Questions tagged [pdf]
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Are Flate compression in PDF and Deflate different algorithms?
I'm trying to make a program that produces pdf files. I've been studying the pdf format specification and specific pdf files whose format I'm trying to mimic. I found the line /FlateDecode in these ...
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How do password-protected pdf documents work?
I hope this is the right site for this question...
I tutor in my spare time, and recently I downloaded a past GCSE exam paper and was attempting to edit the pdf- to select just a few pages to send to ...
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Document containing relevant data in meta-data
I find myself working with documents that need to be displayed to a user and at the same time, I need the information that they bear.
For example, you have a generated PDF document (or other "...
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Digital Signature for PDF files through Web Application
We are developing a Web Application for manage dental clinics.
The app can generate PDF files through the PHP backend (for example invoices, quotes etc.).
Each of those PDF file needs to be digitally ...
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Web-Application with file generation pattern
I work on a java web-application.
In this application, users can generate some reporting (xls/pdf) and create some pack of multiple reporting. (using pdfbox, itext)
More and more data are added in ...
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Do Adobe PDF Actions get detected as JavaScript?
My company is creating a PDF survey (intended for other companies to complete) and we're trying to make the solution interactive (conditional checklists that become visible based on the status of ...
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Performing multiple actions on each row of table from many databases
I am working on a project that manages employee payrolls using php (no frameworks). This application consists of clients (with their own databases). Each
database consists of the client's employees ...
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Adobe Acrobat folder level scripts
I am trying to find ínformation on how and where to write folder level scripts for Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Photoshop. This is what I found from Adobe:
https://acrobatusers.com/tutorials/...
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PDF content : text or graphics?
Is there a possible test to check if a PDF file contains text or it is created by scanning paper sheets ?
text : plain text that, for example, I can copy & paste while I am reading the PDF. Not ...
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Sharing information between two independent application
I have to share parameters/information between two independent applications: an Executable and a PDF file.
By clicking a button within the pdf I want to perform some specific task (or run code) in my ...
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Best practices/patterns for generation PDF reports
I have PDF generation feature in my app. I am using iTextPDF for generating reports, so it works well. The problem is not exactly in pdf generation but in approach. Currently PDF generation code looks ...
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User-editable templates for reporting: alternatives to word? [closed]
Not sure if this is the right platform for this, but here goes :) Throughout my career I have been generating reports for users, and most of the times it always started from a Word template (.dot/....
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Dealing with unreliable data source [closed]
I have been assigned the task of automating entering of supplier prices and inventory based on our master google sheet.
I have limited programming knowledge, but so far I have made code that can ...
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How to do reports from python [closed]
This is not a question, asking for a (single) tool, although to answer my question, of course tools are involved. The focus of this question is, asking for advice in which direction to head for.
I ...
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Serving a file from a private directory [closed]
I have a PDF that needs to be accessible for multiple unrelated areas across a website. I don't want to reveal anything about where the file is downloaded from and I want to only upload the file once.
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