I have a list of PDF Files which I have to merge into a single PDF file using Ruby. Combine PDF was able to do a fine job until now. The issue is that now I have to create an index indicating the pages in which each merged file is located and with links to each page. I was able to do so with Prawn, however this procedure does not allow me to create references between the index and the pages, even though I can know beforehand in which page each file will start. Prawn has this option, but it does not allow me to insert external PDF files in the process (the template feature was deactivated long ago).
Does anyone have a tool recommendation for merging those pdfs including an index with links?
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I am trying to develop a pdf generator. The pdf generator has multiple page. First page has some specific value with is working fine. But the second page has invoice which user uploads, In this case the user can upload a image file or pdf file.
For this I am using maroto library which works great when it comes to image or content generation but there is no support for import another pdf and merge with current one.
Now i know maroto uses gofpdf library and gofpdf has pdi importer so in my mind it should be possible to implement such feature. I didn't get any reply from their git issue board so asking it here.
Can anyone help me with this?? or my only choice is to change the library and do the coding again?
I could not find a solution for this. So i had to improvise the system
the way I solved the problem is:
generate a pdf using marotopdf library
load the second pdf
use unidoc library and merge 2 pdfs (its just merging 2 pdfs 1 after another)
This is not solving my problem 100% as i would like to have the ability to add company logo on the second pdf which is not editable atm. But its dining the main work (merge 2 pdf).
I've created a simple library to help you with this. It adds two methods to the gofpdf Fpdf class:
importPdf imports a PDF into the current PDF document
linkPdf creates a hyperlink to a PDF document
It uses cgo to use the pdsys, pdflib and pdflib_pllibraries.
You can find it here: https://github.com/jung-kurt/gofpdf
I would like to download all images in full quality from this blog: http://w899c8kcu.homepage.t-online.de/Blog.
I have access to server, but I can not find the directory where the images lie. When I use Firebug on the first picture, it shows me http://w899c8kcu.homepage.t-online.de/Blog;session=f0577255d9df9185d3abe04af0ce922d&focus=CMTOI_de_dtag_hosting_hpcreator_widget_PictureGallery_15716702&path=image.action&frame=CMTOI_de_dtag_hosting_hpcreator_widget_PictureGallery_15716702?id=34877331&width=1000&height=2000&crop=false.
How can I find the file paths like /dirname/image.jpg?
According to its HTML output the page obviously uses the CM4all content management system (CMS).
I don't know how precisely this CMS is working, though generally CMSs normally either save the files under cryptic names within a folder specified in the CMS's configuration or not in the file system at all but within a database.
Also, CMS may only save compressed or resized versions of the original files.
So, if you don't want to or are not able to dig into the server-side script code to find out if and where the images are saved, you should contact the company behind CM4all about this.
I have a client that want's me to make a change to her OTHER site. The other site was built using Dreamweaver.
I guess (I don't build using Dreamweaver) the site pages are being controlled by the template file EXCEPT for the content that is specific to the page.
So I need to change the navigation items.
I found a folder called templates and in that folder is the template.dwt file. I tried copying that file to my desktop, then making the change and uploading back to the ftp site. Of course that had no effect on the nav items. My guess is the file on my desktop does not know to update the other pages as it doesn't know where those pages are.
So how do I go about making the changes to the files on the ftp site using the DWT file?
Do I have to download ALL the html files and the DWT files and somehow create a relationship so when I make the change to the DWT file it updates all the pages on my desktop THEN re-upload all those files back to the ftp site?
Thanks
My guess is that you already figured this out, but just to be sure. You're question is right, the DW template works by when the template is modified (in DW) then you can update all the pages that are linked to it.
If you take the template out of DW and just modify and upload that alone, then nothing will happen to the other pages. So yea, if you know a way to create a link between the template and the other files outside of DW, then that is what you need to do. The other option is using DW and modify the template and then update the other pages, which is done in a semi-automatic way. Semi-automatic, meaning that DW gives the option to update the files either once you save the template or you can save the template and update the files later using DW.
And your guess is correct, the template modifies areas that are not specific to a page. Usually, this is done by creating Editable Regions in the template. Those regions are excluded from change when the template is modified.
You have to create a project in DW and put inside all the files that are "linked" with the template. They usually have tags inside that refer to the template.
Make sure that you keep the same file and folder distribution that the original had. If not, you could have a mess with relative links.
Then, with your template also in the project, open and modify it.
When you save the template, DW will ask you for scan and update related files, if you are lucky it will find and update all of them.
I have an Excel workbook with a bunch of Sheets, that I would like to publish to different SharePoint sub-sites within a sites hierarchy.
I have written a VBA procedure that does that, but unfortunately it does not work correctly, because the sheets have images and Excel tries to copy them by creating the "*_files" structure, which I DO NOT WANT! The images are already on the server, and I would only need Excel to use their URLs and everything would by fine with just creating the plain HTML without any "*_files" folder.
If I keep it like that, Excel tries to generate the PNGs for the files but failes for some reason and they come out 0B long. It works fine for local paths or even different server paths, so I don't know the reason.
Anyone has an idea?
EDIT:
It seems that setting ActiveWorkbook.WebOptions.OrganizeInFolder = False solves ar least the problem with displaying the images. Excel keeps copying the images, generating useless clutter, but at least the rendering is ok...
Do also remember to set ActiveWorkbook.WebOptions.RelyOnVML= False, otherwise the page will not work outside IE.
I have a site - www.jcrocetta.com.
On this site I have 2 pdf files. One file has blurred data and the other is clear, both files were created with pdftk.
In order to blur out some personal data in the pdf I used Inkscape. But Inkscape only opens/edits one PDF page at a time. After I made my edits in Inkscape I saved the files as .pdf formatted files. At that point I had three separate pdf files, pages 1 through 3. I then used pdftk to concatenate the 3 files into one.
The final pdftk-produced files are on www.jcrocetta.com. Just click the public information button.
In Chrome viewing inline works fine.
Downloading the file from Firefox works fine too.
But viewing inline on Firefox it renders blank pages. How can I fix this?
Also, I know that pdf files not produced with pdftk will render correctly on both Chrome and Firefox.
Thanks for your help.
FireFox has a lovely new feature: It now uses the PDF.js library to render PDF files, instead of calling out to an Adobe Reader plugin, or forcing you to save the file to disk. Unfortunately, it seem that PDF.js isn't quite perfect yet. A quick search shows that other people have the same issue, but the only "solution" I've seen offered boils down to "file a bug report at https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js/issues or https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Firefox&component=PDF+Viewer".
Also: Do the three individual PDF files render in FireFox, before you use pdftk to concatenate them?