Hi all,
I'm trying to generate a PDF. Should be easy right?
Problem is, Chrome and Safari throw this error in Acrobat:
Cannot use Adobe Reader to view PDF in your web browser. Reader will now exit.
Please exit your browser and try again.
Firefox and IE are fine.
I want the download option
AM
To: cf-talk
Subject: PDF generation in Chrome and Safari
Hi all,
I'm trying to generate a PDF. Should be easy right?
Problem is, Chrome and Safari throw this error in Acrobat:
Cannot use Adobe Reader to view PDF in your web browser. Reader will now
exit. Please exit your browser and try again
http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/405/kb405461.html
mxAjax / CFAjax docs and other useful articles:
http://www.bifrost.com.au/blog/
On 20 April 2010 22:53, Glenn Hartong gl...@glickcf.com wrote:
Hi all,
I'm trying to generate a PDF. Should be easy right?
Problem is, Chrome and Safari throw this
Thank you for the reference. I got LiveCycle setup in my machine and was
trying to setup the PDF with LiveCycle Designer but Have no clue how to
setup variables etc in PDF. I could not find any information about that
anywhere. appreciate if someone share their experience. Thanks,
Thank you for the reference. I got LiveCycle setup in my machine and was
trying to setup the PDF with LiveCycle Designer but Have no clue how to
setup variables etc in PDF. I could not find any information about that
anywhere. appreciate if someone share their experience. Thanks,
I'm
I am not creating forms. I have pdf which needs to feed the variables like
Company Name: *ABC company*
I need to put the company_name variable where ABC printed.
I don't want to create a form element that should be rather than just
#company_name# and not input type=text name=company
As you said
Is there a reason you can't just create the template with HTML and use
cfdocument to create the PDF?
mxAjax / CFAjax docs and other useful articles:
http://www.bifrost.com.au/blog/
2009/12/29 Asim Manzur bytel...@gmail.com:
I am not creating forms. I have pdf which needs to feed the
Yes the problem is this pdf has lines, and sections and bar codes and bunch
of other static stuff, which I can easily handle in pdf template but will
become pain if I do in html.
I am currently using this with ActivePDF but that where I am designing and
drawing it line by line.
Its now have
Asim
Check out Dynamic PDF v4.0
http://www.dynamicpdf.com/?gclid=CNL8hdiL_J4CFQoiagodSh8mmQ
- Original Message -
From: Asim Manzur bytel...@gmail.com
To: cf-talk cf-talk@houseoffusion.com
Sent: Tuesday, December 29, 2009 8:41 AM
Subject: Re: PDF Generation
Yes the problem
I am not creating forms. I have pdf which needs to feed the variables like
Company Name: *ABC company*
I need to put the company_name variable where ABC printed.
I don't want to create a form element that should be rather than just
#company_name# and not input type=text name=company
As
I know that you can have a PDF form which can post the data to a server.
But I am looking for something which allows me to create a PDF template and
I can drop variables there and coldFusion can feed the data to that PDF
template.
Currently using ActivePDF for this but wondering if CF8 or CF9
Asim,
You can use cfpdfform action=populate with cfpdfformparam values nested
-Original Message-
From: Asim Manzur [mailto:bytel...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, December 23, 2009 9:57 AM
To: cf-talk
Subject: PDF Generation
I know that you can have a PDF form which can post the data
I know that you can have a PDF form which can post the data to a server.
But I am looking for something which allows me to create a PDF template and
I can drop variables there and coldFusion can feed the data to that PDF
template.
You can write values to a LiveCycle Designer PDF form from CF
No one else encountered this? Really?
The solution I came up with was to send PDF processing to another server
running CF7. That server processes the CFDocument tag and sends back the file.
Here's the custom tag I came up with to hand off and receive the data.
!---
TAG NAME AND
I've been doing some performance test of ColdFusion 8 vs. 7 and have been
stunned by what I've found for PDFs. I set up two identical Windows Server 2003
virtual machines and have found CF8 generates PDF files about 4 times slower
than CF7. This sample 100 page PDF takes 7-8 seconds to
I don't believe you can swap in a newer version of iText and still
have cfdocument work. So if cfdocument isn't doing what you want then
you will have two switch to a different PDF generation technology. If
you switch to a later version of iText you will no longer be using
ColdFusion, which would
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Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2009 6:47 PM
To: cf-talk
Subject: cfdocument pdf generation
I have a tough question.
