Is there any way to just slap on a header and use a PS file as a PDF, assuming that the PS is very simple and do anything complicated?
I want to do this programmatically, not using ps2pdf.
Thanks.
You can certainly *try" "just slapping on a header" ... but I don't think you'll get too far :-)
Personally, I'd suggest ps2pdf is the best solution (for example, invoke it with ShellExec() or system()).
But if you want a programmatic solution, ps2pdf is just a wrapper around Ghostscript. Have you considered using the Ghostscript libraries?
You cannot wrap a PostScript file into a PDF file.
Although a PDF file looks similar to a PostScript file,
a PDF file must have a special structure, including a cross-reference
table at the end with file offsets to different parts of the PDF file.
To understand the PDF file format you can download the PDF Reference from:
http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/en/pdf/PDFReference.pdf
If your software generates the PostScript file, maybe you can
extend it to write a PDF file too? It takes some time to understand
the PDF file format but it is not especially difficult if you are familiar with PostScript.
If this is too difficult, then use pdf2ps to do the hard work for you.
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I would like to convert this book Mastering the Lightning Network, which is freely available through GitHub to a pdf for personal use.
Unfortunately, I have only figured out how to "translate" single files using asciidoc or asciidoctor-pdf. The options for folders don't seem to work with the configuration of the repository.
There has to be an easy way to translate everything, including all files and pictures. Would be very thankful if somebody could help me out.
As far as I know it is not possible to convert a folder containing AsciiDoc files to a pdf, a simple script could do it but the problem would be in what order do you want your files to be converted?
The simplest solution for you is to create your own content.adoc file and use the include macro to select what files you want to convert and in what order, it could look something like this:
= Mastering the Lightning Network
include::01_introduction.asciidoc[]
include::02_getting_started.asciidoc[]
include::03_how_ln_works.asciidoc[]
include::04_node_client.asciidoc[]
include::05_node_operations.asciidoc[]
include::06_lightning_architecture.asciidoc[]
include::07_payment_channels.asciidoc[]
include::08_routing_htlcs.asciidoc[]
include::09_channel_operation.asciidoc[]
include::10_onion_routing.asciidoc[]
include::11_gossip_channel_graph.asciidoc[]
include::12_path_finding.asciidoc[]
include::13_wire_protocol.asciidoc[]
include::14_encrypted_transport.asciidoc[]
include::15_payment_requests.asciidoc[]
include::16_security_privacy_ln.asciidoc[]
include::17_conclusion.asciidoc[]
and you convert using asciidoctor-pdf content.adoc
You could try using imagemagick:
magick *.jpg out.pdf
I need to convert my SFF file to PDF, then i need verify the document. i.e SFF file and converted file.
For that, I think to convert SFF file to image file and PDF file to image file.
Then comparing the both file using image processing.
To do this method:
Im searching for a program to convert SFF to BMP
Does anyone know such a program or has another idea how to do the job?
Thank you in advance...
Looks like you need reaConvertor. It　appears to be a matured tool you can rely on. There is an online version of the tool here
I think:
https://github.com/Sonderstorch/sfftools
will do what you need (convert sff -> tiff/jpeg/..) and then you can use imageMagic (for example) to go to PDF.
Clearly not a current well used image format, however if you have legacy.sff Structured Fax Format, they are similar (not exactly identical) to a Monochrome G4 format.
By far the simplest programmable method to convert is using IrfanView which can Read Modify and Resave as other formats in batches.
Out put can be any other modern image type including Mono.BMP, G4.fax or as PDF (with or without GhostScript)
I found a similar question that involves Acrobat, but in this case the PDF was made with a combination of MS Word and CenoPDF v3, with which I'm unfamiliar. Additionally the PDF is version 1.3. I'd like to decompress it, to see its low-level workings and make some changes. It's easy with GhostScript's -dCompressPages=false parameter, but that simultaneously strips all the fill-in form functionality. Is there a method for decompressing the file while leaving everything else intact? A quick search of the docs for tcpdf and fpdi (cited in the link) didn't reveal a compression option.
Ghostscript and pdfwrite isn't a good combination. The PDF file you get out is NOT the same as the one you put in. This is because of the way that Ghostscript and pdfwrite work; the input is fully interpreted to a sequence of graphics primitives, which is sent to the Ghostscript graphics library. These are then sent to the requested device, most devices then render the result to a bitmap, but the pdfwrite family reassemble those graphics primitives int a new PDF file.
Note that the contents of the new PDF file have no relationship to the original, other than the appearance when rendered. Ghostscript and pdfwrite do maintain much of the non-marking content of PDF files such as hyperlinks and so on (which obviously don't get turned into graphics primitives), by interpreting them into pdfmark operations (an extension to the PostScript language defined by Adobe). However, even if Ghostscript and pdfwrite maintained all this content, the resulting PDF file wouldn't be the same as the original one decompressed....
There are tools which will decompress PDF files, and I would recommend one of our other products, MuPDF. A part of this is mutool, and "mutool clean -d in.pdf out.pdf" will decompress pretty much everything in a PDF file
QPDF can decompress PDF documents (among other things). I used this tool in the past and it preserved forms and data.
The tool has some issues with large PDFs (can take too much time and memory for decompression). The tool can produce incomplete output (with warnings in console) for some partially broken / nonstandard PDFs.
I am using Perl for automation for report generation. Reports are generated in HTML. same report can be opened in MS word format. tables generated in HTML look good in Word too.
Problem:
Ineed to also insert few graphs in the report. For HTML, I am using SVG::TT::Graph::Line Perl module to generate the graphs.
The idea here is to keep single HTML file that contains all tables and graphs.
Currently every thing looks good in HTML. but when i open the same file in Word, the graphs are replaced by data (because I am using SVG Perl module).
Just wondering what would be the best way to generate graphs for Word file that doesn't change my code much.
Any suggestions with the Perl modules to be used would be much appreciated.
I haven't tried this, but the only thing I can think of is to use ImageMagick to convert the SVG to PNG and then use a Data URI to embed the image in the HTML.
Does anyone know of a free Perl program (command line preferable), module, or anyway to search and replace text in a PDF file without using it like an editor.
Basically I want to write a program (in Perl preferably) to automate replacing certain words (e.g. our old address) in a few hundred PDF files. I could use any program that supports command line arguments. I know there are many modules on CPAN that manipulate or create pdfs but they don't have (that I've seen) any sort of simple search and replace.
Thanks in advance for any and all advice!!!
Take a look at CAM::PDF. More specifically the changeString method.
How did you generate those PDFs in the first place? Search-and-replace in the original sources and re-generate PDFs seems to be more viable. Direct editing PDFs can be very difficult, and I'm not aware of any free tools that can do it easily.