Posts tagged with 'fsharp'
Michael Bowman is writing functional tests with F# and Canopy.
Show Notes:
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We take the internet for granted. I can send information to just about anyone without a stamp, without ink, without waiting for a truck to come pick it up.
However, some parts of the world are still mired in actual paper work, for whatever reason: legal lag, technology costs, fear of change, etc. So, despite the fact that I can book a hotel, refill my prescriptions, start an LLC, and a thousand other things over the web, there are often times where I still have to send faxes, sign documents with a pen, and lick envelopes.
I have come up with some ways of insulating myself from some of these primitive forms of communication. Often this means I have to take a PDF, print out one page, sign it, scan it, and then reconstruct that PDF. Or, with an expense report, I'll take multiple scans/photos of receipts and have to stitch them together into one PDF. A long time ago, I couldn't figure out how to actually stitch PDFs together into one document without something like Adobe Acrobat installed (which I don't want to buy and don't want to install). So, I created a little tool that I called MattDoc.
I called it that because it needed a name and I was in a hurry (as you'll see by the interface). I have decided to make this tool open source, as part of my ongoing code garage sale.
Here's how it works. Suppose I have three PDF files: page1.pdf, page2.pdf, and page3.pdf. I want a single PDF that consists of these three documents in series. I click "Browse" to add each file, in order. Then I click "Save to 1 PDF". PdfSharp does the work here. It also works with images.
The UI is very unpolished. It could use some work, and a couple more features (for instance, right now there's no way to reorder or remove files from the list).
Hopefully this will help you stitch documents together (or maybe there's a much easier way that I don't know about) or maybe this will help you try out PdfSharp for the first time.
P.S. If you check out the git history, you'll see that I wrote this before NuGet was really a thing (or at least a thing I knew how to use): I've been using it and getting value out of it that long.
May 13th is .NET Day at manning.com. My book (AOP in .NET) is featured as part of this Deal of the Day.
The offer also applies to:
- C# in Depth, Third Edition by Jon Skeet
- Fast ASP.NET Websites by Dean Alan Hume
- Windows Store App Development by Pete Brown
- HTML5 for .NET Developers by Jim Jackson and Ian Gilman
- Metaprogramming in .NET by Kevin Hazzard and Jason Bock
- Dependency Injection in .NET by Mark Seemann
- ASP.NET 4.0 in Practice by Daniele Bochicchio, Stefano Mostarda, and Marco De Sanctis
- F# Deep Dives by Tomas Petricek and Phillip Trelford
- And C++ Concurrency in Action by Anthony Williams
The deal will stay active for about 48 hours. (They let it run a little longer than a day to account for time zones). So get yourself some books!
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