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Pretty on the Fly: Making PDFs with PHP

Pretty on the Fly: Making PDFs with PHP 08/15/2002 07:39 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....

PDFs with PHP, and Drop Down Ads

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

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,...

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.

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...

AstraZeneca doses up on PDFs

AstraZeneca doses up on PDFs 08/13/2004 03:34 AM
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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.

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...

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.

PDFs de los primeros Micromanía: primero
si, después no

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Making IM Even More Useful

Making IM Even More Useful 02/19/2004 01:27 AM
IM in the Corporate World

"Today, IBM's IM users average about 3 million messages per day, up from 2.5 million messages per day in 2002. The company has also seen a 4 percent reduction in telephone use, and a reduction in the load on its e-mail servers.

IBM employees communicate primarily with each other, but can also communicate with certain applications. For example, Reuss-Caton says there are several apps, including a dictionary and the corporate directory, to which users can send IM queries and receive responses. For example, if Reuss-Caton queries the database with an employee name, it would return all the employee's details, including presence awareness information telling her whether that individual is online." [Smart Mobs]

The making of... the making of!

The making of... the making of! 05/24/2004 04:32 AM

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Making it anywhere

Making it anywhere 09/25/2004 01:27 AM
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Making OS X useful

Making OS X useful 03/13/2003 10:22 AM

This article on taming the dock looks like the solution to my frustration with OS X. I arrange my dock in much the same way shown here, with my favorite apps on one side, and the running apps on the other (though, still on the default dock), but I'm constantly hitting the wrong icon when the dock ballons up on mouseover, and I can never remember where exactly I need to point to launch an app.

I'm giving this a go and seeing how it works out. Funny how it looks a little bit like the windows start bar, isn't it?

Making RSS with PHP

Making RSS with PHP 01/10/2003 10:51 AM
Making RSS with PHP Adam has published some code, at my request, for converting a blog without RSS to one with an RSS feed. He's even using this to create an RSS feed for William Gibson's blog. Yes that William Gibson. [_Go_]

Making over Mona

Making over Mona 06/15/2004 07:38 PM
Making over Mona.

Making friends

Making friends 06/17/2004 01:45 AM
USA Today Jun 17 2004 6:26AM GMT

We're Not Making This Up... (Reuters)

We're Not Making This Up... (Reuters) 07/08/2004 08:53 AM
Reuters - A blind Quebec student, who was denied entry to English classes at a Canadian university because his guide dog responds only to French commands, will be allowed to attend class, the school said on Wednesday.

Making OS X Faster

Making OS X Faster 06/03/2004 01:49 PM

Making Slideshows

Making Slideshows 08/17/2004 05:40 PM
Comparing photo slideshow computer applications, Thomas E. Weber writes for the Wall Street Journal, “Those using an Apple computer won’t need to agonize over which slideshow program to choose. Apple’s excellent iLife package ($49; included with new Macs) is all they’ll need. Users can construct slideshows in the package’s easy-to-use iDVD program or move slideshows from iPhoto into iDVD for burning onto a disc. For more effects, the iMovie video-editing software can add panning and zooming motion.” [Aug 17]

Making Your Insurer Pay

Making Your Insurer Pay 08/13/2004 02:15 PM
If Hurricane Charley blows your house down, how can you make your insurance company pay?

Making The Rounds

Making The Rounds 03/16/2003 07:20 AM
There's a new Star Wars commercial making the rounds, this one includes several of Hasbro's latest '03 toys that have just now begun to hit retail. Among the highlights are Anakin and Dooku Speederbikes, Flying R2, and Mace Windu (Total Control). If you collect television spots, this will be one to watch for. I've seen it a couple times now, if you stay tuned (or tooned) to Nickelodeon and/or Cartoon Network, you shouldn't have trouble picking it up. Thanks to Garah for the heads up.

Making Movies

Making Movies 07/17/2004 09:35 AM
Catch Ro ger Ebert in action, this Wednesday at the Apple Store in Chicago, on making ultra-low-budget movies on the Macintosh.

