Using Adobe Acrobat to deliver information

[gdavies]

fully agree shoes an idea exchange is a great idea, there is always more than one way to do anything on a computer, the first 2 that spring to mind are sober and drunk lol, on a serious note though there is always shortcuts and more than 2 for most applications too

 

[shoes]

there is always more than one way to do anything on a computer, the first 2 that spring to mind are sober and drunk

10/10

 

[The Stafford Beast]

What do people use to create Adobe PDF documents on-the-fly (such as automated bills for download etc)?

For my uni final-year project I used TeTeX / LaTeX to create a document and then passed it though a PostScript filter to convert to a PDF, but all of this is such a pain to do.

 

[Wookie]

PHP seems to support PDF creation.

 

[Ecker]

Yes Wookie, that's about the strength of it.

I would be only to happy to collaborate with anyone. If it's Forms you are after, my experience is: Using ASP to
populate and query Access databases.

I can also offer a printing service to forum members, my equipment includes: iMac/Power PC OS 10.4.11, iMac/Intel OS 10.6 (Snow Leopard) and Toshiba laptop. Printers: Epson SC3000 A2 (can't do full edge to edge) will print onto canvas, Canon IP6700D (Duplex edge to edge A4) and Canon Pixma IX5000 (edge to edge A3)...Discounts for forum members.

Get back to me if you would like an example pdf document with bookmarks etc created.

Cheers....Ecker.

 

[The Stafford Beast]

Thanks Wookie. I've done PHP before but didn't know about the PDF functions.

I've just come across this as well PDF creation by ABCpdf.NET. It seems they've done a similar product for classic ASP in the past. There are a few out there if you Google "[programming_language] PDF creation".

 

[Admin]

OK. I give in, I have made 2 attempts so far to be, I think, reasonably helpful to folk on this site. It has become abundantly clear to me that this a decidedly clique based arrangement. I bow out!! I have offered to be of help to folk who might need it, now I can't be arsed, congratulations, you have won!!

That's a little unfair, Ecker. When you started this thread, you had made a grand total of 3 posts on The Forum. One was a normal "human"-style post in the Pie & Ale House thread (a humorous observation about naming an eating establishment after a famous poisoner) but the other two, as others have pointed out, appeared to be verbatim copy & paste info. from marketing blurbs! You didn't ask for peoples' comments, or start a discussion that others could join in with, it just seemed a bit out of place!

We get a lot of spammers sign-up here, so perhaps I was being over cautious. Apologies if I offended you by mistaking you for one of them.

 

[UltraSBM]

Personally I prefer to use Microsoft Word and save the document as a fully compatible Microsoft MHT file

 

[shoes]

I guess it depends on what you want to turn into a portable document. In the business I work in we use AutoCAD a lot and we have to email several models / drawings to all sorts of people all the time, rarely with the necessaity to edit them at the other end. As such converting these lare (A1 or A0) documents to PDF is very helpful as they tend to be 80% smaller than the DWG equivelent.

PDF formats I also like because they tend to be accepted by most people, I can only recall one time in my career so far when someone has asked how to open a PDF I have sent them. What is the MHT file all about, I haven't used that I don't think?

 

[Ecker]

Many thanks for your response Admin, I will concede that I was being more than a wee bit hasty in reacting the way I did.

My intention, as a facilitator for some 40 years, was to be helpful and I don't intend to stop now.

I am more than happy to collaborate with anyone who might be interested. What I should have made clear was:unlike the print services I have offered (at a discount), I am not expecting any financial return for help with pdf creation.

Thanks, again, for your interest....Ecker.

 

[Wookie]

What is the MHT file all about, I haven't used that I don't think?

MHT is MIME HTML, where all the resources for a page get packaged together into one file. Currently only really supported by IE AFAIK. (Halloween Documents, anyone?)

 

[UltraSBM]

What is the MHT file all about, I haven't used that I don't think?

MHT is MIME HTML, where all the resources for a page get packaged together into one file. Currently only really supported by IE AFAIK. (Halloween Documents, anyone?)

Yes, only IE supports it...It was sarcasm though but to a very targeted audience...
I have come across many one-man-band website "developers" who have simply uploaded an MHT to some webspace, and because it worked in IE, they've charged the company £500+ for it and left it at that.
Of course, when you view it with other browsers, such as FireFox or Chrome, you get a very different site!