RE: PDF creation/modification

2007-06-19 Thread Bobby Hartsfield
oderslife.com -Original Message- From: Paul Hastings [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 18, 2007 10:46 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: PDF creation/modification Bobby Hartsfield wrote: > It is indeed CF7 :-) use iText. although it powers cfdocument you probably want the

Re: PDF creation/modification

2007-06-18 Thread Paul Hastings
Bobby Hartsfield wrote: > It is indeed CF7 :-) use iText. although it powers cfdocument you probably want the latest version, so you'll need it & mark's javaloader so as not to step on cfdocument's toes. http://itextdocs.lowagie.com/ http://itextdocs.lowagie.com/tutorial/ or better yet get bruno

RE: PDF creation/modification

2007-06-18 Thread Bobby Hartsfield
It is indeed CF7 :-) ..:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:. Bobby Hartsfield http://acoderslife.com -Original Message- From: Christopher Jordan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 18, 2007 6:13 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: PDF creation/modification Hmm... I just realized that

Re: PDF creation/modification

2007-06-18 Thread Christopher Jordan
Hmm... I just realized that even if you can read the document in via CF8 that it might not help you in CF7. However if document editing has been disabled in the copy they gave you, you can manipulate that stuff in CF8 and have it produce a new *unlocked* document that you could then maybe use t

Re: PDF creation/modification

2007-06-18 Thread robert . rawlins
What cf version are you running bobby? I'm crossing my fingers (and so should you) that its 7+. :-D Rob > So I finally have to create/modify a PDF from CF after all these years. > And > wouldn't you know it. it's the biggest scholarship application known to > man. > The PDF has to look exactly li

Re: PDF creation/modification

2007-06-18 Thread Christopher Jordan
Download the beta of CF8 and have it read the PDF in for you. You should then be able to spit it back out, manipulate it etc. I don't know this for a fact, but you may even be able to look at the DDX code (I think that's what it's called if memory serves from Ben's talk at my local CFUG). How a

Re: PDF to Image

2007-06-07 Thread Mark Lewis
Thank you all for your responses, > > Imagemagick is great and ive got my files converted and resized using the > following > tag > > arguments="file1.pdf[0] -resize 200x300 file1.jpg" > > > > Had a few problems to start with as I didnt realise you need ghostscript > installed aswell. > > > Th

Re: PDF to Image

2007-06-07 Thread Jerry Johnson
This one works pretty well, too, but it is a .net app http://www.codeproject.com/dotnet/pdfthumbnail.asp On 6/7/07, Pete Jordan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mark Lewis wrote: > > > I am trying to convert the front page of a PDF doc to an image. My > > target server is Coldfusion 5 but if necess

Re: PDF to Image

2007-06-07 Thread Pete Jordan
Mark Lewis wrote: > I am trying to convert the front page of a PDF doc to an image. My > target server is Coldfusion 5 but if necessary Colfusion mx 7 can be > used. > > Is it possible for this to be done, if so could I have some > directions on how to do this. I second using ImageMagick, though

Re: PDF to Image

2007-06-07 Thread Jim Wright
On 6/7/07, Mark Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to convert the front page of a PDF doc to an image. My target > server is Coldfusion 5 but if necessary Colfusion mx 7 can be used. > > Is it possible for this to be done, if so could I have some directions on how > to do this

Re: PDF Creation

2007-05-25 Thread Paul Hastings
Jenny wrote: > lol 3:30am ... and it shows ... > > oh well ... i don't have 7, and no wish to learn java you don't need to, as i said there are plenty of cf examples in the forums. ~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 The most si

RE: PDF Creation

2007-05-25 Thread Jenny
lol 3:30am ... and it shows ... oh well ... i don't have 7, and no wish to learn java -Original Message- From: srinivas ganta [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 25 May 2007 13:01 To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: PDF Creation On 5/25/07, Jenny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >

