Anyone know how to display an RSS feed inside a PDF document? I suspect this
can be accomplished using JavaScript, but no idea on the details.
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I can think of at least one option... PHP has a PDF module that allows you to dynamically create PDF files. You should be able to write a PHP script that will read the RSS feed data from a website on the Internet, and output the information to a PDF file that is generated real-time. I have not done this first hand, but I see no reason why it would not work. Here is a link to the part of the online PHP manual that discusses the PHP module. http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.pdf.php Don Parsons Houston, TX --- "W. Frederick Zimmerman, Tech Fun Books" <rssfunbook@...> wrote: > Anyone know how to display an RSS feed inside a PDF > document? I suspect this > can be accomplished using JavaScript, but no idea on > the details. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Check out the new Yahoo! Front Page. www.yahoo.com(Continue reading)
Do you want to render the RSS file into the PDF when you create the PDF? Or do you want to have the PDF viewer 'automatigically' update it's contents from an RSS document when viewed at some later point? The former is certainly do-able following Don's suggestion. The latter, I'm not sure it's possible nor would I entertain doing it even if it was. Imagine the security risks of letting code from an external source be driven into a PDF viewer. I'd hope the PDF viewer would 'take steps' to secure the run-time environment but I wouldn't bet any of my own money on it working properly. What are you trying to do? There may be more than one way to skin the cat. -Bill Kearney From: "Don Parsons" <dparsons62@...> > I can think of at least one option... PHP has a PDF > module that allows you to dynamically create PDF > files. > --- "W. Frederick Zimmerman, Tech Fun Books" > <rssfunbook@...> wrote: > > Anyone know how to display an RSS feed inside a PDF > > document? I suspect this > > can be accomplished using JavaScript, but no idea on > > the details. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to:(Continue reading)
I want to publish a PDF e-book and on some of the pages I would like to display the latest 10 documents from an external RSS feed. ----PDF page---- Static text Static text Static text RSS feed Link 1 Link 2 Link 3... ---(Continue reading)endpage---- If a reader clicks on the link, I would like to open the browser. -----Original Message----- From: Bill Kearney [mailto:wkearney@...] Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2004 5:19 PM To: syndication@... Subject: Re: [syndication] RSS inside PDF Do you want to render the RSS file into the PDF when you create the PDF? Or do you want to have the PDF viewer 'automatigically' update it's contents from an RSS document when viewed at some later point? The former is certainly do-able following Don's suggestion. The latter, I'm not sure it's possible nor would I entertain doing it even if it was. Imagine the security risks of letting code from an external source be driven into a PDF viewer. I'd hope the PDF viewer would 'take steps' to secure the run-time
Because the Syndication group at Yahoo Groups seems to have died off over the past couple of months, I've established a new group to help anyone interested in setting up and promoting RSS feeds. If you are still interested in participating in discussion groups regarding RSS, please join the group at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RSSNewsSetup. Best regards, Jim
I've never seen a PDF that has dynamic content inside it. Is there anything that makes you think this is possible? I know that Acrobat Reader 6 has some support for various plugins - including a webservice plugin - but I'm not sure that a PDF can actually do what you want. > -----Original Message----- > From: W. Frederick Zimmerman, Tech Fun Books > [mailto:rssfunbook@...] > Sent: Thursday, 11 November 2004 2:42 AM > To: syndication@... > Subject: RE: [syndication] RSS inside PDF > Importance: Low > > > > I want to publish a PDF e-book and on some of the pages I > would like to > display the latest 10 documents from an external RSS feed. > > ----PDF page---- > Static text > Static text > Static text > > RSS feed > Link 1 > Link 2(Continue reading)
PDF supports database calls with something called ADBC (see, e.g. http://www.planetpdf.com/forumarchive/35599.asp) , and PDF Javascript includes a GetURL call http://www.planetpdf.com/forumarchive/54440.asp which includes an optional parameter for appending the contents of the URL to the document (which, obviously, must be writeable -- big snag with most e-book delivery systems ... not sure I have an answer for that). -----Original Message----- From: Nick Lothian [mailto:nl@...] Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2004 5:51 PM To: 'syndication@...' Subject: RE: [syndication] RSS inside PDF I've never seen a PDF that has dynamic content inside it. Is there anything that makes you think this is possible? I know that Acrobat Reader 6 has some support for various plugins - including a webservice plugin - but I'm not sure that a PDF can actually do what you want.(Continue reading)
> (which, obviously, must be writeable -- big snag with most e-book > delivery systems ... not sure I have an answer for that). Yeah, if you're creating PDFs then it's HIGHLY likely the users consuming them are going to assume they're like other PDFs they use. Those aren't "active" documents most of them time, they're just printable versions. That and you'd probably incur the wrath of the upgrade gods because of needing new adobe acrobat client software on all the user machines. While adobe would certainly love to sell upgrades for it there might be resistance from the users and management about it. Live updates from RSS URLs is *fraught* with perils. Most significantly of which being abuse of the RSS servers by using page-load activities. I know nothing about how a 'properly constructed' ADBC document would work but I'm guessing it might not be geared toward being RSS-friendly. I could be mistaken. Additional hassles are that the users might want or need to view the documents in a disconnected fashion (laptops, pda, home machine, etc). Using a live reference to an external document is gonna break in those cases. Perhaps it's worth a step back and asking 'what are you trying to accomplish'? -Bill Kearney Yahoo! Groups Links(Continue reading)
Another factor to consider is that that not everyone uses Acrobat to read PDF files. On my wife's machine, for example, Acrobat refuises to run for some reason, so she uses GSview. And of course most Linux users are using alternative PDF readers as well (usually based on Ghostscript, as GSview is). I have no idea is these viewers support the same capabilities as Acrobat. - Dave Seidel -----Original Message----- From: Bill Kearney [mailto:wkearney@...] Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2004 10:08 AM To: syndication@... Subject: Re: [syndication] RSS inside PDF > (which, obviously, must be writeable -- big snag with most e-book > delivery systems ... not sure I have an answer for that). Yeah, if you're creating PDFs then it's HIGHLY likely the users consuming them are going to assume they're like other PDFs they use. Those aren't "active" documents most of them time, they're just printable versions. That and you'd probably incur the wrath of the upgrade gods because of needing new adobe acrobat client software on all the user machines. While adobe would certainly love to sell upgrades for it there might be resistance from the users and management about it. Live updates from RSS URLs is *fraught* with perils. Most significantly of which being abuse of the RSS servers by using page-load activities. I know(Continue reading)
Yes, I am gravitating back to simply providing external links inside the PDF document. Many interesting things could be done if I was building the PDFs on the fly at reading time, but I'm not ... -----Original Message----- From: Bill Kearney [mailto:wkearney@...] Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2004 10:08 AM To: syndication@... Subject: Re: [syndication] RSS inside PDF > (which, obviously, must be writeable -- big snag with most e-book > delivery systems ... not sure I have an answer for that). Yeah, if you're creating PDFs then it's HIGHLY likely the users consuming them are going to assume they're like other PDFs they use. Those aren't "active" documents most of them time, they're just printable versions. That and you'd probably incur the wrath of the upgrade gods because of needing new adobe acrobat client software on all the user machines. While adobe would certainly love to sell upgrades for it there might be resistance from the users and management about it. Live updates from RSS URLs is *fraught* with perils. Most significantly of which being abuse of the RSS servers by using page-load activities. I know nothing about how a 'properly constructed' ADBC document would work but I'm guessing it might not be geared toward being RSS-friendly. I could be mistaken. Additional hassles are that the users might want or need to view(Continue reading)
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