Eric, Appligent, formerly Digital Applications [www.appligent.com | www.digapp.com ] develops what are considered some of the most robust, cross platform PDF generation/manipulation tools, and will even sell you their "same as adobe" pdf library for creating PDF will almost ALL current Adobe Acrobat features and functions.
The pricing for their tools is steep, but apparently you get what you pay for. Additionally, most development shops will NEVER get a license from Adobe for the full PDF generation library. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eric Dawson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2001 7:19 AM Subject: Re: (OT) Using CF to create a PDF doc through XSL > well, I'm a little green, but ... > > I have been using the cfx_HTML2PDF? using HTMLDOC (available at) > http://www.easysw.com/htmldoc > (not what you asked for - but can be used to create the PDF in a 3 step > approach) > > I came across http://xml.apache.org/cocoon/ and http://xml.apache.org/fop/ > which looks interesting > > I am not sure where PDFML is at these days, but I have been trying to follow > its development. > > This URL doesn't exist anymore: > http://www.appligent.com/newpages/PDFMLPub.html > but makes you think ... > == snippet from a discussion forum == > FYI: At this week's FOSE convention I found a vendor that looks like it can > do templated PDF generation. The company is Digital Applications, Inc. > (http://www.DigApp.com/). They announced a product called PDFML Publisher. > PDFML is an XML format they have submitted to the W3C. It is basically SVG + > extensions. They have a plug-in to Illustrator that allows you to create > templates (including placeholders for dynamic text or image data) and save > in PDFML. Then they have a server component that can pull the template, > merge XML data from a DB or CMS, and create the PDF. It sounded promising, > but it looks like they don't have any information about this product on > their web site yet. > > - Mark. > == snippet from a discussion forum == > > Eric Dawson > > From: Michael Dinowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: CF-Talk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: (OT) Using CF to create a PDF doc through XSL > Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 17:29:43 -0400 > > I'm using CF to transform a database dump into an XML string and then send > it through an XSL doc to get an html output. A new spec for this operation > is to create a PDF rather than an html doc. Does anyone have a link or some > docs on how to do this? Thanks > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