Making A DVD With Just 1 Mac And 7 PC's

Making A DVD With Just 1 Mac And 7 PC's 08/10/2004 09:06 AM
The results were absolutely astounding. And all it took was a farm of 7 PCs, 1 Mac, and about 48 man-hours. By Dennis T Cheung (via MyAppleMenu)

"making millionaires"

"making millionaires" 06/18/2004 11:21 AM

Making the connection

Making the connection 07/24/2004 02:38 AM
USA Today Jul 24 2004 6:09AM GMT

Making Do With Less Stays With You

Making Do With Less Stays With You 04/27/2004 11:40 AM
One finding of the quarterly MoneyTree Survey on venture capital that shows that startup dollars are lasting longer. The average amount of time between venture capital rounds increased from 11.9 months to 15.7 months for late-stage companies, according to the...

Making It Easier

Making It Easier 05/17/2004 06:02 PM
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Time Warner, Comcast Get Adelphia,
Comcast Celebrates By Turning Off DNS

Time Warner, Comcast Get Adelphia,
Comcast Celebrates By Turning Off DNS 04/08/2005 12:13 PM
It looks like Adelphia cable broadband customers who are about to get shifted over to Comcast have plenty of outages to look forward to. The same evening that it's announced that Time Warner and Comcast will jointly devour what's left of Adelphia for about $18 billion, Comcast had major DNS issues leaving many of their users offline. Of course, in explaining the widespread outage, Comcast is using their favorite phrase: "scheduled maintenance." That's the same thing they told me when Comcast turned off my service nearly every weekday last October. I would call every morning and be told that it was "scheduled maintenance." However, when I asked what the schedule was and if I'd have service the next day, I was told they had no idea. Apparently, it doesn't become scheduled until it actually cut you off.

Comcast Outages Prevent Comcast From
Commenting On Comcast Outages

Comcast Outages Prevent Comcast From
Commenting On Comcast Outages 04/14/2005 01:21 PM
Last week, we noted that Comcast was having widespread outage problems, which they chalk ed up to "scheduled maintenance", even though no one was actually informed of said schedule ahead of time. It turns out that schedule is pretty crowded, because all week long, there have been continued reports of recurring outages all across the Comcast network. Comcast, of course, continues to be pretty much silent on the issue, leaving its increasingly fed up call center staff to deal with incredibly angry customers who feel they're getting no information at all. How hard is it to admit that they screwed up and they're working on fixing the problem? Instead of chalking it up to bogus scheduled maintenance or pretending there's nothing wrong, admit what the problem is and give people real updates. People would still be unhappy, but at least they'd feel like the company wasn't ignoring them. Of course, maybe they can't do that because Comcast staffers don't have any internet access either...

Is Comcast Using Linksys Wireless
Gateways to Spy On Your Network?

Is Comcast Using Linksys Wireless
Gateways to Spy On Your Network? 05/07/2004 07:51 AM
Holy canoli! Could those new Linksys Wireless-G Cable Gateways (WCG200) that Comcast is leasing to its cable subscribers be a trojan horse for Comcast to sniff what's living inside your private home network?If you scroll through the press release, you come to a section which says that the gateway supports...

Comcast Port 25 Blocks Result In Less
Spam

Comcast Port 25 Blocks Result In Less
Spam 06/30/2004 07:46 PM

Om Malik on Broadband: Can Comcast snoop
into you home networks using LinkSys
gateway?

Om Malik on Broadband: Can Comcast snoop
into you home networks using LinkSys
gateway? 05/08/2004 03:46 AM
Om Malik on Broadband: Can Comcast snoop into you home networks using LinkSys gateway? .. backdoored corn-holed their subscribers’ 802.11g/Modems

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Comcast Cable and Internet Service
Pricing

Comcast Cable and Internet Service
Pricing 04/20/2004 02:13 PM
When I moved from my apartment into my townhouse a bit over a month ago, I called Comcast to let them know. I explained that I was merely relocating and didn't want to change any aspect of my service other than the location. They said that was quite easy and we selected dates for the change. They told me to hang on to my existing cable modem. Then, on the appointed day, the Comcast tech came out to check signal...

