I am new to EDI. I need to parse shipping / tracking information in my application. Which Transaction can I take as an example / sample files.
After trying different EDI files that could not be parsed using EDIFabric, I am posting an example:
ISA*00* *00* *ZZ*123123123 *ZZ*788082092LVS *070226*1854*U*00204*000001535*0*P*:`
GS*SH*123123123*062442561*070226*1854*1535001*X*002040`
ST*856*1845`
BSN*00*00135043*070226*1852`
DTM*011*070226*1852*ET`
HL*1**S`
MEA*PD*G*3403*LB`
MEA*PD*N*3064*LB`
TD1*SKID *8`
TD5*B*2*HOZN*M`
TD3*TL**4824`
REF*BM*00135043`
REF*PK*00135043`
N1*SF**92*00912345`
N1*ST**92*0999`
N1*SU**92*00900005`
REF*DK*C`
HL*2*1*I`
LIN**BP*8765432-1234`
SN1**1758*PC*791262`
PRF*123456`
CLD*6*293*SKID `
CTT*2`
SE*22*1845`
GE*1*1535001`
IEA*1*000001535`
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I need to develop a printer driver which can:-
Read the printed file (knowing the data inside the file)
Write extra information to the end of printed file. (eg. bar-code or QR code)
I plan to use V4 printer driver as template for me to start my development. I already tried to built this V4 printer driver in Visual Studio.
V4 printer driver solution explorer
Understanding the architecture of V4 printer driver may need lot of times. Besides that, I am still new in driver development, so it is hard for me to understand the document provided by Microsoft.
Can anyone suggest where should I start to code and recommend me any useful method/function or library. It will be useful if anyone can recommend some useful related reading material and what basic knowledge should I know.
See the Microsoft sample code here.
Create a "Render Filter" project (C++ project) in your "V4 Printer Driver" solution and add the sample code in "StartOperation_throws" method of newly created Render Filter.
Then use following sample code to add a custom content to your file:
XPS_COLOR testColor;
testColor.value.sRGB.alpha=0xFF;
testColor.value.sRGB.red=0xFF;
testColor.value.sRGB.green=0xFF;
testColor.value.sRGB.blue=0xFF;
testColor.colorType = XPS_COLOR_TYPE_SRGB;
FLOAT Font_Size = 14;
XPS_POINT OrgPoint = {123,123};
LPCWSTR TestStr = _T("Sample Text");
LPCWSTR Name_fnt = _T("SampleFontFile.TTF");
at the end, call "AddCustomTextToXpsDoc" using above parameters to add your text in
printable xps file.
I purchased, downloaded and installed the version 004050 translation matrices. I was told that version 004060 was essentially the same as the 004050 version and to simply update any references to 004050 to 004060 in all the document classes. Which I did.
However when I tried to deserialize an EDI document I got the error "Segment was not found" on the line REF*3J*0000.Any ideas on what I can try?
The sequence of elements was out of order for the 850 document type. The S_CUR (Order=2), G_SAC (Order=3), S_DTM (Order=4) and S_REF(Order=5) needed to go in that order. Once I changed the ordering in the EF_X12_004050_850.cs file (I did not rename the file, just the internal namespace to the 004060 version), EdiFabric was able to import the data.
I've been puzzling on this on and off for months and can't find a solution.
The MTA claims to provide historical data in form of daily dumps in GTFS format here:
[http://web.mta.info/developers/MTA-Subway-Time-historical-data.html][1]
See for yourself by downloading the example they provide, in this case Sep, 17th , 2014:
[https://datamine-history.s3.amazonaws.com/gtfs-2014-09-17-09-31][1]
My problem? The file is gobbledygook. It does not follow GTFS specifications, has no extension, and when I open it using a text editor it looks like 7800 lines of this:
n
^C1.0^X �枪�^Eʞ>`
^C1.0^R^K
^A1^R^F^P����^E^R^K
^A2^R^F^P����^E^R^K
^A3^R^F^P����^E^R^K
^A4^R^F^P����^E^R^K
^A5^R^F^P����^E^R^K
^A6^R^F^P����^E^R^K
^AS^R^F^P����^E^R[
^F000001^ZQ
6
^N050400_1..S02R^Z^H20140917*^A1�>^V
^P01 0824 242/SFY^P^A^X^C^R^W^R^F^Pɚ��^E"^D140Sʚ>^F
^AA^R^AA^RR
^F000002"H
6
Per the MTA site (appears untrue)
All data is formatted in GTFS-realtime
Any idea on the steps necessary to transform this mystery file into usable GTFS data? Is there some encoding I am missing? I have looked for 10+ and been unable to come up with a solution.
Also, not to be a stickler but I am NOT referring to the MTA's realtime data feed, which is correctly formatted and usable. I am specifically referring to the historical data dumps I reference above (have received many "solutions" referring only to realtime data feed)
The file you link to is in GTFS-realtime format, not GTFS, and the page you linked to does a very bad job of explaining which format their data is actually in (though it is mentioned in your quote).
GTFS is used to store schedule data, like routes and scheduled arrival times.
