PDF Extender

Started by JTaylor, April 27, 2024, 06:36:20 AM

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JTaylor

Not sure this will interest anyone but just in case, I have posted a PDF generation extender.   Do note the word "generation".  It does not do editing, extraction, etc.   Looked into that but everything I found for free required 64-bit compiling.

http://www.jtdata.com/anonymous/pdf.zip

Jim

kdmoyers

YMAFJ  (Yet More Awesome From Jim)

Thanks man!

The mind is everything; What you think, you become.

td

Interesting. Adobe has abandoned its COM interfaces for PDF files and I am not sure how much .Net offers via the .Net framework or MSFT Office exposed interfaces. The PDF document format seems to be more popular than ever.
"No one who sees a peregrine falcon fly can ever forget the beauty and thrill of that flight."
  - Dr. Tom Cade

spl

Excel still has workshet.ExportAsFixedFormat(xlTypePDF, pdf). .NET has the iText7 classes [dlls?] that can be harnessed. Jim and I have been back and forth about the Extender, and, if I am not mistaken, he made code changes based on the exchange.

It is a great and fast extender.
Stan - formerly stanl [ex-Pundit]

JTaylor

Yep. Made me realize I needed rectangles to make grids pretty.  Had thought about shapes but left them out initially.   Still trying to decide if any of the others would be helpful.

Jim

Quote from: spl on April 27, 2024, 12:53:06 PMExcel still has workshet.ExportAsFixedFormat(xlTypePDF, pdf). .NET has the iText7 classes [dlls?] that can be harnessed. Jim and I have been back and forth about the Extender, and, if I am not mistaken, he made code changes based on the exchange.

It is a great and fast extender.

td

Quote from: spl on April 27, 2024, 12:53:06 PMExcel still has workshet.ExportAsFixedFormat(xlTypePDF, pdf). .NET has the iText7 classes [dlls?] that can be harnessed. Jim and I have been back and forth about the Extender, and, if I am not mistaken, he made code changes based on the exchange.

It is a great and fast extender.

GitHub has several open-source .Net libraries that purport to handle the creation of PDF documents. Some seem to offer .Net Framework versions that may work with WinBatch. I haven't looked at any of them in detail but I don't think they preclude the need for a well designed "native" solution.
"No one who sees a peregrine falcon fly can ever forget the beauty and thrill of that flight."
  - Dr. Tom Cade

bottomleypotts

Hey Jim,

This is very cool. Thank you.

Ps. The demo csv is missing, though is easy enough to generate.

I also seem to be having problems with @PDF_128A being undefined.

JTaylor

Thanks for letting me know.   Not sure how I missed the csv file.   Had a blank space in the CONSTANT.  See if this works better.


     http://www.jtdata.com/anonymous/pdf.zip

Jim

bottomleypotts


JTaylor

Added TextExtraction to the PDF Extender.

     http://www.jtdata.com/anonymous/wbOmnibus.zip

Jim