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So I have foolishly wandered into the open source jungle, in search of non-commercial Word/RTF to PDF converters. While I have not found the holy grail (or perfect solution) yet, it has been interesting learning about some of the different projects. I particularly liked the flying saucer project. …
I came across an interesting post on the adobe forums, about embedding a pdf form in cfdocument. Never having that exact need before, I was a little surprised to discover it was possible. But when I tested it, I did encounter one issue. As mentioned in the documentation, you must use at least one …
So I have been searching around for non-commercial tools for converting rtf/word documents to pdf. (Yes, I know some of you are chuckling as you read this). The search has been interesting, and though I have not found the magic bullet yet, I did learn about some neat tools along the way, which I …
Well this is a new one for me. Earlier I was testing a java jar I had read about on an older blog entry. But when I ran the test code the sample output I was expecting never appeared. Just a lot of whitespace and the standard debug output. At first I thought maybe I had used the wrong parameters …
While searching the documentation the other day, I came across this small item that falls under the " I cannot believe I never knew that " category. ColdFusion can automatically invoke getPropertyName() and setPropertyName(value) methods if a Java class conforms to the JavaBeans pattern. As a …
In a previous entry , I mentioned the sometimes under-used OUTPUT clause as an alternative to CF8's result.IDENTITYCOL. If you have used MS SQL for a while, you are no doubt aware of it already. But for those that are not, OUTPUT can be very useful. Especially when working with multiple records. …
While not new, some of the nicer features first introduced with MS SQL 2005 are often overlooked. After spending time working with different, or older, databases I sometimes forget about them myself. One of the more useful features worth remembering is the OUTPUT clause. If you are not familiar …
I just came across this cool jQuery plugin for creating sparklines and thought I would pass it along for anyone else living under a jQuery rock like me. http://omnipotent.net/jquery.sparkline/
A relatively common need is concatenating a bunch values in a query. While cfoutput with "group" is one option, there are also some elegant sql options. Ones that do not involve temp tables or descending into cursor psychosis. There are different reasons for each, but if you are not aware of the …
No? In a previous entry I mentioned the new POI beta supports ooxml files. I was exploring how to extract metadata from the new file format when I ran into a gotcha with ColdFusion's IsInstanceOf function. Since my code required the latest version of POI, I used the JavaLoader.cfc to create my …
