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Investintech&#39;s Able2Extract sofware lets users view and convert PDF data into formatted Excel spreadsheets.  Great for data and trend analysis - a real time saver! Try it free.
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Padraic Brady has put together a very comprehensive post on his blog today about using the Zend_Feed component of the Zend Framework to help with the aggregation of content from other sites (like RSS and Atom feeds).   In this entry I explore Zend_Feed from the perspective of someone aggregating RSS and Atom feeds with a view to building a database of uniquely identified content for later presentation in a "Planet" style application. [...] In fact all we create here is a simple command line script to aggregate content frequently (e.g. just set up cron to run it every hour or so) into a database for later presentation.   He guides you through each step of the way:   Setting Up Database And Models The Aggregator Script Foundation Using Zend_Feed to get common data for RSS/Atom entries Putting It All Together   There's plenty of code (and SQL to insert) in the post and he explains each point well, helping to make the development process smoother. There's even a summary section to toss in a few extra bits of information just in case you missed them along the way.
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Danne Lundqvist has posted about the process he went through when developing a solution to create Excel files in PHP:   I'm on this project at work where we need to create an excel file and send it via email or ftp to a recipient. The normal answer to this is to create a comma separated file and name it .xls and excel will work it out. However, that only works if you open it directly through an http request and are able to set the http headers correctly.   To get around these limitations, he found two solutions (thanks Google!) in PEAR's Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer and an MS-Excel Stream Handler class. He includes code that gives an example of another solution, one that packs data into a binary string and returns it as a part of the Excel document.
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Adobe is providing some new collaboration tools with the release of its Acrobat 8 upgrade. The PDF pioneer also released Acrobat Connect today, a new product line that enables users to conduct Web conferences through online meeting rooms using Flash Player software.
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PDF peril Adobe users are being urged to upgrade their software after the firm reassessed the impact of a recently discovered vulnerability in Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat 7.â¦
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Mike Potter has posted about an event happening this Thursday (June 28th) - a webcast to help developers learn more about integrating Flex and PHP.   Are you interested in building rich Internet applications with PHP as the backend data service? Join me this Thursday as I present at an Adobe online e-seminar. The session is scheduled for July 28th, at 11:00 AM Pacific Time.   You'll need to register for the event to attend and you'll get info on "why rich internet applications" and some examples of companies using it in their web-based applications.
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Acrobat 8 line, due in November, will allow people to view a common PDF file via a Web browser.
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Sun has released the final version of its Open Document Format (ODF) plug-in for Microsoft Office, designed to allow the ODF standard to better compete with Microsoft&#39;s dominant Office formats.
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Cat-and-mouse Foiled by increasingly accurate corporate spam filters, spammers have dumped pictures for PDFs in their bulk emailings, according to the latest data from security firms.â¦
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Adobe has announced version 7.0 of its Acrobat document-sharing suite. The new version give creators of PDF documents more options in the ways users can interact with them.
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The Builder.com.au website has a new tutorial posted today that looks at the dynamic creation of a web standard (PDF files) inside of a PHP script.   An alternative way of generating PDF files with PHP is using FPDF, a free PHP class containing a number of functions for creating and manipulating PDFs. The key word here is free. You are free to download and use this class or customise it to fit your needs. In addition to being free, it's also simpler to use than PDFlib. The PDFlib needs to be installed as an extension in your PHP package, whereas FPDF can just be included in your PHP script and it's ready to use   They show how to use the FPDF library to make some simple files - setting the title, author, adding images and text, etc. There's even a little bit there at the end about adding new pages to make more complex documents simple.
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Adobe Systems has announced the release of Adobe Reader 8, the latest major release of their free Portable Document Format (PDF) readers software for Mac OS X and Windows.
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Today, you'll learn about improving Distiller's efficiency with watched folders, how to prevent the corruption of PDFs across the Internet, creating PDFs from within non-Acrobat applications, alternative PDF creation methods, exporting PDFs and more. By Sybex.
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DevShed continues their series looking at working with PDF files in PHP with this second part of the series, taking things to the next level - making multi-line PDF documents in PHP5.   In this second part of the series I'll provide you with some examples that illustrate how to build PDF files that contain multiple lines of text; remember,  in the preceding article I worked only with single-line strings. Additionally, I'll teach you how to position these texts on a given PDF page.   The tutorial walks you through a quick review of making a PDF file from scratch before moving on to the new stuff - creating a PDF with multiple lines of text in it and an example of positioning the text with the set_text_pos function in PHP.
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The Zend Developer Zone has posted a new tutorial from Alexander Veremyev as an introduction to the Zend_Pdf component for the Zend Framework.   The Zend_Pdf component of the Zend Framework is intended to allow you to create or manipulate PDF documents from within your applications. [...] In this tutorial my goal is to give you an overview of the capabilities of Zend_Pdf.   Alexander shows the process from start to finish - loading the module, creating a new document, working with text, creating images and shapes, styling, rotation and cropping.
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The publishing software giant Adobe Systems Inc. today introduced Adobe Acrobat 7.0 software, the company&#39;s desktop applications suite for creating and viewing PDF (Portable Document Format) files.
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