Anthony, Just a short note on this. I'm in a similar situation to yourself. I've recently ported over my apps from windows to linux. I used htmldoc extensively on windows in conjunction with activedit and popchart/cfchart etc to allow users to create fully customized, printable reports. I ported over htmldoc to linux earlier this week, after a few permissions problems were ironed out but have noticed it seems to be a lot slower. Difficult to compare really as my test machine is very low specced compared with my windows production machines. Only 766MHz with 256 RAM as opposed to dual 1.2GHz, 512 RAM. Also, the documents I am creating tend to be text and graphic rich with average 50 pages each. These are currently taking 53 seconds to process on my test hardware. The bulk of the overhead appears to be the use of cfhttp for creating certain pages on-the-fly in preparation for htmldoc processing.
Some other points to note. Specifically for your requirements. Tables will spill over to the next page with htmldoc (unless they've fixed this problem lately - I've not checked the release notes) and I'm presuming you are dealing with large horizontally stretched tables, which will definitely pose a problem, unless you specify landscape page orientation and try fitting in that way. I've no idea about compatibility of the html2pdf custom tag though, but I can't see there being any issues as cfexecute is supported by both linux and windows. I'll shortly be looking into some of the other tools suggested in this thread to see if there are better solutions. HTH, Dave -----Original Message----- From: Anthony Wong [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 20 December 2002 18:12 To: CF-Linux Subject: RE: CF to PDF for Linux Hi Justin, Can I use this for pages generated by CFMX? The pages are for displaying resultset from a query in a table. So basically, the pdf is for documentation and printing. You see, printing an HTML page may result in unprintable areas if the table exceeded the browser width size. So i guess a solution would be to generate them in PDF and print. Does that sound sensible or there is another way to do it? thanks. -Ant -----Original Message----- From: Justin MacCarthy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, December 20, 2002 7:15 PM To: CF-Linux Subject: RE: CF to PDF for Linux Also look at FOP for XML -> PDF http://xml.apache.org/fop/index.html Same XML source, you then can use for XHTML / XML / HTML / WML etc... Justin > -----Original Message----- > From: Anthony Wong [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 20 December 2002 05:45 > To: CF-Linux > Subject: RE: CF to PDF for Linux > > > Hi Todd, > > I tried the same version on Windows. Looks good. Can i use the custom tag > that was created for the windows version in the Linux box? What are the > changes? Linux is still a whole new world to me. > > By the way, I read in the easysw.com FAQ site that it doesn't support UTF > characters like Chinese and Japanese still. Is there one that > supports this > feature? > > Thanks. > > -Ant > > -----Original Message----- > >From: Todd [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, December 20, 2002 12:01 PM > To: CF-Linux > Subject: Re: CF to PDF for Linux > > > You just missed a pretty decent thread about 2-3 days ago. > > HTMLDoc is a 'low end' (and free) HTML2PDF > > http://www.easysw.com/htmldoc/ > > They have a linux build. > > ~Todd > > At 11:44 AM 12/20/2002 +0800, you wrote: > >Hi all, > > > >Does anyone have a good solution to convert content generated by > CF to PDF > >files in Linux environment? I read numerous suggestion in archieves but I > >can't figure out still which one is best for deployement(and free!). I've > >little experiance in Linux environment. > > > >I've visited ActivePDF site and realised that you need to purchase the > >product. Sadly, budget had ran out. > > > >THanks > > > >Anthony > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=14 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=14 This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.14
