Re: CF PDF and Print Functions
Using cfdocument to create PDFs should produce better printouts than a typical browser printout. You will have much more control over what is displayed. With a normal browser print there are settings that are controlled by the browser, such as added headers and footers, and the removal of certain background colors and images. With a PDF you have control over nearly everything. It is hard to control precise page breaks with dynamically-generated PDFs, although it is possible by counting lines. I have done this before and it isn't so bad. If the content is static then you could pre-make a printable version. This would also help reduce load on the server if the printable versions are popular. If the client really wants brochures, then the way to go is to create separate PDF versions of the pages using a program like InDesign. Even if there are 100 documents, doing this is fairly easy. It doesn't work so well if the content is constantly being updated or new content is being added every day. -Mike Chabot On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 4:26 PM, Robert Harrison rob...@austin-williams.com wrote: Hi All, I have a client who is totally insistent that there web pages MUST print nicely. We've done what we can using CSS formatting, but as we all know that solution is not perfect. The client is insisting they want to print their web content as full-color brochures. I know that's not happening so easily. My question is has anyone used the CF PDF functions enough to know if it's even possible to fully format and produce a professional looking print-out with those functions. Is it worth my putting time into looking at that as an option? Any thoughts? Thanks, Robert Robert B. Harrison Director of Interactive Services Austin Williams 125 Kennedy Drive, Suite 100 Hauppauge NY 11788 P : 631.231.6600 Ext. 119 F : 631.434.7022 http://www.austin-williams.com Great advertising can't be either/or. It must be . Plug in to our blog: AW Unplugged http://www.austin-williams.com/unplugged __ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature database 5170 (20100603) __ The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. http://www.eset.com ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:334300 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: CF PDF and Print Functions
On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 5:37 AM, Mike Chabot wrote: ... program like InDesign. Even if there are 100 documents, doing this is fairly easy. It doesn't work so well if the content is constantly being updated or new content is being added every day. InDesign has excellent XML sync capability stuph. Way better than Quark's (another print app), IMO. That sync stuff is what one can use if there are a lot of content updates. You can even make flows and whatnot... too much to get into here, but slick stuff. :Den -- I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved. Soren Kierkegaard ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:334318 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: CF PDF and Print Functions
Easy enough to come up with a handler that will wrap CFDOCUMENT around your page content and include the relevant CSS to produce a PDF, but there are still issues with content flow. You really can't easily control page breaks and page flow in the transition from the 4:3 or 16:9 screen ratio to 8.5 x 11 inch paper ... On 6/3/2010 4:26 PM, Robert Harrison wrote: Hi All, I have a client who is totally insistent that there web pages MUST print nicely. We've done what we can using CSS formatting, but as we all know that solution is not perfect. The client is insisting they want to print their web content as full-color brochures. I know that's not happening so easily. My question is has anyone used the CF PDF functions enough to know if it's even possible to fully format and produce a professional looking print-out with those functions. Is it worth my putting time into looking at that as an option? Any thoughts? Thanks, Robert Robert B. Harrison Director of Interactive Services Austin Williams 125 Kennedy Drive, Suite 100 Hauppauge NY 11788 P : 631.231.6600 Ext. 119 F : 631.434.7022 http://www.austin-williams.com Great advertising can't be either/or. It must be. Plug in to our blog: AW Unplugged http://www.austin-williams.com/unplugged __ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature database 5170 (20100603) __ The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. http://www.eset.com ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:334291 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
