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I'm still new to loading data. I know there's a method to load multimedia files onto HTML using the <object> tag but that only applies for the common file types like PDF.
Is there a way to load PDB (Protein Data Bank) files onto HTML and display the results? Like the actual molecules.
Do I need WebGL to display it? It would be good to at least display the molecules.
I don't have any experience of the PDB file format but at a guess there's no native support for this format in browsers. You'll probably have to load the file (via an AJAX call) and manually parse it with JavaScript. If you're lucky someone else has already written a parser in JavaScript. You'll then need to display that data in meaningful way, plain text/2d canvas/3d canvas etc. If you're super lucky, someone will have written the whole thing for you.
I just did a quick Google search for "protein data bank javascript renderer" and found https://biasmv.github.io/pv/. If you click through to the GitHub page you can see they mention PDB files a few times so it seems you're in luck.
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I've been searching lately for different way to present a user manual that is easy to use and understand.
At first, I tought that the Microsoft Help files would be great, since I knew my way around basic HTML. Little did I knew that Microsoft Help Workshop was a bit more complicated than simply taking HTML and processing it. I had multiple problem while trying to ajust the different styles and classes applied to my HTML.
What would be the best tool to use to convert an existing HTML project (HTML, CSS and basic Javascript) to a compiled .CHM file?
If it is not possible, what option would be worth exploring when making maintainable user manuals?
Thanks.
I would explore using pandoc to convert your html or markdown to docbook or pdf, or any of 100s of other formats.
There are various tools available to do that. Few noteworthy are: nDoc or DocBook or FAR HTML or doxygen or Microsoft's SandCastle
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Currently I have a website made in Joomla that contains documentation about some software (LogicalDOC) in 3 languages.
http://help.logicaldoc.com/
I need to convert the various sections in the corresponding PDF manuals.
So Installation Guide should be converted in a PDF, as well as the other sections: Users Guide, Administrator Guide and Workflow Guide (in the top menu).
I would like to know if there is a software or a different way (plugin) to convert the website in PDF
with navigation menu and possibly also to have the document in CHM format.
I have found a plugin ebook Factory
http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/style-a-design/print-a-pdf/19294
but since it's for Joomla 3 and the website to convert uses an older version I can't try it.
The easiest way is to use (sniping tool) on windows or equivalent tool on your platform and take snapshot pictures of the manual Pages. If you can turn your screen 90 degrees to portrait mode then the format of the pages will look better than widescreen. If you want to include Navigation i think you will need a Full Version of Acrobat or Similar
Free Online tool to turn a collection of JPG pictures into a PDF file.
http://www.convert-jpg-to-pdf.net/
for CHM search the Net to see if you can find a free pdf to chm converter.
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I'm in the progress of implementing a built-in help system based on QtHelp into my application. Since QtHelp is based on Qt's help collection files, I need to produce a set of HTML pages.
Since I won't be writing the documentation alone (a few of my colleagues will write, too), I am looking for the best way to produce these files.
We are internally using a Wiki, and I know that the documentation should be written in some kind of markup language instead of giving all authors a WYSIWYG HTML editor.
So my question is, are there tools out there which help with the process of generating documentation that can be exported as a set of HTML files, and possibly, as PDFs, too?.
Thanks in advance!
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I'm already using Doxygen for C++ documentation generation. But I'm not exactly looking for an API-Documentation generator, but something like LaTeX, which allows you to format the documentation contents like a markup document (much like a Wiki).
I hate to answer my own questions, but we eventually decided to settle for LaTeX.
In the past we used a Wiki (MediaWiki and DokuWiki) for documentation, but that proved to be problematic as soon as you wanted to print or ship the documentation in a decently formatted form (PDF guide for instance).
LaTeX is not much more complex compared to a Wiki markup language, but produces beautiful PDF files, and there are also a series of LaTeX-to-HTML compilers, which produce decent HTML documentation with graphics, Tables Of Contents and clickable links and sections.
If you're writing your application in JavaScript, you might wish to look at JSDoc.
For other languages, Doxygen is a good choice, too. http://www.doxygen.nl/
Doxygen can output HTML and PDF formats =)
For a more comprehensive list of documentation generators, Wikipedia and Google are your friends. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_documentation_generators
Good luck
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Ok, Thread poster has announced he used Doxygen already. However, the wikipedia page still stands, I guess
Might I ask what language you're working with?
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I've found wkhtmltopdf, which looks good on the surface and works fine in very small cases, but it doesn't provide any real css control over the rendering.
By that I mean it doesn't use the print media type and page breaks are not respected, as well, on windows you can't control the names of some header/footer variables, or generate a TOC off of teh h1 tags.
Are there any real open source alternatives, I've tried xhtml2pdf which is a python library actually called pisa, but it requires reportlab which doesn't play nice windows.
I'm actually programming in .net but if its good and open source, the language isn't a huge issue.
This is an old stackoverflow question, but because google took me here, it could be helpful for somebody else.
Weasyprint should support what the author was looking for.
It supports print css features like page break.
Try weasyprint
It turns out there was no open source alternative that was simpler, but on windows wkhtmltopdf is just not the best thing, so we paid for a better solution.
Winnovative's PDF library is what we used
While it is not open-source, I use ABCPDF. I have a template page in .NET that I use for a wrapper to set up a custom stylesheet for generating PDFs only.
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Which library or component can do this in a easy way and not too expensive.
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Oeps: I should have informed you that it is web app. and we can't rely on the the user have PDF driver installed.
The easiest way is to display the HTML file in a TWebBrowser (as described here) and to print it (as described here) to a PDF Printer (e.g. PDFCreator).
I've been using Gnostice eDocEngine, a document creation toolkit for VCL with full source code. It creates/converts to Pdf as well. Very easy to use.
PowerPdf is free. It doesn't directly convert from html to pdf but you may be able to parse the html and use it to generate a close facsimile.
If you want do this without the user manipulation (transparent for te user) you can read this (PDFFactory).
Regards.