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[RyanG24]

Hi i want a print page btn, but can i have it so it tells the printer to "fit to page" width wise?

also can i have it so it automatically prints ie print popup dosnt appear?

[Dan_Bracuk]

Printing without prompts can be accomplished with cfexecute. However, that prints to printers known by the server, not necessarily by the user. That may or may not be what you want.

As far as fit to page goes, cfdocument gives you a lot of options.

[RyanG24]

ok thanks

only one problem with cfdocument tag

my server is mx6.1 is the cfdocument tag valid as i am getting errors?

if so what else can i use

[Newsgroup_User]

RyanG24 wrote:
> my server is mx6.1 is the cfdocument tag valid as i am getting errors?
> if so what else can i use

itext (which powers cfdocument in cf7). search the forums, plenty of examples.

[RyanG24]

Hi i am using itext to display a pdf but i am getting this error

Object Instantiation Exception.
10 : reader = createObject("java","com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfReader").init(pdfFile);

any ideas why this is?

[Newsgroup_User]

RyanG24 wrote:
> any ideas why this is?

not providing much info but: itext in the server classpath? pdfFile in a valid path?

[BKBK]

Hi i want a print page btn, but can i have it so it tells the printer to "fit to page" width wise?
also can i have it so it automatically prints ie print popup dosnt appear?

You could configure all that in the page itself, using the print options of CSS.

[Dan_Bracuk]

quote:

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Originally posted by: BKBK
Hi i want a print page btn, but can i have it so it tells the printer to "fit to page" width wise?
also can i have it so it automatically prints ie print popup dosnt appear?
You could configure all that in the page itself, using the print options of CSS.

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How do you configure printing without prompts using css?

[BKBK]

> How do you configure printing without prompts using css?
Using just CSS? Ehr, you can't. In fact, for security you shouldn't be able to without script, macro, batch or some such process. My advice to RyanG24 is to merge the pages into one print job, and use CSS.

[BKBK]

> my server is mx6.1 is the cfdocument tag valid...?
No. The tag was introduced in MX7

> Object Instantiation Exception
Did you
1) stop Coldfusion
2) place the itext jar into a lib like /wwwroot/WEB-INF/lib
3) restart Coldfusion
4) make pdfFile a full path?

[RyanG24]

Hi ok thanks i have the hello world pdf working now

so how do i now add the cfoutput below to the pdf?

[BKBK]

You can do it in 2 steps. First, render the table as PDF, thus

<cfdocument format="pdf" filename="myTable.pdf" overwrite="yes">
<table width="650" border="0">
<tr>
<td height="382">
<!--- etc., etc. --->
<!--- etc., etc. --->
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</cfdocument>

If necessary, add style and page attributes to the tag to match those of Hello_World.pdf. Second, use PaulH's PDF concatenation code to join the two PDFs.

[RyanG24]

hi thanks

i cant use cfdocument though as the server is coldfusion 6.1?

[BKBK]

You could still create and merge PDFs on Coldfusion MX 6.1 using code similar to PaulH's or to this EasyCFM.com iText PDF example.

You only have to install the iText jar file. Where the EasyCFM example adds a paragraph, you will add a table, using code like

t = createObject("java","com.lowagie.text.Table").init(3,2);
c1 = createObject("java","com.lowagie.text.Cell").init("cell data");
t.addCell(c1);
...
...
...
pdfDocument.add(t);
pdfDocument.close();