RE: PDF Creation

2007-05-25 Thread Jenny
whoops ... ignore my reply .. i thought this was only in mx 7 ... nice :D -Original Message- From: srinivas ganta [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 25 May 2007 13:01 To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: PDF Creation On 5/25/07, Jenny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I need to create pd

RE: PDF Creation

2007-05-25 Thread Jenny
simple stuff from cart application ... price lists, etc ty, will try that -Original Message- From: Andrew Scott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 25 May 2007 11:10 To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: PDF Creation Jenny, There is many out there, but what do you want to create them from? Have a

RE: PDF Creation

2007-05-25 Thread Jenny
Cfdocument is in 7, but thanks -Original Message- From: srinivas ganta [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 25 May 2007 13:01 To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: PDF Creation On 5/25/07, Jenny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I need to create pdf's using CF 6.1 mx, does anyone hav

Re: PDF Creation

2007-05-25 Thread Paul Hastings
Jenny wrote: > I need to create pdf's using CF 6.1 mx, does anyone have a favouritw tag for > this, please? get iText from here: http://www.lowagie.com/iText/ if you're on a shared host, get mark's javaLoader from here: http://javaloader.riaforge.org/ and use it to load the iText jar otherwise pu

Re: PDF Creation

2007-05-25 Thread srinivas ganta
On 5/25/07, Jenny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I need to create pdf's using CF 6.1 mx, does anyone have a favouritw tag > for > this, please? > > Jenny > > > > ~| Create Web Applications With ColdFusion MX7 & Flex 2. Build

Re: PDF Creation

2007-05-25 Thread Andrew Scott
Jenny, There is many out there, but what do you want to create them from? Have a look at iText (is that what it is) which is the version that is embeded into CF, or is cfdocument in 6.1 i really can't remember... On 5/25/07, Jenny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I need to create pdf's using CF 6

Re: PDF exact placement possible?

2007-01-11 Thread Chris Ditty
Thanks. Actually, what I was thinking about has using pre-printed certificates and then just printing the information on them. ~| Create robust enterprise, web RIAs. Upgrade & integrate Adobe Coldfusion MX7 with Flex 2 http://ad.

Re: PDF exact placement possible?

2007-01-11 Thread Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX)
o: CF-Talk Sent: Thu Jan 11 16:53:48 2007 Subject: Re: PDF exact placement possible? Chris, What you probably want to do is create the PDF then use XPAAJ with CF, Ben explains this, to set the fields via CF. Acrobat8 would be required, but it would solve your issue. You could read in the pdf,

Re: PDF exact placement possible?

2007-01-11 Thread mcollins
Chris, What you probably want to do is create the PDF then use XPAAJ with CF, Ben explains this, to set the fields via CF. Acrobat8 would be required, but it would solve your issue. You could read in the pdf, loop over query set form fields, save pdf for each certificate. ~~~

Re: PDF exact placement possible?

2007-01-11 Thread Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX)
Yeah, there are several ways, iText is one of them. I also think Ben noted an Adobe suite which could do it, I am not sure of its name. "This e-mail is from Reed Exhibitions (Gateway House, 28 The Quadrant, Richmond, Surrey, TW9 1DN, United Kingdom), a division of Reed Business, Registered i

Re: PDF output :

2006-10-30 Thread Michael Dinowitz
I played with it some and the answer is yes. By having one cfdocumentsection tag for the first page with no header and another for the rest of the document, the header defined in the second cfdocumentsection will apply to all pages other than the first. page1 page 2+ header page2 page3

Re: PDF output :

2006-10-30 Thread Michael Dinowitz
Not that I can see in the documentation. >PDF output : >Is it possible to start header output from page 2? >Thanks for helping. ~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusio

Re: PDF Label maker

2006-10-27 Thread Denny Valliant
cf_averyRTF, IIRC... available at the adobe exchange, I think? Dont' know if it's the same person or not, but it's swell (if you ain't running CF4.5 ;]) On 10/27/06, Dave Hatz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I came across a custom tag last year called LabelMaker. Pretty slick little > tag. Send th

Re: PDF creation: CFDocument, iText; CF or Java libs?

