Re: [GNC-dev] Import PDF to GnuCash
> On Jul 31, 2018, at 11:52 AM, Tommy Trussell wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 28, 2018 at 1:08 AM jeffrey black > wrote: > >> As near as I understand it, Quickbooks imports a specially formatted pdf >> file of a statement for reconciliation. I am sure there is a large >> amount of money flowing between Quickbooks and Adobe for this right. >> Adobe has gone to great lengths to make their files viewable and printer >> printable only, unless you pay fees for features that used to be built >> in, like export to M$document files (which I used to use extensively for >> university extension publications). >> > > At some point Adobe declared PDF to be an "open" format, so in many cases > you can peek inside and do something interesting with the files. PDFs are > "container" files and can contain more than one representation of a > document at a time. > > The kind of PDFs that get generated by desktop applications and such > generally contain an abbreviated version of the PostScript page declaration > language. A PDF generated by a scanner application normally contains a > compressed TIFF image because that's directly compatible with fax software. > (And even if it isn't, ImageMagick can generally convert to whatever image > format you need.) > > Some widely available applications, such as LibreOffice, can generate a PDF > with multiple items in the container at once. LibreOffice calls theirs a > "Hybrid PDF," and those PDF files contain the PostScript image AND the > document's editable source. > > All this to say... If you acquired of one of the "specially formatted" PDF > documents intended for Quickbooks, I wonder what other document type might > they have they embedded into the file? For Quickbook's purposes it would > likely be a Quickbooks or OFX file because parsing the PostScript or > another image file format might be too unreliable. Of course they might do > something uncharitable like encrypt it or even compress it in an unusual > fashion to make reverse-engineering it a hurdle. > > Most linux distributions include several useful PDF parsing and > manipulation utilities, so conceivably extracting useful data might be > relatively straightforward with a bit of command-line tinkering. Careful. Intuit very likely has a "no reverse engineering" clause in their EULA and prying into their "special" PDF format in order to enable a competing product, even (or maybe especially) a FLOSS one, is likely to get one some attention from their lawyers. Regards, John Ralls ___ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
Re: [GNC-dev] Import PDF to GnuCash
On Sat, Jul 28, 2018 at 1:08 AM jeffrey black wrote: > As near as I understand it, Quickbooks imports a specially formatted pdf > file of a statement for reconciliation. I am sure there is a large > amount of money flowing between Quickbooks and Adobe for this right. > Adobe has gone to great lengths to make their files viewable and printer > printable only, unless you pay fees for features that used to be built > in, like export to M$document files (which I used to use extensively for > university extension publications). > At some point Adobe declared PDF to be an "open" format, so in many cases you can peek inside and do something interesting with the files. PDFs are "container" files and can contain more than one representation of a document at a time. The kind of PDFs that get generated by desktop applications and such generally contain an abbreviated version of the PostScript page declaration language. A PDF generated by a scanner application normally contains a compressed TIFF image because that's directly compatible with fax software. (And even if it isn't, ImageMagick can generally convert to whatever image format you need.) Some widely available applications, such as LibreOffice, can generate a PDF with multiple items in the container at once. LibreOffice calls theirs a "Hybrid PDF," and those PDF files contain the PostScript image AND the document's editable source. All this to say... If you acquired of one of the "specially formatted" PDF documents intended for Quickbooks, I wonder what other document type might they have they embedded into the file? For Quickbook's purposes it would likely be a Quickbooks or OFX file because parsing the PostScript or another image file format might be too unreliable. Of course they might do something uncharitable like encrypt it or even compress it in an unusual fashion to make reverse-engineering it a hurdle. Most linux distributions include several useful PDF parsing and manipulation utilities, so conceivably extracting useful data might be relatively straightforward with a bit of command-line tinkering. ___ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
Re: [GNC-dev] gnucash maint: Bug 796755 - buggy window handling at startup
Op maandag 16 juli 2018 19:10:40 CEST schreef John Ralls: > Updatedvia https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/commit/c444729d > (commit) > from https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/commit/ff91056a (commit) > > > > commit c444729db5dd966e5bf29581a52c2403ee8bdab3 > Author: John Ralls > Date: Mon Jul 16 10:09:34 2018 -0700 > > Bug 796755 - buggy window handling at startup > > Defer showing the main window until after its size and location are > restored from the state file. > > Nice fix! Geert ___ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
