Am 16.07.2006 um 18:33 schrieb Eric M.Williams:
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.
Thanks Eric, yes, I'm happy to use a standard solution - if one is
available.
I'll check your hints and probably come bach.
Acrobat is available and I'll install it tomorrow. InDesign would
probably the
best to use, but I don't think, that I can raise money to buy it.
Let's see.
I know, that this task is quite uncommon. Therefore, I wondered that a
solution to compose rectangular page parts is available.
In the worst case, I'll write a very simple composer, which loads
PDFs, allows
to grab and position part and finally export a PDF using the PDF
printer driver.
No, I don't like this idea ;-)
Thx, s
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