PDF markup in Coldfusion

I want to enable a teacher to annotate PDF's that a student has uploaded in my Coldfusion App like Adobe Acrobat X can do as discussed in the book "Adobe Acrobat X Classroom in a Book: The Document Review Process" without having to download it mark it up with Adobe Acrobat X and then upload the marked up version. Can Coldfusion so something like this within the application?

CFPDF can do it, I _think_. I'm not that familiar with it, but I'm sure the docs can help.
^_^

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Populating a PDF File from ColdFusion

I wanted to populate a pfd file from coldfusion and I found
this online:
http://www.school-for-champions.com/coldfusion/cftopdf.htm
When I submit the form.. I then show a link [view pdf].. only
when I click
on that lick I get a message saying
Adobe acrobat: the file is damaged and could not be repaired.
Has anyone used this method successfully? If so, would like
to hear some
suggestions.
The PDF template I created just have 2 fields. firstname
lastname (which
matches cfm form).
Thanks in advance
1. Create PDF document to populate
Create the document you want to populate. This document could
be done in
Microsoft Word, as an HTML page or using some drawing
application. Then
create a PDF file of that document.
You must have Adobe Acrobat or the equivalent to create a PDF
file.
Typically, the easiest way to create a PDF is to click File
> Print and
select Acrobat Distiller as your printer.
2. Enter fields with Acrobat
Once the document is in the PDF format, open it in Acrobat.
Use the menu bar
tools to define your fields.
a.. Use the Form Tool to define the various text fields,
give each a name,
and designate the font type and size. The field name should
correspond to
the name of the data you will input.
b.. Use the Text Tool to modify areas of text. You may have
to change the
font or font size. It is not the easiest tool to use.
This will be your PDF template.
3. Create a ColdFusion page to populate the PDF
Create a ColdFusion form to gather data from input over the
Internet or from
a database query. This page or an action page will provide
the means to
populate the PDF file.
The code you use will depend on the method or software you
decide to use.
Options will be explained in the next section.

Hi, I need your help again.. And if you can do this for me; i
will pay for
your time. just let me know. because i need this project wrap
up in the next
28 hours.
I've used the Ben Forta (cf_PDFFROM) and i'm able to get the
pdf. (great)
now i need to suppress blank lines.
my pdf is a business card template.
on the left top down
firstname middle name lastname
job title
address1
address2
address3
www.whatever.com
on the right bottom up:
phone:
fax:
mobile:
email:
aim:
there's where I'm stuck:
if a user does not enter a fax number... I want the PDF to
move 'phone:'
down 1 line and not show the word 'fax'.
PLEASE can someone point me in the right direction OR tell me
you can do it
quickly. contact me and i'll pay you.
thanks in advance!
"BLXWebMaster" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
news:f2fi63$c1e$[email protected]..
> What version of PDF are you using? Are you creating your
PDF Form in
> designer?
> If you are trying to Pre-Populate a PDF Form, this
technique will not work
> in
> that this will not preserve your Form. With the recent
versions of PDF,
> Adobe
> hase changed the technology to be XML and you are trying
to populate your
> PDF
> using FDF. I don't think that this can be done.
>
> I would stay away from FDF.
>
> Although there are several tools that will allow you to
do this, most of
> them
> rely on the old FDF format.
>
> I would suggest checking out XPAAJ. This is a free api
for Coldfusion
> users
> and offers a decent basic pre-population of PDF's.
> Written by our friend Ben Forta, you can check it out
here.
>
http://www.forta.com/blog/index.cfm/2006/7/27/cf_pdfform
>
>
>
>

Generating PDF file in coldfusion version 5

Hello,
I have a task where in I need to generate the .pdf file from
coldfusion version 5.0. Can somebody help me how to do this task?
Thanks,
Satheesh.

satheesh_p wrote:
> I have a task where in I need to generate the .pdf file
from coldfusion version 5.0. Can somebody help me how to do this
task?
search these forums for "itext", you should see plenty of
examples. but i don't
recall we've ever made it work w/cf5. cf5 & java is
harder than mx.
i guess you also might look at some of the commercial apps
like activePDF, etc.

