I need to open uploaded .docx file and possibility to change values. I know, that docx file consists of xml files. So, the main question is maybe somebody know a good WYSIWYG web-based xml editor?
I know one called XOPUS, but i have no idea how to configure it. Maybe somebody knows other alternatives for that task or advices, how to put xml file to textfield, where i could change values.
There are a couple of PHP toolkits that you can use for this task, first off there's an early dev on on codeplex:
http://openxmlapi.codeplex.com/
However you may b better off with one of the more mature ones:
http://holloway.co.nz/docvert/index.html
http://www.phpdocx.com/
Both of these can convert from docx to most of the popular formats, HTML included.
Once you've converted to something like HTML, then you can use an onscreen editor such as tiny MCE:
http://www.tinymce.com/
To provide in page rich editing capabilities, before finally using the above toolkits to convert back to DOCX or any other applicable format.
Update February 2014
Since I first wrote this reply things have moved on. The open xml kits I mentioned above are still valid, however in page editing is now more of a possibility than ever using the new HTML5 content editable and edit mode attributes.
It's now insanely easy to add your own buttons (Using something like bootstrap) above a div that has a content editable attribute attached to it.
Connecting the buttons to "document.execCommand" can then send, bold, italic, underline, link & image creation, list insertion and all manner of other HTML constructions methods directly to this div without needing anything like tinyMce or another in page editor anymore.
There is full details available on the Mozilla developer network, and I am planning o do a blog post on using this stuff very soon.
Have you tried PHPWord?
One may use the DocxUtilities class of PHPDocX to do some partial editing of an existing Word document.
This class allows you for:
searching and replacing a particular string of text
searching a string of text and remove the containing paragraph or section
highlight predefined strings (search and highlight)
full merging of docx files (text, images, charts, footnotes, ...)
If that is not enough for your purposes you should then prepare a PHPDocX template to fully customized an existing Word document.
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I'm trying to build an advanced ePub reader using jQuery and PHP/Zend Framework1.12 (for the epub3.0 format). The reader should contain the following features:
books should be displayed using pages (2 pages at a time)
the user should be able to navigate between pages and chapters using a slider
the user can create highlights and bookmark pages
the reader must be cross-browser (I don't care much about older versions of IE, but it must work on Safari, Mozilla, Chrome)
My idea is to make some kind of PHP parser that will handle the epub content and pass it on to the Javascript code in a more 'friendly' format, but I haven't worked with epubs before and I'm not sure where to start.
Here are a few questions that I have been struggling with:
The first problem I have encountered is how to extract the content from an .ePub archive and render it in a such a way that will allow the paginated view. What PHP library would you recommend for parsing epubs? I have already tested some libraries like BookGluttonEpub (seems quite old) and EPUBParser (difficult to understand since there are no examples and docs). Are there others I missed?
Should I clean the html code (like remove invalid tags for example) before passing it to the reader?
What do you consider is the best way to display the pages? Should I use CSS and the 'column' property? Or should I make a more advanced script that will split the html content of a chapter into pages?
Thanks
First extract the .epub file, its same like your zip file so you can use PHP unzip library and dont need to parse HTML or CSS. You can create your reader using HTML5 canvas and CSS 3 properties.
I think better option is to use HTML5 and CSS3 if you are not thinking IE compatibility.
We have a high-resolution PDF (for printing) which has some form fields on it. We would like to have an HTML form which submits to the PDF, which is then placed into the respective fields.
I found a solution on google: http://koivi.com/fill-pdf-form-fields/
However, with that solution you only get an FDF file... And the demo does not work for me, opening the FDF file simply downloads another FDF file.
Since this PDF will be available to the public we would like to keep it as simple as possible. If we must open our original PDF and import this FDF file, we need a different solution (which I'm not sure is what the FDF file is for, since it didn't work).
A related post talking about .net framework had the same idea, but there were only paid commercial solutions: From HTML form to PDF
The PHP solutions I have found so far are for creating a new PDF, which is not what I need. Our PDF is created with Adobe Illustrator (or a similar adobe product) and is high-res with embedded fonts, svg and image content.
The form elements are in place, we just need to get the data to there.
Update April 11, 2013:
Since posting this question I have been utilizing FPDF on multiple projects where I needed to accomplish this goal. Although it cannot seem to "merge" template PDFs with the provided data, it can create the PDF from scratch.
One example I have used, I had a high resolution PNG for printing (similar to initial question) which we had to write the customer's name and today's date clearly in the center. I simply made the background of the PDF using FPDF->Image() and write the text afterwards using FPDF->Text().
It was very simple after all, you will need to look up the paper sizes to determine the X,Y,W,H of the image and then base your text fields relative to those numbers.
