If I already had Crystal, I would do everything I could to make
Crystal work. I've been through the wringer making printed pages work
in CF, and the only thing that really worked for me was using COM and
Word, but it was a poor solution to a complex problem.
I started using Crystal Reports for .NET, and it's EXACTLY the
solution that I've been looking for. I can generate any report that I
need, but it took a learning curve to get to the point where I can make
those reports work. I've got a couple of books that really helped,
along with a burning desire to make it work.
I haven't use the standalone version of Crystal but I think it's
more powerful than the version that I have that came with my VS.Net. If
that's the case, then you have everything you need to make beautiful
reports. Stick with Crystal, I don't think you would regret it once you
get it going.
Other solutions I've seen are Access reports via COM and a
custom tag that generates PDFs on the fly. The PDFs it generates are
not of high quality but they do work.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Ciliotta, Mario [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2002 10:35 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: Generating PDFs in CF
Basically,
Some of the pdf are just very simple - printable versions of pages, some
are more complex in that they are copies of the the form that you filled
out. Even though we are trying to be paperless, people here still like
to have a printable and readable copy of what they requested so to have
proof in case of questions.
Some of the other would be more complex, basically copies of what they
current have in Access now. We generate these reports based on queries,
so I never exactly know what is going to need to be produced. These
would be more complex as they require a header, footers, page numbers
and proper page breaks and also need to be printed in landscape format.
I have tried Crystal but it just does not seem to work correctly.
If you have any links to what you mentioned below that would be great so
that I could start researching.
Thanks again,
_Mario
-----Original Message-----
From: Jerry Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2002 10:00 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: Generating PDFs in CF
Some questions:
How complex and or regular are the PDFs you are trying to create?
How often are you trying to create them? Quantity?
Are you building them on the fly for viewing, or generating and
saving them via CF?
I have had great success:
Building the PS by hand in CF, and running it through Ghostscript to
generate a PDF
Using cocoon and XML to generate the PDF on the fly for viewing
Jerry Johnson
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/17/02 09:43AM >>>
Hi,
I was wondering if anyone has any information on how to create a PDF on
the fly in CF. I have been told to look at Active PDF, but right now
there is no money to purchase that tool, so I was looking of either a
custom tag or maybe an article or two on how to do this. We are
currently using CF 4.5 but will be using CFMX for J2EE within the 1st
quarter of 2003, so maybe even a JSP library that does this would be an
option.
Thanks
-Mario
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