iText & creating PDF on the fly

[megan]

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:

snip>>>
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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

 

[Rossv1]

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

 

[megan]

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

 

[Stephen]

this is the first time for me to see this post I will check it out

 

[hatton]

this is the first time for me to see this post I will check it out

Any update on this?

 

[megan]

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

~Megan

 

[hatton]

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

 

[manopb]

I too could put this feature to work if available.

 

[Stephen]

iText is on winCF2 now, but I must reboot it for the classpath settings to work, after that you should be able to utilize it.

I will post a reboot for tonight on the network status forum.

 

[manopb]

Any chance to get this on Wincf?

 

[Stephen]

Going to see how it works on wincf2 and then will make that decision

If it works well, it will be available yes.

just fyi iText is what the adobe pdf creation built into CFMX7 is, its just itext sent with CFMX7 by default with a tag name.