2006-08-28 Thread Dan Plesse
I think someone has a master file How-to iText for CF some place but i can't find it. I also remember Forta's book has some examples too. A quick google book search shows some stuff PDF Hacks - Page 235

Re: PDF creation: CFDocument, iText; CF or Java libs?

2006-08-28 Thread Kris Jones
I've got a handle on your posts on the forums. Thanks much for this. We're also interested in implementing bookmarks in the PDFs as a way to change the structure of the PDF that will make for less process intensive merging. I'm also checking out Dan's posts on his yahoo group. Great resources. Tha

Re: PDF creation: CFDocument, iText; CF or Java libs?

2006-08-28 Thread Dan Plesse
I have a few examples on java coldfusion list on yahoo called coldfusion java hacks. There is no action on that list, just takers of my hard won work with CF and java. On 8/28/06, Kris Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks Paul. I bel

Re: PDF creation: CFDocument, iText; CF or Java libs?

2006-08-28 Thread Paul Hastings
Kris Jones wrote: > Thanks Paul. I believe that the bottleneck in the procedure I'm > working on is the CFDocument call, rather than the 3rd-party > split/merge program we're calling. I'm happy to look into iText, just > hoping that others have some experiential knowledge about performance > gains.

Re: PDF creation: CFDocument, iText; CF or Java libs?

2006-08-28 Thread Kris Jones
Thanks Paul. I believe that the bottleneck in the procedure I'm working on is the CFDocument call, rather than the 3rd-party split/merge program we're calling. I'm happy to look into iText, just hoping that others have some experiential knowledge about performance gains. Cheers, Kris On 8/28/06,

Re: PDF creation: CFDocument, iText; CF or Java libs?

2006-08-28 Thread Paul Hastings
Kris Jones wrote: > Since I know nothing about iText, I don't really want to go down that > road unless I know that it will be worth it (performance-wise). I know > there are few iText gurus on the list, maybe someone has some > experience with this? the only way you can *know* which one is faster

Re: PDF creation on MX

2006-04-04 Thread Bryan Stevenson
>I like iText as you get to code what you want ;-) Bingo!! and once you've learned to use it you can use those skills over and over ;-) Bryan Stevenson B.Comm. VP & Director of E-Commerce Development Electric Edge Systems Group Inc. phone: 250.480.0642 fax: 250.480.1264 cell: 250.920.8830 e-mai

RE: PDF creation on MX

2006-04-04 Thread Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX)
Lol, not at all, it took me quite a while to get to grips with the syntax and how to translate it into CF! -Original Message- From: Gareth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 04 April 2006 13:31 To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: PDF creation on MX You must be more cleverer than I is then

Re: PDF creation on MX

2006-04-04 Thread Gareth
You must be more cleverer than I is then :-) - Original Message - From: "Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2006 12:16 PM Subject: RE: PDF creation on MX I like iText as you get to code what you want ;-

RE: PDF creation on MX

2006-04-04 Thread Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX)
I like iText as you get to code what you want ;-) -Original Message- From: Gareth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 04 April 2006 12:23 To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: PDF creation on MX Yeah, iText looked like a bit too much hard work. Thanks for that Neil, looks like I'll go with cf

Re: PDF creation on MX

2006-04-04 Thread Gareth
Yeah, iText looked like a bit too much hard work. Thanks for that Neil, looks like I'll go with cfx_pdf. - Original Message - From: "Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2006 10:16 AM Subject: RE: PDF crea

RE: PDF creation on MX

2006-04-04 Thread Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX)
CFX_PDF uses iText under the hood as well. Obviously if you go with iText you have to code quite a lot yourself. -Original Message- From: Gareth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 03 April 2006 17:27 To: CF-Talk Subject: PDF creation on MX Is there a PDF creation tag considered 'standa

