Spike, Drop Alex Skinner an email as he has found a way to do it using Apache.
Grant -----Original Message----- From: Spike [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 10 October 2003 6:52 p.m. To: CFAussie Mailing List Subject: [cfaussie] Re: PDF from CF Have you got that working on *nix? We've found that HTML2PDF always forces the filepath to uppercase, so it doesn't work on linux. We're looking at rewriting some of that functionality, but if someone's already found another way around it we'd be interested to know about it. Spike Ricardo Russon wrote: > Darren, with HTML2PDF, the way to get the images, is to remember that the > images are included relative to the template that is calling the tag, so if > it is calling a page that is in a subfolder, the images will not be found. > > It works the same way as any other cfinclude, moving the relative path of > the page that is included. > > But if you can get it to create the PDF, without strange /'s And \'s getting > the paths right for the images should be easy... > > You can view my script at : > http://www.methoddata.com.au/pdf/pdfTest.cfm > I cheated a little, I can only get it to make files with names like > '\test.pdf' so I had to do a manual link, but the images are working > > "Darren Tracey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I've asked this question before, but I'm having difficulties still with > this. > I want to produce PDF versions of the reports that are produced from our CF > apps. > 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 of whom can't justify a > higher price than CF server just to produce reports. > > I've investigated and discarded ActivePDF, iText, R-Report, and various > Adobe products. > Close competitors so far have been HTML2PDF and HTMLDoc, although both of > these have large enough problems with them that they are not usable. > 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. > > 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 images in the pdf files. > I'm also less than happy with the extremely limited html allowed in page > heading formatting. > 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. > > 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 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 multiple line headers and you can't put your table column > headings in a HTML table in the header either. > > I'm rapidly running out of time on this one, so if anyone can offer any > advise or suggestions, I'm all ears. > > Thanks > > Darren Tracey > > > > > --- > 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/ > > -- Stephen Milligan Software Architect for http://www.bestrates.com.au MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- 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/
