I have written a Powershell script to perform some actions:
Read a .xls file
Compile certain .c files
Copy output files.
I log everything performed by the script to a Log file (e.g. output.log)
I later invoke a tool which performs an analysis of the actions performed by the script and writes them into an Excel sheet.
I would also like to write the path of the excel sheet inside output.log and also provide a hyperlink to it but I have not been able to do so.
Example:
Currently the link to the excel sheet is written as file://\\10.128.163.188\d\abc.xls, but I would like to have a hyperlink to it.
Can you please suggest how to do that?
p.s. I am not working with HTML Docs / UI (i found many examples for the same), but for adding a hyperlink into a plain text written inside a .txt file, i couldn't find any.
You cannot add hyperlinks to a plaintext document. It does not have that functionality.
It has to be a rich text file (.rtf), or a Microsoft Word Document (.doc), or a HTML file.
There is no way around this.
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At my place of work, we have a standard source header. I've been using snippets to generate it when adding text to a file. However, since it's supposed to be pretty much used on everything, I figure I might as well see if I can automate its generation on file creation.
Is there a way to automatically add text to a file on creation in vscode? Can I generate different text based on the file extension?
Our users write in a rich-text field, pretty much like this one, and we would like for them to be able to export this as a Word Document in their OneDrive, preserving the formatting, and being able to open the file in Word Online.
I have no trouble creating new files using the https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/ api. The problem is the conversion to docx. The google api provides this conversion automatically, but I did not find that for Microsoft. I tried using html-docx-js and it almost works perfectly.
The file is created:
However when opening the file the following dialog pops up:
Opening in read-only mode works, the file shows with the correct formatting.
Downloading the file and opening in desktop word works perfectly (i.e. editing as well).
The HTML-content i use is a simple div with a few p-tags, so the "Objects that Word Online doesn't support" probably comes from html-docx-js.
Here's an example word-file that is created. This file can be opened as normal in desktop Word but only opened in read-only in Word Online
https://1drv.ms/w/s!AqpUGtnMiyurgwE543OscH7PdLnY
Any ideas?
We are developing a Java application that needs to programmatically convert .rtf, .doc and .docx files to PDF files.
Formatting is important to us, so we need the page numbers to be the same between a source file and a target PDF file, and the contents of each page being the same as the original file.
We have tried out open source solutions, such as JODConverter to invoke a LibreOffice of OpenOffice installation, Docx4j and XDocReport. The best formatting was achieved with LibreOffice. However, even in that case, the pages were different (for example, a 87-page .rtf file results in an 80-page PDF file).
So, we think that the ideal way to make the conversion would be to somehow invoke Microsoft Word though our Java application, and make the conversion with it. That would produce PDF files that have the same formatting as the original files.
Is this possible in any of the following ways:
An API that is directly invokeable through Java?
An API that is invokeable through a .Net language and we would use that with something like JACOB?
A 3rd party library that uses a Microsoft Word installation under the hood (something like JODConverter for Word)?
A CLI interface supported by Word (relevant question)?
Something else?
I work for a publisher and am trying to extract content from our fully laid out PDFs. I've tried pdftohtml, pdftotext, pdfminer, and other Python-based approaches to getting the content, as well as saving to Word, HTML, XML, etc. from the original Acrobat files.
I don't need just the text, I also need the text formatting. That's because, for example, I need all the blue text in the document.
When I save to HTML, Word, etc. from Acrobat, the resulting files contain screenshots of the pages, not the laid out text. When I extract text using different Python modules I get the text but lose the text formatting.
The only solution I've found is to manually copy and paste from the PDF into a word doc, then saving as HTML. I'm hoping to automate this.
Why does copying from Acrobat into Word achieve what I can't do by other means? Has anybody come across this problem before?
Maybe you can consider another method. The software (https://pdfapi.codeplex.com/) can convert pdf files to html directly via MVS. If you are able to use the MVS, i think the software i mentioned above is useful for you to convert the text in pdf files to html that can keep the format perfectly. Of course, it's just a referral, you can have a try.
I have a requirement to read a pdf file having tabular format data only like in excel file. I need to extract the cell value of given pdf file.
Is it be anyhow possible using itext API. If you have something to share then please share it or any other solutions?
The PDF format is just a canvas where text and graphics are placed without any structure information. As such there aren't any iText-objects in a PDF file. In each page there will probably be a number of Strings, but you can't reconstruct a phrase or a paragraph using these strings. There are probably a number of lines drawn, but you can't retrieve a Table-object based on these lines.
In short: parsing the content of a PDF-file is NOT POSSIBLE with iText.
You can try this! This lets you read PDF pages.
I recently ran into this problem. I wasn't able to make it work with itext.
An alternate solution I found was to open a PDF document in Adobe and export it to xml. At least with my PDF's it preserved the table information and then I was able to programmatically work with the XML to generate tabular files like excel etc.
The other issue I ran into was that Adobe only lets you export one file at a time and I had lots of files. Luckily Adobe also has a merge function. I ended up merging all the files together and then exporting them as one big XML file and working with that file to generate what I needed.