I'm using this now for a new application and it's working pretty well. There's a tag in the Developer's Exchange (HTML2PDF3) that masks a lot of the complexity and because it includes HTMLDOC in the archive I think you get the command-line version. The command-line version is free if you download the source and compile it yourself (as far as I understand) so I guess you can compile and then distribute the compiled version with your application.
At any rate, it's pretty quick, you can customize where it saves the TEMP files and you can pass commands to format the PDF pages landscape, set font-sizes, etc. All-in-all I'm thrilled with it. When you consider the commercial application ActivePDF with the add-on to generate PDF from dynamic web content is more expensive than ColdFusion Pro it becomes even more attractive despite it's limited HTML support. I think from the documentation HTMLDOC is HTML 3.2 compliant and a 4.0/CSS1 version is in the works to be released later this year. I'm just using it to build reports from dynamic data, so I have the luxury of being able to make a custom template that's HTML 3.2 compliant for the PDF generation, but it would (will) be great when it supports HTML 4.0/CSS1 so I can use one template for HTML and PDF output. Check out HTML2PDF3 ... It's been a real timesaver for me. Joshua Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: Rick Faircloth [mailto:Rick@;GoLibertyOnline.com] Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2002 5:09 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: My experiences working with CFMX and HTMLDOC to convert web pages to pdf Hi, Dave. So HTMLDOC is working out for you? Are you using the free version that doesn't include the command line processing? If so, are you getting around not having the command line execution by using CFEXECUTE? What about your question concerning CSS...does it support it? Thanks, Rick Rick Faircloth, Prism Productions -----Original Message----- From: David Adams [mailto:dadams@;magma.ca] Sent: Friday, November 01, 2002 5:14 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: My experiences working with CFMX and HTMLDOC to convert web pages to pdf Environment: -CFMX -Win2k Server -HTMLDOC verion 1.8.23 (www.easysw.com) I had a simple form that requested the URL of the target webpage. I passed this into a CFEXECUTE and HTMLDOC handled it from there. Here is my code: <CFEXECUTE NAME="C:\Program Files\HTMLDOC\gHTMLDOC.exe" ARGUMENTS="--webpage -f test6.pdf #Form.Selected_URL#" TIMEOUT="30"> </CFEXECUTE> Experiences: - It was very slow compared to doing the same process at the cmd prompt - It stored the newly created pdf document in C:\CFusionMX\runtime\bin What are your experiences and recommendations? This holds a lot of promise because it is effective and free. Dave Watts once commented that it does not support CSS. Any other comments? Dave Adams, CFUG Ottawa ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com