I am trying to use cfdocument to generate a huge PDF file
with 5000+ images
after failing (even with CF64bits and 8GB of RAM), I was
analyzing the PDF
generated
iText implementation called by CreateObject ?
answers suggesting me to use something else than coldfusion won't be very
helpful, since I already know that, but I want to use coldfusion to generate
those PDFs Comparing with other PHP and ASP.NET http://asp.net/ based
solutions, coldfusion pdf
?
answers suggesting me to use something else than coldfusion won't be very
helpful, since I already know that, but I want to use coldfusion to generate
those PDFs Comparing with other PHP and ASP.NET http://asp.net/ based
solutions, coldfusion pdf generation is bloated and slow and I am trying
Daniel wrote:
the real question: can I update iText with a more recent version ? if so,
sure but cfdocument will probably stop working (though give it a try).
implementation, is there a easy way to convert html to pdf using an external
iText implementation called by CreateObject ?
it will
thanks everyone
I will look into that
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Archive:
: Re: CF and Accessible PDF generation
Are there any good resource that discuss the hows and whys of making PDF
documents created by ColdFusion features such as cfdocument... and
cfreport... to be as accessible as possible. How one sets the
language meta data, how one creates 'taged' pdf files
Are there any good resource that discuss the hows and whys of making PDF
documents created by ColdFusion features such as cfdocument... and
cfreport... to be as accessible as possible. How one sets the
language meta data, how one creates 'taged' pdf files, ect.
I guess you did not an answer
I posted a blog entry about this at
http://coldfused.blogspot.com/2007/12/images-and-cfdocument-performance.html
Let me know if that helps.
Thanks Regards,
Rupesh
Adobe ColdFusion Team
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Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is
the
issue? Is it my CF code? I need to put this app to bed as soon as I can, but
this is the last remaining piece.
I started running the PDF generation as soon as I started typing this post
and it's only just now finally loaded. That's about 2 or 3 minutes worth of
time. I could understand if I
Andy,
The file size is huge. 2.8 MB when it finally finishes. I took your code,
and did it locally, now I don't have all of the pictures in mine, and there
were a couple of open tags (an H1 at the beginning and a div somewhere), but
it generated in 2823 ms and the PDF is only 560 kb. With the
Just to follow up, you will maybe have to look into doing some page control
with the cfdocument tags. I have a PDF with parts of images spanning pages,
and it just looks terrible. Are the proposals always going to contain
similar information? Just wondering if you could then add some pagination
specifies. So I can't rely on this
module being on a specific page, etc.
Thanks for your input man, I appreciate it.
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From: Rob Parkhill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, December 14, 2007 8:23 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: Follow-up: PDF generation running
www.coldfusionmuse.com
www.necfug.com
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From: Rob Parkhill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, December 14, 2007 8:26 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: Follow-up: PDF generation running excrutiatingly slow
Just to follow up, you will maybe have to look into doing some
Mark...
Thanks for those comments...I'll give those a try!
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From: Mark Kruger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, December 14, 2007 8:51 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: Follow-up: PDF generation running excrutiatingly slow
Rob,
I have a couple of tips on my blog
? Is it my CF
code? I need to put this app to bed as soon as I can, but this is the last
remaining piece.
I started running the PDF generation as soon as I started typing this post and
it's only just now finally loaded. That's about 2 or 3 minutes worth of time. I
could understand if I
as soon as I can, but
this is the last remaining piece.
I started running the PDF generation as soon as I started typing this post
and it's only just now finally loaded. That's about 2 or 3 minutes worth of
time. I could understand if I was generating 30 or 40 pages worth of content
Here's some updates used for testing:
This page is the exact same source code as the original link, but has NO CF
processing (other than the cfdocument tag):
http://gaylordoprylandsales.com/prop/PDFtest_01.cfm
This page has had it's complex div based layout converted to tables:
Here's some updates used for testing:
This page is the exact same source code as the original link, but has NO CF
processing (other than the cfdocument tag):
http://gaylordoprylandsales.com/prop/PDFtest_01.cfm
This page has had it's complex div based layout converted to tables:
Are there any good resource that discuss the hows and whys of making PDF
documents created by ColdFusion features such as cfdocument... and
cfreport... to be as accessible as possible. How one sets the
language meta data, how one creates 'taged' pdf files, ect.
