Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2011 01:55:41 +0000 From: "b. f." <bf1783@googlemail.com> To: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com>, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Any software tools known for XBRL & PDF V1.6 & 1.7 ? Message-ID: <BANLkTin1sjfQF_QjbHP8AhGrwi2zrMPhSA@mail.gmail.com>
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> Anyone know of public domain source that does XBRL format (&/or iXBRL) ? > & PDF V1.6 & 1.7 ? XBRL: http://arelle.org (python-based) http://www.xbrlapi.org/ (java-based) http://code.google.com/p/xbrlware/ (community edition; ruby-based) http://sourceforge.net/projects/inlinexbrl/ > I received PDF 1.6 & 1.7 files from companieshouse.gov.uk (that I > suppose relate to, or contain XBRL), that contain financial data > I'm supposed to edit & return. > What do your compatriots have to say about open-source options? > The only tool I know to do that is, a free download of latest binary > Acrobat for Linux or MS-Windows, (so emulator needed too). > > I've found no source in FreeBSD ports that can handle 1.6 & 7 PDFs, > Anyone know of source, whether ported to FreeBSD yet or not ? Which version of ghostscript did you use with some of the tools that you mentioned? print/ghostscript9 claims to support PDF <= 1.7, although it almost probably doesn't support every option/extension. Could you use it to transform the pdf to a format that could be edited or at least annotated (postscript, perhaps?) by one of the other tools, at least as an intermediate step? Or, have you tried a recent version of devel/itext?: http://sourceforge.net/projects/itext/files/ b.
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