Generate pdf file in coldfusion 6 or 6.1

hello,
would like to ask how to create a simple pdf file in
coldfusion 6 or 6.1?
thanks

clyde_01 wrote:
> would like to ask how to create a simple pdf file in
coldfusion 6 or 6.1?
use the open source iText library, that powers cf7's
cfdocument PDF bits. search
the forums, plenty of examples.

Tagged PDF files from ColdFusion.

Does anybody know about the current -- and maybe future --
capabilities
of ColdFusion tools that generate PDF files, such as
<cfreport...> and
<cfdcoument...> tags, to create 'tagged' PDF files?
Tagged PDF files are PDF documents that have structural
markup
information along the lines of HTML to give accessibility
aids, such as
screen readers, more information on what content the PDF
document contains.
I have been looking high and low for information on how one
may create
tagged PDF's -- or add tag markup to a created PDF -- with
ColdFusion.
I'm getting a sinking feeling this is just beyond the
capability of our
beloved tool!

This is a rather old version; you may need to run it in XP compatibility mode.

Getting PDF annotations in ColdFusion

Currently, I am using coldfusion 9 and I am trying to get information about annotations from within a PDF file. The problem is that there are two types of annotations: text and popup. I am using iText and I can get an annotation array that has 7 objects.
<cfset reader = CreateObject("java","com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfReader").init(expandPath("test.pdf"))>
<cfset pageDict = reader.getPageN(1)>
<cfset pdfname = createObject("java","com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfName")>
<cfset annots = pageDict.getAsArray(pdfname.ANNOTS)>
So now I see that I have 7 annotations ( I know one is text, and the other 6 are popup). At this point I want to loop through the annotation array and get the informartion
<cfset iterator = annots.listIterator()>
<cfloop condition="iterator.hasNext()">
       <cfset annot = reader.getPdfObject(iterator.next())>
       <cfset content = reader.getPdfObject(annot.get(pdfname.CONTENTS))>
       <cfif not isNull(content)>
               <cfoutput>
               <p>
               Text Comment =#content#    
               </p>
               </cfoutput>
       <cfelse>
               
       </cfif>
</cfloop>
So in the part where I am trying to get the popup contents, I have tried <cfset x = reader.getPdfObject(annot.getAsDict(pdfname.popup))> This works, but I can't seem to extract the data. All I need is to get either the Subject or Name from the popup innotation as they are set to a set number of possibilities in our system. How do I extract the name or subject info drom the popup object?

Thank you! I had been trying to get the subject off of the annot obj. I didn't realize that the I had to init Subj. Once I tried that I was able to do annot.get(subjKey).toString() and get the values I needed!
Thank you again!

Acrobat 8 PDF Forms and Coldfusion

I was wondering if anyone had any success submitting and
storing PDF form submissions using Coldfusion. I have been
successful submitting XML data from PDF forms, but wonder if anyone
has been submitting data as XDP with PDF or PDF submission formats
without LiveCycle.
Thanks in advance!
Shannon

This is the best "HELP" i've found, it's not even an answer.
http://www.adobeforums.com/cgi-bin/webx/.3bbf90d7/0

Any fixes to the buggy PDF conversion in Coldfusion 9?

Using CFDOCUMENT to convert html to PDF, but the resulting PDF pages are buggy. For instance table cell backgrounds bleed outside the table cell borders, and lots of other rendering issues that make it hard to use this tool. Has the PDF conversion been upgraded in CF10, or should I look for another PDF converter? And if so, which one?

No help from Adobe I guess, perhaps ColdFusion is a dying platform. I ended up using the freeware tool phantomJS which produces better quality PDF's than CFDocument

Flex SDK pdf class and ColdFusion 9

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I am trying to determine if it is worth upgrading to Flash Builder 4, just
to use the Pdf class.
How well does the Pdf class work?
When generating thumbnails, does the Pdf class rasterized pdf page?
Does Pdf class require an image object to display the Thumbnail page?
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This blog post is pretty close to what I want:
http://justinjmoses.wordpress.com/2008/10/10/flex-dynamic-bindable-value-objects/
So there are the dynamic value objects I was looking for. But the blog-poster is using LINQ and .Net 3.5. I'm using ColdFusion9.
So, how do I get ColdFusion9 to deal with that? How do you get CF9 to recognize the fact that you've changed the VO, and deal with it appropriately?
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L.

