Free pdf tools software for linux

The MDB Tools project is a effort to document the MDB file format used in Microsofts Access database package, and to provide a set of tools and applications to make that data available on other platforms.

Specifically, MDB Tools includes programs to export schema and data to other databases such as MySQL, Oracle, Sybase, PostgreSQL, and others.

Also, included is a SQL engine for performing simple SQL queries. The 0.5 release includes an updated GUI interface (screenshot is available here). A sparse but functional ODBC driver is included as well.

MDB Tools currently has read-only support for Access 97 (Jet 3) and Access 2000/2002 (Jet 4) formats. Access 2000 support is a recent addition and may not be as complete as Jet 3 support.

Write support is currently being worked on and the first cut is expected to be included in the 0.6 release.

Panda is a PDF generation API written in C.
The Panda PDF Generator is intended to make PDFs on the fly for the Web, but may be used to generate any PDF document you want.
Enhancements:
- As you may already be aware, the most important change in 0.5.4 is that the library is now available under the terms of either the GPL or LGPL (your choice). In order to accomplish this, the TDB code was removed, and either Enlightenment DB or Berkeley DB (version 4) must be linked to in its place.
- Other changes include the addition of link annotations (internal and external), pkg-config support, and an RPM. The main point of this release, however, was the licensing issue.

phppdflib is a class written in php that presents an easy to use API for generating PDF files dynamically.
Main features:
- Its freely licensed under the GNU GPL.
- Since its written in php, it doesnt require you to recompile or reconfigure your web server in any way
- Since its written in php, its platform independent. It will run on any system that supports php, such as Windows, Linux, Macintosh, and BSD.
- Its specifically designed to allow easy programming for text processing applications (such as reporting)

Develop is a little Tool for Programmers.
You can use it for c++ html php and java.
There are little Generators for html / OpenGL / php.
You can create PDF / PS with highlighting support
Enhancements:
- better highlighting

The Linux Wireless Extension and the Wireless Tools are an Open Source project sponsored by Hewlett Packard (through my contribution) since 1996, and build with the contribution of many Linux users all over the world.

The Wireless Extension (WE) is a generic API allowing a driver to expose to the user space configuration and statistics specific to common Wireless LANs. The beauty of it is that a single set of tool can support all the variations of Wireless LANs, regardless of their type (as long as the driver support Wireless Extension).

Another advantage is these parameters may be changed on the fly without restarting the driver (or Linux).

The Wireless Tools (WT) is a set of tools allowing to manipulate the Wireless Extensions. They use a textual interface and are rather crude, but aim to support the full Wireless Extension. There are many other tools you can use with Wireless Extensions, however Wireless Tools is the reference implementation.

iwconfig manipulate the basic wireless parameters
iwlist allow to initiate scanning and list frequencies, bit-rates, encryption keys...
iwspy allow to get per node link quality
iwpriv allow to manipulate the Wireless Extensions specific to a driver (private)
ifrename allow to name interfaces based on various static criteria

Most Linux distributions also have integrated Wireless Extensions support in their networking initialisation scripts, for easier boot-time configuration of wireless interfaces. They also include Wireless Tools as part of their standard packages.
Wireless configuration can also be done using the Hotplug scripts and distribution specific support, this enable the proper support of any removable wireless interface (Pcmcia, CardBus, USB...).

Any versions of the Pcmcia package offer the possibility to do wireless configuration of Pcmcia and Cardbus card through thefile wireless.opts. This allow to fully integrate wireless settings in the Pcmcia scheme mechansism. However, this method is now deprecated in favor of distribution specific methods.

Please note that the Wireless Tools (starting with version 19) supports fully IEEE 802.11 parameters and devices, support older style of devices and most proprietary protocols, and are prepared to handle HiperLan as well. More recent versions of course adds more 802.11 support.

But, unfortunately not all drivers support all these features...

Wad2PDF examines wad files and prints an overhead picture of all levels to a PDF file.
Wad2PDF is a program that converts the levels in Doom wad files into PDF files. The result has a birds eye view of every level, with floors neatly texturized and all items in the level in their proper places.
The PDF output can be imported to graphics programs for further editing or printed out directly. You can even create wall-sized mega posters of your favorite Doom levels.
Main features:
- supports all Doom games: Ultimate Doom, Doom II, Heretic, Hexen, and Strife
- full pwad support
- creates browsable PDF with bookmarks identified by level names
- reads gl nodes both from wads and GWA files
- resulting PDF is vectorized and can be zoomed arbitrarily (extreme zooms will make the textures blocky, though)
- available under the GPL
- does not support hi-res graphics or scaled/zoomed flats

VK Toolset project is intended to aide MPEG developers and hobbyist in understanding and creating conformant MPEG streams.
The current version focuses on the MPEG system layer (MPEG-1 System, MPEG-2 Program Stream), and MPEG-2 Transport bitstreams).
Enhancements:
vk_tafe
- UI changes to PCR Analysis screen
- New PTS/DTS graph (graphs PTS/DTS values against current PCR)
- UI log for STD buffer analysis
- Updated HTML documentation
- Target build platform updated to a "modern" distro -- SuSE 10. The older Mandrake version is frozen at version 0.8f which is still included in the VK-Tools packets
- Updated win32 port
view_knot_dump
- UI no longer depends on icons subdirectory to properly display
- If local .view_knot_view config does not specify the location of vk_tafe we assume its somewhere in the PATH and try to launc it
- Updated HTML documentation
- Target build platform updated to a "modern" distro -- SuSE 10. The older Mandrake version is frozen at version 0.8f which is still included in the VK-Tools packets
- Updated win32 port
- Removed Plugins. Theyve only been broken for 5 years now :)
view_knot_viewer
- No changes

JIndex is a beagle clone. It tries to mimic the functionality of Beagle. JIndex is written in Java.
Format support:
- Music (Mp3)
- Documents (PDF, Doc, Openoffice formats)
- Images
- IM conversations