Dave,
cfsearching(http://cfsearching.blogspot.com/search/label/iText) haves a
wonderful library with iText and CF integration(using javaloader)
integration. I'll recommend you to look that.
Cheers
Marco Antonio
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 5:54 PM, Dave Phillips <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm attempting to use the iText libs in ColdFusion and want to write my
> HTML to a PDF this way (I am unable to use CFDOCUMENT on my Linux
> installation due to a bug). I can create a simple PDF directly with the
> iText libs with no problem. However, when I output HTML to the itext lib, I
> see the HTML, not the nicely formatted tables I have created. Is there a
> simple fix for this? I have created a cf_pdfdocument custom tag. Here is
> my code (my HTML is in thisTag.generatedContent - the content between my
> cf_pdfdocument tags):
>
> <cfif thisTag.executionMode EQ "end">
> <cfscript>
> // create a 'Document' object
> oDocument = createObject("java", "com.lowagie.text.Document");
> oDocument.init();
> // get an outputstream for the PDF Writer
> oFileIO = CreateObject("java", "java.io.FileOutputStream");
> // call the constructor, pass the location where you want
> // the pdf to be created
> oFileIO.init("mypdf.pdf");
> // get a PDF Writer var
> oWriter = CreateObject("java", "com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfWriter");
> // call the static 'getInstance' factory method
> oWriter.getInstance(oDocument, oFileIO);
> // open the document
> oDocument.open();
> // create a new paragraph
> oParagraph = CreateObject("java", "com.lowagie.text.Paragraph");
> oParagraph.init(thisTag.GeneratedContent);
> // add the paragraph
> oDocument.add(oParagraph);
> // close the document (PDF Writer is listening and will
> automatically
> // create the PDF for us
> oDocument.close();
> </cfscript>
> </cfif>
>
>
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