PDFreactor Samples

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Use Cases
Science Magazine
A magazine article created with the help of:
  • Regions
  • Web Fonts
  • Page-filling Background Images
  • Semitransparent backgrounds
  • Text Shadow
Page size: A4
PDF (5.6 MB)|HTML
Textbook
This book layout makes use of:
  • Page Headers
  • Page Counters & Chapter Titles
  • First, Last & Named Pages
  • Running Table Headers
  • Gradients
  • Text & Box Shadow
Page size: A4
PDF|HTML|CSS
Tourist Brochure
A brochure trifold ready for the printer:
  • Spot & CMYK Colors
  • TIFF Images
  • Oversized Page Sizes
  • PDF Page Boxes & Printer Marks
  • Web Fonts
  • Transforms
Page size: A4 Landscape
PDF (14 MB)|HTML|CSS
Daily Newspaper
The front page of a newspaper, created with:
  • Web fonts
  • Multi-column layout
  • Floats
  • JavaScript (generated poll)
Page size: 325mm × 480mm
PDF (2 MB)|HTML|CSS|JS
Mortgage Calculation
A business document that uses features like:
  • PDF Comments
  • Running Elements
  • Canvas Charts
  • SVG Images
Page size: legal
PDF|HTML|CSS|JS
JavaScript
Illustrates tables, graphs and charts in the style of a scientific Report. Uses the Open Source JavaScript libraries “flotr2” and “Awesomizr”.
  • Manipulating HTML with JavaScript
  • Using JavaScript Libraries
  • Canvas
  • Latest CSS3 Properties
  • Advanced CSS Selectors
Page size: letter
PDF (6 MB)|HTML|CSS 1|CSS 2|JS
Official Form
The official W-8BEN form is used by foreign entities to certify their US tax withholding status.
  • Using CSS and HTML to lay out complex forms
  • Styled interactive forms
Page size: letter
PDF|HTML
Corporate Invoice
An Invoice sheet that uses:
  • AngularJS
  • Templating from JSON Data
  • Localized Dates, Numbers & Currencies
  • Dynamic Subtotal Insertion
  • 2D Barcode
Page size: A4
PDF|HTML|CSS|JSON
Technical Documentation
Presents a CSS designed to display W3C documents compliant to W3C’s XHTML 1.0.
  • Inserting page number of internal link targets
  • Complex 60+ pages document
Page size: A4
PDF|HTML|CSS 1|CSS 2|CSS 3
Children’s Novel
A novel layout that features:
  • Table of Contents
  • Spelled-out Chapter Numbers
  • First-letter Drop Caps
  • Left, Right & Blank Pages
  • Automatic Hyphenation
  • 150+ Pages of Content
Page size: letter
PDF|HTML|CSS
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.
DIN A4 (32 MB)| more info about PDFreactor + Pimcore PIM
Product Catalogue
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.
DIN A-4, 21 MB | more info about PDFreactor + Pimcore
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
DIN A4
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)
US-Letter| case study
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)
DIN A4 (8MB)
Report
  • Highcharts
  • CSS print media query
  • JavaScript
Printable and sharable PDF reports for Reviews, Semantic Analysis, and Guest Surveys provided by ReviewPro
DIN A4
Book
  • Table of Contents
  • Printer marks
  • Graphs
High quality print ready PDFs of learning material and textbooks by EDGE Learning Media
DIN A4
Layout
Regions
A demonstration of the Regions layout feature. Includes various use cases, e.g. positioning reagions around images and into shapes.
  • Regions
  • Automatic hyphenation
Page size: A4
PDF|HTML|CSS
Multi-Column
A demonstration of the Multi-Column layout feature. Includes various use cases, e.g. a dictionary or a restaurant card.
  • Multi-column
  • Column span
  • Automatic hyphenation
Page size: A4
PDF|HTML|CSS
Flexible Box Layout
A demonstration of the Flexbox layout feature. Demonstrates how to arrange multiple items inside a container, how to let them flow in rows or columns, and how they behave with regards to page breaks.
  • Flexbox
Page size: A4
PDF|HTML
Footnotes
Demonstrates the usage of CSS3 footnotes in an HTML document.
  • Footnotes
Page size: A4
PDF|HTML
Internationalization
This document demonstrates the rendering capabilities of different writing systems and Unicode characters.
  • Bi-directional Text
  • Mixed Content
  • Automatic Arabic Shaping
  • Logical Properties
Page size: A4
PDF|HTML
Markup
Compound Formats
Demonstrate how to add various compound formats to your PDF.
  • Bar Codes & 2D Bar Codes
  • QR Codes
  • SVG Images
  • MathML Formulas
  • PDFs as Images
Page size: A4
PDF (2.5 MB)|HTML|CSS
Styled Forms
Demonstrates HTML forms and interactive PDF forms (sometimes refered to as AcroForms) capabilities of PDFreactor.
  • HTML and PDF forms
  • Styling forms
  • Automatic resizing of textareas
Page size: letter landscape
PDF (2.5 MB)|HTML
PDF Features
Bookmarks
Demonstrates how to create PDF Bookmarks
  • PDF bookmarks
Page size: A4
PDF|HTML
Comments
Demonstrates how to create PDF Comments.
  • PDF comments
Page size: A4
PDF|HTML
Accessibility
Demonstrates how to create tagged and PDF/A compliant PDFs
  • Tags
  • PDF/A
Page size: A4
PDF|HTML
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.
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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.
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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.
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