RE: [Flashcoders] Options for generating pdf files

2007-07-24 Thread Palmer, Jim
Michael, I've used Coldfusion7 and PHP + PDFLib lite on several projects before. I've also used HTMLDOC for html->pdf conversion but Coldfusion has them all beat with the simplicity of html->pdf conversion. You literally output your inline html and using the tag. The only problem is that there

Re: [Flashcoders] Options for generating pdf files

2007-07-24 Thread dbenman
Why don't you want to use the pdf xtra/Impressario? It has many features readily available that seem like you'd have recreate elsewhere. I'm working on a project now that uses Flash/Director and merges PDFs. -- Original message -- From: "Mendelsohn, Michael" <[EM

RE: [Flashcoders] Options for generating pdf files

2007-07-24 Thread Mendelsohn, Michael
So do you think it would be possible to take a fairly complex array, run it through some function in AS2 that describes the document page by page, send it to CF and out pops a pdf? Would it be possible to have templates using the drawing API, and add data? I'm understanding that CF could take all

RE: [Flashcoders] Options for generating pdf files

2007-07-23 Thread Dave Watts
> I've never used Cold Fusion before, but I hear there's pdf > generation capability in it. Would Flash + CF work best, or > are there other routes to take? Yes, there's very nice PDF generation in CF 7, and even better PDF generation in the upcoming CF 8. Now that Adobe owns it, the sky's the