Pretty on the Fly: Making PDFs with PHP

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Making PDFs with PHP, PDQ

Making PDFs with PHP, PDQ 06/26/2002 01:01 PM
Using Adobe's PDF format and some PHP, you can dynamically generate PDF files and serve them via the Web. Paul gives you the deets.

PHPKitchen: Making Pretty Code

PHPKitchen: Making Pretty Code 02/17/2003 09:10 AM

Are PDFs all that bad?

Are PDFs all that bad? 10/29/2003 01:15 AM
Jakob Nielsen is Mr. Unequivocal again on his latest alertbox: PDF: Unfit for Human Consumption. Despite that, I'm cautiously optimistic about the promised next column about making PDFs work better. One technique I like is opening PDFs in their own window, using one usability sin to cover another, since users often end up closing the browser window and thus their whole browser when a PDF file is opened. And I don't buy the Adode myth that everyone has the PDF plugin. Having done field usability tests, I've noticed more users than you might expect simply don't have the plug-in. I have no hard numbers, but keep in mind that Internet Explorer has come built into Windows for some time now, while on many computers, PDFs are still a separate download. Try telling a user to go download 8.7 Megabytes over a dialup connection. Another PDF annoyance: on Windows 2000 using roaming profiles, you have to accept the license agreement the first time you open a PDF file each session if that setting isn't saved between sessions. Occasionally, the window asking you to accept the agreement gets lost and appears to crash your browser....

Want to make PDFs?

Want to make PDFs? 02/01/2005 09:14 PM
This question just came up on a mailing list I'm on: you're on Windows and you want to make PDFs. You have two options: Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Professional, list price: $449. The Mac mini, list price: $499. For $50 more,...

PDFs with PHP, and Drop Down Ads

PDFs with PHP, and Drop Down Ads 05/23/2002 10:39 PM

Book PDFs Posted on Web

Book PDFs Posted on Web 08/03/2004 02:42 PM
As I've mentioned, my book was published under a Creative Commons license. You can find the PDFs on this page.

AstraZeneca doses up on PDFs

AstraZeneca doses up on PDFs 08/13/2004 03:34 AM
Computer Weekly Aug 13 2004 8:05AM GMT

10.4: Use Automator to combine PDFs

10.4: Use Automator to combine PDFs 06/17/2005 04:40 PM
There have been numerous hints here about how to combine PDFs into a single document. Well, Automator now handles that task very nicely. You can select the documents that you want to combine in the Finder and then Control-cli...

CC metadata in PDFs, images with XMP

CC metadata in PDFs, images with XMP 02/13/2004 06:42 PM

You can now add Creative Commons license metadata to PDFs and image files, enabled by XMP (eXtensible Metadata Platform). XMP is an open, RDF/XML-based format developed by Adobe for managing metadata embedded in files.

Please see information about Creative Commons metadata in XMP, instructions for marking files with Creative Commons metadata for users of Adobe's Creative Suite, and a "custom panel" to enhance viewing of Creative Commons metadata within Adobe apps.

We've also posted a related technology challenge: add XMP and Creative Commons licensing support to open source apps, including Open Office.

Combine PDFs using Preview

Combine PDFs using Preview 12/16/2003 11:18 AM
I stumbled upon this accidentally - if you select more than one single-page PDF in the Finder and open them in Preview, they become a single multi-page document which can then be saved. Cool! [robg adds: I thought we'd compl...

View PDFs with a browser using pdftohtml

View PDFs with a browser using pdftohtml 06/15/2004 08:34 AM
I picked up the phone, and the voice at the other end said, "Rob, can you help me with a PDF file? I can't read it." It was my Beverly Hills attorney brother, who had received a 1MB PDF file via his Web-based email client and didn't know how to download it and read it, especially since he had no Acrobot reader installed. After some mutual grumbling about Acrobat being an unnecessary step in the document-reading process, I discovered a fairly painless solution to the whole mess, thanks to a little-known program called pdftohtml.

