Yeah, and indeed loads of cool software to do it with!




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-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Watts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: CF-Talk <[email protected]>
Sent: Tue Jul 11 17:05:36 2006
Subject: RE: coldfusion and PDFs

> Well, the subject is misleading, I was trying to get 
> attention to this thread.

Your strategy doesn't appear to be successful. I submit you'd have better
success with a more specific subject.

> One of our clients is asking us for the ability to, say given 
> a pdf link, be able to sort of "gradual page" the file. 
> Meaning when user clicks on it, he first gets only the table 
> of contents page, and as he clicks on each itme inteh toc, he 
> will be able to go browse thru the file. Meaning on the first 
> click, the whole pdf file shouldn't be downloaded only the toc page.
> 
> Is this sort of thing even possible? any pointers to online 
> resources are really appreciated.
> 
> Also I have a page with some pictures and pdf links on it. If 
> I want to generate ano ther pdf for download which all these 
> pictures, text and content of the pdf links, is that possible????

Well, PDFs can be published so that they will be downloaded gradually. This
is an option in Acrobat. It also requires a web server that knows how to
byte serve requests.

http://www.planetpdf.com/enterprise/article.asp?ContentID=6193
http://www.searchpdf.com/id419.htm

However, if you're generating your PDFs using CFDOCUMENT, I don't think this
is an option. In addition, if you're serving them through CF via CFCONTENT,
I don't think that will work either. You would need to generate your PDF
directly with iText (I think it supports this, but am not sure), then give
the user a link or a redirect to the generated PDF.

Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software
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