How to publish almost any document (word, excel, ..) to the web using FlexPaper (Ubuntu & PHP tutorial)

Making documents available in the browser can be difficult when they are saved in many different formats. There are a number of products available that offer this service although many of them do this by simply using open source products that are available for free for you to use.

One such open source product that can be used as a conversion engine is OpenOffice. This article...

Publishing very large PDF documents on the web

Publishing very large PDF documents on the web can sometimes be tricky, consuming excessive bandwidth and memory as the browser  is forced to read the whole document into memory.

The latest version of the open source project FlexPaper makes this possible by splitting the document into pages and loading only the pages that are visible. The latest version is also provided with a PHP sample on how to perform server side searching of the documents.

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FlexPaper 1.2 available – PDF viewing for Adobe Flex & Flash

It has been about a month since version 1.1 was released and the amount of traffic and questions I receive has increased quite a lot, which is great! Thanks for sending in feedback and reporting bugs. It really helps in improving the application. If you are new to FlexPaper and don’t know what it is, scroll to the bottom of this page for an example of what it looks like. Find...

jQuery on the rise & FlexPaper update

With the latest release of jQuery (1.4) and with new releases being scheduled to be occurring on a more frequent basis, jQuery has really taken off and is now without a doubt the number one Javascript framework out there.

If you have not started using jQuery yet, then I’d suggest that you get started. It is really a great library...

FlexPaper v1.1, PDF viewing for Flex/Flash

The weather has been absolutely stunning here in New Zealand around x-mas and NY and while I have been in the water most of the time, I have still managed to spend some time on new features for my open source project FlexPaper. A bunch of minor issues were also resolved.
I dub this version 1.1.

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FlexPaper sees daylight – PDF viewing for Adobe Flex part 2

After a weekend of poor waves I finally managed to get my act together to finish the last bits and pieces on FlexPaper. It is far from perfect but after a bunch of corrections and optimizations (for large docs etc.) it is now ready enough to be considered to be a proper release.

Find everything about it here.

Introducing FlexPaper – PDF viewing for Adobe Flex

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Flash vs Silverlight – past 10 months evolution

With so much talk currently going on about Silverlight at the PDC, I thought it would be interesting to see how the past 10 months has looked in terms of market penetration for Flash and Silverlight. The following snap shots are taken from riastats.com. Looks like Silverlight has gained around 15% marketshare in the past 10 months which is quite...

Free source control hosting in the Mesh cloud

I was recently looking for a free shared space where I could host source control without making it public for a project I am in the process of starting. After looking around and mostly finding commercial solutions, I eventually found a pretty neat solution by using Microsoft Mesh together with SVN/Tortoise. The solution is basically...

Adobe Flex demand outgrowing Silverlight

It can be a bit tricky to see how these two platforms perform against each other in terms of demand, since the word “Flex” is a broad term used in many other job ads than developer jobs and “Silverlight” is a very specific word. Still, after matching both developer and flex/silverlight at Simplyhired,...