Hi Darren, have a look at pdf995, can be happily called programatically and costs about 10 bucks US. I've used it a few times and had no problems.
cheers, Toby Friday, October 10, 2003, 1:42:27 PM, you wrote: DT> I've asked this question before, but I'm having difficulties still with this. DT> I want to produce PDF versions of the reports that are produced from our CF apps. DT> Several factors limit my choices on this, the most important being price, which rules out several 'enterprise' level solutions. We will be requiring this to work on about 100 client servers, many DT> of whom can't justify a higher price than CF server just to produce reports. DT> I've investigated and discarded ActivePDF, iText, R-Report, and various Adobe products. DT> Close competitors so far have been HTML2PDF and HTMLDoc, although both of these have large enough problems with them that they are not usable. DT> Features that we require include HTML input, HTML headers, repeating table headers (i.e. table headers reprint at the top of each page they span over), and image rendering. DT> I've had several people recommend HTML2PDF, and I've even been given modified versions of this that was supposed to fix some problems with it, but I can't for the life of me get it to include DT> images in the pdf files. I'm also less than happy with the extremely limited html allowed in page heading formatting. DT> If anyone who has used this can offer some suggestions or even just show me some example code that includes an image in a pdf, I'd be more than happy. DT> Similarly, I've had some people recommend HTMLDoc, which on the surface looks like a great product which renders quite complex HTML really well, including inserting images into the PDF files. The DT> problem where it totally falls down is that it only allows a single text line for the headers and footers. It lets you break this up to a left, right and centre section, but you can't have DT> multiple line headers and you can't put your table column headings in a HTML table in the header either. DT> I'm rapidly running out of time on this one, so if anyone can offer any advise or suggestions, I'm all ears. DT> Thanks DT> Darren Tracey DT> --- DT> You are currently subscribed to cfaussie as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DT> To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] DT> MX Downunder AsiaPac DevCon - http://mxdu.com/ -------------------------------- Life is Poetry, write it in your own words -------------------------------- Toby Tremayne Cold Fusion Developer Code Poet and Zen Master of the Heavy Sleep Virtual Tours +61 416 048 090 ICQ: 13107913 --- You are currently subscribed to cfaussie as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] MX Downunder AsiaPac DevCon - http://mxdu.com/
