>- see footer for list info -< Ah I see... cheers Simon, good to hear some background info on it.
That makes sense now. I was under the impression from another developer, not on here, that CFPDF was a new CF8 command. "learning all the time..." 2008/6/2 Simon Baynes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >- see footer for list info -< > I think you'll find the reason it uses iText is because the PDF > functionality was added when it was part of Macromedia. I can > guarantee that they either didn't want to go through the pain of > refactoring it to use the Adobe Libraries, or they didn't want to > cause issues with the CF7 - CF8 upgrade for people who had meddled > under the hood to solve some of the issues that come with that > territory. > > On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 6:14 PM, Nick Middleweek > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>- see footer for list info -< > > Thanks for the replies... > > > > I'm surpised that Adobe ColdFusion doesn't have better support, or more > well > > known knowledge about it's support for Adobe PDF. Crazy. I don't > understand > > why Adobe Coldfusion has to use the opensource iText library when surely > it > > has access to the Adobe PDF teams knowledge? > > > > Thank's for the iText tip though. We're after the fastest, best, highest > > quality approach to creating thumbnails from PDFs, hence why I thought > CFPDF > > would be the way forward. > > > > Apparently other tools using Ghostscript have to parse the whole > document, > > as if it's printing it and then allow us to create a thumbnail of page 1. > > I've heard that XINETs WebNative has an optimized version of Ghostscript > > that is streamlined to offer faster processing and therefore thumbnailing > of > > PDFs. > > > > I'm sure CFPDF and CFIMAGE will do the job just fine. > > > > > > Cheers, > > Nick > > > > > > > > > > 2008/6/1 Big Mad Kev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > >> - see footer for list info -< > >>> > >> I think this blog posting covers what your after > >> http://cfpdf.blogspot.com/2007/06/thumbnail-images.html > >> > >> -------------------------------------------------- > >> Big Mad Kev > >> email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> blog: http://inner-rhythm.co.uk/blog > >> -------------------------------------------------- > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> > >> For details on ALL mailing lists and for joining or leaving lists, go to > >> http://list.cfdeveloper.co.uk/mailman/listinfo > >> > >> -- > >> CFDeveloper Sponsors:- > >> > >>> - cfdeveloper Hosting provided by www.cfmxhosting.co.uk -< > >>> - Lists hosted by www.Gradwell.com <http://www.gradwell.com/> < > http://www.gradwell.com/> -< > >>> - CFdeveloper is run by Russ Michaels, feel free to volunteer your help > -< > >>> > >> > > _______________________________________________ > > > > For details on ALL mailing lists and for joining or leaving lists, go to > http://list.cfdeveloper.co.uk/mailman/listinfo > > > > -- > > CFDeveloper Sponsors:- > >>- cfdeveloper Hosting provided by www.cfmxhosting.co.uk -< > >>- Lists hosted by www.Gradwell.com <http://www.gradwell.com/> -< > >>- CFdeveloper is run by Russ Michaels, feel free to volunteer your help > -< > > > > > > -- > Simon Baynes > www.simonbaynes.com > LinkedIn profile:- http://www.linkedin.com/in/simonbaynes > > _______________________________________________ > > For details on ALL mailing lists and for joining or leaving lists, go to > http://list.cfdeveloper.co.uk/mailman/listinfo > > -- > CFDeveloper Sponsors:- > >- cfdeveloper Hosting provided by www.cfmxhosting.co.uk -< > >- Lists hosted by www.Gradwell.com <http://www.gradwell.com/> -< > >- CFdeveloper is run by Russ Michaels, feel free to volunteer your help -< > _______________________________________________ For details on ALL mailing lists and for joining or leaving lists, go to http://list.cfdeveloper.co.uk/mailman/listinfo -- CFDeveloper Sponsors:- >- cfdeveloper Hosting provided by www.cfmxhosting.co.uk -< >- Lists hosted by www.Gradwell.com -< >- CFdeveloper is run by Russ Michaels, feel free to volunteer your help -<