Re: PDF creation on MX

2006-04-03 Thread Gareth
Ah, didn't realise that. Thanks Bryan I'll check it out. - Original Message - From: "Bryan Stevenson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" Sent: Monday, April 03, 2006 5:51 PM Subject: Re: PDF creation on MX ahhh...well then look at iText on So

Re: PDF creation on MX

2006-04-03 Thread Bryan Stevenson
ahhh...well then look at iText on SourceForge which is behind CFDOCUMENT ;-) Bryan Stevenson B.Comm. VP & Director of E-Commerce Development Electric Edge Systems Group Inc. phone: 250.480.0642 fax: 250.480.1264 cell: 250.920.8830 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: www.electricedgesystems.com ~~~

Re: PDF creation on MX

2006-04-03 Thread Gareth
Unfortunately I can't install Word on this server but good info anyway. Thanks Ben. - Original Message - From: "Ben Nadel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" Sent: Monday, April 03, 2006 5:38 PM Subject: RE: PDF creation on MX Gareth, I have done

Re: PDF creation on MX

2006-04-03 Thread Gareth
. Should have said MX 6.1 - Original Message - From: "Bryan Stevenson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" Sent: Monday, April 03, 2006 5:37 PM Subject: Re: PDF creation on MX CFDOCUMENT ;-) Bryan Stevenson B.Comm. VP & Director of E-Commerce Developme

RE: PDF creation on MX

2006-04-03 Thread Ben Nadel
Gareth, I have done a good amount of PDF generation, including complex layouts for document publication. To date, I have not found anything great built into MX or a CFX tag that does what I need. What I use a lot and LOVE is the easyPDF creator by BCL technology. The way I use it is a create a w

Re: PDF creation on MX

2006-04-03 Thread Bryan Stevenson
CFDOCUMENT ;-) Bryan Stevenson B.Comm. VP & Director of E-Commerce Development Electric Edge Systems Group Inc. phone: 250.480.0642 fax: 250.480.1264 cell: 250.920.8830 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: www.electricedgesystems.com ~

RE: PDF Upload Problems

2006-03-07 Thread PINE Phyo Z
mewhere? I am not exactly sure though..Just a thought. Regards, Pine -Original Message- From: Deanna Schneider [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 06, 2006 1:13 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: PDF Upload Problems I don't personally have a pdf generator, but I can reprod

Re: PDF Upload Problems

2006-03-06 Thread Deanna Schneider
I don't personally have a pdf generator, but I can reproduce it with an excel file, for example. It only happens with IE, though - Firefox correctly figures out the mime type. But, if you open an excel file with Microsoft Excel, and then try to upload it via your web page and IE, you'll discover th

Re: PDF Upload Problems

2006-03-06 Thread Massimo Foti
> I did some further testing and it appears that CFMX, for the most > part, is determining the MIME-type from the file extension, since I am > able to add .pdf to any file type to get it past the application/pdf > mime type restriction. I think CF uses the mime-type reported by the browser, but I

Re: PDF Upload Problems

2006-03-06 Thread Mike Chabot
Deanna, Thank you for the information. Is there a way to reproduce this problem, since I cannot seem to do so? I did some further testing and it appears that CFMX, for the most part, is determining the MIME-type from the file extension, since I am able to add .pdf to any file type to get it past t

Re: PDF Upload Problems

2006-03-06 Thread Deanna Schneider
Application/octet-stream is what you'll get if the pdf is open on their system when they try to upload it. I don't know of a really great work around, other than catching that particular error and telling them to be sure to close it before uploading it. On 3/6/06, Mike Chabot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> w

Re: PDF forms and barcodes

2006-02-10 Thread Bryan Stevenson
> Bryan, > > Yep, I am still trying to get my hands around the various Adobe products and > their flavors, but I think this is what you want: > http://www.adobe.com/products/server/barcodedpaperforms/indepth.html > > You can create a 2d barcode that contains the XML associated with the data > in

