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1. A Something to PDF converter

• Posted by penpal0andrew May 10, 2009
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I am wondering if anyone has written a Eurphoria library which makes PDF files. I have found several which are written in Java or PHP or C. This website has a list: http://www.ajaxline.com/10-best-libraries-for-generating-pdf

I did find one which does some text to PDF written by Maurizio Moroni many years ago. What I want to do is to write one which can handle 2D graphics. I am going to adapt it from one of the PHP ones first, and then come back to Euphoria. I would pick Euphoria first, except that the hosting server freehostia supports PHP, not something else.

Andy

3. Re: A Something to PDF converter

• Posted by penpal0andrew May 10, 2009
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• Last edited May 11, 2009

Yes. I like FPDF since it is such a small package. I am not going to make a complete port. But I went through the trouble of writing a postscript program which used ghostscript to make the PDF. And then I realized that if I could do what FPDF does in Euphoria, I do not have to worry all about if my user installed ghostscript and then have to call it from Euphoria.

Andy

5. Re: A Something to PDF converter

• Posted by penpal0andrew May 16, 2009
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I have found out that Cairo C library has both antialiasing for smooth rendering of curves plus a PDF output. So, I think I will make a very partial wrapper for it so I can cover both functionality.

7. Re: A Something to PDF converter

• Posted by vmars May 16, 2009
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Please, what does the 'Gold Star', for this thread, indicate?
Thanks!

9. Re: A Something to PDF converter

• Posted by ne1uno May 18, 2009
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cairo is great, I have kept the version used in claro downgraded because newer version of cairo no longer work in win98. to get the fonts working get a newer version of cairo and I think few other changes will be required beyond adding wrapping for the newer or changed routines. I have used the png output but not the pdf, so if it isn't yet wrapped I'm sure won't be too difficult.

claro is now a defunct native GUI wrapper for windows using WIN32API or *nix using GTK and mac using coco. but I have only wrapped the windows portion so far. developed in c with and for the bersirc IRC client. as I heard it from the claro devs many months ago, there was a name/copyright conflict with a company of the same name and they changed the name to lucid, then abruptly totally changed all the underlying code to use a few c libs that are quite more difficult to wrap, but never got past the proof of concept stage. svn is gone, mailing list and irc channel dead for some time.

in additon to the cairo wrapper and widget, clarowrap includes an openGL widget. the cairowrap and chris benslers structs v2 could be seperated out but I have no idea how to attach it to any open window, and it is not something trivial to do since all the claro code depends on other parts of the code.

I have kept it updated to work with euphoria version 4, but am hesitant to upload a newer version until a beta or release candidate at least.(hint hint) and I haven't as yet removed the redundancies overlapping the newer eu4 stdlib and builtins. I comment things out but does need some major code cleanup.

11. Re: A Something to PDF converter

• Posted by penpal0andrew Jun 16, 2009
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• Last edited Jun 17, 2009

Since the 2-D graphics library Cairo supports PDF generation, I did not need to write anything in Euphoria. And the FPDF package is in PHP and at the Server, and my server only executes PHP code, not anything else. My Euphoria program makes calls to Cairo in a small C language DLL. And I ship my program with the Cairo DLLs.

Are you planning to write a PDF creator in Euphoria? I wonder if this has been done. If not, it is very easy to do, but tedious. You just look at the FPDF code.

Andy Katz

13. Re: A Something to PDF converter

• Posted by doncole2009 Jun 18, 2009
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Hello Everybody,

What I would like to see is a .pdf to Something converter.

Such as .pdf to .txt and .pdf to .bmp or .jpg.

My 2 cent.

Don Cole

15. Re: A Something to PDF converter

• Posted by petersalvatore Feb 22, 2016
• 2031 views

Hi, Thanks for your nice sharing. Do you have any exprience about pdf extractor? I want to find some 3rd party toolkits to help me extract text form pdf files. It will be better if it also offers free trial package for users to check. If so, I will try it later and send you feedback. Thanks in advance.

Best regrads, Pan