I need to prepare an application, which allows to compose a document
of previously formatted base document.
The base document are - mostly - word documents. I can't force the
document
creators to use a special application or a special version of a word
processing application.
Thus, I plan to ask the users for PDFs or transform all base document
to
PDFs myself. Then, I plan to compose a new PDF based on formatted
parts -
not necessarily full pages - of the base documents.
Does anybody know of such an app. Or does anybody know of code
fragments
or libraries, which support this task?
I'd say forget about rolling your own solution; PDF is a mature
technology with lots of high-quality tools available. Make them export
PDFs (this is as easy as the Print to PDF... button) and then assemble
them in an application like InDesign.
If that's too monumental, here's a Windows app that does exactly what
you want:
http://www.nitropdf.com/professional/support/manual/
online_help_about.htm
Heck, you can even accomplish this with Acrobat 7 Professional:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00069E7IQ/102-1272960-1380111?
v=glance&n=229534
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OK, so I re-read your message and I see that you might need to extract
parts of pages. I don't know if Acrobat will let you do that, but I
don't even know if ANY software will let you do that - short of opening
the PDF into Illustrator and deleting what you don't want. I'd be happy
to give you detailed advice if you want to talk off-list.
Eric M. Williams
Oxalyn Software
http://software.oxalyn.com/
AE Monitor
http://software.oxalyn.com/AEMonitor/
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