From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 4 16:00:49 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18F62106566B for ; Mon, 4 Jul 2011 16:00:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhs@berklix.com) Received: from tower.berklix.org (tower.berklix.org [83.236.223.114]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B7678FC13 for ; Mon, 4 Jul 2011 16:00:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from park.js.berklix.net (pD9FBED99.dip.t-dialin.net [217.251.237.153]) (authenticated bits=0) by tower.berklix.org (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id p64FWv0b049352; Mon, 4 Jul 2011 15:32:58 GMT (envelope-from jhs@berklix.com) Received: from fire.js.berklix.net (fire.js.berklix.net [192.168.91.41]) by park.js.berklix.net (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id p64FWmRI057873; Mon, 4 Jul 2011 17:32:48 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from jhs@berklix.com) Received: from fire.js.berklix.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fire.js.berklix.net (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p64FWbCl037532; Mon, 4 Jul 2011 15:32:42 GMT (envelope-from jhs@fire.js.berklix.net) Message-Id: <201107041532.p64FWbCl037532@fire.js.berklix.net> To: bf1783@gmail.com From: "Julian H. Stacey" Organization: http://www.berklix.com BSD Unix Linux Consultancy, Munich Germany User-agent: EXMH on FreeBSD http://www.berklix.com/free/ X-URL: http://www.berklix.com In-reply-to: Your message "Sat, 02 Jul 2011 01:55:41 -0000." Date: Mon, 04 Jul 2011 17:32:37 +0200 Sender: jhs@berklix.com Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Any software tools known for XBRL & PDF V1.6 & 1.7 ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 04 Jul 2011 16:00:49 -0000 > From: "b. f." 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: 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.