look good....like Kevin, I am gonna be generating fairly simple PDF's for
now...
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From: Kevin Graeme [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 26 May 2004 15:29
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: activePDF
----- Original Message -----
From: "Philip Arnold"
> > From: Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX)
> >
> > Anyone worked recently with activePDF? I just downloaded the
> > eval and the actual CF docs on the subject are pretty thin.....
>
> Take a look at CFXPDF as well - it has specific CF instructions and will
> probably do what you need
I'm working with CFX_PDF right now and I'm finding it rather rudimentary. It
was easy to set up and it worked right away, so I'll give it that. It has
its own, limited, set of tags for formatting. Some of them are nice to see,
like the PDF encryption/security support, but the layout tools are pretty
thin. It might get the job done, but I'm not going to be creating anything
sophisticated with it. Not without a lot of work. It looks most useful for
simple print documents without much layout.
One of the things it doesn't do that ActivePDF does is take an existing file
and convert it to PDF. ActivePDF in that sense just acts as a server-side
PDF print driver. CFX_PDF is a set of tags for generating a new PDF from
scratch. So if you need to allow people to upload a .doc and have your
homebuilt CMS convert that to PDF, then CFX_PDF isn't for you.
On the flip side, CFX_PDF is easy to use and it's a .jar and works on
Windows, Linux, and Solaris while ActivePDF is a set of COM objects and only
runs on Windows.
There is also an article in this month's CFDJ talking about FOP (Formatting
Objects Processor) which is a free alternative using XSL-FO.
http://www.sys-con.com/story/?storyid=44771&DE=1
http://xml.apache.org/fop/
-Kevin
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