10.3: Browse PDFs in iChat messages

10.3: Browse PDFs in iChat messages 11/25/2003 10:30 PM
Not sure if this existed in the beta version of iChat A/V, but I found that if you start an iChat discussion in Panther with a buddy, and then drag a PDF file to that window, a direct connect will start and the PDF will appea...

Adobe Locks Down PDFs, Releases Acrobat
7.0

Adobe Locks Down PDFs, Releases Acrobat
7.0 01/06/2005 02:33 AM
Information Week Jan 6 2005 5:22AM GMT

Adobe Acrobat 6.0: Getting Professional
Results from Your PDFs

Adobe Acrobat 6.0: Getting Professional
Results from Your PDFs 05/27/2004 01:46 AM
If you want to connect an Acrobat batch sequence to another program, you have to use platform-specific scripting languages. In Windows, you can use Visual Basic to control Acrobat, and use batch sequences to run operations inside of Acrobat. In MacOS, you would use AppleScript instead of Visual Basic.

Adobe Reader 7 activates intelligent
PDFs, more

Adobe Reader 7 activates intelligent
PDFs, more 12/22/2004 01:43 AM
Adobe on Tuesday released Adobe Reader 7.0, the latest version of its free software for opening PDFs. In addition to an improved search feature, the ability to fill out and submit forms, the ability to save various files attached to PDF documents and other new functions, Adobe Reader 7 allows you to activate special abilities embedded in PDFs with Acrobat 7.0 Professional or Adobe LiveCycle. Those abilities include adding comments with enhanced tools, affixing digital signatures, using custom stamps and locally saving filled-out forms. Reader 7.0 requires Mac OS X v10.2.8 or v10.3, a G3 processor, up to 35MB RAM and up to 125MB free hard drive space.

Copy text from protected PDFs to other
apps

Copy text from protected PDFs to other
apps 06/24/2004 11:26 AM
For those of you who come across PDF documents in which the document's creator has restricted the ability to copy text to the clipboard, here's a simple workaround: Highlight the text, then from the application menu (i.e. Pre...

Acartus Utility Converts XML Data to
PDFs

Acartus Utility Converts XML Data to
PDFs 02/05/2005 09:20 PM
The plug-in offers a long-term data archival solution.

PDFs de los primeros Micromanía: primero
si, después no

PDFs de los primeros Micromanía: primero
si, después no 04/03/2005 08:07 AM

Add PDFs to the Image Conversion Folder
Action Scripts

Add PDFs to the Image Conversion Folder
Action Scripts 12/02/2003 11:04 AM
Simply edit two lines in the "Image - Duplicate as PNG.scpt" (located in /Library -> Scripts -> Folder Action Scripts) to be able to convert screen captures and Illustrator 10 (PDF compatible) files to PNGs. Change from: pr...

Use Preview and custom paper sizes to
repaginate PDFs

Use Preview and custom paper sizes to
repaginate PDFs 03/22/2005 03:39 PM
HTML is nice for viewing online, but lack of page breaks means it is no good for printed documents. Sometimes someone tries to write a paginated document in HTML (an export from Word or Pages, for example) and it loses the pa...

10.3: Use Preview to crop full-quality
segments from PDFs

10.3: Use Preview to crop full-quality
segments from PDFs 11/11/2003 11:36 AM
The new Preview.app allows you to select a region of a given PDF or image for cropping or copying. If you select a segment of a PDF and copy it, you can then select File -> New From Clipboard (Command-N). This results in a...

Create multi-page PDFs using Image
Capture tools

Create multi-page PDFs using Image
Capture tools 04/20/2004 11:12 AM
Go to System/Library/Image Capture. There we find two folders that contain some interesting stuff: "Automatic Tasks" and "Tools." In "Automatic Tasks," we have "Build Web Page" (BWP) and "Build Slide Show" (BSS), both of whic...

