Hi Darren, I know i mentioned FOP to you before, but I think this is your best option from the ones i know of. I would build your reports like this:
have you reports returned as XML data from a CFC or whatever. 1. Write xsl stylesheet to convert XML to html. 2. Writ xsl stylesheet to convert XML/HTML (you could bypass using xml) to xsl:fo 3. run your xsl:fo through FOP CFX tag or via CFC that calls FOP libraries to produce PDF. it might be complicated to set up (installing FOP and writing a CFX to use it is kinda tricky, I can post details of how to do these if you like) but once its completed it would be super simple to add new styles and maintain...(no code changes!) Admittedly there is a learning curve when you build xsl:fo stylesheets, but there are heaps of examples out there to build simple layouts like reports. Pat "Darren Tracey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Yep. I looked at that one too. I've got several hundred reports to write, and I have to do a html version of each, so if I can just put this same html into something that will make a pdf doc that would almost half my development time. Also it means I don't have to learn a new printing control language. And thats not just important for me, but for any other coders that end up doing it after me. Darren Tracey > -----Original Message----- > From: Mark Stanton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, 10 October 2003 1:52 PM > To: CFAussie Mailing List > Subject: [cfaussie] RE: PDF from CF > > > Probably not a plan if you are running out of time but.... > > FOP & Ghostscript - both free, functional and very diffcult to use. > > > Cheers > > Mark > > > ______________ > Mark Stanton > Technical Director > Gruden Pty Ltd > Tel: 9956 6388 > Mob: 0410 458 201 > Fax: 9956 8433 > http://www.gruden.com > > --- > 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/ > --- 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/
