I dont know of any products that will convert word document to pdf 'on the fly' via code that you could execute from CFMX. However activePDF may have this feature as i believe it has its own print driver.
FOP is your best bet for creating a PDF from a XML/HTML document. If you need to 'stich' documents together, i would recommend a PDFLib www.pdflib.com It has an API for opening pdf files and then inserting them into a result pdf. (ActivePDF probably does this too) the other advantage of PDFLib is that you can draw vector graphics straight into the document and also has alot of control over fonts and embedding. there is also an open source product called iText which is similar. Just another idea, which i dont really know if it works is to install Acrobat Distiller on your server and set up a 'watch folder'. You copy the word doc to the folder and wait for the result pdf to appear in the same folder. (this will be really easy to implement with blackstone gateways, ironically tho your problem will also be solved in blackstone with the <CFDOCUMENT> tag!) Im not sure if installing acrobat distiller in this way is legal licence-wise. Pat "Elliot Russo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Hi, > > I have a requirement to produce PDFs from CFMX. I need to be able to create > PDFs from a range of existing documents (Word etc), stitching them together > at times too. I also need to be able to generate PDFs from templates and > query data (that could be HTML or an Adobe form with fdf file). > > There are products like activePDF( http://www.activePDF.com ) which seem to > do the job, 'at a price'. Free solutions like HTML2PDF are not sophisticated > enough. > > Any experiences, ideas, urls etc greatly appreciated. > > Elliot > > > > --- You are currently subscribed to cfaussie as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Aussie Macromedia Developers: http://lists.daemon.com.au/
