Joshua, You could try htmldoc, a very powerful html to pdf convertor utility, which works via the Command line and is free. http://www.easysw.com/htmldoc
There's excellent flexibility and documentation with this product. I don't work for them, but I've used htmldoc for over 2 years now for all sorts of things, from creating personalised custom car brochures on the fly, to invoicing, or simply converting a brochureware site to a pdf booklet. I began using it when using CF4.5 which had some problems with its cfexecute tag, so I've used the CFX_execute tag available from the tag gallery, eversince. HTH, Dave -----Original Message----- From: Joshua Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 15 October 2002 19:54 To: CF-Talk Subject: HTML2PDF3 on CFMX I can't get HTML2PDF3 to work with CFMX ... I get a java.io.IOException error. The documentation seems a bit flaky too ... It refers to using the path to the executable wihtout the .exe or filename, then the sample file uses the full path and filename to the executable - it errors either way, using the sample file right out of the ZIP or modifying it as the directions say it should work. It generates the HTML templates, then doesn't convert - it errors when accessing the executable file. Anyone know of anything else? Or anyone have any experience with HTML2PDF3 on CFMX? Thanks, Joshua Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: Eric G. Myers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2002 2:17 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: PDF to HTML on-the-fly At 01:37 PM 10/15/2002 -0400, you wrote: >There is the html2pdf3 tag in the gallery that works quite well. And >its free. > >Sam Here's something that I ran across that doesn't seem to work (at least I couldn't make it work with MX). I don't have the author attribution easily available, but I'm sure I could find it if anyone is interested. In any case, I'd be interested if someone knows how to make something like this work (a situation where you can use form inputs to populate PDF form fields and present the pdf to the end user or mail it or whatever). I'll list the entire set of instructions below. Thanks in advance. EGM PDF Form Fields How To This example was done with Adobe 5 and Word 2K 1. Create the .doc or .dot as you require. 2. Save it as a .pdf using Adobe 3. Open the pdf with Adobe 4. Add the form fields. This is done by clicking on the form tool and placing the field where you want it. In my example the grid is turned on (CTRL U) or by clicking on View|Grid The grid settings are adjusted by clicking on Edit|General|Layout Grid. In this case, the width and height between lines is .25” with two subdivisions. 5. Right-click on the field, then on “Properties”. Next click on “Options”. 6. In the example, the first field is called “today” and the default is called #todayDate#. This will be a variable name a little later. The “Type” is text. This is the default. 7. The second field in the example is done the same way. 8. Save the pdf. 9. Next, click on “File|Export|Form Data” and save the exported form (This is the .fdf) to the same directory as the pdf. 10. Now, start ColdFusion studio and open the fdf this way: Click on File|Open|All Files. You will see a warning that this is an File|Open|unrecognized text file. Click on “Open”, anyway. 11. Place a <CFOUTPUT> tag right before the first % sign in the fdf and a </CFOUTPUT> immediately after the EOF at the end of the fdf. The example shows you where. Spaces before or after the tags will generate errors. 12. In the area where you see “/F (sampledoc.pdf)/ID” (without the quotes) add an URL path before the filename, such as “http://servername/directory structure/filename” (without the quotes). See the example. Where you see servername above, you can use localhost or an IP address. 13. Save the file. 14. Open a new CF template and add the code per the example. Save it. 15. You sre ready to go. NOTES: 1. Adobe will not preserve your source document margins. 2. The text in the Adobe document will not be in exactly the place as the source document. To get Adobe to put things where you want them, you have to “play” with the source document. 3. You CANNOT open the fdf with Adobe. You will get an error. Open it with CF Studio. The FDF looks like this: <cfoutput>%FDF-1.2 %âăĎÓ 1 0 obj << /FDF << /Fields [ << /V (#fieldcontent#)/T (fieldcontent)>> << /V (#todayDate#)/T (today)>> ] /F (http://master/dqa/adobe/sampledoc.pdf)/ID [ <c2331da405f412d95820b8849ee5fb59><0f5bb617ffcfb2e18a1dd497cd3c2b18> ] >> >> endobj trailer << /Root 1 0 R >> %%EOF </cfoutput> The CF template looks like this: <!---set date ---> <cfset todayDate=#day(now())#&" "&#MonthAsString(month(now()))#&", "&#year(now())#> <!---simulate a query variable---> <cfset simulatedcontent="This could be a query result"> <!--- if a query, it could be <cfset simulatedcontent = "#queryname.fieldname#"> ---> <!---this comes next---> <cfsetting enablecfoutputonly="yes"> <!---add variables---> <cfset variables.todayDate="#todayDate#"> <cfset variables.fieldcontent="#simulatedcontent#"> <!---Fire it up---> <cfheader name="content-disposition" value="inline;filename=sampledoc.fdf"> <cfcontent type="application/vnd.fdf"> <cfsetting enablecfoutputonly="no"> <cfinclude template="sampledoc.fdf"> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/cf_talk FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com
