We use active pdf- then the user can query on what they want (ie: individual report card/report card for class/report card for entire grade). It works well but it can get a bit slow-it'll take over a minute to do an entire grade--but the clog is in the cfsets.
I did use the fdf too- you should be able to have it make it query several reports at once- you need to somehow make a parameter query to let the user call them in batches. I remember being able to set up entire classes/grades with fdf- but the performance pretty quickly degraded. I don't know about the automatic printing- I gave them print preview and let them choose to print or not to print. -----Original Message----- From: Dimo Michailov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2002 12:21 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: generate multiple PDFs automatically Thanks for the advice.. I checked CFCOMET but I cannot still find an answer to the biggest problem - the number of files that will be generated. I can dynamically populate every single PDF through FDF - no problem. However, with 7,000 or so records it becomes impossible to manually loop over every single record, display the PDF and have the user PRINT it. I need a way to automate the PDF generation *AND* the printing. Any ideas? Anybody? Thanks, Dimo Jason Miller wrote: > check cfcomet.com - I just saw a tidbit in there on creating pdf's on the fly.. I think there are less than a dozem > posts in the PDF section - so it should be easy to find. I am 100% I saw it there. > > Jay Miller > > Randell B Adkins wrote: > > >>Could use a LOOP to generate them however that is >>alot to handle. >> >>Another note is that I am not sure there is a way >>to FORCE the print. You can force the print dialog >>box but not the actual print that I am aware of. >> >>Randy Adkins >> >>>>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/28/02 13:37 PM >>> >>>>> >>Hello all: >> >>Here's the situation I am facing: >> >>We have a huge recordset - maybe around 5000-6000 records that we would >>like to use to create PDF reports on the fly and print. I am using FDFs >>to create a single PDF report from this dataset, but this would be >>extremely slow and painful to have a user manually call each record and >>then print and them move on to the next one. >> >>Does anyone have any ideas how this can be automated? >> >>Thanks in advance, >> >>Dimo >> >> >> > ______________________________________________________________________ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