RE: PDF forms and barcodes

2006-02-09 Thread Ben Forta
Bryan, Yep, I am still trying to get my hands around the various Adobe products and their flavors, but I think this is what you want: http://www.adobe.com/products/server/barcodedpaperforms/indepth.html You can create a 2d barcode that contains the XML associated with the data in a form. As a use

Re: PDF Manipulation

2005-12-15 Thread Paul Hastings
Cutter (CF-Talk) wrote: > feature? I did look at iText, but haven't found anything within it that > I might convert a PDF to an image. I'll take another look, but if anyone > already has some insight please share. TIA see http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=13827688 ~~

Re: PDF Manipulation

2005-12-15 Thread Cutter (CF-Talk)
While I appreciate everyone's input, I thought CFDocument was a MX 7 feature? I did look at iText, but haven't found anything within it that I might convert a PDF to an image. I'll take another look, but if anyone already has some insight please share. TIA Cutter Paul Hastings wrote: >Roberts

Re: PDF Manipulation

2005-12-15 Thread Paul Hastings
Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX) wrote: > Yep, indeed it is; I am not sure if it's restricted in anyway. the cf version is older than the latest & greatest BUT cfdocument is world's easier to use in 90% of the situations you'd need it. the cf team did a bang up job simplifying iText. ~

RE: PDF Manipulation

2005-12-15 Thread Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX)
Yep, indeed it is; I am not sure if it's restricted in anyway. -Original Message- From: Snake [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 15 December 2005 13:25 To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: PDF Manipulation And just so u realise, this is already installed with CFMX and is what CFDocument uses

RE: PDF Manipulation

2005-12-15 Thread Snake
-Talk Subject: RE: PDF Manipulation http://www.lowagie.com/iText/ -Original Message- From: Cutter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 15 December 2005 11:57 To: CF-Talk Subject: PDF Manipulation So, trying to find a more effective solution for converting uploaded PDFs to images. Started

RE: PDF Manipulation

2005-12-15 Thread Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX)
http://www.lowagie.com/iText/ -Original Message- From: Cutter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 15 December 2005 11:57 To: CF-Talk Subject: PDF Manipulation So, trying to find a more effective solution for converting uploaded PDFs to images. Started looking for a Java library for PDF ma

RE: PDF conversion

2005-12-09 Thread Jennifer Gavin-Wear
Thanks Mike, better put than I managed :) -Original Message- From: Dawson, Michael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 08 December 2005 15:08 To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: PDF conversion I'm assuming she wants to be able to open a PDF and then save all the text to a text file. I also a

RE: PDF conversion

2005-12-08 Thread Dawson, Michael
: Thursday, December 08, 2005 8:51 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: PDF conversion What just strip out the text? -Original Message- From: Jennifer Gavin-Wear [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 08 December 2005 14:54 To: CF-Talk Subject: OT: PDF conversion completely OT ... I

RE: PDF conversion

2005-12-08 Thread Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX)
What just strip out the text? -Original Message- From: Jennifer Gavin-Wear [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 08 December 2005 14:54 To: CF-Talk Subject: OT: PDF conversion completely OT ... I'm looking for recommendations for a cheap as possible (free is good) pdf to text converter.

RE: PDF Question

2005-11-21 Thread Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX)
Go on, post the trackback - I would love to know how (not that I am on CF7 yet) -Original Message- From: Bryan Stevenson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 18 November 2005 17:22 To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: PDF Question > To note, if you are on CF7 you cannot upgrade or use the iText

Re: PDF Question

2005-11-18 Thread Bryan Stevenson
> To note, if you are on CF7 you cannot upgrade or use the iText jar as it > is > already included and seems to be restricted in some way. > > N A...but there is a wayand a link to the way is in the archives (and it was a thread I started...so search for my e-mail and iText and all will

Re: PDF Question

2005-11-18 Thread Paul Hastings
Bryan Stevenson wrote: > Could be a method called main does not exist that accepts the number of > arguments or the types of args you passed (see that all the timeand > JavaCast() is your friend) ;-) it's expecting command line args. maybe just a bit of re-writing to make it more cf-friend