There was even a Form Filling extension, but I couldn't get it to work.
It seems as though I should answer my own question, although Visions answer may be better (seems to be deleted?). I used Vasiliy Faronov's link which was a comment to my main question: https://stackoverflow.com/a/1890835/200445
Here I found how to install pdftk and run a command to merge (flatten) my FDF and PDF files. I still used the "hacky" way to generate an FDF using Koivi's FDF Generator but it works for the most part.
One caveat is that some characters, like single and double quotes are not inserted correctly. It may be an issue of escaping the fields, but I could not find an answer.
Regardless, my PDF form generator is working, but anyone with a similar issue should look for a better solution.
There are number of tools which are not paid like itextsharp. try the following https://web.archive.org/web/20211020001747/https://www.4guysfromrolla.com/articles/030211-1.aspx Hope this code will help you. I have tried it its worked for me. If you can pay then there are number of paid tools which convert the HtML to PDF like ABCPDF etc.This example is in Asp.net and i am sure if you can convert it in PHP it will work for you too.
I am working on a project that allows a user to upload text or content from an HTML page in Japanese and then use their cursor to select words in the text/content to translate into English. However, I would like to be able to expand this functionality to PDF files. Essentially, I'd like the user to be able to submit a PDF file and have the browser render that PDF file in such a way that when the user selects/highlights words in the PDF, the browser can somehow relay what the text of the highlighted section is, such as via javascript, to be then relayed to a PHP variable.
I know there are a lot of posts on stackoverflow asking similar questions (I've spent hours upon hours trying to sort through them all!), but I can't seem to find a definitive answer on whether this is possible. It seems there are lots of options for converting PDF to HTML or extracting text from PDF, but to be quite honest, I'm confused if any of those options are relevant to what I am trying to accomplish. And I know there's a javascript API for Adobe, but I'm under the impression the javascript needs to be embedded in the PDF already, which will not be true if the user is uploading their own PDF files to render. Even if that is possible, it seems there's no native text selection support in the Adobe javascript API....
Is there a straightforward workaround (oxymoron?) to doing this? Again, I want to be able to pass text selected in a PDF to a variable -- the effect is the user highlights words they don't know so those words can be added to a word bank for retrieval in a dictionary.
Let me know if I can be clearer on anything. Thank you!
I think your best bet is to convert the PDF to HTML (see this answers) and then you are already set as you already implemented everything for regular HTML.
Is there some utility that could be called via command line to produce a doc(x) file? The source file would be HTML and CSS.
I am trying to generate Word documents on the fly with PHP. I am only aware of phpdocx library, which is very low level and not much use for me (I already have one poor implementation of Word document generation).
What I need from a document:
TOC
Images
Footers/Headers (they could be manually made on each HTML page)
Table
Lists
Page break (able to decide what goes to which page, eg one HTML file per page, join multiple HTML files to produce the entire document.)
Paragraphs
Basic bold/etc styles
I didn't find PHPDOCX very useful either. An alternative could be PHPWord, i think it covers what you need. According the website it can do these things:
Insert and format document sections
Insert and format Text elements
Insert Text breaks
Insert Page breaks
Insert and format Images and binary OLE-Objects
Insert and format watermarks (new)
Insert Header / Footer
Insert and format Tables
Insert native Titles and Table-of-contents
Insert and format List elements
Insert and format hyperlinks
Very simple template system (new)
In your case that isn't enough, but there is a plugin available to convert (basic) HTML to Docx and it works very good in my opinion. http://htmltodocx.codeplex.com/
I am using this for a year or two now and am happy with it. Altough i have to add that the HTML can't be to complex.
The way I usually do these is to have a word document template file with the parts I want to replace using keywords (usually something like "{FIRSTNAME}").
This allows you to read the file via PHP then simply do str_replace on all the parts you want to replace, then write that to another file.
Dynamic tables using this method are a bit more tricky, as you need a sub template for a row, which you can then include inside the main template as many times as required.
I'm not sure if this is the best solution, it's always seemed very fiddly to me and every time I'm asked to do this I get frustrated with it, but I guess it works. So if anyone knows a better solution I'd love to hear it too!
I have a template for a style of Avery stationery in a Word document. What I'd like to do is fill in the template with images (in this case, QR codes) for easy printing and labeling of objects.
I'm wondering, what would be the easiest way to do this? I saved the template as a Word XML file, but looking at the file, I feel hopeless. I also tried converting the template to HTML, but unsuprisingly it screwed up the formatting. I'm not sure where to go next, any ideas?
There are a couple of good options out there to do this. I would recommend PHP LiveDocX (free) or PHP DocX (free basic version).
Check out the PHP Class, MsDoc Generator. It will let you create and add elements (text, tables, images) dynamically.