[reportlab-users] reportlab-users Digest, Vol 39, Issue 1

[Tim Roberts]

Robin Becker wrote:

> kevin wrote:

>> Yes, my example was a bad one.  I realized immediately that my

>> example was bad.  The avery site will let you generate a PDF with

>> mailing labels (got this clue from some Ruby developers).  The

>> resultant PDF automatically pops up the print dialog and the page

>> scaling is already set to none.  This is what I'd love to do, as I

>> can't expect the users to

>> continually remember to set this.  I'll see if I can hunt down where

>> the pdf was generated.  I am attaching the pdf I generated from their

>> site.

>>

>> Thanks!

>>

>> kevin at booksys.com

>>

> ....... unfortunately the avery document is not editable (at least

> without passwords etc etc) and the interesting bits appear to be 

> compressed. I think javascript is being used to open up the dialog.

> Certainly there's some javascript usage in the document.


pdftk can solve the compression problem.
    pdftk avery.pdf output averyu.pdf uncompress

And, in fact, there is a "stream" in that file that looks like C code
that fetches the printer parameters and sets flags to suppress the
"center and rotate" options.  I've not seen code like that in a PDF before.

-- 
Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.