It depends on the makeup of the HTML you are trying to convert and which version of CF you are using. The cfdocument tag is one that has seen good improvements in each release of CF, so you are going to have an easier time using it if you are using CF9. cfdocument doesn't support the same level of HTML and CSS that a Web browser supports and it is one of the most frustrating tags to deal with. If you have control over the HTML/CSS, you might want to simplify it to get a page that looks good in the browser, and also looks good when converted to PDF. This might involve techniques like using tables to precisely control the layout instead of CSS positioning. Third party commercial programs do a better job at turning HTML into PDFs. ActivePDF is a popular third party tool that works well.
-Mike Chabot On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 3:14 PM, Les Irvin <les.cft...@gmail.com> wrote: > > This should be easy. I'm working on a site to allow real estate > agents to tweak a brochure on-line, then save it as a PDF. All I want > to do is take the resulting page of html, convert it exactly as it > looks in the browser to a PDF file (including colors, backgrounds, > images, formating, etc.), then print the sucker using the PDF they've > created. CFdocument and all its children are producing horrible > results and causing me to pull out what little hair I have left. > > Is there anyway to do this within CF, or do I need to look elsewhere? > > Thanks, > Les > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:340895 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
