> I'm having a bit of confusion about this PDF thread that has > been going back and forth the last few weeks and I'm not sure > where the good advice recently posted actually points. > > Here is what I want to do: > > 1) dynamically fill in data from a DB to a PDF file, using CF. > 2) how to create that PDF file ahead of time (NOT on-the-fly!) > > I do NOT want to dynamically create the file itself--just > populate it with data. I would think that this would be the > first thing anyone starting to work with PDF's would try :) > But it's really unclear to me from the advice about > www.activepdf.com and the like whether those solutions are > over-kill for the above (simple?) process. In essence just > like creating such a template in Word, I'd like to create > one in PDF format and then just in the blanks after a query > to the DB. You might want to take a look at this: http://www.figleaf.com/figleafhome/cfug/CFUGSep99_CreatingAcrobat.zip Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ voice: (202) 797-5496 fax: (202) 797-5444 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists or send a message with 'unsubscribe' in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
