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[berend]

I've tried opening a PDF from a HTML. I thought, that having a .pdf file (1.pdf) on the same level as the HTML (test.htm), would enable me to make a link like:

[berend]

Here is a short photo series of what we would like to do with the iLiad:





My collegue Gert-Jaap tonight made a "quick and dirty" tool that exports selected content from our document management system to the iLiad, to demonstrate how we could map the structure of our document store on the iLiad.

In our system a "document" entry contains zero or more document files and has its own metadata, classifying the group of document files. The document entries themselves are grouped physically in so-called "document books" (picture 4) and logically in project folders (picture 7), where a folder can contain references to documents in various document books (picture 8 ). On the lowest level, pictures 5 and 6 and pictures 9 and 10 show the document files below one single document entry.

As you see, the model can be transformed adequately to a folder structure that the iLiad can handle . However, in pictures 4, 7 and 8 we run into the problem that a file folder cannot have a manifest xml, so that only a single subject line remains of all the metadata in a document or folder item. We could easily generate a simple web page that does show much more of the metadata, but then we cannot link to the pdf files on the lowest level because of the problem shown in the first post of this thread...

[Matthijs]

Opening a PDF from a webpage (or a webpage from a PDF for that matter) is not feasible with our current implementation.

Obviously the error message should be visible and it should be possible to click OK, this is a known issue.

[berend]

It would be something to consider for the iLiad 2.0... for instance having a thumbnail page in html where you can click through to a pdf per article is not uncommon for an internet newspaper.

[fchivu]

If you want something windows based I think you can take the HTML to PDF converter library for .NET from http://www.dotnet-reporting.com or from http://www.winnovative-software.com. You can be build your own application or you can use the demo one.

All the conversion can be done in a few lines for C# code:


// Create the PDF converter. Optionally you can specify the virtual browser
// width as parameter. 1024 pixels is default, 0 means autodetect
PdfConverter pdfConverter = new PdfConverter();
// set the license key
pdfConverter.LicenseKey = "P38cBx6AWW7b9c81TjEGxnrazP+J7rOjs+9omJ3TUycauK+cLWdrITM5T59hdW5r";
// set the converter options
pdfConverter.PdfDocumentOptions.PdfPageSize = PdfPageSize.A4;
pdfConverter.PdfDocumentOptions.PdfCompressionLevel = PdfCompressionLevel.Normal;
pdfConverter.PdfDocumentOptions.PdfPageOrientation = PDFPageOrientation.Portrait;
pdfConverter.PdfDocumentOptions.ShowHeader = false;
pdfConverter.PdfDocumentOptions.ShowFooter = false;
// set to generate selectable pdf or a pdf with embedded image
pdfConverter.PdfDocumentOptions.GenerateSelectablePdf = selectablePDF;

// Performs the conversion and get the pdf document bytes that you can further
// save to a file or send as a browser response
byte[] pdfBytes = pdfConverter.GetPdfFromUrlBytes(urlToConvert);

[fchivu]

You can convert web pages on the fly using the html to pdf online service at http://www.pdfspot.com . You can simply place a Save As PDF button on your web page which produces the PDF document from the current web page when it is clicked. The online service is using the winnovative html to pdf converter for .net from http://www.winnovative-software.com .

[johnvarenda]

hi...
I have a 13X19 print (actual size of the image is about 12X18) I need to have it scanned. I appear to have lost my original file and I need to make some prints of it. Does anyone know where I could get a print this size scanned and get a quality scan?

Help me..
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[fchivu]

You could try HTML to PDF library or HTML to PDF free online service