Hi Ed,
I do a lot of this, and I think in the easiest way: I generate
an HTML page and store the entire thing in a variable, then write it to
a file. I then open the file up in Word via CFOBJECT and have Word
print it out automatically. It takes some work to get it set up
properly but it's worth it when those sheets start feeding out of the
printer.
I can give you some code to follow if you're interested.
- Matt Small
-----Original Message-----
From: Ed Gordon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 12:30 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Help - MS Word outputfrom CF?
After the users put in parameters to generate a "quote" and the customer
says
'yes', I need to generate a whole big document, including standard
paragraphs,
and other sections of text inserted based on various aspects of the
sale.
This is now all done by hand in MS Word. I can get all the parts (text
paragraphs),
but how do I then have CF spit out a nicely-formatted text document?
In general, what DO people do about printed reports???!?!?! I have so
far
only
put a printer-friendly web page out and the user prints it in his
browser.
This is supposed to be a nicely formatted printed document, an actual
legal
contract for the customer to sign. Anyone do this type of thing before?
Thanks!
Ed Gordon
CF Developer
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