Hi Andy, Thanks for the quick response. Obviously, I need cfdocument for the conversion process (which you are already planning on implementing) and then for the cfpdf tag the critical pieces are the ability to merge, encrypt/password protection, generate thumbnails, and set the metadata of the PDF document.
I'll take a look at the iText library as well. Thanks for your help! On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 9:33 AM, Andy Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Anthony, > > I'm planning to look at implementing CFDOCUMENT soon and will probably > leverage the iText library in doing so (http://www.lowagie.com/iText/). > It may offer some or all of the functionality that CFPDF offers so I may > delve further into it in future. > > Which functions of CFPDF are most critical to you? > > Thanks > Andy > > On 10/12/2008 04:11, ahixon2112 wrote: > > I have outgrown my Adobe CF 8 Standard server, but as a small non- > > profit hospital, we just don't have the budget for a multi-thousand > > dollar enterprise license. That said, I want to get away from Windows > > completely on the server side and migrate to an Ubuntu, OpenBD, MySQL > > solution. A couple of the projects I have coming up call for a way to > > convert uploaded Word documents to a PDF to be displayed to normal > > users. > > > > My question is this: Is there an alternative solution that other > > OpenBD users have implemented sans cfpdf type tags (I'm assuming those > > are proprietary to Adobe)? > > > > Thanks in advance! > > > > Anthony > > > > > > > From - Wed > > > > > > > -- Anthony Hixon, Jr. Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX 7 Developer Mobile: (706) 639-3617 [EMAIL PROTECTED] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Open BlueDragon Public Mailing List http://groups.google.com/group/openbd?hl=en official blog @ http://blog.openbluedragon.org/ !! save a network - trim replies before posting !! -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
