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A reader named Turnbull was asking about PDFTables and I realized I did not have any examples on tables posted. So here are the first sections from from the iText tutorial on tables.Lather, rinse, repeatThe java examples are nice and simple. They demonst
Having a bit of free time the other day, I decided to get in touch with my inner flash/actionscript/flex coder. Let me be honest... I do not have one. But I found a great tip by Paul Robertson (thanks to an entry on coldfusionusers.com) which helped me
Here is another quick example from the Busy Developers' Guide to HSSF Features. This one demonstrates how to create or read cell comments.I did run into one issue with the example. The java code uses an unknown method named get(). I could not find this
A few more POI translations from the Busy Developers' Guide to HSSF Features. Note: I wanted the examples to be complete and self contained. So you may notice they contain more code than the examples in the POI guide.Pre-requisites:The following examp
So I was curious if the path to the windows command line interpreter (cmd.exe) could be obtained programatically. I discovered it can with ColdFusion 8. The java.lang.System class contains a method called getenv that can return the value of a specifi
Today I found myself with a simple task that had a small twist. Load a series text files into an MS SQL database. Normally a quick and easy process using BULK INSERT.Now BULK INSERT works smoothly when both the target table and input file contain the s
So I was happily translating some java examples from the POI Quick Guide, when a blogger named Dave comments that he had already done that ... four years ago! Now while I am not familiar with his site, that did dampen my enthusiasm a bit ;-) Though I cann
The POI Quick Guide, on poi.apache.org, has some great introductory examples on using POI. Of course the examples are in java. Since I have seen several POI questions lately, I thought a ColdFusion translation of some of the basics might be helpful fo
I saw an interesting post on the adobe forums about POI. A member named MinOP mentioned having trouble adding an image to an Excel file . Here is the problematic section of their code:<cfset patriarch = newSheet.createDrawingPatriarch()/><cf
I decided to write up a quick set of instructions for using POI with ColdFusion 8 as a reference. If you are not familiar with the JavaLoader.cfc it is a great tool, written by Mark Mandel, that allows you to dynamically load jar files.Instructions:1. Do
