» Archive for February, 2008

DVDtoiPod-An Open source software that can convert DVDs to iPod

Thursday, February 14th, 2008 by rubypdf

This program helps users convert their personal DVDs to a format that they can just stick on their 5th generation iPods to watch, support Windows, Linux and Mac OSx.
for more information, please visit http://dvd-to-ipod.sourceforge.net

PdftoTiff-Free windows software to convert PDF to Tiff

Thursday, February 14th, 2008 by rubypdf

This is just a example that show how to convert all pages of a given pdf to single page tiffs(to a given folder).
it uses pdftoppm(part of xpdf) and pnmtotiff(part of netpbm).
If you do not want download xpdf and netpbm but want to have a test, please download it here(pdftotiff0.1, 730K), it only includes pdftoppm.exe, pnmtotiff.exe, libnetpbm10.dll, jpeg62.dll, libtiff3.dll, zlib1.dll and a batch file.
btw, base on this example, you can easily implement pdftojpeg, pdftopng, pdftojbig, pdftotiffcmyk and so on.

rem create folder
md %2
rem convert pdf page to ppm
pdftoppm -r 100 %1 %2\1
rem convert ppm to tiff
for %%i in (%2\*.ppm) do echo pnmtotiff -color %%i>%2\%%~ni.tif
rem delete ppm
del /q %2\*.ppm

reference,
xpdf
NetPbm for Windows

Reflector for .NET and its Add-Ins

Monday, February 11th, 2008 by rubypdf

Reflector for .NET
Reflector is the class browser, explorer, analyzer and documentation viewer for .NET. Reflector allows to easily view, navigate, search, decompile and analyze .NET assemblies in C#, Visual Basic, Delphi and IL.
download .NET Reflector

.NET Reflector is a very useful tool for .NET developer, and it supports Add-Ins, from here you can find many Add-Ins.