Date: Mon, 04 Jul 2011 17:32:37 +0200 From: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com> To: bf1783@gmail.com Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Any software tools known for XBRL & PDF V1.6 & 1.7 ? Message-ID: <201107041532.p64FWbCl037532@fire.js.berklix.net> In-Reply-To: Your message "Sat, 02 Jul 2011 01:55:41 -0000." <BANLkTin1sjfQF_QjbHP8AhGrwi2zrMPhSA@mail.gmail.com>
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> From: "b. f." <bf1783@googlemail.com> Hi .b.f, Thanks for reply :-) "b. f." wrote: > > 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'll look, thanks. > > 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? Nothing at all on companieshouse.gov.uk web site, I mailed an address there & got no reply [yet], not holding breath. Britain perhaps more MS addicted than Germany. (I'm in Germany though I'm British. A Linux mag publisher told me a few years ago they had 3 or more times circulation in Germany than Britain, (& Germanys population maybe 80*10^6, wheeas Britain 55+10^6) > > > 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? The standard with 8.2-RELEASE: gs -v # GPL Ghostscript 8.71 (2010-02-10) > print/ghostscript9 claims to support PDF <= 1.7, Thanks, compiling now. > 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? Good ideas. will look. > Or, have you tried a recent > version of devel/itext?: Not heard of itext, I just built it, no executable installed. > http://sourceforge.net/projects/itext/files/ Looking now. Your following posting of Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2011 03:04:12 +0000 Message-id: <BANLkTimxq0NJcK_ndyPG=MHx7-JbtesWAA@mail.gmail.com> looks even more promising. Thanks a lot !! Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Reply below, not above; Indent with "> "; Cumulative like a play script. Format: Plain text. Not HTML, multipart/alternative, base64, quoted-printable.
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