Re: Word document generation (header, footer, page numbering)
I've heard that a couple of times now, but I don't think I could get permission to run another server, and I somehow doubt the security people would be down with it. denstar wrote: On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 6:26 AM, Loathe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are several well known ways of generating word documents, xml, html with cfcontent/header, and I hear POI although I haven't used it. I have a need to be able to create a word document and do page numbering, and have access to the header and footer to add letterhead and document classification information. I'm wondering if anyone can point me towards a solution that does this other than CF Report Builder? My stock answer is JasperReports. iReport is the visual designer, and it's quite nice (destroys the Report Builder, IMO). It has it's own XML format for creating reports, which is swell for use with some kind of code generator. Building PDFs and word docs and whatnot can eat up a lot of CPU cycles on a loaded server, so I started using JasperServer on a separate box, and just talk to it through the webservice it provides. It exports reports in PDF, RTF, XLS, CSV, and jasperserver will do auto-email stuff, so every Tuesday you can automatically send someone a report, or whatever. We've had great experiences with this setup. YMMV. -denny ~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;192386516;25150098;k Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:307222 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
Word document generation (header, footer, page numbering)
There are several well known ways of generating word documents, xml, html with cfcontent/header, and I hear POI although I haven't used it. I have a need to be able to create a word document and do page numbering, and have access to the header and footer to add letterhead and document classification information. I'm wondering if anyone can point me towards a solution that does this other than CF Report Builder? I've tried using open office wordProcesingML, but it doesn't auto generate page numbers. T ~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;192386516;25150098;k Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:307153 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
Re: Word document generation (header, footer, page numbering)
Loathe wrote: I have a need to be able to create a word document and do page numbering, and have access to the header and footer to add letterhead and document classification information. I'm wondering if anyone can point me towards a solution that does this other than CF Report Builder? have a look at iText's rtfWriter2 class. iText powers cfdocument, etc on cf7 above so it should just be there. if you need the latest greatest version, use mark's javaLoader to load the iText jar for use w/cf. ~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;192386516;25150098;k Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:307156 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
Re: Word document generation (header, footer, page numbering)
Thanks a lot, I'll jump into it now. Paul Hastings wrote: Loathe wrote: I have a need to be able to create a word document and do page numbering, and have access to the header and footer to add letterhead and document classification information. I'm wondering if anyone can point me towards a solution that does this other than CF Report Builder? have a look at iText's rtfWriter2 class. iText powers cfdocument, etc on cf7 above so it should just be there. if you need the latest greatest version, use mark's javaLoader to load the iText jar for use w/cf. ~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;192386516;25150098;k Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:307158 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
RtfWriter2 was (Re: Word document generation (header, footer, page numbering))
Whats the correct path to the RtfWriter2 class? I thought it would be com.lowagie.text.RtfWriter2 but it can't find that, I have googled all over the place for it. I've created the document object now I need to pass that to RtfWriter2.getInstance() but can't seem to instantiate a RtfWriter2 object. Any hep would be appreciated, I'm so damned close :) Also, how do you find these out? I assumed there would be some way through introspection but can't seem to figure out how to get the info, I'm dumping the objects I have but I just get the methods and properties, no info on children or super or anything. Paul Hastings wrote: Loathe wrote: I have a need to be able to create a word document and do page numbering, and have access to the header and footer to add letterhead and document classification information. I'm wondering if anyone can point me towards a solution that does this other than CF Report Builder? have a look at iText's rtfWriter2 class. iText powers cfdocument, etc on cf7 above so it should just be there. if you need the latest greatest version, use mark's javaLoader to load the iText jar for use w/cf. ~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;192386516;25150098;k Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:307168 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: RtfWriter2 was (Re: Word document generation (header, footer, page numbering))
