RE: [cfaussie] Web to PDF

2011-02-02 Thread charlie arehart
Are you on CF 7 or above? If so, then CFDOCUMENT would seem to be what you want. Or is there something about that you've considered that doesn't seem to work? I realize you say, Normally I would create a HTML page from a template then make a PDF of that page, but you don't say how you would do

Re: [cfaussie] Web to PDF

2011-02-02 Thread m...@ampersand.net.au
Hi Charlie. I am in CF8. I think the biggest issue with using cfdocument for this is it just isn't set up to produce documents in CMYK and at 300dpi. On 3/02/2011 1:14 PM, charlie arehart wrote: Are you on CF 7 or above? If so, then

Re: [cfaussie] Web to PDF

2011-02-02 Thread Paul Kukiel
I had issues with cfdocument a few times with massive pdf's. What I did was write out the html to a temp url then use http://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/ with cfexecute on the web accessible html files, delete the html and deliver the PDF and it frees up the CF application server ( as it's

Re: [cfaussie] Web to PDF

2011-02-02 Thread Vendigo Design
Hi Mark, Not sure if this is what you're after but if the PDF you want as the end result has a fixed layout, then you could use a PDF Form. You can setup your PDF file (as CMYK and 300dpi) then save as a PDF Form with editable fields, then have ColdFusion populate the editable fields with

Re: [cfaussie] Web to PDF

2011-02-02 Thread m...@ampersand.net.au
I did think of using a PDF form but I needed to put some images in it, and I couldn't work that bit out. This is absolutely worth investigating, thanks very much. I knew someone would have worked this out! At the moment I am having a play with Latex,