two ways of generating pdfs from html:
1. one way is to purchase their DynamicPDF 1.0 product. This product is
just simply a custom tag written in ColdFusion MX. This will give you a
tremendous flexibility when generating pdf from your html file. You can
include html tags to format your output in pdf.
2. the other way is, if you do not want to have the product running on
your server, you can subscribe to their service. You can call their web
service using a cfhttp which will eventually ftp the generated file to you.
It is pretty quick, sometimes you receive the file in less than 3 seconds!
what they do is, you supply them with a URL to an html page that you want to
convert, the web service will crawl through that page and convert the text
to pdf. Then, they will either email you, ftp, or just send you a popup on
your web site for your user with the generated pdf.
>If you are running MX you could use the iText java classes to generate PDF's.
>Also there is something call HTMLto PDF on the Macromedia exchange that I
>believe uses HTMLDOC to convert the HTML that is on the screen to PDF.
>
>Mario
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Dustin Snell [Unisyn Software, LLC] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Sent: Friday, June 18, 2004 4:08 PM
>To: CF-Talk
>Subject: Online Quote Generation for CRM app written in ColdFusion
>
>
>Hello All,
>
>I have written a CRM (customer relationship manager) intranet application
>that I in Cold Fusion for my company. I would like to add a feature to
>generate sales quotes for our customers. These quotes would preferably be
>generated into a PDF file which could be emailed and/or faxed. Anyone know
>of any 3rd party tools, custom tags, or CF source code that could help me
>with this? Would like to get it done quickly.
>
>The real difficult thing is trying to Google this - searching for Quote
>Generator yields all kinds of false hits (Famous quotes from famous people
>etc) if I search for ColdFusion Quote I get people using the quote character
>in their ColdFusion code. It's major pain. Also nothing in the ColdFusion
>exchange that I could find.
>
>Any help you could offer would be appreciated,
>
>Dustin Snell
>Unisyn Software
>AutoMate - The leader in Windows Automation
>www.unisyn.com
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