I just installed Dreamweaver CS5 and like everybody else, first thing I wanted to do was turn off Word Wrap. I look for the familiar icon where “Word Wrap enable/disable” function was in CS4 and it was not there in the new version. I searched everywhere, in "View", in "Preferences", could not find it. But then, I saw it, hidden in the the left side vertical icon list. (more..)

In my two previous posts I talked about FedEx API, and here is another post on the same API. Before FedEx provide you with access to their production API, FedEx request you to create set of sample shipping labels and mail them to FedEx office, my guess is, they want to verify you are capable of printing labels in the correct format. To do that, FedEx provide you with Certification Test Scenarios sheet with multiple categories, such as domestic, international and global shipping. (more..)

In my previous post, I talk about FedEx Address verification. Now this is a function to create FedEx Express Shipping Label. This will pass your shipment information and save the shipping label as a PDF file (or PNG, DPL, etc..) in to your hard drive. Before you run this code and start creating your own FedEx shipping labels, you need to register with FedEx and accrue an API access key.  Once you have that, you are ready to access FedEx test server. (more..)

Fedex shipping API is beautiful, soundly documented and trouble-free to work with. Before you plug your application with FedEx API, you must register with fedex and get an API Key, password and an account number and a Meter Number. It is not hard. Click here and follow the screen. (more..)

Most of the barcode readers don’t support Unicode. Barcode readers connected to USB or the keyboard port only able to supply characters available on the keyboard since they act much like keyboards. Most of Unicode characters required additional processing through uniscribe before there were rendered on the screen and even Windows XP doesn't contain complete uniscribe for most of languages and simple barcode readers defiantly could not process Unicode directly. (more..)

I just installed Coldfusion 9 and noticed HTMLEditFormat() does not work anymore as it used to be. When I passed the string "” in to HTMLEditFormat() function, and it returns me the same string without whatsoever change.I’m not sure if it is only in my installation or that is something to do with new coldfusion version 9 altogether. (more..)

Last few days I had quite nice time trying to create barcodes. This post here, explains how to create a datamatrix barcode with java4less and it helps me to present the project before the deadline. So Thank You Stillnet Studios. Now here is another way to create Datamatrix 2D barcodes with barcode4j, an open source project.You need :1. Barcode4j (download here)2. Administrative access to Coldfusion MX or JavaLoader CFC (download here)3. (more..)

I was generating InDesign JSX files with Coldfusion, to create pdfs that happened to have Unicode characters in it. That is not a difficult task, but rather boring one, until I realize, I cannot use Unicode characters inside InDesign JavaScript file. JSX only accept Unicode characters by their "glyph id number" or "code point" or whatever the name you geeks prefer to call it. (more..)

Dreamweaver have this bad habit of freezing itself once in a while, specially at the start up like a stubborn old horse. I tried all sort of remedies adobe suggested in here, even the most common one, uninstall and reinstall everything, which normally took hour or two of my time every Monday morning. Finally I found this remedy which so far working pretty well for me. (more..)

Last week I had to extract text content from around 1 TB worth of PDF files and then match each pdf with database records. First I tried CFPDF method to strip text from pdf, and as usual, it worked wonderfully. But it was bit too slow for my massive load of files – average 2 pdf per a second. I needed soemthing faster. After trying out all sorts of methods, I came across this excellent open source java PDF library call PDFBox. (more..)