Creating PDF Files on the fly - advice?

[jchrisf79]

I am looking to create a web-based application that will convert a
quark document, in-design doc, photoshop doc, eps, etc. into a hi-res
pdf file that is ready for print. Any ideas on an api/sdk that already
exists? other ideas?

 

[Arne Vajhøj]

I am looking to create a web-based application that will convert a
quark document, in-design doc, photoshop doc, eps, etc. into a hi-res
pdf file that is ready for print. Any ideas on an api/sdk that already
exists?

I suspect that would be a big task to implement.

Use the apps and print to a PDF driver seems a much easier
route to go.

Arne

 

[Lew]

I suspect that would be a big task to implement.

Use the apps and print to a PDF driver seems a much easier
route to go.

If you must code your own PDF logic, an excellent Java library is
<http://www.lowagie.com/iText/>

 

[Ramon F Herrera]

I am looking to create a web-based application that will convert a
quark document, in-design doc, photoshop doc, eps, etc. into a hi-res
pdf file that is ready for print. Any ideas on an api/sdk that already
exists? other ideas?

Adobe used to charge big bucks for their Acrobat SDK, but it is
available for free now.

To create PDF files in the fly, from scratch (not from those graphics
formats that you mention) take a look at PDFlib.

-Ramon

 

[Roedy Green]

I am looking to create a web-based application that will convert a
quark document, in-design doc, photoshop doc, eps, etc. into a hi-res
pdf file that is ready for print. Any ideas on an api/sdk that already
exists? other ideas?

see http://mindprod.com/jgloss/pdf.html
http://mindprod.com/jgloss/acrobat.html
and follow links.

happily there is a whirlwind of creativity around PDF format.

 

[Arne Vajhøj]

If you must code your own PDF logic, an excellent Java library is
<http://www.lowagie.com/iText/>

iText is OK.

But it does not make the task easy.

Arne

 

[Steve Sobol]

iText is OK.
But it does not make the task easy.

Apache FOP?

 

[Arne Vajhøj]

Apache FOP?

I don't think the PDF part is the difficult part.

Writing code that can parse all the mentioned formats
(quark document, in-design doc, photoshop doc, eps) and
create a high res print format out of them is a big task
no matter what PDF lib to use.

Arne

 

[Andrew Thompson]

I am looking to create a web-based application ...

By 'web based application'; do you mean something that
(from the perspective of the end user) is entirely browser
based?

I just thought I should clarify, in case this is a web
launched and based *rich* *client* - e.g. a web start
application. Because..

...that will convert a
quark document, in-design doc, photoshop doc, eps, etc. into a hi-res
pdf file that is ready for print.

..in the latter case (rich client), it seems it might be easier to
avoid PDF altogether.

...Any ideas on an api/sdk that already
exists?

As others have pointed out, the major task of this stated
goal is to figure how to render the original documents in
'page format'. If a rich client can do that, it is a minor step
to call the print services to dump out a hard copy.

(But conversely, if it is an entirely 'browser based' web. app.,
supplying a PDF for printing - makes a lot of sense.)

.. other ideas?

- Clarify whether you mean web based 'thin client/rich client'.
- Make the first letter of each sentence Upper Case.

--
Andrew Thompson
http://www.physci.org/

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