Linksys BEFSR41 Cable/DSL Router
Web-Based Administration Denial of
Service

Linksys BEFSR41 Cable/DSL Router
Web-Based Administration Denial of
Service 06/21/2004 10:37 AM
“A user can deny access to the web-based administration by establishing 1 connection to the web-based administration port (80). Until the connection is closed, the router administrator cannot access the web-based administration. Note that the router automatically closes the TCP connection after about ten seconds of inactivity.”

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Time Warner, Comcast restructure cable
deals

Time Warner, Comcast restructure cable
deals 12/02/2003 01:44 AM
CNET Dec 1 2003 6:48PM ET

Comcast Plans Cable Boxes with
Integrated Wi-Fi and Snooping

Comcast Plans Cable Boxes with
Integrated Wi-Fi and Snooping 05/07/2004 04:14 PM

The Cable Buzz: Comcast, Motorola
Enhance Relationship

The Cable Buzz: Comcast, Motorola
Enhance Relationship 03/14/2005 06:26 PM
CableRetailer.com Mar 14 2005 10:38AM GMT

Time Warner, Comcast complete cable
shuffle

Time Warner, Comcast complete cable
shuffle 05/03/2004 01:48 PM
The two companies close a deal to restructure their joint ownership of cable systems in Kansas City, Mo., and Texas.

Network Everywhere NR041 Router DHCP
Script Insertion

Network Everywhere NR041 Router DHCP
Script Insertion 08/27/2004 05:41 PM

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Mathieu Lacroix has reported a vulnerability in Network Everywhere Cable/DSL 4-Port Router NR041, allowing malicious people to conduct script insertion attacks….

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DHCP Log HTML Injection Vulnerability

Vulns: Network Everywhere NR041 Router
DHCP Log HTML Injection Vulnerability 08/28/2004 04:50 PM
SecurityFocus Aug 28 2004 8:30PM GMT

Linksys WRT54GS Wireless-G router

Linksys WRT54GS Wireless-G router 06/13/2004 09:42 PM
CNET Jun 14 2004 0:30AM GMT

Linksys Wi-Fi router vulnerability
discovered

Linksys Wi-Fi router vulnerability
discovered 06/04/2004 05:03 PM

Linksys Wi-Fi router flaw discovered

Linksys Wi-Fi router flaw discovered 06/04/2004 05:35 PM
ZDNet Jun 4 2004 9:33PM GMT

Linksys router vulnerability discovered

Linksys router vulnerability discovered 06/04/2004 11:43 PM
globetechnology.com Jun 5 2004 2:47AM GMT

AT&T Broadband / Comcast or

AT&T Broadband / Comcast or 03/20/2003 05:32 PM

AT&T Broadband / Comcast or "I'd Rather Eat Glass"

Damn.  Last week Kasia got screwed by AT&T / Comcast.  Now its me.  Here's what happened:

1. Come back from meeting with a client about a bunch of rather interesting stuff.  Some Inbox Buddy, some Feedster for internal use, some Frontier consulting and some miscellaneous other open source issues. 
   
2. Virtually no network performance at all.> 200 ms ping times, hosts not resolving, etc.  Call AT&T. 
   
3. Suffer thru one of the worst voice response systems I've seen in a long time.  Horrid.
   
4. Reach a technician.  He makes me remove my PC from the Linksys broadband router that shields my PC from the outside world.  I'm not happy about this but a 10 Base T coupler makes it a lot easier.
   
5. He tells me to restart.  I counter with "ipconfig /renew".  He shuts up.
   
6. I start doing some ping tests and he's telling me that all is well and happy, frothy goodness since he can ping me fine. 
   
7. I start to traceroute and give him feedback about the broken routes.  I ask him:  What's an email address so I can mail it to you?  "I don't have one".  What's a hot mail account I can send it to?  "I can't give that to you either."  So I ended up reading him the bad routes.  Pathetic.  And this from a company that sucks $50 from me monthly for broadband?
   
8. I finally give him the info, he checks it from there after a 5 minute hold session and B I N G O !  I was *right*.  They have a problem on their internal network and then I had to wait on hold for another 5 minutes while he filled out a trouble ticket.  Then I got the really bad news.
   