RE: PDF Question

2005-11-18 Thread Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX)
To note, if you are on CF7 you cannot upgrade or use the iText jar as it is already included and seems to be restricted in some way. N -Original Message- From: Bryan Stevenson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 18 November 2005 16:40 To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: PDF Question > Yeah,

Re: PDF Question

2005-11-18 Thread Bryan Stevenson
> I then created an object to the concat_pdf class and get it to return > methods. I can call all methods except main which is the one I want. Error > says The selected method main was not found.But a cfdump of the object > lists > the method main... Could be a method called main does not exist t

Re: PDF Question

2005-11-18 Thread Bryan Stevenson
> Yeah, I'm familiar with both createObject and Java. It looks like > com.lowagie.tools is the package needed for concatenating. I'll see > what I can do. > > Cheers, > > Sam F Good stuffshould just be a little trial and error then and yer on your way ;-) Bryan Stevenson B.Comm. VP & Direc

Re: PDF Question

2005-11-18 Thread Sam Farmer
ously iText is far far more advanced but you get the idea... > > Any more help, let me know. > > N > > > > > > > -Original Message- > From: Pete Ruckelshaus [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 18 November 2005 00:43 > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: PDF Quest

RE: PDF Question

2005-11-18 Thread Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX)
iginal Message- From: Pete Ruckelshaus [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 18 November 2005 00:43 To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: PDF Question Wow, iText looks to be far more powerful than what cfdocument has implemented. Has anyone created a friendlier "translation layer" for th

Re: PDF Question

2005-11-17 Thread Sam Farmer
Yeah, I'm familiar with both createObject and Java. It looks like com.lowagie.tools is the package needed for concatenating. I'll see what I can do. Cheers, Sam F On 11/17/05, Bryan Stevenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I haven't done itbut I've seen the docs on SourceForge (and have use

Re: PDF Question

2005-11-17 Thread Pete Ruckelshaus
Wow, iText looks to be far more powerful than what cfdocument has implemented. Has anyone created a friendlier "translation layer" for those of us without Java experience? Pete ~| Logware (www.logware.us): a new and convenient w

Re: PDF Question

2005-11-17 Thread Bryan Stevenson
I haven't done itbut I've seen the docs on SourceForge (and have use iText to generate complex PDFs on the fly pre MX 7) ;-) Perhaps you should let us know if you are familiar with CreatObject() and using Java in CF.if so...go read the iText tutorials on concantenating PDFs and you'll s

Re: PDF Question

2005-11-17 Thread Sam Farmer
Bryan and Neil, Is there any chance you could post some code showing how you did this? I'm about to start a project where I will need to do exactly this. Thanks, Sam On 11/17/05, Bryan Stevenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > iText from SourceForge will do thatand iText is installed as part

Re: PDF Question

2005-11-17 Thread Bryan Stevenson
iText from SourceForge will do thatand iText is installed as part of CF 7 (behind CFDOCUMENT)...so if yer on 7 you have it already. Bryan Stevenson B.Comm. VP & Director of E-Commerce Development Electric Edge Systems Group Inc. phone: 250.480.0642 fax: 250.480.1264 cell: 250.920.8830 e-mail:

RE: PDF Question

2005-11-17 Thread Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX)
Very possible, we do just that using CF (MX) and iText. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 17 November 2005 08:37 To: CF-Talk Subject: PDF Question We are creating PDFs using CF. One issue we are having is that we need to import

RE: PDF Generation

2005-10-06 Thread Andy Matthews
Ben... If you're using MX7, cfd should be able to make a PDF from any web page. Have you placed a style around the text you want justified and gone that route? Is it the PDF itself that's not justifying correctly? Have you viewed the content without the cfdocument tag around to make sure it looks

Re: PDF Creation - just a quickie

2005-08-05 Thread Bryan Stevenson
>I am leaning toward iText... .just a little further until ya tip over ;-) Bryan Stevenson B.Comm. VP & Director of E-Commerce Development Electric Edge Systems Group Inc. phone: 250.480.0642 fax: 250.480.1264 cell: 250.920.8830 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: www.electricedgesystems.com

