How hard would it be to generate a PDF this way? This would be *incredibly*
useful, in my opinion. Even if the PDF was very simple. Has anyone done this?
I've tried opening PDFs in BBEdit (a Mac text editor) and most PDFs look like
they have a lot of binary data, which presumably would be very hard to
generate, but if that part is images, then they'd be static most of the time,
so you could just paste that into an agent and forget it. But my experiments
suggest that there's some sort of checksum: I went in and changed some metainfo
and a PDF wouldn't open right.
This does not mean it can't easily be done. It could just mean that all the
PDFs I opened were too complex. Could a simple PDF be generated???
If done with a Java agent, are there Java classes that generate PDFs that could
be used. (I'm 80% sure such classes exist, but could they be used in an agent
which passes the PDF to the browser?)
How hard would it be to generate a PDF this way? This would be *incredibly* useful, in my opinion. Even if the PDF was very simple. Has anyone done this?
I've tried opening PDFs in BBEdit (a Mac text editor) and most PDFs look like they have a lot of binary data, which presumably would be very hard to generate, but if that part is images, then they'd be static most of the time, so you could just paste that into an agent and forget it. But my experiments suggest that there's some sort of checksum: I went in and changed some metainfo and a PDF wouldn't open right.
This does not mean it can't easily be done. It could just mean that all the PDFs I opened were too complex. Could a simple PDF be generated???
If done with a Java agent, are there Java classes that generate PDFs that could be used. (I'm 80% sure such classes exist, but could they be used in an agent which passes the PDF to the browser?)