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Found this tutorial very interesting. It can be wasteful to overlook simple things. Take, for example the humble Mac application called TextEdit<\/a>. From now on, am going to call it “The Broker”<\/em><\/strong>. The reason is, it is a simple application probably intended as a Text Editor (but Apple calls it a Word Processor, and now understand them to be correct) by real trade (here my personal Mac favourite is TextWrangler<\/a>), but over time being the Mac OS X flagship for flexibility, so over time … am guessing? … it has been given some really cute features. It reads *.htm* HTML files, it reads *.doc* Microsoft Word document files … not perfectly, for the more complicated scenarios but really very well for text items, for example. Well, that is good, but it also Exports PDF … so finally<\/a> we have a tutorial about one of the big ticket protocol-type items of the net, the PDF file. We need Wikipedia while we take a bex!<\/p>\n

Portable Document Format (PDF) is a file format used to represent documents in a manner independent of application software, hardware, and operating systems.[1] Each PDF file encapsulates a complete description of a fixed-layout flat document, including the text, fonts, graphics, and other information needed to display it. In 1991, Adobe Systems co-founder John Warnock outlined a system called “Camelot”[2] that evolved into PDF.<\/p>\n

While Adobe Systems made the PDF specification available free of charge in 1993, PDF remained a proprietary format, controlled by Adobe, until it was officially released as an open standard on July 1, 2008, and published by the International Organization for Standardization as ISO 32000-1:2008.[3][4] In 2008, Adobe published a Public Patent License to ISO 32000-1 granting royalty-free rights for all patents owned by Adobe that are necessary to make, use, sell and distribute PDF compliant implementations.[5]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Okay, today we do some imperfect conversions, warts and all, but you have to see how good using humble old TextEdit (free with a Mac laptop, for example) “The Broker”<\/strong><\/em> can be to write out some PDF, and so have another way in to useful (local MAMP web server<\/a> (in the case of this tutorial, but the woorrrld is your oyster<\/a>))) web work (because PDF=”useful web work” … it is well supported for web and mobile apps). The last slide of tutorial (and of picture above) sums up what this tutorial’s aim is:<\/p>\n

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Overview (starting at PC):<\/p>\n

1) Started with a website (expressed with an *.htm* URL)
\n2) Used command line invocation of Microsoft Word on a PC to open the URL of 1)
\n3) Saved the data as a) Web page (*.htm) and b) Word document (*.doc) to Samba Shared Directory<\/p>\n

4) \u2026 left PC \u2026 went to Mac laptop \u2026<\/p>\n

5) Opened 3) a) Samba Shared Directory *.htm file using Mac application TextEdit (“the broker”)
\n6) Exported to MAMP home directory as RJMProgrammingHHomePBitMashedUp.pdf
\n7) Opened 3) b) Samba Shared Directory *.doc file using Mac application TextEdit (“the broker”) … so, in this tutorial (only), can be called http:\/\/localhost:8888\/RJMProgrammingHHomePBitMashedUp.pdf in any web browser (if MAMP is up and going)
\n8) Exported to MAMP home directory as RJMProgrammingWHomePBitMashedUp.pdf (if you get emoticon<\/a> here, well, that’s a bonus!) … so, in this tutorial (only), can be called http:\/\/localhost:8888\/RJMProgrammingWHomePBitMashedUp.pdf in any web browser (if MAMP is up and going)<\/p>\n

9) Opened RJMProgrammingHHomePBitMashedUp.pdf<\/a> in Adobe Reader and RJMProgrammingWHomePBitMashedUp.pdf<\/a> in Preview<\/p>\n

\u2026 things get lost in translation, to varying degrees, but this shows you what is possible, easily, with simple HTML elements. Chow.<\/p>\n

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Below are some good background reading for the concepts of these tutorials all via Wikipedia:<\/strong><\/p>\n