Actually, I think it CaN bE dOnE, but its gonna involve some major elbow
grease. What'cha got here, with the fantastic tutorial Max put out, is a
dive into PostScript hacking; something I've always been fond of, as my
background is in the desktop publishing/electronic pre-press arena.
If you think of a .PDF document as just another template, but written in
PostScript instead of Cold Fusion, you can see that by parsing out the code,
you can pretty much do anything you want, in so far that you can create a
parsing engine that can sniff out the portions of code you want to modify.
You build a CF app that CFFILE's in a .PDF doc, parses it out, and CFFILE's
out a modified version of the original. Easy to describe. Hard to implement.
heh...
(nice to finally have my e-mail working again. I was going through fusebox
listserv withdrawls here...)
Alan McCollough
Web Programmer
Allaire Certified ColdFusion Developer
Alaska Native Medical Center
> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2000 8:10 PM
> To: Fusebox
> Subject: Re: Populating PDF forms via CF/FDF (non ActiveX method)
>
>
> I haven't done anything with variable numbers of pages. Off the top of my
> head I don't think it can be done with FDF. Of course there may be some
> creative workaround.
>
> I agree it'd be cool to do. I'm glad you liked the info.
>
> Cheers,
> -Max
>
>
>
> >This is cool stuff!
> >A question: How would you set this up if you have a multipage report
> >that has a variable number of pages depending upon the number of records
> >returned in a query? I am also thinking of the issue of having standard
> >headers and footers on each page?
> >Thanks!
> >Steve
>
>
>
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