easily develop solutions
for shuffling or stamping pages, extracting or appending etc.Note that PDI must be purchased separately from PDFlib, although
both are delivered in a single binary. In order to successfully
use PDI you must purchase a license key for the PDFlib+PDI combo.Source code for PDI is not available for download from this site,
but we offer PDI source code for commercial licensing. -
So you've done some work with PDF ? The doc *looks* good, but I'm sure I followed it, and my text node is not appearing. Christian No offense, but I don't really want to encourage the creation of another VB developer. - Larry Antram 22 Oct 2002
C# will attract all comers, where VB is for IT Journalists and managers - Michael P Butler 05-12-2002
It'd probably be fairly easy to make a bot that'd post random stupid VB questions, and nobody would probably ever notice - benjymous - 21-Jan-2003Post a sample to the right forum so that we could take a look. Best regards, Paul. Jesus Christ is LOVE! Please tell somebody.
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Post a sample to the right forum so that we could take a look. Best regards, Paul. Jesus Christ is LOVE! Please tell somebody.
I can't work out which is the 'right' forum. I've not written any code, I'm just typing up a PDF at this point. Christian No offense, but I don't really want to encourage the creation of another VB developer. - Larry Antram 22 Oct 2002
C# will attract all comers, where VB is for IT Journalists and managers - Michael P Butler 05-12-2002
It'd probably be fairly easy to make a bot that'd post random stupid VB questions, and nobody would probably ever notice - benjymous - 21-Jan-2003