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 ( Entreprenerd — The Book about 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>>>
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();
Done…
==============================================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
~megan