9. "It'll be resolved within 72 hours.  Not necessarily fixed but hopefully a solution decided upon."  What the fsck does that mean ?  That within 3 days from now, you'll decide how to fix it and then take as long as you like?  Utterly, totally pathetic. 

End result?  Over an hour of my time shot to hell simply because AT&T can't proactively monitor its own damn network.  I tell you, times like this?  I'd rather eat glass than be an AT&T customer.

Not So Fast, Comcast

Not So Fast, Comcast 02/17/2004 06:03 AM
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Bray on Comcast

Bray on Comcast 03/19/2003 10:24 PM
Tim Bray, one of the fathers of XML, blogs about the NY Times reporting that Comcast is going to add services to its delivery of broadband. Tim knocks 'em upside the head: Let's lay it out in maximally-simple bullet-point form so anyone can understand it: Fast pipe. Always on. Get out of the way. You can't get much clearer than that....

Comcast Still Thinking Big

Comcast Still Thinking Big 04/28/2004 04:10 PM
TheStreet.com Apr 28 2004 8:04PM GMT

How Comcast Let the Mouse Get Away

How Comcast Let the Mouse Get Away 04/29/2004 09:02 AM
Business Week Apr 29 2004 1:18PM GMT

Second Night of Outages Hit Comcast

Second Night of Outages Hit Comcast 04/14/2005 09:22 AM
Comcast High Speed Internet subscribers again found themselves without Internet service for the second night in a row and the third time in two weeks as "server problems" plagued the cable provider once again. The latest round of troubles is causing several subscribers to begin to look elsewhere for broadband Internet service.

Comcast Wants To Buy Mickey Mouse

Comcast Wants To Buy Mickey Mouse 02/11/2004 12:27 PM
The big surprise story of the morning is that cable giant Comcast has decided to make an unsolicited bid for Disney. Expect the AOL-Time Warner comparisons to come fast and furious, though that's a bad comparison as these are very different companies. Still, it's difficult to see this deal making too much sense for Comcast. Disney is clearly on the downswing right now, and while it can do things to save itself, tying up with Comcast probably hinders them more than helps. Still, should be an interesting battle to watch. Michael Eisner clearly doesn't want the deal (he refused to negotiate, which is why this is a hostile bid), but Eisner doesn't have the full support of his board. Also should be interesting to see if anyone else steps in with an offer as well. Should be plenty of fireworks as the struggle for Mickey begins. Update: Some are already protesting< /a> the proposed deal, saying that such media consolidation is a "threat to American democracy." I'm not quite sure how that works out, as part of the reason Disney is in trouble is that people are paying much less attention to them these days. Either way, the FCC is promising to investigate the matter - which is barely worth stating, since that's part of their job. I'd just like to say that it's not as exciting to tell people "I'm going to Comcast World!"

Comcast offers to buy Disney

Comcast offers to buy Disney 02/11/2004 12:12 PM
Comcast has made a US$66 billion stock-swap offer for Disney. The DRM implications for such a transaction are staggering.

Net outage strikes Comcast

Net outage strikes Comcast 04/08/2005 12:57 AM
Blog: Comcast, the largest provider of broadband Internet access with 6.5 million customers, suffered a general outage Thursday evening. ...

Comcast speeds things up a bit

Comcast speeds things up a bit 07/28/2004 08:22 PM

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Comcast taken a page for the DSL play book recently. DSL has long been known to “tier” services for their customers, thus providing them with more choices. Well it looks like Comcast will be doing the same by offering customers a choice between 3Mbps down/256kbps up or 4Mbps down/384kbps up instead. The 4Mbps option will cost a little more, but you can bet that I will be signing up for the increase being I am…

Comcast walks away from Disney bid

Comcast walks away from Disney bid 04/28/2004 01:17 PM

The biggest spammer on the Net? Comcast?

The biggest spammer on the Net? Comcast? 05/24/2004 09:15 AM
ZDNet May 24 2004 1:30PM GMT

Other News: Comcast Wants Disney

Other News: Comcast Wants Disney 02/11/2004 05:53 PM
Comcast wants to take over Disney, offering $54 billion to do it.

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