Also, the latest version of PDF now uses XML schemas, so I believe you can now use this to insert dynamic data and text too.
-----Original Message----- From: Richard Kroll [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 04 January 2007 18:24 To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Modifying an existing PDF > Is it possible, using the built in features of CF, to modify and add > information on top of an existing pdf file? What do you mean by "modify and add information"? Are you referring to filling in PDF Forms? Adding additional pages to the end of an existing page? Modifying existing text inside an existing PDF? The reason I ask is that I've done some work in this area. We had a requirement to populate pre-existing PDF's with dynamic data, and a later requirement to dynamically add additional pages to the end of these pre-configured PDF documents and insert user defined text. The solution I found (which can be tricky depending on your java knowledge) was to use the iText Java library. An older version of iText ships with CF and is what powers CFDocument from what I understand. Using the iText library you can get to virtually every part of a PDF, but some are a lot harder to manipulate than others. The link to the home of iText is http://www.lowagie.com/iText/ Depending what you are trying to do I might be able to provide some code samples of how to manipulate PDFs within CF. HTH Rich Kroll ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Create robust enterprise, web RIAs. Upgrade & integrate Adobe Coldfusion MX7 with Flex 2 http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;56760587;14748456;a?http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=LVNU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:265659 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
