PDFreactor Samples
Learn how to integrate PDFreactor and what you can do with it
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Use Cases
Illustrated Book
An illustrated book that uses CSS Grid layout to place components in a two-dimensional structure. On the title page, the grid is configured in a way so that the components automatically fill the available grid spaces in an optimal manner, leaving no white space.
- Grid Layout
- Custom Page Size
- HSL Color Notation
Page size: Custom
Pamphlet
An informative pamphlet in two-column layout. Images and tables are floated to either the top or bottom of their respective column. Several components of the document are styled with clip paths to give them a futuristic look. Optionally, the PDF can be created as a booklet using the PDFreactor API.
- Page Floats
- Clip Path
- Multi-Column Layout
- Mix Blend Modes
Page size: A4
Draft
A document consisting of an editor’s version of an article. Typos and wording errors are annotated with change bars. The text is laid out in two columns, snapping to a line grid for improved readability. The document is also overlaid with a CSS-based watermark, designating it as a draft.
- Change Bars
- Watermarks
- Line Grid
Page size: A4
Form Filling
A sample that demonstrates how to use an existing PDF form as a background image. The HTML template consists of absolutely positioned boxes, populated by data from JSON files, and prints them over the PDF background. Text shrink compensates for arbitrarily long data.
- PDFs as Images
- Text Shrink
- AngularJS
Page size: A4
Science Magazine
A magazine article layout using regions to achieve a text flow through freely positioned boxes across pages.
- Regions
- Web Fonts
- Page-filling Background Images
- Semitransparent backgrounds
- Text Shadow
- @supports Rule
Page size: A4
Textbook
A textbook layout that demonstrates basic page layout features like page headers and footers with page numbers and chapter titles while explaining them.
- Page Headers & Page Counters
- First, Last & Named Pages and Page Groups
- Running Table Headers
- Gradients
- Text & Box Shadow
- Page-relative positioning
Page size: A4
Tourist Brochure
A brochure trifold ready for printing, using spot colors with CMYK fallback colors as well as CMYK TIFF images. Oversized pages provides space for bleed areas and printer marks.
- Spot & CMYK Colors
- CMYK TIFF Images
- Oversized Page Sizes
- PDF Page Boxes & Printer Marks
- Web Fonts
- Transforms
Page size: A4 Landscape
Daily Newspaper
The front page of a newspaper, complete with multi-column layouts and headings that span these columns.
- Multi-column Layout
- Web Fonts
- Barcode
- CSS Variables
- Numeric Font Weight
Page size: 325mm × 480mm
Mortgage Calculation
A business document that uses features like PDF comments to add information to the PDF for further processing and running elements to use HTML content in page headers and footers. The canvas elements with charts are embedded into the resulting PDFs as vector graphics.
- PDF Comments
- Running Elements
- Canvas Charts and SVG Images
- Continuation Markers
Page size: legal
JavaScript
Illustrates tables, graphs and charts in the style of scientific reports. Uses the Open Source JavaScript library “flotr2” as well as “awesomizr.js” which is included with PDFreactor.
- Manipulating HTML using JavaScript
- Using JavaScript Libraries
- Canvas
- Native Transforms and Gradients
- PDF Pages as Iterable Images
Page size: letter
Official Form
Corporate Invoice
Technical Documentation
Children’s Novel
Real Customer Applications
Building Services Equipment Product Catalog
- Cross-references
- Table of contents
- Multi-column layout
- CSS transforms
- Tables and floats
- Printer marks
- CMYK colors
Shows a 680+ page product catalog from Walter Bösch GmbH & Co KG. A Web-to-Print project done by the elements Group (pimcore GmbH) using PDFreactor embedded into Pimcore PIM, an open source enterprise product information management framework.
Metal Fittings Product Catalog
- Cross-references
- Bookmarks
- Table of contents
- Multi-column layout
- CSS transforms
- Tables & floats
- Printer marks
- CMYK colors
See a 240+ page product catalog from Pollmann & Sohn, Germany. A web-to-print project done by Pimcore partner Basilicom using PDFreactor as the Pimcore PDF rendering plug-in.
