Archive for June, 2006

Convert local html file to image

Friday, June 30th, 2006

Some people want to convert html file at local disk to image. This can be done with html snapshot easily
Suppose your local html file is c:\1.htm, you can call html snapshot like this to convert it into jpg file:

Customer comments on html snapshot

Friday, June 30th, 2006

Customer satifaction is one of our goal and motivation to start software business. We always work hard to ensure our customers are satisfied with our products or services. And we would like to collect customer’s feedback and comments on our products as well.
Here are some of the comments we got:

Write a folder in ASP.Net

Friday, June 30th, 2006

When using our components like  pdf split and merge in your ASP.Net application, you need to first set the working folder access to ensure the folder can be written in ASP.Net
 1. Using Windows Explorer, navigate to the working Folder (for example C:\Inetpub\wwwroot).

http put

Sunday, June 25th, 2006

Http put is a method to upload client side file to server via HTTP protocol.
To make it work, the server side needs a script to handle the upload stream. PHP has provided such functionality
http://www.zend.com/manual/features.file-upload.put-method.php

html to jpg, jpeg on linux

Saturday, June 24th, 2006

We have updated our html2image for Linux product.
The new added feature is to support jpg and jpeg file format.

FAQ: do I need a sound card to use Active TTS?

Tuesday, June 20th, 2006

Active TTS is built on the speech API SAPI5 and SAPI4 on windows. SAPI requires sound card to be installed.
In general, you need to have sound card installed on your server or desktop so that you can use TTS functions.

PDF stamper: stamp watermark on given pages

Saturday, June 17th, 2006

We have updated the PDF Stamper component with a new method SetPageMask.
You can use this method to specify which pages you want to stamp watermark or text onto.

FAQ: run regsvr32.exe failed in Vista.

Sunday, June 11th, 2006

When I first try to register our ActiveX component such as htmlsnapshot, an error is shown,”DllRegisterServer in xxxx.dll failed.Return code was:0×80070005″.
0×80070005 means “Access Denied”, but I’ve been an administrator. I think this is related to the new security model in vista.

FAQ: Does this Active TTS activex support voice from greece ?

Thursday, June 8th, 2006

In general, the language of TTS is supported by the TTS engine itself.  ActiveTTS is just an interface that is easy to use for TTS functionality. The underline job converting text to speech is still done by TTS engines.
So if the TTS engine is SAPI4 or SAPI5 compatible, our Active TTS component will support it […]

FAQ: Do you have an active-x control for Mp3 to SWF conversion?

Thursday, June 8th, 2006

Yes, our ActiveTTS object supports it. http://www.guangmingsoft.net/activetts
it has the method to convert mp3 to swf

Using Active Audio Record in flash

Sunday, June 4th, 2006

Flash movie has support for Action Script which is a kind of scripting language.
But it doesn’t provide built-in audio record functionality for flash developers.
Some developers uses Zinc which extends Action Script to include more powerful functions. One of them is the support for ActiveX control. (Note, not General ActiveX Automation). This makes it possible to use […]

Licensing models

Saturday, June 3rd, 2006

We have been asked about licensing models by some customers. Here are some clarifications.
For end-user products:
Single user license: the license is applicable when only one user will use it.
Site license: the license is applicable when the product will be used by a group of people in a company.
 

Convert EMF or WMF to Image

Saturday, June 3rd, 2006

Html snapshot supports converting html to vector image format such as EMF  and WMF.
Now it also supports the function to convert EMF or WMF into raster image format like JPG, JPEG, BMP, TIFF, PNG or GIF.