Printing Pdf files using coldfusion

my visitors need to print pdf files from my web site
but they want to print with open the acrobat reader
someone knows how to do it ?
Rene marquez

Also <cfreport format="PDF"...
See
http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusion/7/htmldocs/00001466.htm

Making pdf markup anonymous

Does anyone know how to make a markup of a PDF document
anonymous? Needed for review of a journal paper. The PDF is already
marked up but all the markup is tagged with my username. If i
select all the comments, i can change the properties of all of
them, but is there a command to strip all username info from the
markup?
Thanks

It is unbelievable that such an expensive tool as Acrobat X does not provide a simple command to make all comments anonymous. Sorry, but it is not good enough to thank for the suggestion. Adobe staff should have thought of this in the first place, since this is an obvious need for thousands of scientists and Adobe should now rush to provide the needed tool. Current behavior (latest Acrobat as of this writing) is a mess, since it requires to edit every comment, every highlight one after the other if one has accidentally annotated it non-anonymously. And then what a mess results, since the program behavior is buggy and Acrobat changes not only the author but also the appearance of a highlights, although I edited only the name. Incredible stupid program behavior for something as simple as a global replace text. Shame on Adobe!!!! Simply inacceptable.
Thanks for your help and cooperation (in case you should read this).
Sincerely yours,
Andreas Fischlin

Livecycle PDF markup & annotation doubt

Hi all,
We are getting annotated PDF from authors, to print the PDF we need "Acrobat Professional".
In reader we are unable to print the annoted PDF's with marked.
Is Livecycle can do this process, when I put the annotated PDF in watchfolder, it should throw the a PDF with markup.
So that I can open it in reader and print the file.
Is this possible in LiveCycle.
SHAJI

The link below provides instructions for annotating a pdf in Yosemite Preview, and additional links at the bottom of this page provide instructions for several other pdf editing capabilities:
Select and copy text in a PDF
Fill out and sign PDF forms
Add, delete, or move pages in a PDF
Crop or rotate a PDF
Add effects to a PDF
https://support.apple.com/kb/PH20218?locale=en_US&viewlocale=en_US

PDF Markup and Filter Application

I am struggling to describe what I am looking for in a few short words.
Summary
I am looking for a tool or application that will allow me to manually review a PDF document and, as I review the document, highlight sections of the documents and tag that highlighted area. Once complete I would be able to review/process/filter the document based on the tagging, only showing me the highlighted sections.
Longer Explanation
We are an engineering company and we frequently receive extensive (100's of pages) specification documents (in pdf). The document might, for example reference light fixture and lighting requirements throughout the document. As I review the document, I would like to highlight the specific text and assign that section a tag, say - "lighting". In the end I might ultimately have 25, 50 100, sections tagged as "lighting", and numerous other tags with similar counts. I would then like to be able to choose "lighting" and see only those highlighted sections of text (not the entire document), in one consolidated view/document.
Does such a feature/tool exist in Reader or in Acrobat?
Is there a industry standard terms for such a feature/tool?
Does anyone know of a 3rd party application that might have this capability?
Tim

Not really. While Adobe Acrobat does have limited annotation filtering capabilities what you are stating would take a custom Acrobat plug-in created by a third party developer. It's not like this hasn't been done before either. The Accounting market had a need and some third party developers created two sets of tools called Tic, Tie & Calculate and CCH’s ProSystem fx PDFlyer .
Perhaps a third party developer has already done this or perhaps you would like to do your own. A word of warning if you investigate the latter. Acrobat plug-ins are written in C/C++ and usually take time to write and develop.

How do I create an accessible PDF with ColdFusion 11

This is about as mission critical as it gets in the US Federal World. PDFs generated by ColdFusion must be section 508 compliant. It looks like the biggest issue is tagged content. Has anyone successfully generated a tagged pdf in ColdFusion 11???