Ian Skinner wrote:
Are there any good resource that discuss the hows and whys of making PDF
documents created by ColdFusion features such as cfdocument... and
cfreport... to be as accessible as possible.
I discussed this with somebody from Adobe and the guy who wrote the
official standard
Although the timeframe suggests the problem may be deeper, you still
should make sure you're var-scoping your variables in CFCs where
appropriate. As basic as this step seems, it does ultimately allow the
garbage collection mechanisms to more quickly and accurately identify
memory ready to be
This also happened to us once in over a year of generating PDF's using
cfdocument. We traced it down to a PDF request. After that request,
CPU shot up over 50% (it's usually around 10%) and stayed at that
level. No PDF's could be generated until we restarted the CF
services.
Jon
On 4/17/06,
Hi folks, I am wondering of anyone in the community has experienced this issue.
I have an application that runs a query on our MySQL database and prints out a
PDF. The user clicks a link the runs this cfm page which then generates this
PDF. We are on a shared host. Every few months (2-3), we
On 4/17/06, Anthony Crawford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi folks, I am wondering of anyone in the community has experienced this
issue.
I have an application that runs a query on our MySQL database and prints out
a PDF.
The user clicks a link the runs this cfm page which then generates this
Well, it wasn't easy, at first. I'd like to take a moment and thank you for
posting what you'd accomplished, it helped get me up and running.
With all the nifty class loaders and such it isn't quite as difficult...
funny you'd mention the fact that it's built into CF now (actually, it has
been
Denny Valliant wrote:
added it when they added cfdocument, neh? It would be nice if they
contributed back the code for HTML PDF. Not that I'm one to talk,
obviously. You won't find a blog entry documenting my experiences. :-)
i'm not sure what you're referring to. html to pdf is itext in
On 4/8/06, Paul Hastings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Denny Valliant wrote:
added it when they added cfdocument, neh? It would be nice if they
contributed back the code for HTML PDF. Not that I'm one to talk,
obviously. You won't find a blog entry documenting my experiences. :-)
i'm not
when it comes to pdf generation. We're looking to purchase a
CF license for a site which has a primary purpose of generating a pdf report
(about 30 page report, with maybe a few graphics). Based on what we think
traffice will be to the site we want to find out if the difference would
justify
Does someone know or be able to point me in the direction of where I could
find information related to the measurable difference between CF Enterprise
and Standard when it comes to pdf generation. We're looking to purchase a
CF license for a site which has a primary purpose of generating a pdf
and Standard when it comes to pdf generation. We're looking to purchase a
CF license for a site which has a primary purpose of generating a pdf
report
(about 30 page report, with maybe a few graphics). Based on what we think
traffice will be to the site we want to find out if the difference
Denny Valliant wrote:
depanding on what you want to do, you could use ^JasperReports, and go with
the standard ed..
while ^jasperReports does work and can be integrated into CF, I'm not
sure I'd recommend it to anyone now that it's built into CF.. for a
variety of reasons.
#1 - implementing
Does anyone have any kind of metrics on how much memory is used during
the creation of PDF reports using cfreport?
Is the whole thing stored in memory during the generation process?
We tried to generate a report for a couple hundred donors with 13,000
giving transaction totals, which amounts
Hi
Can I use cfdocument to format the first page of a report. Essentially the
first page to look differently from the rest because headers/logos etc.
Thanks
Sam
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On 3/16/06, Sam Komo_ITS [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi
Can I use cfdocument to format the first page of a report. Essentially
the
first page to look differently from the rest because headers/logos etc.
Thanks
Sam
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I have tried checking the archives, and I just can't find a good answer. I am
trying to generate PDF on the fly. I have given CFDocument a chance, which is
good, but my client Requires justified text, which CFD cannot handle. So, i am
wondering if anyone out there has a good suggestion for PDF
it looks correct?
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web developer
ICGLink, Inc.
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-Original Message-
From: Ben Nadel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2005 3:09 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: PDF Generation
I have
I've got a question about CFMX7's PDF generation. Presumably it is
converting HTML content to PDF format. The question is, what generator
does it use to do this - IE's DLLs, Gecko, or something else as this
will drastically affect the quality of the output.
