Visualizing TeamCity Dependencies with Python
James Waugh, Accusoft Software Engineer In many cases at Accusoft, we are tasked with commanding large TeamCity build chains, sometimes interacting with dozens of build configurations: build tests, run them, and build all their dependencies! Being able to visualize these relationships is a benefit to my team that allows them to discuss these relationships and […]
What is the proper way of using affinity tokens in cluster mode where multiple file IDs using multiple affinity tokens need to be combined?
Question What is the proper way of using affinity tokens in cluster mode where multiple file IDs using multiple affinity tokens need to be combined? Answer If you are using PrizmDoc Server in cluster (multi-server) mode, and you are using Content Conversion Services to merge multiple files into one, or whenever multiple file ids using […]
Demo: BarcodeXpress for .NET Core
Barcode Xpress is a multi-language library that runs in multiple platforms including Windows and Linux-based systems. This barcode library can read and write over 30 different barcode types with high speed and accuracy. Barcode Xpress also comes with a free license to ImagXpress, one of our image processing SDKs, which supports loading and saving numerous image file formats including BMP, JPG, multi-page TIFF, among many others.
How do I acquire individual pages using ISIS Xpress .NET?
Question The ISIS Xpress BasicCapabilities and AdvancedCapabilities samples demonstrate a number of different ways to acquire images and save a batch of them to file, but how can I get a single image as soon as it gets acquired by the scanner? Answer During the ISIS Xpress Scanned() event, you can get the currently acquired […]
In PrizmDoc, how can I get the page coordinates of my cursor?
Question In PrizmDoc, I can get the coordinates of a Click event. However, this corresponds to the window coordinates of my viewer. How can I translate this to coordinates of the actual page? Answer As specified in our documentation here, PrizmDoc offers the following method: convertPageToWindowCoordinates(pageNumber, points) This appears to do the opposite of what […]
Customer Advisory Board
Convert HTML to PDF in C# with PrizmDoc API
Project Goal: Create a command line program in C# that can upload a HTML file to the PrizmDoc cloud server, issue a conversion command, and download the converted PDF file upon completion. Project Goal: C# development environment (Visual Studio used in this example) PrizmDoc Cloud account (signup for a free account here) Need to programmatically […]
Support Request
Why is PrizmDoc not auto-detecting the form in my PDF file?
Question I have a PDF of a form that I’m sending to PrizmDoc to have it auto-detect, but PrizmDoc does not find any fields in the document. What would cause this? Answer Currently only PDF files with embedded AcroForms will be auto-detected. If the PDF document has an embedded image of a form, PrizmDoc will […]
ViewerJS Alternative: ViewerJS vs PrizmDoc
Full-featured document viewer outperforms open source alternative There are various HTML5 document viewers available for embedding in web and mobile applications. Typically, developers have a few minimum requirements for a viewer: it must display PDFs and Microsoft Office documents, should embed easily into their front-end HTML/CSS/Javascript. Sometimes additional features are needed, such as additional file […]
How Developers Can Enhance Excel Spreadsheet Security
Few document formats are more common than XLSX spreadsheet files. Although many alternatives are available, most enterprises continue to rely on the broad (and familiar) functionality of Microsoft Excel when it comes to their spreadsheet needs. However, few organizations take the appropriate steps to ensure Excel spreadsheet security, which could leave their private data and […]