Re: Pages to PDF conversion on server from WO app
Re: Pages to PDF conversion on server from WO app
- Subject: Re: Pages to PDF conversion on server from WO app
- From: Brendan Duddridge <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 14:47:13 -0600
Pages will be used simply to generate the template. Then we will be
injecting photos and text into it dynamically on the server. A user
will use a web form to upload photos. Fill out a form with some text,
and click a button to download a PDF document. I was hoping we could
use Pages since the documents it produces are way nicer than Word. And
using a report tool such as Reportmill isn't really ideal either. My
customer loves the wow look they see in Pages, but doesn't want their
customers to have to use Pages to read the documents. They want them
generated to a PDF document.
Perhaps we can save out to a PDF from Pages and have our WO app
dynamically replace content in the PDF file? But I don't think that it
would be able to reflow or add pages to the document if too much text
gets put into a particular text box area, etc. I also love the way
Pages scales and rotates images automatically to fit within the
bounding box of the photo area.
I don't know if OpenOffice has the same quality output as Pages.
Thanks,
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Brendan Duddridge | CTO | 403-277-5591 x24 | email@hidden
ClickSpace Interactive Inc.
Suite L100, 239 - 10th Ave. SE
Calgary, AB T2G 0V9
http://www.clickspace.com
On 2009-08-21, at 2:34 PM, Pascal Robert wrote:
(Moving it to the general WO list)
You can also go with OpenOffice. Not as nice as Pages, but you can
find examples of how to do it, and you can even run OOo as a service
(and make the document to PDF conversion directly into OOo).
But why are you not converting the Pages files to PDF directly in
Pages before uploading them? I guess you want to do templates in
Pages and modify some fields when the PDF is generated?
Hey WO people,
We're building a new app that needs to generate a really nice
looking printable document. I'd like to use Pages for it since you
can generate some awesome looking documents with it. And also Pages
documents are simply XML documents after all. Apple even has an
iWork developer guide:
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/AppleApplications/Conceptual/iWork2-0_XML/index.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40002479
Does anyone know of a command-line program that could read the
Pages document and convert it to a PDF document without having to
launch Pages? The WO app will be running on an XServe with OS X
Leopard Server.
Thanks,
____________________________________________________________________
Brendan Duddridge | CTO | 403-277-5591 x24 | email@hidden
ClickSpace Interactive Inc.
Suite L100, 239 - 10th Ave. SE
Calgary, AB T2G 0V9
http://www.clickspace.com
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