Positioning Strings with the show_xy() Method in PDF Documents with PHP 5Google Wants Cheap, Renewable Energy. Like, Now.

Tuesday, November 27th, 2007

Google’s getting greener than ever. And setting up more initiatives to find those smart people out there that can take care of the brainiac side of things. The latest: Renewable Energy Cheaper Than Coal. It will focus on advanced solar thermal power, wind power, geothermal systems and ...

Positioning Strings with the show_xy() Method in PDF Documents with PHP 5

Tuesday, November 27th, 2007

As you know more and more web sites try to engage their visitors by delivering their database contents in several formats such as Adobe s Portable Document Format PDF . The good news regarding this topic is that you as a PHP developer can take ...

Drawing Basic Rectangles in PDF Documents with PHP 5Clickable Gets Former AOL Exec Jonathan Miller on Board

Tuesday, November 20th, 2007

After $6 million in funding and the addition of Neilsen BuzzMetric’s Max Kalehoff as the VP of Marketing, Clickable adds more clout to its roster with the inclusion of former AOL Chairman and CEO Jonathan Miller to the company’s Board of Directors. Having held senior exec roles at ...

Drawing Basic Rectangles in PDF Documents with PHP 5

Tuesday, November 20th, 2007

If you re a PHP developer who s searching for a friendly guide on how to build dynamic PDF files within your PHP 5-based applications then look no further and start reading this series now ... Enter to Win a Dell XPS Ultra-Portable Notebook Free Registration - Access Thousands ...

Working with Images and Text Flows in PDF Files with PHP 5

Tuesday, November 13th, 2007

When it comes to developing database-driven web applications that deliver their contents to end users in a great variety of formats PHP can be a killer scripting language. This becomes even more evident when these contents must be displayed through one or more PDF files which have to ...

Constructing Multi-Line PDF Documents with PHP 5

Tuesday, November 6th, 2007

If you re a PHP developer interested in developing web applications that deliver the contents of their database tables in PDF format then hopefully this group of articles will be what you re looking for. Welcome to the second article of the series Building PDF documents with PHP ...

Building PDF Documents with PHP 5

Tuesday, October 30th, 2007

PHP is a versatile language with some surprising capabilities. It can even create PDF documents on the fly with the right third-party PDF library. If you can t imagine why you d want to do that think about the various formats used by applications when retrieving data from ...

The Adobe PDF XSS Vulnerability

Wednesday, January 10th, 2007

I've been concentrating on work this past week, but I wanted to quickly mention the Adobe PDF XSS vulnerability discovered by Stefano Di Paola and Giorgio Fedon. This is being called UXSS (universal cross-site scripting) due to the fact that it can aff...

Python for PDF Generation

Tuesday, March 14th, 2006

The Portable Document Format PDF lets you create documents that look exactly the same on every platform. Sometimes a PDF document needs to be generated dynamically however and that can be quite a challenge. Fortunately there are libraries that can help. This article examines one ...