ANN: PDFTron PDFNet SDK for RUBY

Rails
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ANNOUNCING:

PDFTron PDFNet SDK v.5.7. - A Ruby Extension module for all types of
PDF processing including rendering, conversion, editing, and creation.

WHAT IT IS:

PDFNet SDK is an amazingly comprehensive, high-quality PDF developer
toolkit for working with PDF files at all levels. Using the PDFNet PDF
library, developers can create powerful PDF solutions and applications
that can generate, manipulate, view, render and print PDF documents on
Windows, Mac, and Linux.

Some of the feature highlights include:

  • PDF Rendering and rasterization
  • PDF Editing
  • PDF Creation from Xaml, HTML, XPS, EMF, .NET/GDI+, etc.
  • PDF Printing
  • PDF viewing and markup
  • PDF Forms
  • PDF Content Extraction
  • PDF Redaction
  • Silverlight Viewer for PDF

For a high-level overview of available functionality please see:
http://www.pdftron.com/pdfnet/features.html

WHAT’S NEW ?

Support for RUBY, PYTHON, and PHP

WHERE CAN I GET IT ?

WHERE CAN I GET SUPPORT ?

http://groups.google.com/group/pdfnet-sdk
or

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On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 8:25 AM, paul h [email protected] wrote:

PDFNet SDK is an amazingly comprehensive, high-quality PDF developer

  • PDF Printing

orhttp://www.pdftron.com/pdfnet/support.html
but I think I’d rather pay the owners of Prawn for a customized
solution - if it doesn’t already do what I will need for FREE.

If I remember right the other paid solution, Prince is about $5k. Not
sure
how this compares to it. Anyhow, I have found wkhtmltopdf to be a pretty
good converter, and assuming it continues to grow and be maintaned is a
nice
project if you want to covert html to pdf. Prawn I bet is good but it
felt
like learning a whole new dsl — and in my case since I already had
some
complex html it was not for me.

#3

On Jun 3, 12:50am, pdftrn [email protected] wrote:

that can generate, manipulate, view, render and print PDF documents on

  • PDF Content Extraction
    WHERE CAN I GET IT ?

http://www.pdftron.com/pdfnet/downloads.html

WHERE CAN I GET SUPPORT ?

http://groups.google.com/group/pdfnet-sdk
orhttp://www.pdftron.com/pdfnet/support.html

Started to look interesting until I saw the BUY button - $900US per
licence per platform?

Dev Env = Mac OS X
Server = Linux

Total to test then deploy = $1800US? (If I’m reading it right)

I’m going to be needing a PDF solution for Ruby in the coming months,
but I think I’d rather pay the owners of Prawn for a customized
solution - if it doesn’t already do what I will need for FREE.

Best

Paul

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On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 9:43 AM, Walter D. [email protected] wrote:

  • Silverlight Viewer for PDF

Dev Env = Mac OS X
good converter, and assuming it continues to grow and be maintaned is a nice
like the latter.

Yeah. My guess is the license is per server. I used a program simialer
when
doing .NET work which was great converting html to pdf … really
painless… and it was about $500 and seemed a similar arrangement. Too
bad
it was only for windows.

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On Jun 3, 2011, at 9:58 AM, David K. wrote:

creation.

Windows, Mac, and Linux.

  • PDF Redaction

Dev Env = Mac OS X
to be a pretty good converter, and assuming it continues to grow and
be maintaned is a nice project if you want to covert html to pdf.
Prawn I bet is good but it felt like learning a whole new dsl —
and in my case since I already had some complex html it was not for
me.

Prince is expensive, but not that expensive!
http://princexml.com/purchase/
I have used it on one very large .edu project, and it does an
amazing job. The thing I’m still curious about with PDFNet is whether
it’s a desktop app or a server-side service. They’re marketing it as
if it was the former (box photos etc.) but there’s an API like the
latter.

Walter