GTFS-realtime is generally used to transfer actual transit performance data in real-time, like vehicle locations and expected or actual arrival times. It is a protobuf, a specification for compiled binary data publicized by Google, which means you can't usefully read it in a text editor, but you instead have to load it programmatically using the Google protobuf tools. It can be used as a historical data format in the way MTA is here, by making daily dumps of the GTFS-rt feed publicly available. It's called GTFS-realtime because various data fields in the realtime like route_id, trip_id, and stop_id are designed to link to the published GTFS schedules.
I confirmed the validity of the data you linked to by decompiling it using the gtfs-realtime.proto specification and the Google protobuf tools for Python. It begins:
header {
gtfs_realtime_version: "1.0"
timestamp: 1410960621
}
entity {
id: "000001"
trip_update {
trip {
trip_id: "050400_1..S02R"
start_date: "20140917"
route_id: "1"
}
stop_time_update {
arrival {
time: 1410960713
}
stop_id: "140S"
}
}
}
...
and continues in that vein for a total of 55833 lines (in the default string output format).
EDIT: the Python script used to convert the protobuf into string representation is very simple:
import gtfs_realtime_pb2 as gtfs_rt
f = open('gtfs-rt.pb', 'rb')
raw_str = f.read()
msg = gtfs_rt.FeedMessage()
msg.ParseFromString(raw_str)
print msg
This requires gtfs-realtime.proto to have been compiled into gtfs_realtime_pb2.py using protoc (following the instructions in the Python protobuf documentation under "Compiling Your Protocol Buffers") and placed in the same directory as the Python script. Furthermore, the binary protobuf downloaded from the MTA needs to be named gtfs-rt.pb and located in the same directory as the Python script.
We are converting word to pdf using the openoffice(3.4.1 version) in java with JODConverter.
below is the code used.
OpenOfficeConnection connection =
new SocketOpenOfficeConnection(2100);
try
{
connection.connect();
DocumentConverter converter =
new OpenOfficeDocumentConverter(connection);
converter.convert(inputFile, outputFile);
connection.disconnect();
return "Sucess " + DestinationPath + DestinationFileName;
}
catch (Exception localException1) {
}
The problem is that after random no of days the converted PDF contains the garbled fonts.
like # # ! $ $ " % &
The only solution we have so far is to restart the server. System guys are saying the the problem is with Open Office.
We are using open office to convert the document since it converts the doc files exactly including all the formatting and table structure.
what could be the solution to this.
So OpenOffice can be a little temperamental when running on a server, especially as it isn't multi-threaded and you end up having to run a pool of OpenOffice processes - see How can I use OpenOffice in server mode as a multithreaded service?.
Added to that often the rendering is off when converting to PDF - see https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=68865 which is why you may want to consider using a conversion service to automate the conversion tasks for you ?
For complete transparency I work for Zamzar (an online file conversion service), we have recently released a developer API - https://developers.zamzar.com/ that allows you to convert between a multitude of file types, specifically applicable to you here in that we support both doc and docx to pdf with little or not loss in the way the PDF is rendered. It maybe worth a look to see if this is a better alternative to trying to run your own solution through OpenOffice on a server.
I am developing an iOS Application for scanning QR Codes. I am successfully able to scan and get code from QR code.
Question:
My question is what are possible data types and format I can expect from QR Codes?
During my search on google I found QR Code can be used for
Contact data
Calendar data
URL
Email address
Phone number
SMS
Plain text
Geo location
Is this the complete list and is there same standard to represent above data in QR Codes? Means same way of generating QR Code for above QR types.
Is there any standard way of generating and representing data in QR Code?
Basically your text information has to be identifiable for what it is:
There is a very good summary here.
Contact data - use MeCard, or vCard (much more verbose), e.g.: MECARD:Surname, First;ADR:123 Some St., Town, Zip Code, Country;EMAIL:some_name#some_ip.com;TEL:+11800123123;BDAY:19550231;;
Gives:
Calendar data - There are two formats about iCalendar (.ics) & vCalendar (.vcs). These formats can also include location, alarm, to-do items, etc. Note that these are both verbose formats and you may be better off using a short URL to an online file in the file format but the person scanning needs to have internet connectivity and be willing to trust the QR code not to be doing anything bad.
URL: Start your url with the standard format specifier such as http://, e.g.: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19900835/qr-code-possible-data-types-or-standards
Gives:
Email address - Start with mailto:SomeOne#SomeWhere.org gives:
Phone number - Start with tel: e.g. tel:+1-212-555-1212 gives:
SMS - See the RFC 5724.
Plain text - Just include the text.
Geo location - Use the geo:lat,long,alt format URI: geo:40.71872,-73.98905,100 (100 feet above Googles offices) gives:
WIFI - (ssid is 'abc' and password is '1234'). For WEP encryption: WIFI:S:abc;T:WEP;P:1234;;. For WPA/WPA2: WIFI:S:abc;T:WPA;P:1234;;. Without encryption: WIFI:S:abc;T:nopass;P:1234;;.
All the above example were generated with the Python qrcode package from the command line.
Basically, QR Code returns text data that can be of any type. You can put any type of data in any string format in QR Code. It totally depends on you.
You can consider it as
[NSString stringWithFormat].
Github - Zxing (Barcode Contents) has a summary.
There may or may not be a standard.
If you are looking for non-standard formats,
please update your documentation and contribute to open source.