Is there any way to not allow user to download font?
Usually if you want to download font, can find and open style file in HTML code and get source of font and enter in browser and can download it.
Any way exist to do not allow user which Could not do this? and font be safe in server?
No, it is completely impossible. That is fundamentally not how the Internet works.
If a browser can read a file from your server, so can any other piece of software.
Actually if you curtailed the use of your custom font to only some headlines and not the entire body of the page, you could convert text to SVG. The tool I'd recommend is Inkscape. Although Inkscape is a GUI tool, it has a powerful CLI which can be called programmatically.
This stackoverflow question has a full breakdown of how to do this.
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I am scratching my head with this one, how can you get a screenshot or a thumbnail of a PDF? I am developing a social feed on a web server I have no control over, there is a PDF class but I cant narrow down what it is, and theres no function in there for this task.
To do this serverside, you could use ImageMagick. This allows PDF's to be converted into images on the server, not having to depend on the client's browser to have certain software.
You do need to be able to install ImageMagick on the server though.
A link to a guide can be found here
You can use google docs
https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=bi&pagenumber=1&url=http://url-of-your-pdf.pdf
It returns a png of the first page, you can then edit it using Imagemagick or similiar
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What is, according to you, the best way to convert uploaded files of any kind (.doc, .docx,...) into a pdf-file using nothing but php. Is it even possible to do so?
I looked at FPDF, but this creates the pdf files from text.
An other solution previously given was to use the PDFlib library on your server, but unfortunately, my server doesn't support this library...
What is the best way to convert to files my users upload on my site to pdf files?
A simpler approach would be to restrict uploads to .PDF format programmatically and require your users to only upload .pdf files. Provide a link on the upload page to a free and open source pdf printer (e.g. Cuteftp) that the user can install to create .pdf documents from any file that can be printed.
Trying to do it through PHP will be problematic because the uploads could be generated from many different programs that would be impossible to cater for in their entirety. e.g. How would it handle Scribus or ABC Flowcharter or any other 'non-standard' application someone used to create a document?
Much better to filter the upload upfront.
The best server-side PDF generator from those I tried was, so far, wkhtmltopdf, a WebKit-based, self-contained invisible browser that can render any HTML+CSS and generate a PDF from it. Reasonably fast and fairly reliable, has some useful PDF options, such as page size, orientation, etc.
The second part of the job in your case is to convert documents to HTML prior to feeding them to wkhtmltopdf. If possible, have your users upload the docs in HTML (Word and Co. can export (crappy) HTML). If this is not an option, you will have to find a tool just for that, which, in my opinion, is much easier than finding a tool that converts Word docs directly into PDF.
Good thing about wkhtmltopdf is also that you can feed the output of your PHP script to it using the ob_xxx() functions.
PHP Excel best simple way to create doc, docx, xls, xlsx, pdf files with PHP. Its lot easier with clear documentation.
Use Microsoft Office to render Microsoft Office documents, if you care about accuracy at all. This is easily done by invoking Office over COM.
Get access to your server, and install what you need. Doing so would be far easier than monkeying around with sub-par solutions.
Well... I can think of one way of doing it quite easily, but it doesn't involve using PHP.
Upload your documents to a folder on your server, that are browsable by your users.
EG: http://mysite.com/docs/
Then get your users to install a virtual printer driver such as Primo PDF
http://www.primopdf.com/index.aspx
then they can load the document into their browser, and print to PDF for offline browsing.
If this is not an option, and your dealing with office documents that conform to the openXML standard, you could attempt to parse the XML doc into a PHP page for display in the browser, then use JavaScript to trigger a print.
Unfortunately, it does still depend on your user having a PDF printer installed.
Alternatively, you could just load the docs natively, and print to your own PDF printer, then upload the PDF's to the web server for download.
I can't think of any easy way of doing this otherwise, without installing all sorts of different document parser tool-kits and doing a huge amount of behind the scenes work.
Is there any library/module available with which i can generate images from a swf file?
The problem i am trying to solve is: I want to create a pdf from a web page and i am having problems in doing that when the web page has swf (question in stackoverflow)
I am thinking if i am able to read a swf and write out an image, i will be able to solve the above the problem
Will appreciate your help, Thanks
In fact, that is quite a hard task. I've spent hours looking for a program that could fulfill such a task. However, I eventually only found one. It isn't open-source but would really help you I guess.
Flash Animation Source can output all frames of a SWF file. It uses a DirectShow filter to do so. Therefore, a Windows operating system is required should you not want to use WINE.
In short, you'll just need to install Flash Animation Source on your computer and then find a way to get DirectShow frames using your desired programming language. Everything else is actually quite easy. You tell Windows the directory and the name of your SWF file and it'll do the rest, thus delivering you with an image. And did you know DirectShow filters can deliver all frames of a video? Therefore, you can choose which one you'd like to have.
By the way, please don't try to find another way to get an image of your SWF file. Believe me, you won't find one. I have looked for an open-source program that fits my needs but all of them fail. You need to use the propriertary Adobe Flash player for your outputs. There is no other option as the open-source alternatives still need a lot of development to genuinely output the vector-based frame as it is.
I need to include pdf files in some webpages, and I'm gettin' in troubles.
The app is a simple newspaper's archive, in which i can read right on page or download as pdf files, one file per page. What my customer can provide me is one pdf file for each page; what my customer wants from me is to navigate them in indexes (with page thumbnail) and have a read from a choosen one direcly in page; I'm using php/mysql.
I started trying out to use the <object> tag with type="application/pdf", but i found it's deprecate 'cause it's not crossplatform at all (there's no support on linux's browsers, but even my windows' firefox 3.5 couldn't show me anything).
I guessed I could transform that pdf in something different (html or simply images are good enough), but the only thing i found is ImageMagick, that I cannot use as I must install on server and I can't, as I'm not admin of that machine.
So, I'm finally looking for suggestions
Thanks
Display the pdf inline using an IFRAME. The thumbnail you can generate with imageMagik. You should be able to use the command line version of ImageMagik to resize and convert to jpg.
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Your best bet is to talk to the server admin and have them install php support for ImageMagik then you can use it as a class.
If you can't get support to install on the server, you will have to use the command line version.
You might be able to Google around for a library that wraps the command line, but it would be trivial to write it yourself.
With this in place you can create a large readable black and white png for each page. It should click through to the pdf.
I understand that css3.0 supports the Font-Face tag, correctly in the latest Opera, Safari, and Firefox browsers, but that Internet Explorer still requires the microsoft .eot format.
Is there a reliable way to generate an eot file server side from a .ttf given that the hosting server may not be Windows?
I need the entire process automated, to provide a bit of background it is a print product website, part of the process involves designers building templates and uploading fonts for printable products, some of these have editable regions which are rendered to a customer as HTML form elements, however without providing the font it is impossible to provide an accurate real-time preview of the edit.
Flash and Javascript techniques wont work as the text is in a textarea or text input field and has to remain editable.
So I need a Font-Face linking to the ttf file for compatible browsers, and something else for i.e The question is, how to automate that something else for i.e.
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EOT files are a strange format. They are supposed to be locked down to a certain domain, to prevent copying, and the original conversion app is old and barely functioning.
The only way I can think of to automate TTF->EOT is to use the command line program ttf2eot found here. In PHP, you can use the function system() to run command line programs, assuming that your web host allows it.
I hope that helps you.