I’ve created a report pdf from an html page output from our ASP.NET based product but I needed to change a contents list that was rendered as a hyperlink list on the page into a list of section headings and page number since the pdf was primarily for printing. The solution wasn’t immediately obvious but I’ve come up with the following which I was running in a unit test for simple quick prototyping. The key is using the HtmlOptions.AddTags property in ABCpdf which allows areas of the HTML to be retrieve during pdf rendering and modified.  Read →

I really feel the need to rant… I’ve just seen the following interface design:  Read →

I’ve used Eclipse and always loved the way that any selected text is automatically discovered elsewhere in the current file and highlighted – this is also available in Notepad++.  Read →