I am working on a prototype using iText7 for C#. The PDF I am using is an XFAForm PDF and was created in Adobe Live Cycle Designer. From my research, XFAForms do not support annotations. I was going to add an annotation to the field with a link.
I want to be able to edit the value in a field to include a URL. For example,
Name : Marc
should be:
Name : Marc https://www.google.com
I am able to modify the value in this field, but no luck adding a URL that is clickable. I have tried the following:
element.Add(new XAttribute("href", injectedURL)); element is an XElement
Injecting HTML as the new value with a link
I was thinking about reading the XML, parsing it and injecting the URL in the XML and then writing it back to the PDF, but I do not feel that is a good solution.
Has anyone been able to do this?
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I am writing a Flutter web application that needs to have a customizable template for printing reports: inside the template there will be some placeholders that must be replaced with data at the moment of printing. The "printing" itself will be done by having the user download and open a PDF file, then print it through the browser, the OS or anything else, but that's beyond the scope, at the moment.
The default template would be something like this, where <BUYER_DATA> and <TRANSACTION_DATA> will be replaced with the data of the transaction the user is printing, along with some other "technical" tags (i.e., the page number and the pages count):
Header with site name
727 Chester Rd New Trafford, Stretford
Manchester
<BUYER_DATA>
01-12-2022 14:40
<TRANSACTION_DATA>
AppName - TM 2022
Page <PAGE_NO> of <PAGES_COUNT>
The user is allowed to edit this template in any aspect (boldness, size, colors, etc), provided that the tags related to the data are not removed from it.
So, to achieve this, I added a WYSIWYG html editor inside a page in order to save the template as an HTML-formatted string. And this works fine: only then I realized that the well-known flutter printing library doesn't support conversion from HTML directly to PDF on web, and all my plans began to crumble.
I then tried to discover if there's some other way to achieve the same by replacing the HTML template with something else, like markdown, but it seems that there's nothing that could help me.
The question is: anybody knows of a package capable of converting from HTML, markdown or such, directly into PDF?
I just need to know so I can stop googling around and decide to write my own parser for the HTML and convert it into a series of Widgets of the before-mentioned printing package.
I am creating a word application and in that, I Have to add a new comment on the selected text but from the custom task pane. For adding a link I use Rich Text Box and for convert HTML to OOXML I use the "org.docx4j" package in C#. This package returns OOXML format but when I tried with a hyperlink and unordered list.
Flow:
Call of ajax from office.js file to C# API with HTML body and it returns us an OOXML and add that as comment text and display proper text.
If anyone has an idea please let me know it helps me a lot.
For adding a comments on a selected text, please refer to Word JS API Range.InsertOoxml().
As for adding comments as a link, there is no workaround till now. Please make sure to add your request or vote for an existing on in our UserVoice.
I know coldfusion has extensive pdf support, but I'm not sure if this is possible.
I was given a pdf form and told to make it so it is both filled out online, the data is captured, and the form can be printed.
Obviously, I can create an html page that looks like the document, save everything, generate the filled pdf form, etc.
Alternately, I think I can show the pdf, have them fill it, then grab the form data. I'm not entirely sure I can do this though, because I would need to detect when they are done filling it out.
But I was thinking it would be nice if I could do it this way - Show the pdf embedded on the webpage, let them fill it out and print it, then capture everything when they are done. I was looking through the CF documentation (cfpdf cfhttp, etc), but not finding exactly what I need. Is this an option?
You can extract the data from a PDF using the cfpdfform tag or as an HTTP Post. Here's a link to the docs on how to do that, but it depends on how you set up the PDF itself. You can edit your PDF form to actually submit just the formdata to a given CF page. It arrives on the page in a struct tied to the form name (ie. #form.form1.Fields.blah# etc.). Dump it out to deipher it (it's kind of convoluted) So you could fire print and submit from within the PDF.
The second way is to submit the PDF itself as a file. In this case you use the cfpdform tag - not well documented or widely used. Both approaches are covered lightly in the link above. Good luck!
We can show the pdf on page using cfheader and cfdocument tags. We can only show the pdf on webpage using the following example code.
<cfsavecontent name="pdfcontent">
//Here what you need to show the pdf
</cfsavecontent>
<cfheader name="Content-Disposition" value="filename=Mydocument.pdf">
<cfdocument format="pdf" orientation = "landscape" bookmark="Yes" marginleft=".25" marginright=".25" marginTop = ".25" marginbottom=".75" scale="90">
<cfoutput> #pdfcontent# </cfoutput>
</cfdocument>
I'm using RazorEngine v3.3 to create emails using template files (emails are sent using SendGrid Web API). I implemented a base template so I can use my own html helpers by overriding the WriteTo() method as shown here
.
My problem is that my emails are part Html and part Text. For the Html templates, I use razor's default implementation that html-encodes the #Model values. This is because some of the data comes from user input.
However, I can't use the same implementation for the text part as Html will not be interpreted when being read.
So the way I see it I have 3 options:
use #Raw(Model) in all my text based templates to ignore Html encoding
create an other base template for my text templates which doesn't encode to Html
modify my Html base template so the WriteTo() method doesn't encode anything
The 1st solution seems the safest, but I have about 50 text based templates to go through, and it reduces readability.
The 2nd solution seems the cleanest to me, however this would prevent the use of cache, as I would be constantly doing Razor.SetTemplateService() to reassign the right base template ?
What would you recommend doing ? Thanks
I have a PDF file (softcopy) which was created using iText. Now my company decided to use JasperReports for new release. I need to use that PDF file (softcopy) and need to design JasperReports template and need to populate data.
Do we have any plugin in JasperReports that can convert from PDF to JasperReports JRXML or what do I need to do? Any suggestions?
A PDF is a description of how to render a document on a page. Things
like "draw a vertical line here", "write 'foo bar baz' here in
Courier". It does not contain any information about the format or
organisation of the stuff it is rendering. You won't be able to tell
that you're looking at a table, or a list of bullet points, or a
paragraph, or anything like that.
The PDF format does contain information on a page-by-page basis.
Therefore, page breaks are the one piece of format/organisation
information that you can find.
If you want anything more than a raw stream of completely unformatted,
disorganised text, one per page, you are out of luck. It's virtually
impossible.
from javaranch
You can use http://xmlprinter.com/ and then use a xslt to transform the resulted xml to the desired jrxml.
I'm working in it. If I finish it, i will post the result on github or any other public and open place.
Good Luck