It must be a pretty big bag

It must be a pretty big bag 03/19/2003 10:25 PM

GirlHacker's put together a list of everything going into to the generously stocked, and apparently very large, gift bags being given away to presenters and nominees at this weekend's Academy Awards ceremony. Besides the usual stuff you'd expect to find like Hermes beach towels, Givere chocolate truffles, and gift certificates to day spas, there are a few gadgets in there as well, like a Sprint cameraphone with a Fendi case (!), a pair of Beamer BM80 videophones, a Photosmart 715 digital camera from HP, and a Delphi XM SKYFI portable satellite radio with a free one year subscription.
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Pretty Fly for a TI Guy

Pretty Fly for a TI Guy 01/27/2004 10:17 AM
Texas Instruments lays the chips on the table, and wins.

Girls are pretty.

Girls are pretty. 06/26/2004 10:44 AM
Girls are pretty. A series of new holidays.

"Pretty in Pink 2"

"Pretty in Pink 2" 04/07/2005 10:29 AM

Gee, you sure do stink pretty.

Gee, you sure do stink pretty. 11/03/2003 03:36 PM
OsMoz. Inhale a little history, then follow your nose to the Sniffer Game. (Sorry, no scratch-n-sniff.)

Pretty Polluted

Pretty Polluted 06/10/2004 02:34 PM
Visualizing power plant impact. A nice use of flash to show the impact of electricity generation around the USA. You can zoom in on individual states and then individual power plants. Or you can view the national impact of several regulatory regimes.

Me Print Pretty One Day

Me Print Pretty One Day 04/21/2004 10:12 AM
The tragicomic results of following instructions.

"This is pretty despicable"

"This is pretty despicable" 11/14/2003 09:14 AM

More mirrors....pretty please?

More mirrors....pretty please? 12/02/2003 12:29 AM
While we welcome our latest full mirror in Norway, sponsored by Havar Valeur, we crave more. To improve our service to all of you, we would like to ask that you evaluate carefully if you maybe do have the resources to become a mirror. All it takes is a 10Mbit link, around 100MB of disk space and some bandwidth you are willing to share for Fink. The exact setup instructions for rsync mirrors can be found here. Especially mirrors in Asia, Australia, New Zealand, South Europe and Middle Europe are welcome, since we have none in those regions yet. If you feel generous and wish to donate even more resources, please visit finkmirrors.net to learn about your options. The current status of all available rsync mirrors can be viewed on the finkmirrors.net pages as well. We hope to improve this service in the future, yet this depends on your willingness to help us out. We are looking forward to many new applications and thank our community in advance.

Immediately = Pretty Soon

Immediately = Pretty Soon 07/19/2004 06:21 PM
Although Apple's press release claims the iPods are "available immeidately," this is not the case if the two Apple Stores I visited today are any indication. By Christopher Breen, Macworld (via MyAppleMenu)

This is pretty incredible

This is pretty incredible 11/18/2003 08:09 AM
Evening Standard .. shocking news .. Suck It UK

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Looking pretty good so far

Looking pretty good so far 12/28/2003 10:33 PM
3 days of working on my rainbow scarf, and it's at just about 70cm. Which makes me quite the happy...

Apples G5: More Than A Pretty Face

Apples G5: More Than A Pretty Face 12/17/2003 10:51 AM
By Tom Yager (ARN via MyAppleMenu)

Ming + PHP5 + AI = Pretty

Ming + PHP5 + AI = Pretty 06/09/2004 02:38 AM

Pretty vaporware: PC in a ball

Pretty vaporware: PC in a ball 08/10/2004 02:05 PM
Who knows if this PC-in-a-ball will ever become real, but it is nice looking. It's spec'd with a puny 40 G hard drive, which makes me wonder how long this thing has been in the vapor phase. Link (via Sensible Erection)

Brooklyn (pretty much) Rules

Brooklyn (pretty much) Rules 04/21/2004 01:04 PM
Ft. Greene, Brooklyn. Named for Revolutionary War General Nathaniel Greene, and one of Brooklyn's most diverse ‘hoods. I love it....

Power Mac Is Pretty On The Inside

Power Mac Is Pretty On The Inside 11/10/2003 11:26 PM
With its spectacular performance, Apple could have built the G5 to look like an old milk crate and still have sold a few million of them. By Hiawatha Bray (Boston Globe via MyAppleMenu)
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