I'll have to give this one a shot http://www.adobe.com/devnet/coldfusion/articles/pdfform.html
..:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:. Bobby Hartsfield http://acoderslife.com -----Original Message----- From: Bobby Hartsfield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2007 11:26 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: PDF creation/modification Well 1 con... If I even open and save the original with no changes in notepad... it throws an error in Acrobat 7 pro If I use CF to read the original content and save it into a new file, all the pages are there but blank... *scratches head* ...:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:. Bobby Hartsfield http://acoderslife.com -----Original Message----- From: Bobby Hartsfield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2007 11:11 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: PDF creation/modification Thanks for all the tips (still checking iText) but apparently it IS easier than I thought, Let me know if you see any gaping holes in this but I found this: http://www.school-for-champions.com/coldfusion/cftopdf.htm http://www.school-for-champions.com/coldfusion/cftopdf2.cfm Doing it this way actually displays the field names and the values in the source of the file in plain text. So let's say I made a field called firstname and gave it a value of ***firstname*** In the source code, I see: /T(firstname)/V(***firstname***) Couldn't I just #replace(content, "***firstname***", form.firstname, "all")# The downside is, of course, that this pdf is huge. The upside is that I would only be entering the needed content and not fiddling with layout. Can you guys think of any more pros and cons? ....:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:. Bobby Hartsfield http://acoderslife.com -----Original Message----- From: Paul Hastings [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 18, 2007 10:46 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: PDF creation/modification Bobby Hartsfield wrote: > It is indeed CF7 :-) use iText. although it powers cfdocument you probably want the latest version, so you'll need it & mark's javaloader so as not to step on cfdocument's toes. http://itextdocs.lowagie.com/ http://itextdocs.lowagie.com/tutorial/ or better yet get bruno's book, http://itext.ugent.be/itext-in-action/ (there's a PDF version for 25 bucks, if you work w/iText & cf this books is a great value). http://javaloader.riaforge.org/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Macromedia ColdFusion MX7 Upgrade to MX7 & experience time-saving features, more productivity. http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion?sdid=RVJW Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:281534 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
