Chris Dolan’s Fuse-PDF-0.09 – search.cpan.org
Chris is also the author of the very well known and admired CAM::PDF.
I think it’s worth having a very long look at this.
Category: Uncategorized
-
The Pragmatic Bookshelf: Programming Groovy
The Pragmatic Bookshelf | Programming Groovy
From the wikipedia article on Groovy:
Most Java code is also syntactically valid Groovy. […]
In July 2009, Strachan wrote on his blog that “I can honestly say if someone had shown me the Programming in Scala book by Martin Odersky, Lex Spoon & Bill Venners back in 2003 I’d probably have never created Groovy.”[1] Strachan left the project silently long before the Groovy 1.0 release in 2007.
Maybe I better focus on Scala than on Groovy.
Update 2011-07-01:
Purchased it as a used book through Amazon.de. -
book: Programming Clojure
The Pragmatic Bookshelf | Programming Clojure
Lisp on the JVM – maybe a nice idea.
Update 2011-08-07
Found a Clojure User Group Berlin.
Order the book through Amazon as used book, but with Amazon Prime service. -
CAM::PDF – PDF manipulation library by “Clotho Advanced Media”
I am currently into PDF “reading”, and this software looks rather promising.
There are also a couple of nice command line utilities in the TAR ball’s bin/ subdirectory.
- appendpdf.pl
- asciify
- changepagestring.pl
- changepdfstring.pl
- changerefkeys.pl
- crunchjpg_tmpl.pdf
- crunchjpgs.pl
- deillustrate.pl
- deletepdfpage.pl
- extractallimages.pl
- extractjpgs.pl
- fillpdffields.pl
- getpdffontobject.pl
- getpdfpage.pl
- getpdfpageobject.pl
- getpdftext.pl
- listfonts.pl
- listimages.pl
- listpdffields.pl – sic!!! – I adapted that a little, now it shows page num. (with a little extra help from Chris Dolan) and the position for each field
- pdfinfo.pl
- readpdf.pl – shows you the PDF data structure as perl data dump
- renderpdf.pl
- replacepdfobj.pl
- revertpdf.pl
- rewritepdf.pl
- setpdfbackground.pl
- setpdfpage.pl
- stamppdf.pl
- uninlinepdfimages.pl
Of course, they all use /usr/bin/perl and not /usr/local/perlbrew/bin/perl, and I am currently still into perlbrew., so how would I replace all these occurrences?
That reminded me of that fixin utility from the very old days, which updates the #! (“shebang”) line appropriately. -
form fields in PDF – how to retrieve their details?
This command line shows you a few details:
$ pdftk … dump_data_fields
Not enough details for me.
What about CAM::PDF?
It comes with a couple of nice sample utilities (the bin/ subdirectory), one of them is called listpdffields.pl . It also does not show me enough details, but I think I will enhance that one.Update / 2010-12-11:
Yes, CAM::PDF works very well for me. I wrote another article on that. -
App::perlbrew : the man page and “perlbrew list”
The man page makes you think, there is a “perlbrew list“, and older versions didn’t have it. Older versions had a “perlbrew installed” instead. Quite a good reason to upgrade you perlbrew.
-
editing JRXML in emacs using nxml-mode
Just created an RELAG-NG (“compact”) grammar for editing JRXML files.
I used trang for that, and the “input module” was a sample JRXML file. Yes, that means: occasionally some JRXML file will have tags or attributes, that my jasperreport.rnc does not know yet. But then re-running trang on an additional sample file is not really a big job.
I really love editing XML.
I re-ordered and “grouped” the XML pieces for the elements in my sample reports. That helps to clean up some things, that got a little messy over the time. In the end you recognize, how much duplicate code you have.
You may want to fight the redundancy problems through JRXML subreports.
I actually made my JRXML a “here document” for a shell script. A couple of hours later I knew, that a perl script is the better approach. Another couple of hours later there were plenty little parameterized “here documents“. I have solved my redundancy problem here through “looping over lists of configurations”. -
an alert on my FRITZ!Box 7390: “internet: Bonk Attack detected”
I found this message today in my telnet session on my FRITZ!Box:
Nov 26 10:16:25 dsld[2178]: internet: Bonk Attack detected (1)
I think, this I saw this already a couple of months ago, and I think, the box rebooted then, but it didn’t do that no. -
Adium, the free instant messaging application for Mac OS X
It’s based on libpurple, and it can also deal with Skype and OKCUPID instant messaging.