Sure. You can do all that stuff in RTF. Create a sample word doc and save it as an rtf. Open it in a text editor and you'll see. It takes some finagling to get formating the way you want. (RTF isn't exactly an intuitive language). But, it's totally doable.
On 1/5/07, Bruce Sorge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What about formatting? Like for instance, if they want to make certain text > bold, put in line breaks and paragraph formatting and the like (just basic > HTML), how will the document handle that? Will it retain the formatting or > just insert the HTML and ignore formatting? If this cannot be done then I > suppose I can put everything into a database and generate an electronic HTML > version suitable for printing. > > Also, has anyone done any research on digital signatures? These forms need > to be signed by someone. I know that I can get each person that is going to > use the app to give me a scanned signature in PDF format or whatever, and > then I can append that person's signature to the doc, but if I can just have > the user click on a button saying it is them doing the work and such, I > would rather do that. > > Thanks > Bruce > > -----Original Message----- > From: Terry Schmitt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, January 05, 2007 9:31 AM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: Possible to fill in areas in a word document? > > You can put an easily found place holder in the document, save the doc as > RTF,(straight text) and then easily replace the place holder text with a > value from your database or other source. > > T > > >If I have a word document as a template, can I use CFFILE to fill in blank > >spots in it? I know that I can append to a document, but that is not what I > >want to do, I want to fill in certain areas of the document. > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:265840 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