Disregard. It's com.lowagie.text.rtf.RtfWriter2 Loathe wrote: Whats the correct path to the RtfWriter2 class? I thought it would be com.lowagie.text.RtfWriter2 but it can't find that, I have googled all over the place for it. I've created the document object now I need to pass that to RtfWriter2.getInstance() but can't seem to instantiate a RtfWriter2 object. Any hep would be appreciated, I'm so damned close :) Also, how do you find these out? I assumed there would be some way through introspection but can't seem to figure out how to get the info, I'm dumping the objects I have but I just get the methods and properties, no info on children or super or anything. Paul Hastings wrote: Loathe wrote: I have a need to be able to create a word document and do page numbering, and have access to the header and footer to add letterhead and document classification information. I'm wondering if anyone can point me towards a solution that does this other than CF Report Builder? have a look at iText's rtfWriter2 class. iText powers cfdocument, etc on cf7 above so it should just be there. if you need the latest greatest version, use mark's javaLoader to load the iText jar for use w/cf. ~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;192386516;25150098;k Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:307169 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: RtfWriter2 was (Re: Word document generation (header, footer, page numbering))
Moving on: I have: cfset docPath = expandPath(./testDoc.rtf) cfset myFile = CreateObject(java,java.io.FileOutputStream).Init(CreateObject(java,java.io.File).Init(docPath)) cfscript paths = arrayNew(1); /* This points to the jar we want to load. Could also load a directory of .class files */ paths[1] = expandPath(iText-2.1.2u.jar); paths[2] = expandPath(iText-rtf-2.1.2u.jar); //create the loader loader = createObject(component, javaloader.JavaLoader).init(paths); myDoc = loader.create(com.lowagie.text.Document).init(); myRTF = loader.create(com.lowagie.text.rtf.RtfWriter2); // myRTF = myRTF.init(myDoc,myFile) // thisRTF = myRTF.getInstance(myRTF, myFile); /cfscript cfdump var=myRTF No I need to instantiate an object of type RtfWriter2 the constructor takes type Document and OutputStream. I would have though my init() would work but CF says it can't find a constructor that takes these types, what am I doing wrong here? Does anyone have a basic hello world example I could take a look at that uses these classes? Once I can get to having the RtfWriter2 I'm pretty sure I can figure it our the rest of the methods seem pretty easy to use and the lowagie site has some good examples. Loathe wrote: Disregard. It's com.lowagie.text.rtf.RtfWriter2 Loathe wrote: Whats the correct path to the RtfWriter2 class? I thought it would be com.lowagie.text.RtfWriter2 but it can't find that, I have googled all over the place for it. I've created the document object now I need to pass that to RtfWriter2.getInstance() but can't seem to instantiate a RtfWriter2 object. Any hep would be appreciated, I'm so damned close :) Also, how do you find these out? I assumed there would be some way through introspection but can't seem to figure out how to get the info, I'm dumping the objects I have but I just get the methods and properties, no info on children or super or anything. Paul Hastings wrote: Loathe wrote: I have a need to be able to create a word document and do page numbering, and have access to the header and footer to add letterhead and document classification information. I'm wondering if anyone can point me towards a solution that does this other than CF Report Builder? have a look at iText's rtfWriter2 class. iText powers cfdocument, etc on cf7 above so it should just be there. if you need the latest greatest version, use mark's javaLoader to load the iText jar for use w/cf. ~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;192386516;25150098;k Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:307173 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: RtfWriter2 was (Re: Word document generation (header, footer, page numbering))
Once again disregard, I figured it out. A hello world with RtfWriter2: cfset docPath = expandPath(testDoc.rtf) cfset myFile = CreateObject(java,java.io.FileOutputStream).Init(CreateObject(java,java.io.File).Init(docPath)) / cfscript paths = arrayNew(1); /* This points to the jar we want to load. Could also load a directory of .class files */ paths[1] = expandPath(iText-2.1.2u.jar); paths[2] = expandPath(iText-rtf-2.1.2u.jar); //create the loader loader = createObject(component, javaloader.JavaLoader).init(paths); myDoc = loader.create(com.lowagie.text.Document).init(); myRTF = loader.create(com.lowagie.text.rtf.RtfWriter2); thisRTF = myRTF.getInstance(myDoc, myFile); myDoc.open(); myPara = loader.create(com.lowagie.text.Paragraph); para = myPara.init(Hello World); myDoc.add(para); myDoc.close(); /cfscript Loathe wrote: Moving on: I have: cfset docPath = expandPath(./testDoc.rtf) cfset myFile = CreateObject(java,java.io.FileOutputStream).Init(CreateObject(java,java.io.File).Init(docPath)) cfscript paths = arrayNew(1); /* This points to the jar we want to load. Could also load a directory of .class files */ paths[1] = expandPath(iText-2.1.2u.jar); paths[2] = expandPath(iText-rtf-2.1.2u.jar); //create the loader loader = createObject(component, javaloader.JavaLoader).init(paths); myDoc = loader.create(com.lowagie.text.Document).init(); myRTF = loader.create(com.lowagie.text.rtf.RtfWriter2); // myRTF = myRTF.init(myDoc,myFile) // thisRTF = myRTF.getInstance(myRTF, myFile); /cfscript cfdump var=myRTF No I need to instantiate an object of type RtfWriter2 the constructor takes type Document and OutputStream. I would have though my init() would work but CF says it can't find a constructor that takes these types, what am I doing wrong here? Does anyone have a basic hello world example I could take a look at that uses these classes? Once I can get to having the RtfWriter2 I'm pretty sure I can figure it our the rest of the methods seem pretty easy to use and the lowagie site has some good examples. Loathe wrote: Disregard. It's com.lowagie.text.rtf.RtfWriter2 Loathe wrote: Whats the correct path to the RtfWriter2 class? I thought it would be com.lowagie.text.RtfWriter2 but it can't find that, I have googled all over the place for it. I've created the document object now I need to pass that to RtfWriter2.getInstance() but can't seem to instantiate a RtfWriter2 object. Any hep would be appreciated, I'm so damned close :) Also, how do you find these out? I assumed there would be some way through introspection but can't seem to figure out how to get the info, I'm dumping the objects I have but I just get the methods and properties, no info on children or super or anything. Paul Hastings wrote: Loathe wrote: I have a need to be able to create a word document and do page numbering, and have access to the header and footer to add letterhead and document classification information. I'm wondering if anyone can point me towards a solution that does this other than CF Report Builder? have a look at iText's rtfWriter2 class. iText powers cfdocument, etc on cf7 above so it should just be there. if you need the latest greatest version, use mark's javaLoader to load the iText jar for use w/cf. ~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;192386516;25150098;k Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:307174 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
Re: Word document generation (header, footer, page numbering)
On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 6:26 AM, Loathe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are several well known ways of generating word documents, xml, html with cfcontent/header, and I hear POI although I haven't used it. I have a need to be able to create a word document and do page numbering, and have access to the header and footer to add letterhead and document classification information. I'm wondering if anyone can point me towards a solution that does this other than CF Report Builder? My stock answer is JasperReports. iReport is the visual designer, and it's quite nice (destroys the Report Builder, IMO). It has it's own XML format for creating reports, which is swell for use with some kind of code generator. Building PDFs and word docs and whatnot can eat up a lot of CPU cycles on a loaded server, so I started using JasperServer on a separate box, and just talk to it through the webservice it provides. It exports reports in PDF, RTF, XLS, CSV, and jasperserver will do auto-email stuff, so every Tuesday you can automatically send someone a report, or whatever. We've had great experiences with this setup. YMMV. -denny -- Dave: We're in a warehouse, and you just hit a cow. I think we better back up. ~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;192386516;25150098;k Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:307184 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
Word Document Generation
I have an application that needs to generate Word Documents and basically open them on the fly. Currently I am using CFCONTENT to do this, however I have run into a small problem. I need to be able to use a defined Word TEMPLATE. The template contains a footer and whatnot that needs to be contained in the document. Is there a good reference somewhere for using CFCONTENT, or is there another way to do this? thanks for the help, -chris ~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
RE: Word Document Generation
Chris, I know of two ways to do this. 1. CFCONTENT and CFHEADER. As per http://tech.irt.org/articles/js154/index.htm, you can create your MS Word template and put CFML placeholders in it, save it as an RTF file, edit the RTF file to get or accept data, and then serve that filled-in file to the user via CFHEADER and CFCONTENT. The RTF code is ugly; Dave Watts has pointed out that WordPerfect-generated RTF is cleaner. 2. CFOBJECT. If the server has MS Word installed, you can use code like that at CF Comet http://www.cfcomet.com/cfcomet/word/ to generate the doc on the server, and then let the users download it via a hyperlink. -David On Monday, July 09, 2001 7:11 AM, Chris Alvarado [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: I have an application that needs to generate Word Documents and basically open them on the fly. Currently I am using CFCONTENT to do this, however I have run into a small problem. I need to be able to use a defined Word TEMPLATE. The template contains a footer and whatnot that needs to be contained in the document. Is there a good reference somewhere for using CFCONTENT, or is there another way to do this? ~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