RE: PDF Creation - just a quickie

2005-08-05 Thread Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX)
I am leaning toward iText... -Original Message- From: Bryan Stevenson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 05 August 2005 16:09 To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: PDF Creation - just a quickie > OK, > > Sorry to start this one again, but hopefully I will get info I need. I am > looking

Re: PDF Creation - just a quickie

2005-08-05 Thread Bryan Stevenson
> OK, > > Sorry to start this one again, but hopefully I will get info I need. I am > looking to create a custom PDF solution with something like iText but > wanted > to know what other tools are there which people are using? > > NOTE: I know CF7 has basic PDF creation - so don't bother posting -

Re: PDF Creation - just a quickie

2005-08-05 Thread James Holmes
We use Apache FOP with a nice xhtml -> fo stylesheet we picked up from IBM. All open source. On 8/5/05, Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK, > > Sorry to start this one again, but hopefully I will get info I need. I am > looking to create a custom PDF solution with something

Re: PDF to PDF Comparison

2005-08-03 Thread John Dowdell
Brian Polackoff wrote: > Is there any way to compare to PDF's and determine their difference as far > as content goes? Any ideas would be appreciated. I'm assuming that you need to do this during development on your workstation, rather than during delivery on your server... is this assumption co

RE: PDF to PDF Comparison

2005-08-03 Thread Brian Polackoff
Great, converting the pdf to text is not a problem, do you know of any links to the tools you were referencing? Thanks, Brian R. Polackoff -Original Message- From: Damien McKenna [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2005 12:21 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: PDF to PDF

RE: PDF to PDF Comparison

2005-08-03 Thread Damien McKenna
> Is there any way to compare to PDF's and determine their > difference as far as content goes? If its textual content you could try converting them both to text and comparing it. There are several (cheap) utilities for doing that conversion. I'm not sure how you'd be able to tell image abc was

Re: PDF creating with fill in fields

2005-04-27 Thread Rick Mason
Manuel, I don't think the cfdocument tag will help you with PDF forms. A member of our user group however did a presentation that might help you. www.coldfusion.org/downloads/Merging_CF_With_Adobe_PDF.zip Rick Mason On 4/2

RE: pdf to jpg

2005-02-10 Thread Emmet McGovern
s. Emmet -Original Message- From: David Fafard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 7:48 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: pdf to jpg I'm using PDF To Image Converter 1.3 from verypdf.com it's US $59.00 This is called from the command line and has served

Re: pdf to jpg

2005-02-10 Thread David Fafard
--- Original Message - From: "Hugo Ahlenius" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 2:57 AM Subject: RE: pdf to jpg |I was hoping to avoid imagemagick. I might just have to search for a |command line executable specific to this. I would g

RE: pdf to jpg

2005-02-10 Thread Hugo Ahlenius
|I was hoping to avoid imagemagick. I might just have to search for a |command line executable specific to this. I would give the |world for a pdf |to jpg and ai to jpg app! Late reply -- Emmet - I think there is functionality in ghostscript to do this (this is probably what imagemagick is depe

RE: pdf to jpg

2005-02-01 Thread Emmet McGovern
: CF-Talk Subject: Re: pdf to jpg On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 12:51:36 -0500, Emmet McGovern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I see plenty of tools to create pdf's with cf but can any tools create a jpg > out of a pdf? We've done this in a PHP site using ImageMagick - sorry I don

Re: pdf to jpg

2005-01-31 Thread Kay Smoljak
On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 12:51:36 -0500, Emmet McGovern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I see plenty of tools to create pdf's with cf but can any tools create a jpg > out of a pdf? We've done this in a PHP site using ImageMagick - sorry I don't have specifics but it's definitely possible. I think there's

