iText & creating PDF on the fly

Hello - I realize that we will not be going to CF 7 any time soon and I can live with that. However one of the things that I was interested in with CF 7 was the new cfdocument tag and the ability to create pdf's on the fly

recently someone posted over at easycfm about using iText (http://www.lowagie.com/iText/) to create PDF's on the fly

(post is at http://www.easycfm.com/forums/viewmessages.cfm?Forum=8&Topic=10035 ) and the example code posted for implementation is:

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<cfscript>
thispath = ExpandPath("*.*");
currDir = GetDirectoryFromPath(thispath);
finalOutPutFile="brochure_printer_test.pdf"; // new output file
//create a paragraph object.
paragraph = createObject("java","com.lowagie.text.Paragraph");
//1. create document object
pdfDocument=createObject("java","com.lowagie.text.Document");
//initialize the pdfDocument
pdfDocument.init();
//create file output stream
newPDF=createObject("java","java.io.FileOutputStream").init(expandPath(finalOutPutFile));
//2. create pdfWriter Instance
pdfWriter = createObject("java","com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfWriter");
//associate pdfDocument with pdfWriter
PdfWriter.getInstance(pdfDocument, newPDF);
//3. open document object
pdfDocument.open();
//4. write data into pdf document goes Here ............
paragraph.init("Hello world.");
//write paragraph in the document.
pdfDocument.add(paragraph);

//5. close pdf stream
pdfDocument.close();
</cfscript>

Done......

<!--- Uncomment the given below line TO Show the Generated Pdf --->
<cfcontent type="application/pdf" file = "#currDir#brochure_printer_test.pdf" deleteFile = "no">
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now here is my question - is iText available for use here ?? or is it possible to have it installed so that it would be available to use ???

thanks, megan

This looks like a good alternative...did you ever get a reply to this?

Hi - No, You're the first person to reply ;P ~megan

Any update on this?

Hi - I haven't heard anything back, so I guess either it is a "no" or they just haven't had time

~Megan

It's been a while on this, has there been a decision made at this time?

I too could put this feature to work if available.

Any chance to get this on Wincf?