Sorry that I didn't get to a few questions here on the list yesterday before my
presentation. Hopefully some things are now more clear but in case they aren't
and for those who weren't able to attend the presentation, I'll answer now.
This one I'm not entirely sure how to answer because I'm
I think you nailed it, Howard: there's a big difference between a PDF document
and a PDF form. ColdFusion 8 allows you to do a number of things with PDF
documents, but because they are documents, not structured data containers,
ColdFusion 8 doesn't have any specific functionality for dealing
Yep-it is absolutely possible to pull the text out of at least some PDFs (as
you mentioned, some PDFs may contain text that may not be able to be detected
as text but instead may appear as image content) and as I mentioned yesterday,
Raymond Camden's PDFUtils package has functionality for doing
I'm going to watch Josh's presentation via Connect as I couldn't attend the
meeting last night.
But, with all the interest in this topic, I thought I should share my
experiences. I was really excited about the new PDF stuff in CF8 as I had an
immediate need. I jumped in with both feet last fall
WARNING: long, long, long post. :)
Well, Clarke-I do hope that you'll be helped by the presentation. And I'll try
to help you further here and if you have more, don't hesitate to ask! But in
terms of getting anything to the right people at Adobe: as you'll see, at this
point I don't think
