RE: CF and IText

[Dave Watts]

> 4. Is the foundation for LiveCycle iText as well?

No.

> This comes from the fact that I want to use pageoverlay or 
> pageunderlay, which are restricted DDX in CFPDF, and so I'm 
> now looking at other options (LiveCycle, iText, other).

DDX is supported only by LiveCycle Assembler. There are no open-source or
free products that support DDX. CF 8 bundles a restricted version of
LiveCycle Assembler.

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Re: CF and IText

[Paul Hastings]

Stephen Cassady wrote:
> 1. Can I call iText directly? Are the libraries loaded in a manner that this
> would work?

yes.

> 2. Can I update the iText libraries to 2.1 (or a newer version)

nope not w/out breaking cfdocument, etc. though you could use javaLoader & go 
merrily on your way.

> 3. Has anybody found problems installing iText (different version than 1.4)
> on a CF Server?

nope, see #3

> 4. Is the foundation for LiveCycle iText as well?

no.



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