*bump*... anyone? Thoughts? Thanks, Chris
On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 3:17 PM, Chris Jordan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Hi folks, > > I need some help figuring something out, and after searching the web a bit > on my own, and posting this question to my local CFUG, I thought I'd pose > the problem to everyone here on CFTalk to see what came of it. > > Okay, so I need to write a program that checks an email account which will > be receiving emails with PDF attachments. That part is no problem. The > program then needs to embed an image onto the PDF in a specific physical > location on the document. Technically speaking this will be an image of > someone's signature, but for the sake of discussion it can be any image I > want. Once the signature (image) has been affixed to the PDF, it is then > saved and reprinted and then someone faxes that final printing to the end > recipient. > > I don't have too much control (*read: basically none*) over the PDF before > it gets to me. The reason being is that it starts life out as an *actual > paper document* which is then faxed to a service (efax corporate, I > think). That faxed image is turned into a PDF file and emailed to a > predetermined email address. > > Is this going to be possible for me to do programmatically? The idea is > that the person who needs to sign the document logs into the web based app., > selects the document they want to sign, and the program takes care of > putting the right signature in the right place on the document and re-saving > it. > > My client currently accomplishes this by carrying around a tablet PC. They > then check their email, save the attachment, open the PDF with Adobe Acrobat > Pro, and sign using the touch screen. They want to be able to do this from a > Treo 755p instead. That's where the web based app. with passwords and > pre-captured signatures comes in. > > I got a suggestion from my boss that I try to use the CF Report Builder to > build a report that would contain two generic objects: A PDF (to be passed > in) and a signature (to be passed in). This generic report would allow me to > position each of the generic objects as I want, and then I'd call the report > passing it an original PDF and a signature image. He has apparently done > this sort of thing before in FoxPro's in-built report writer. > > I've played around with that last idea a bit this afternoon, but I can't > seem to figure out a way to get CF Report Builder to do what I want. I'm > wondering if something like Crystal Reports would allow me to do what I'm > wanting. The problem there is that I've never used Crystal, and my client > would have to purchase a copy even though I don't know that it would allow > me to do what I'm wanting to do any more than CF Report Builder. > > Attached is an image of one of these signed PDF files with some sensitive > information blurred out. > > Any and all help is much appreciated. > > Cheers! > Chris > > > -- > http://cjordan.us > -- http://cjordan.us ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;203748912;27390454;j Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:312088 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
