Word/PDF Generation 1

[ded]

Has anyone come across an application/custom tag which can generate MS Word or PDF documents?

Cheers,
Duncan

 

[MrSki]

Our company uses a program called activePDF (

http://www.activepdf.com/)

to generate custom documents for users who select a variety of portions of an html article to fit their needs. I do not use it personally so I am not a good person to ask questions. But I know it works. Check out there website for more details to see if it fits your needs.
Mitch Duszynski
Web Developer
Human Kinetics
PO Box 5076, Champaign, IL 61825
Tel: 217-351-5076 x2474 | Fax: 217-351-2674
mitchd@hkusa.com |

http://www.humankinetics.com

 

[tgambee]

I have some code that create an rtf (word) file, everything I have found that creates pdf's won't support word wrapping and automatic page breaks (if you have long text).

Let me know if you are interested.

Tony

 

[ded]

Tony,

Your code sounds just like what I need. Is it freeware or commercial?

Regards,
Duncan
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Duncan Davidson
Web Manager
Aberdeen College
Scotland, UK
d.davidson@abcol.ac.uk

 

[TechDude]

Did this work?
Where can I get the code?
Chris Sorel
chris@exnihilo.com

http://www.exnihilo.com

Remember, If you continue to do what you have always done,

you will continue to get what you have always gotten.

 

[kathryn]

I just came upon this thread. Generating Word/RTF files is definitely doable; here is a link to an article that gives you the basics:

http://tech.irt.org/articles/js154/

One proviso: We have found that we need to add this line to the top of the cfm page:

<CFHEADER NAME=&quot;Content-Disposition&quot; VALUE=&quot;attachment; filename=YOURDOCUMENTNAME.doc&quot;>

Good luck. Kathryn

 

[bigKev]

Hi I've just found this, a bit late too though I'm afraid. Yes generating RTF's isn't too tricky, even got one including a picture of a signature. But I want to take it one step forward and upload the generated doc, and then attach it to an email, then delete the doc, all automated...any ideas?

 

[bigKev]

Aaah, got it! I've done some string processing to build the RTF source into a variable, use CFFILE action=write NAMECONFLICT=OVERWRITE with this variable to write file into a temp storage.

Then nornal mimeattach with CFMAIL, and optional clean up by deleting file.

Or is there a better way, this does take a few seconds?

 

[EmeraldBay]

I did a similar task recently where report creation and e-mailing was required. - There are two command buttons. When either button is pressed, I create a report as an rtf file. One command button allows viewing in the browser, (the rtf file is sent back with an http header) another command button goes to a screen where a message can be typed in, and controls on that screen allow the report to be e-mailed to any recipient(s). I know there are many good texts out there, but in my particular case I was able to find pertinent examples in the book &quot;The Cold Fusion 5 Web Application Construction Kit&quot; (QUE). The examples served as the conceptual foundation for what I needed to do, although there was much customization. My app is not finished yet, but all the basic functions are there. Hope this helps.

 

[RikForgo]

I've tried the method that Kathryn suggested in this thread. I run into a problem in that when I click the link I've created for the RTF export/download, I get the following Windows error message:

&quot;Internet Explorer cannot download

http://127.0.0.1/attro-MySQL/tid/need_rtf.cfm?Service=Navy&tid_year=2001&tidn_id=2223

from 127.0.0.1.

Internet Explorer was not able to open this Internet site. The requested site is either unavailable or cannot be found. Please try again later.&quot;

Is it something I've mis-coded, or maybe something I need to configure in Windows? Any help is appreciated.