Last day as an intern at IFS

It's 30th of July, 2010, the last day of another remarkable journey of my life at IFS R&D Internationals as an intern. A day with full of emotions. Really happy after seen following at the back end of my diary, from my training manager Mr. Nalin Sugathapala:

Thank you Nalin, for all the wonderful comments on me.

Following our the few of many mails I received today(30th):

HI Nirmal,

I saw the Linked in request. Give me a bit of time on that pls, will send a recommendation, but want to make sure that it reads well :D Best of luck with all that you do in the future and do let me know if there is anything that I or my chaps can do for you.

Cheers,

nalin (Training Manager)

Wish you all the best Nirmal. And thanks for the letter. :)))

You are such a brilliant and well motivated guy. Actually you motivated me as well. :D :D :D  

Keep up your good work.

Hope you will join with us soon. : )

Again wish you all the very best.

TC and KIT

Subhashini. (Senior SE)

We also felt that sad my friend. Really. Be the best u can be. Bcoz u r a really talented one. Also not to forget keep Ur good personal qualities forever. I’m sure u will. J Wish u all the best dr Nirmal ,from bottom of my heart.

-Ruwani (UCSC)

Hi Nirmal,

     The six months went really fast. It feels like a few days back when I showed you  guys around IFS. It is good to hear that you found your time spent at IFS useful. You can feel free to ask any help from me at any time. I will do my best to help you out.  Thank you very much for the hint on f12 I didn’t know that.

I will definitely add that next time when I do a training. Thank you once again for the hard work you put in and I wish you the very best in your future endeavors.

   Please do keep in touch.   

Kind regards,

    Roger (Senior SE, training dept.)

Hi Nirmal,

It was a pleasure working with you and I hope that we will meet again. Wish you all the very best in your future endeavors.

Keep in touch.

Regards,

Chanaka (Team lead- Senior SE)

Hey nirmal,

Indeed you were a very good friend..you made the environment comfortable for us when we were feeling quite alienated when we came here. We got to know others through you. So indeed it’s sad to see you guys leave today after the bond we have made during the last 3 months. But no matter what happens ,life has to go on. You have great talent mate. im more than sure you can reach limits beyond the sky.So keep it up..work well, and I hope all of you end up in a great place in this time space continuum. Indeed we’ll meet up again..no worries..we can keep in touch.

All the very best bro!!

Miraj  (Uni of Pera)

Dear Friend,

It’s hard even to think that we are missing you, anyway thanks a lot for being such a good friend for us.

WE will remember you with each and every line of code we do in C#. Actually it was the most enjoyable training I ever had in my life. We saw you NOT as a boss BUT as an innocent friend who is trying to help us to settle here.

As you are interested in higher studies, I wish you all the best for them. I surely know that you have more than enough potential to do  significant things for our field….

Sorry If anything wrong is done by words, actions and even thoughts of mine.

I wish to see your innocent smile in the near future……… J

Thank you very much

CHINTHAKA (Uni of Pera)

Hi Nirmal,

It is so sad that u guys are leaving us today… But we really enjoyed the time that  we spent with u.

You are the first friend that we  met @ IFS…You did a wonderful  C# training for us.

 It was  very useful to us  because these days we are working with it.

 Thanks  to everything….

And I wish all the best  to your future.. and also for the Gsoc 2010..

Though you are leaving us today, One day in near future we will definitely

Meet…..I  am sure..

HAVE  A NICE  LIFE……….

Regards,

Dananjaya. (Uni of Pera)

We are pleased to have you with us and also impressed with the work you did and the talent you showed.

In my humble opinion you should plan to do the higher studies now onwards and become good inventor one day.

Doors are always open for you. So do not hesitate to contact us at any time if you need any help from us.

Good luck and all the best for your future endeavors.

Regards,

/Ruchitha. (Senior SE, training dept.)

Thank you very much everyone for wonderful comments and well wishers, really happy to be with such a bunch of people :))).

I have a lot to post regarding my training period, hope to post them soon!!

Why not create a PDF of your own?

My first project at IFS was about applying PDF/A standards to IFS reports. This project involved a conversion of PDF version. For that I needed a some kind of Java library which will provide me a set of functionality to perform a conversion.

While searching for few hours I found this wonderful Java library called iText. It has both Java and C# .NET versions.

You can use iText to:

• Serve PDF to a browser
• Generate dynamic documents from XML files or databases
• Use PDF's many interactive features
• Add bookmarks, page numbers, watermarks, etc.
• Split, concatenate, and manipulate PDF pages
• Automate filling out of PDF forms
• Add digital signatures to a PDF file
• and much more...

You can download iText binaries and source files from here.
 iText API from here.
An excellent tutorial on iText can be founded in here.

Create a small PDF file and enjoy seen it's working, if you like to do more work using this that would make my effort even more success.

Introduction to PDF/A Standards

Most of you may not familiar with PDF/A standards, neither me, before four months. So I decided to make a post on this to share what I know about PDF/A.

What is PDF/A?

I am sure at least some of you might got into some troubles if you tried to open PDF documents which are in different fonts,and if matching fonts not installed in your computer.This is because that PDF file does not contain embedded fonts. You can embed fonts that are used in the file at the moment of the creation of the file.
Not only fonts but the colour profiles used, and etc.

PDF/A standards ensure the documents can be reproduced in the exact same way, at any place and even after a long time. Current version is PDF/A-1.

DOs and DONT'S in PDF/A-1

PDF/A-1 files must include:

• Embedded fonts

• Device-independent color

• XMP metadata

PDF/A-1 files may not include:

• Encryption

• LZW Compression

• Embedded files

• External content references

• PDF Transparency

• Multi-media

• JavaScript

Levels of Standards

1.       PDF/A-1a: All the requirements of PDF/A-1b + additionally requires that document structure be included being "tagged

2.       PDF/A-1b: ensuring reliable reproduction of the visual appearance of the document

Reference: 
PDF/A FAQ 



I hope to put a post on PDF creation, as soon as I got some time. These days I'm busy with my work at IFS and GSoC.