Wood Flooring Price List
- Multi-column layout
- CSS transforms
- Tables and floats
- Printer marks
- CMYK colors
See a 130+ page price list from mafi Naturholzboden GmbH, Austria. A B2B/B2C (including web-to-print) project done by the elements Group (pimcore GmbH) using PDFreactor as the Pimcore plug-in.
DIN A4 (5.9 MB)| more info about PDFreactor + Pimcore PIM
Gardening Product Catalog
- Table of contents
- Tables & floats
- Printer marks
- CMYK colors
See the 160+ page gardening catalog from Windhager Group, Austria. A B2C (including web-to-print) project done by the elements Group (pimcore GmbH) using PDFreactor as the Pimcore plug-in.
DIN A4 (23 MB)| more info about PDFreactor + Pimcore PIM
Terrace Designer Report
- Tables & floats
- CMYK colors
See the terrace designer report from JAF Group, Austria. Elements Group (pimcore GmbH) built this sophisticating B2B e-commerce platform, using Pimcore eCommerce, Pimcore PIM and RealObjects PDFreactor.
DIN A4 (1 MB)| more info about PDFreactor + Pimcore PIM
HRD Brochures
- Multi-column layout
- Sophisticated page design
- Complex headers and footers
- Background images
Brochures for HRD and training purposes, created from CMS data for website publishing by Schouten & Nelissen
Position Statement
- Web fonts
- Generated content
- Multi-column layout
- Page margins
Printer-friendly, journal quality position statements (full-length HTML) published by the Canadian Paediatric Society (CPS)
Curricula
- Alternating page styles (left/right)
- Dynamic headers and footers with chapter and subchapter title as well as page numbers
- Multiple tables of contents
- Justification with automatic hyphenation
Shows the 690+ page public curricula for the Bavarian secondary business schools provided by the Staatsinstitut für Schulqualität und Bildungsforschung (ISB)
Report
Book
- Table of Contents
- Printer marks
- Graphs
High quality print ready PDFs of learning material and textbooks by EDGE Learning Media
Layout
Regions
Multi-Column
Flexible Box Layout
Internationalization
Layout Introspection
Text Layout
Markup
Compound Formats
Demonstrate how to add various compound formats to your PDFs.
- Bar Codes & 2D Bar Codes
- QR Codes
- SVG Images
- MathML Formulas
- PDFs as Images
Page size: A4
Styled Forms
Demonstrates HTML forms and interactive PDF forms (sometimes referred to as AcroForms) capabilities of PDFreactor.
- HTML & PDF Forms
- Styled Forms
- Automatically Resized Text Areas
Page size: letter landscape
PDF Features
Accessibility
Interactive Live Demonstrations
Business Cards
This interactive demo shows how PDFreactor can be used in an online Web-to-print application to process the layout and content of business cards.
The resulting printable PDF comes with crop marks and can directly be sent to a digital printer.
An image, dynamically generated using the Raster Image Output option, will show a preview of the resulting business card on-the-fly.
Dynamic Invoice
This demonstration shows how PDFreactor can be used to generate invoices on-the-fly. A form allows you to select articles and quantities from a fictional brewery.
The form will generate a XML file that is passed to PDFreactor via a Servlet. PDFreactor then converts the XML data by applying a XSLT style sheet and streams the result to a PDF document.
Raster Image Output
This interactive demo shows how the Raster Image Output option can be used to create images from your HTML documents.
You can generate quick previews or thumbnails as well as one long, continuous image that displays your document exactly like a screenshot from a browser.
Case Studies
Dell Technologies Implements RealObjects’ PDFreactor for Strategic Application- Long-standing OEM partnership between RealObjects and K15t – PDFreactor® leverages Scroll PDF Exporter and enables professionally styled PDF exports directly from Atlassian Confluence
- The use of RealObjects PDFreactor® to create management reports, from a self-developed reporting application to Integrated Data Warehouse (in German: Integrieter Datenhaushalt – IDH) for the Sparkasse Financial Group
- Alterra PIM-System and RealObjects PDFreactor® for Market Grounds: high-quality product catalogs “on demand”
