Posted by Saul on 12/09/06 17:41

sam wrote:
> Hi,
> I want to open particular file like pdf or winzip,
> on website with pdf and winzip has to be uploaded or installed on web
> server and
> not have to installed on user's computer.
> Also my 2nd question is my web host don't have particular software
> installed on the web server like winzip or pdf or image editor.
> How can i place particular software say winzip and acrobat reader in
> web server and take use of that to open winzip files and pdf files
> through it without without installed that in user's computer or say my
> computer.
> Is php will help me in this matter?
> If you can't give me brief explanation, please give me some hints about
> it?
> Because I am developing my own site and I want to use this task.

We use 7za for zipping up files off the web-server (eg packaging up
downloads) - it will unzip too I presume. From PHP we run a exec()
command to which we have passed the (clean) filenames and a bunch of
command switches to generate the zip file which is created in a
temporary directory, then we send the relevant file header before
fpassthru of the file created by 7za.

7za is open source, has a command line interface and works on windows
and linux.

I know PHP has pdf commands built in so you can build pdf's on the fly.
However, I'd be really interested in any recommendations for a command
line pdf writer/rewriter. In particular we want to take a pdf that has
been uploaded and automatically generate a sample of the pdf (eg
showing just a few pages, replacing text, or creating a shrunken access
version). Anyone any ideas (must be windows and linux compatible)?


Saul
www.notanant.com
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