[Year 12 SofDev] Question Re SAT need/opportunity

Tue Mar 8 11:27:07 AEDT 2016

Thank you all for the responses

Mary

On 8 March 2016 at 09:12, Guy Flaherty <Guy.Flaherty at xavier.vic.edu.au>
wrote:

> Hi Mary,
>
>
>
> Rendering pdf files inside an application will really depend on the
> environment the student is using. If the student has access to a web view
> object, something that can display html, it should be possible to display
> the file. The student may be able to leverage a control that opens the
> installed web browser on the target machine and uses that for the display,
> for example. Otherwise, if they can display a html page through some kind
> of html control, they might be able to utilise a javascript library like
> pdf.js to display the pdf. Finally, if they don’t have access to this, I
> suggest having the student look at pipelining the file to postscript and
> then to text/html as required. There are opensource tools available for
> this in the ghostscript libs and I am pretty sure they work on windows?!
> This will not work well for all pdfs but does work pretty well for text
> heavy documents.
>
>
>
> Good luck,
>
> Guy Flaherty
>
>
>
> *From:* sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:
> sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au] *On Behalf Of *Kent Beveridge
> *Sent:* Tuesday, 8 March 2016 8:42 AM
> *To:* Year 12 Software Development Teachers' Mailing List <
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> *Subject:* Re: [Year 12 SofDev] Question Re SAT need/opportunity
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> May be far easier to open the PDFs in other software and save as a text
> file...then read THIS file for his program.
>
> Kent Beveridge
>
> Teacher
>
>
> On 7 Mar 2016, at 2:06 PM, Mark <mark at vceit.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Mary
>
>
>
> Do you mean the program searches the *contents* of a PDF?  Decoding a PDF
> file would be way beyond the scope of an SD SAC, IMO.
>
>
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> Or maybe a list of PDF filenames is searched for key words and a matching
> PDF file is loaded by the OS ... that would be achievable.
>
>
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> Otherwise, I'm unsure what the student's requirements are.
>
>
>
> Cheers
>
> Mark
>
>
>
> On 7 March 2016 at 13:32, Mary Ho <homn at aquinas.vic.edu.au> wrote:
>
> Hi
>
>
>
> I'd appreciate any feedback from you amazing teachers out there.
>
>
>
> I have a student who has a need, this need is to read in a pdf document
> into his program, once a search has been performed the relevant pdf file
> will load in and display on screen.  Is this a viable project?  He will
> also create a form that allows his client to enter data when adding in a
> new report of incidents..
>
>
>
> Sorry about the vagueness.  So he will have UI, programming logic, store
> of new reports and folder containing the pdf documents
>
>
>
> Thanks in advance
>
>
>
> Mary
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>
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