RE: PDF via FOP

2005-01-27 Thread Katz, Dov B (IT)
Perfect. Thanks to all... - Also, is it possible to embed images? -Dov -Original Message- From: James Holmes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2005 8:50 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: PDF via FOP The code to go with the CFDJ story has Nate's CFC, which w

RE: PDF via FOP

2005-01-27 Thread James Holmes
The code to go with the CFDJ story has Nate's CFC, which we use successfully: http://photos.sys-con.com/story/res/45575/source.html -Original Message- From: Massimo Foti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 27 January 2005 9:49 To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: PDF via FOP > Can

Re: PDF via FOP

2005-01-27 Thread Massimo Foti
> Can someone please point me to sample apps using FOP and CFMX (java code > or cf code) There is a very interesting presentation from Neil Giarratana: http://www.lucidus.net/fop.zip Also an article: http://www.sys-con.com/story/?storyid=44771&DE=1 You could consider itext too. Here you can find

Re: PDF via FOP

2005-01-27 Thread Douglas Knudsen
google? First hit has an example http://www.google.com/search?q=FOP+CFMX&sourceid=mozilla-search&start=0&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official Doug On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 08:37:43 -0500, Katz, Dov B (IT) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can someone please point me

Re: PDF to SWF ??

2004-05-05 Thread Thomas Chiverton
On Wednesday 05 May 2004 14:44 pm, Nathan C. Smith wrote: > nice > addition to future CF versions - embedded report write with flashpaper/PDF > functionality) < cough > Have you applied for any of the MM beta/alpha programs to see what may or may not appear ? < cough > There is always the wish li

RE: PDF to SWF ??

2004-05-05 Thread Nathan C. Smith
Flashpaper, available in MM Contribute can do something akin to this - though I don't think it can be done programmatically.  (would be a nice addition to future CF versions - embedded report write with flashpaper/PDF functionality) -Nate -Original Message- From: Tony Pimm [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: PDF Report Generation from ColdFusion

2004-04-13 Thread Burns, John D
People already responded to you.  There are many custom tags out there to convert to PDF.  I believe the macromedia exchance has html2pdf which will convert a page you output using CF to PDF. John Burns -Original Message- From: Ruben Ghosal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April

RE: PDF Report Generation from ColdFusion

2004-04-12 Thread Samuel R. Neff
Not the easiest but I would say best is XSL-FO/FOP route.  Large learning curve but very flexible once you get going. Easiest is various HTML to PDF converters. Sam Blog http://www.rewindlife.com TeamMM http://www.macromedia.com/go/team -

RE: PDF opened with CFContent Crashes browser

2004-03-02 Thread d.a.collie
>> I am wondering if anyone has any ideas.  I am opening some PDF files >> with CFContent using the following code:   >> >> VALUE="inline; filename=#VARIABLES.file_name#"> >> >> Everything works fine on the machines I've tried in my >> office, however at least 3 machines in their office >> cr

RE: pdf auto fill from database

2004-01-08 Thread Jeff Garza
lds. Cheers, Jeff Garza   _   From: Tony Weeg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 9:24 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: pdf auto fill from database and the program I would do it with is Acrobat?  using cf? tony r e v o l u t i o n w e b d e s i g n [E

RE: pdf auto fill from database

2004-01-08 Thread Tony Weeg
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 11:44 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: pdf auto fill from database ok, I have opened my pdf in acrobat, I have established form fields, have exported it as an fdf now?  how can I make sql query from a cfmx page populate those fields, and then

RE: pdf auto fill from database

2004-01-08 Thread Tony Weeg
] www.revolutionwebdesign.com its only looks good to those who can see bad as well -anonymous -Original Message- From: Tony Weeg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 11:24 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: pdf auto fill from database and the program I would do it with is Acrobat?  using cf

RE: pdf auto fill from database

2004-01-08 Thread Tony Weeg
: Thursday, January 08, 2004 11:23 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: pdf auto fill from database so, if I have pdf files, not the word docs that made them, and I want to fill in areas, I assign a variable and a place (shape and size too?) on a pdf document to then be populated by values returned from a

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