Also, how would things like in-page
I believe it is using a combo of Java and/or FlashPaper.
-Original Message-
From: Damien McKenna [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 11 February 2005 15:10
To: CF-Talk
Subject: CFMX7 PDF generation question
I've got a question about CFMX7's PDF generation. Presumably it is
converting
I have a report in ColdFusion and Flash. How can I save the report as a PDF file without losing any formatting characters?
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I have the task of finding a solution for generating volumes of PDF's.
Pretty typical: pull info from db, build a pdf, and save it to disk.
However, we're talking about 10,000 pdf's at once. Anyone have any
ideas on what would be the most robust solution?
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Billy Cravens
HR Web Development,
I am using activePDF Server and WebGrabber from ActivePDF. It works pretty well and is
fast.
www.activepdf.com
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www.factorxsoftware.com
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Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2001 12:32 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: OT: PDF generation
I have the task of finding a solution for generating volumes of PDF's.
Pretty typical: pull info from db, build a pdf, and save it to disk.
However, we're talking about 10,000 pdf's at once. Anyone have any
ideas
Caulfield
Cognitive Arts
-Original Message-
From: Billy Cravens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2001 11:32 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: OT: PDF generation
I have the task of finding a solution for generating volumes of PDF's.
Pretty typical: pull info from db, build a pdf
first use the right tool for the job. is this a batch job? there is a free pdf
lib for C,perl, java, python
Billy Cravens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have the task of finding a solution for generating volumes of PDF's.
Pretty typical: pull info from db, build a pdf, and save it to disk.
Anyone hear put ActivePDF under that kind of stress? (10,000 pages / files
at a a whack?)
If your on a WIN platform give activepdf a whirl. If other OS or you run
into prob's with ActivePDF ( i hear nasty "rumors" you might)
Pretty much one of the un-disputed robust PDF generation too
Search on the site results in NIL under Adobe / PDF / CFSOUTH ... tho I did
find a pr on the CfSouth Presentation
Steve
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From: "Caulfield, Michael" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: "CF-Talk" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2001 9:50 AM
Subject
I've put activepdf under pretty good stress on windows. In my opinion, it's
not the best tool for batch processing, but is excellent for "on the fly"
pdf generation and for very dynamic page generation (it integrates very well
with other COM Objects). Unlike some of the other serve
Yes it will be a batch job. Where can I get the library(ies)?
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Billy Cravens
HR Web Development, Sabre
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Alex wrote:
first use the right tool for the job. is this a batch job? there is a free pdf
lib for C,perl, java, python
Billy Cravens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I
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From: Billy Cravens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2001 2:35 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: [OT: PDF generation]
Yes it will be a batch job. Where can I get the library(ies)?
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Billy Cravens
HR Web Development, Sabre
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Alex wrote:
first use the right
And that lib would be? where?
Steve
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From: "Alex" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
first use the right tool for the job. is this a batch job? there is a free
pdf
lib for C,perl, java, python
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www.fastio.com/
Billy Cravens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yes it will be a batch job. Where can I get the library(ies)?
--
Billy Cravens
HR Web Development, Sabre
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Alex wrote:
first use the right tool for the job. is this a batch job? there is a free
pdf
lib for C,perl,
http://www.ininet.com/home/cfsouth.zip
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From: Stephen M Aylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2001 12:35 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: PDF generation
Search on the site results in NIL under Adobe / PDF / CFSOUTH ... tho I did
find a pr
001 12:47 PM
Subject: RE: PDF generation
http://www.ininet.com/home/cfsouth.zip
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From: Stephen M Aylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2001 12:35 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: PDF generation
Search on the site results in NIL under A
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Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2001 3:47 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject:RE: PDF generation
http://www.ininet.com/home/cfsouth.zip
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From: Stephen M Aylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2001 12:35 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: PDF generation
I get file not available - been moved. Maybe took X-Lax! I still have some
interest in XML.
PC
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Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2001 4:04 PM
Subject: RE: PDF generation
Also,
11:16 PM
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Subject:Re: PDF generation
I get file not available - been moved. Maybe took X-Lax! I still have some
interest in XML.
PC
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