Free big faceless pdf software for linux

Big Calc is a Kommander version of my oversized, high visibility calculator.

I am learning several scripting and programming languages, and a calculator is usually my first learning project.

This version is basic and does not act the way I want to yet, but I thought it might be useful for someone. I hope you enjoy!

Slash is a database-driven portal system that uses Apache/mod_perl and MySQL.

As you may know, Slash development for the past several years has all been in CVS, with no tarball releases. We may do a tarball at some point, but for now, we recommend installing the most recent R_ tagged code from CVS.

We tag the code with T_ for our own use (on Slashdot, slashcode.com and use.perl.org) and when we feel one of those weekly test builds is stable enough, we also slap an R_ tag on it. A complete list of tags can always be found on sourceforge.net (in the "Show files using tag" menu).

If you are running a site on a very old version of Slash pre-2.2.6, we recommend that you upgrade to 2.2.6. We recommend you research whether you want to do that.

On the other hand, if you have not already invested a lot of time into a Slash site, we strongly recommend that you begin with the most recent R_ tag.

Today we made a new R_ tag, our version of Slash from January 11, 2006: R_2_5_0_94. This is the most recent since R_2_5_0_74, which dates from June 2005.

The biggest change is CSS, which was implemented just a few weeks after _74. Other changes include reskeys (which largely replace formkeys), and public logtokens (which improve security).

So the current recommended process to build Slash is:

cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@slashcode.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/slashcode login
(password is blank)
cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@slashcode.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/slashcode co -P -r R_2_5_0_94 slash

In the slash directory created, read the INSTALL file (the entire file, especially REQUIREMENTS). Then, if you still want to install Slash, follow the instructions in that file carefully!

ippfp is an easy-to-use library which provides oo-methods for creating and rendering user interfaces in PHP independently from output format. It features HTML, GTK, PDF and ncurses.
You can create input masks such as forms for databases or other user interfaces. ippfp features abstraction, elements can be accessed like data structures, they have values and various attributes.
For me ippfp is a construction kit to build software quickly.
Another purpose could be the automatically generation by software.
You can select one of these packages to display:
- HTML
- PDF
- GTK
- ncurses
Available elements:
- button
- checkbox
- choice
- fopen (file open)
- grid
- image
- label (readonly text)
- link
- multiplechoice
- password
- radio
- text
- textarea
- table
The library puts the elements together in a frame. For HTML a HTML page will be created which contains the elements, GTK and ncurses have appropriate windows. The data of elements will be stored in session variables.
One does not need to care for details of formats like HTML-tags or GTK-classes. For navigating within a program the button element should be used. To arrange elements the elements "grid" or rather "table" are the right choices.
Elements are created with the "create"-functions which are members of the ippfp main instance and returns objects respective to the goal. To make them visible they will be grouped in a "view" which will be given to the ippfp main instance for processing.
This is a flexible way because an existing element can be used in several views. Thus, elements will be included by reference, not by copy. The advantages are: if an element is in a state, it is independent from the current view and related informations are available globally.
For example: create a text element:
$myText = $ippfp->createText("default", 20, "my_text");
...
echo $myText->getValue();
Your code should be organised into php functions. For example if a button is used, it calls the function given as attribute. It is expedient to integrate your views into this functions.
Enhancements:
- switched from html to xhtml, format identifier is XHTML
- a simple debug function added, for internal debugging, writes messages into a file (usefull for ncurses)
- pdf passes the "tabellentest", tables and grids can extend over a big number of pages, and can contain big text
- some bugfixes in xhtml and pdf

Haru Free PDF library is a free, cross platform, open-sourced software library for generating PDF.
Main features:
- Generating PDF files with lines, text, images.
- Outline, text annotation, link annotation.
- Compressing document with deflate-decode.
- Embedding PNG, Jpeg images.
- Embedding Type1 font and TrueType font.
- Creating encrypted PDF files.
- Using various character set (ISO8859-1~16, MSCP1250~8, KOI-8R).
- Supporting CJK fonts and encodings.
Enhancements:
- fixed a problem of HPDF_Circle() which causes buffer overflow.
- added HPDF_Ellipse().

PHP Big Brother Hosts Configurator (phpBBHC) is a collection of PHP scripts and one C program to configure hosts
for the Big Brother network monitoring software. It doesnt cover all the possible settings for Big Brothers hosts file but it should be enough for
most demands.

Ammendment: Big Brother has been pretty much replaced by Hobbit. I havent got around to using Hobbit yet but Ive heard its pretty backwards compatible with Big Brothers configuration and scripts. Ive heard of successful stories
of phpBBHC being used to configure Hobbit.

CUPS-PDF project is a PDF writer backend for CUPS. It is designed to produce PDF files in a heterogeneous network by providing a PDF printer on the central fileserver.

It will convert files printed to its queue in CUPS to PDF and put them in a per-user-based directory structure. It can execute post-processing scripts, e.g. to allow mailing the results to the user.

Important notes:

CUPS-PDF requires root privileges since it has to modify file ownerships. In recent distributions the "RunAsUser" option in cupsd.conf is set to "Yes" which removes these privileges. Please make sure to set "RunAsUser No" if you want to use CUPS-PDF.

make sure if any of CUPS-PDFs working directories (e.g. output) is a NFS mounted volume it is mounted without root_squash!

CUPS-PDF is known to fail if the gs (GhostScript) binary on a system is compressed by upx (Ultimate Packer for eXecutables).

if you are using SELinux make sure it does not interfere with CUPS-PDF


On MacOSX you will have to use pstopdf instead of AFPL GhostScript (see Readme).

esms provides a small console program to send messages to cellular phones.

esms is a simple program which sends SMSes to cellular phones. It splits big messages into many fragments, which are later sent with error control. It works for cellular phones in Spain.