Apologies, thought it was a display-capable library. My mistake.
On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 11:22 PM, Leonard Rosenthol <[email protected]> wrote: > From that page: (emphasis mine) > > A paint device for rendering TO A PDF. > > That class is used for CREATING a PDF - not CONVERTING a PDF to HTML. > > > Leonard > > > On 9/7/11 9:11 AM, "Alec Taylor" <[email protected]> wrote: > >>On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 8:43 PM, Leonard Rosenthol <[email protected]> >>wrote: >>> Wt doesn't support converting a PDF->HTML, so how would you "display the >>> PDF in the browser w/o a client-side plugin". >>> >>To answer your question, I would use this class: >>http://www.webtoolkit.eu/wt/doc/reference/html/classWt_1_1WPdfImage.html >>> >>> Since a PDF doesn't have a concept of a "page header" or "page footer", >>> you will need to extract all the content on the page (or pages) and make >>> some heuristic determination about what content meets your criteria. >>> >>> When you say TOC - do you mean a displayed TOC on a page _OR_ the PDF >>> equivalent called "Bookmarks" or "Outlines"?? In the latter case, as >>>Dom >>> explianed, you can easily obtain these with PoDoFo - but in the former >>>you >>> will also have to analyze the content yourself. >>> >>> Leonard >>> >>> On 9/7/11 4:54 AM, "Alec Taylor" <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>>Thanks for the speedy response. >>>> >>>>No need to worry about the web-frontend, seems like Wt already has >>>>libraries which implement that functionality. >>>> >>>>"The PDF file header can be analysed with PoDoFo. PoDoFo does not give >>>>you direct access to headers and footers on pages in the PDF. This >>>>will require analysis of the pages content streams, which is possible >>>>using PoDoFo but no trivial task." >>>> >>>>Is there some example code? >>>> >>>>"Adding links to a PDF is no problem using PoDoFo." >>>> >>>>Excellent. Can you provide the reference? >>>> >>>>Thanks again for all your help, >>>> >>>>Alec Taylor >>>> >>>>On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 6:43 PM, Dominik Seichter >>>><[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> Hi Alec, >>>>> >>>>>> The features (although not limited to this) is to: >>>>>> € Allow users to upload PDFs >>>>>> € PDFs are analysed by the system, gathering information on headers, >>>>>> footers & Table of Contents using my custom algorithms >>>>> Analysis of PDF files is be possible with PoDoFo. Access to the table >>>>> of contents as in PDF outline structure is easy. >>>>> I am not sure what you mean with "headers and footers". The PDF file >>>>> header can be analysed with PoDoFo. PoDoFo does not give you direct >>>>> access to headers and footers on pages in the PDF. This will require >>>>> analysis of the pages content streams, which is possible using PoDoFo >>>>> but no trivial task. >>>>> >>>>>> € PDFs ToC are annotated with hyperlinks >>>>> Adding links to a PDF is no problem using PoDoFo. >>>>> >>>>>> € PDFs are then ready for display in browser (without need for a >>>>>> client-side PDF plugin) >>>>> This would require rendering of the PDF to HTML? PoDoFo does not >>>>> provide rendering support. For rendering poppler is a better choice. >>>>> >>>>> Best regards, >>>>> Dom >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 9:52 AM, Alec Taylor <[email protected]> >>>>>wrote: >>>>>> Good afternoon, >>>>>> >>>>>> I'm completing a project for analysing and displaying PDFs. >>>>>> >>>>>> The project will have a web-frontend implemented in Wt. >>>>>> >>>>>> The features (although not limited to this) is to: >>>>>> € Allow users to upload PDFs >>>>>> € PDFs are analysed by the system, gathering information on headers, >>>>>> footers & Table of Contents using my custom algorithms >>>>>> € PDFs ToC are annotated with hyperlinks >>>>>> € PDFs are then ready for display in browser (without need for a >>>>>> client-side PDF plugin) >>>>>> >>>>>> Are the PoDoFo PDF libraries the best open-source libraries for this >>>>>> task? - If not, can you recommend another? >>>>>> >>>>>> Thanks for all suggestions, >>>>>> >>>>>> Alec Taylor >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>---------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>>>>-- >>>>>>------ >>>>>> Using storage to extend the benefits of virtualization and iSCSI >>>>>> Virtualization increases hardware utilization and delivers a new >>>>>>level >>>>>>of >>>>>> agility. 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