Have you ever worked this out? I am working on the same issues now. Would be nice to have an easy way of displaying page numbers.
On Tuesday, August 21, 2012 4:16:22 AM UTC-4, Confused wrote: > > Not what I was hoping to hear, but thanks. > > I'll play with that, but it may be a few days. > > If it could all be solved with css3, I wouldn't mind a bit. Gotta learn it > eventually... and CFDocumentSection has never been a real gem, anyway. > > But "Page X of Y" is hard to do without. > > Pls let me know of any tips you hear of, and I'll get back with the > results of my tinkering. > > tx, > c > > > > On Tuesday, August 21, 2012 1:27:54 AM UTC-5, Peter J. Farrell wrote: >> >> There is definitely some work to be done. This works, but no access to >> any cfdocument variables: >> >> <cfdocument format="pdf" >> orientation="landscape" >> src="http://#cgi.SERVER_NAME#"; <http://#cgi.SERVER_NAME%23> >> >> filename="#ExpandPath("/spectrum-public/docs/DuroDesignShowrooms.pdf")#" >> overwrite="true"> >> <style> >> @page { >> @bottom-center { content: element(footer); } >> } >> >> div.content {page-break-after: always;} >> >> ##footer { position: running(footer); font-size:2em; } >> >> </style> >> >> <div id="footer"> >> Footer information >> </div> >> <div class="content"> >> #event.getArg("layout.showrooms_usa")# >> </div> >> </cfdocument> >> >> @Alan, is there a way we can parse the body for placeholders so we can >> use flying saucer notation with CSS3 and still have cfdocument.* access or >> something like it? >> >> Confused said the following on 08/21/2012 12:46 AM: >> >> Maybe I'm doing it wrong.... >> >> This code (not in a cfdocumentsection): >> >> <cfoutput> >> <p> >> <cfif cfdocument.currentpagenumber is 1> >> page 1 of #cfdocument.totalpagecount# >> <cfelse> >> page #cfdocument.currentpagenumber# of #cfdocument.totalpagecount# >> </cfif> >> </p> >> </cfoutput> >> >> produces this output (it's near the top of the page and has other output >> below it, so it is definately on page 1): >> >> page BD:CURRENTPAGENUMBER of BD:TOTALPAGECOUNT >> >> I think we have an issue with not being able to determine total pages >> until all of them have been rendered in some way. ?? >> >> tx, >> c >> >> >> >> >> On Tuesday, August 21, 2012 12:26:33 AM UTC-5, Peter J. Farrell wrote: >>> >>> You definitely have access to current page and total pages...have you >>> tried? >>> >>> You might be able to do headers and footers using css3 which the Flying >>> Saucer library uses. >>> >>> @alan, do you know why the cfdocumentitem doesn't allow styling? >>> On Aug 21, 2012 12:17 AM, "Confused" <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> ouch. >>>> That's a significant issue for me. Got about 20 reports I'm gonna have >>>> to redesign. >>>> >>>> In the past, we haven't been able to use cfdocument.currentpagenumber & >>>> totalpagecount for comparisons. (and if I remember correctly, can't use >>>> 'em >>>> outside of header/footer). If I could get access to those, I could likely >>>> craft my own headers/footers. >>>> >>>> Alternately, could I drop in an iText library and fix anything? .. >>>> (even if I have to pay for it) >>>> That probably breaks with the open source philosophy, but my customers >>>> are less concerned with that than with good-looking quotes. >>>> >>>> ideas? >>>> >>>> tx, >>>> c >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Monday, August 20, 2012 10:40:23 PM UTC-5, Peter J. Farrell wrote: >>>>> >>>>> At this moment, text is the only thing allowed in header / footer. Its >>>>> really a limitation of the FlyingSaucer library that is used. I haven't >>>>> found a work around yet. >>>>> On Aug 20, 2012 9:49 PM, "Confused" <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Moving a site onto OBD. W08 Server, 64-bit. >>>>>> >>>>>> Can't get cfdocumentitem type=header/footer to do much. (I'm making >>>>>> .pdf's, btw) >>>>>> >>>>>> It prints the text, but that's about it. ... no images... no >>>>>> spacing... no fonts, colors or other styling whatsoever. >>>>>> It seems to ignore table tags, divs, and paragraph tags... doesn't >>>>>> want to display an image whether in image tags or styled as backgrounds >>>>>> ... >>>>>> tried using style tags and inline styles... >>>>>> Nothing seems to work. I just get a single, left-aligned, unstyled >>>>>> line of whatever text I had in the tables, paragraph tags, etc. >>>>>> >>>>>> Any voices of experience on this? >>>>>> Any ideas? >>>>>> >>>>>> Much Tx, >>>>>> c >>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> online documentation: http://openbd.org/manual/ >>>>>> http://groups.google.com/group/openbd?hl=en >>>>>> >>>>> -- >>>> online documentation: http://openbd.org/manual/ >>>> http://groups.google.com/group/openbd?hl=en >>>> >>> -- >> online documentation: http://openbd.org/manual/ >> http://groups.google.com/group/openbd?hl=en >> >> >> >> -- >> Peter J. Farrell >> OpenBD Steering Committee / Mach-II Lead >> Developerhttp://blog.maestropublishing.com >> Identi.ca / Twitter: @maestrofjp >> >> Please do not send me Microsoft Office/Apple iWork documents. 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