Adobe ColdFusion 8 Web Application Construction Kit, Volume 2: Application Development

Chapter 32. Working with PDF Files

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In This Chapter

• Working with cfpdf 261

• Encryption, Permissions, and Passwords 271

• Working with <cfprint> 275

• Using DDX 278

• Working with PDF Forms 290

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Since the introduction of <cfdocument type="pdf">, a longing to do more with PDF documents has existed. Well, wait no more—now that it is part of the Adobe product line, ColdFusion 8 brings so much PDF support that we’re going to spend a whole chapter talking PDF sweetness and still not cover everything that ColdFusion brings to the table.

With ColdFusion 8, you have the capability to add watermarks, headers, footers, tables of contents, metadata (author, creator, keywords, and so on), bookmarks, and much more to PDF files. You can ...