Videos tagged with PDF
Breakthrough new eReader combines ebook with netbook in two screen formatNew Android based eBook reader, the enTourage eDGe debuts at CES Unveiled and combines a full-sized ebook reader screen with a second screen designed to surf the internet, play movies, and more! enTourage eDGe Homepage
Propping Open the Document Trapdoor
Computer document processing often starts with an abstract, structural, representation before entering a processing pipeline which creates a desired layout and appearance. But unfortunately the whole system resembles a series of steps in a one-way chemical reaction, or the successive irreversible stages of creating assembler code using a compiler. This `one-way function' behaviour is most obvio...
Meet the GIMP #114: Secrets of a Portaloo!
You can win a book in our two contests – the exact rules will be published in the next posting. I continue to work on my project “Access Control”. My target is a photo book by blurb.com. They accept PDF files for printing – which is important for me because most of the book making software of the printers doesn’t work on Linux. Of course there is an Open Sou...
RubyConf 2008: Ruby Mendicant Project
The Ruby Mendicant project was at first meant as a joke. Who would be crazy enough to donate money to an individual developer to work on unspecified open source projects for 3-6 months without any explicit goals? As it turns out, 70 individual Rubyists, along with Ruby Central, Inc. and the MountainWest Ruby Conference were! Gregory will provide a brief overview of the Ruby Mendicant project, a...
Ruby Plus #70: Extremely Simple PDF Generation in Rails using HTMLDOC
In this episode you will see how to use HTML doc gem to create pdf documents that is very easy to create in your Rails 2.0 apps in a RESTful way. I will throw in a very useful tip on how to debug issues in your production environment using log files. The download includes instructions for compiling and installing HTMLDOC. Note: I think if you define map.resource :product in routes.rb, you might...