I understand why you need updated running headers in your book. To a sighted reader these serve as a guide to where you are and help you find things quickly. In addition, if you are exporting your data to XML or HTML from the tagged PDF it would also be important to have these in the proper location.
But for accessibility purposes, it doesn't have to be there because the screen reader reads everything in linear order, line by line. No one is looking at the page. A user listening to the screen reader read the page is going to hear this heading, just before the actual word itself. So they will hear the first word on the page twice. It's not the end of the world if it's there, but such headings are not necessary for accessibility unless they are not repetitive and contain information that is not otherwise available.
So I would say, fine if you need them or want them there, it's just one word.
I think you should try exporting your book to PDF (or even just a chapter of the book) and look at the tags panel in Acrobat to see if you are getting the result you want. I can't tell you exactly what you should do to get those results, you are using a plug-in I don't have.
I can tell you I didn't have to add the headers to any article at all, they just automatically export if the other articles in the file are added and you don't select the header style option "not for export as XML."
You may not experience the same results with your plug-in, but I think it will probably work the same way.
Give it a try and best of luck.

"Placing" linked PDF File in Illustrator for Markup Edits?

When I highlight text in a PDF file that is linked to an Illustrator file (PDF is "Placed" in the Illustrator file as a linked object), text highlights in the PDF file do not show up in Illustrator when I update the link. Does anybody know why, or is there some setting or workaround to force the PDF markups to show up in Illustrator?
Reason for Question
I often use Illustrator as a PDF editor because it is much more flexible than Acrobat's clunky editing tools. There are some significant problems however. If you open a PDF page in Illustrator, you lose some stuff like paragraph formatting, which Illustrator wants to left justify (same problem when opening an AutoCAD file in Illustrator). You can also have trouble with missing fonts like Helvetica, which isn't a default system font because it is licensed and expensive. Illustrator will swap the missing font out with a substitute so it can edit the text. (Acrobat will do the same thing if you try to edit a font that isn't loaded in your system).
A workaround to maintain exact registration if I just want to mark up a PDF file (rather than changing the text) is to "Place" the PDF file in Illustrator. When Placed, the file behaves like an object the isn't editable in Illustrator (you can edit a Placed object from Illustrator, but Illustrator will use the authoring application to do the edits, in this case, Acrobat). I you are interested doing the same thing,... when I use Illustrator to mark up another file like PSD, JPG or PDF, I initially open the file in Illustrator to capture the dimensions, and then delete everything, and then "Place" the file back into Illustrator. You can optionally link or embed the Placed object. After Placing, I use the transform tool to move the Placed Object's upper left corner to 0,0 (XY Coordinates) to acquire registration, lock the layer, and do my markups on separate layers.
This procedure is a bit clunky and requires multiple construction files but Illustrator's vector tools are much better than the most of the markup tools (but not all) in Photoshop or Acrobat. A Photoshop file will link to Illustrator, and you can export it back to Photoshop, but the Illustrator construction file will not be "linked" into Photoshop, so if you need to make changes with Illustrator you have a couple of options. You can open the Illustrator smart object from Photoshop (Photoshop will launch Illustrator to do the edits), or you can delete the smart object and work on the Illustrator construction file directly and re-import.
Since you can't select the text of a Placed PDF file object in Illustrator to highlight text, I'd like to do some of the text highlighting in the linked Acrobat file upstream of Illustrator. I should be able to bounce back and forth with both files open, the Illustrator construction file and the linked PDF file. Problem is that when I add a highlight to the PDF file, it does not show up in the Illustrator placed object that is linked to the PDF file.
So back to my original question. Does anybody know why PDF text highlights do not show up in Illustrator when the PDF file is placed as an object in Illustrator? Is there a workaround to force the PDF text highlights to display in Illustrator?
FYI, I working on a business presentation and need to mark up a few pages of IRS publication 463, which is a 58 page PDF document with a bunch of "destination" links (10 to 20 links per page). I can extract a page, do my markup edits, and then "replace" the page back into the original Acrobat file and all the links and bookmarks will still work, but registration is critical.
I'm using CS6
Thanks in advance for your insight.

Mylenium, Thank you for your on-point explanation of why the markups don't import into Illustrator. Based on your input, I did some digging and discovered:
I can export the Acrobat "Comments" (text highlights, but not markups?) to a FDF file
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/acrobat/pro/using/WS40A4853E-0D48-46a6-8AB6-6B9A27A22D83.html
and then optionally re-import them to another PDF, including a blank document (with the same dimensions to maintain registration) or the final output file. I can then open the PDF (that contains the comments only) using Photoshop and save as a PSD file. Photoshop captures the text highlight color graphic without the white background or text so I am able to achieve transparency. I can then "Place" the Photoshop file as an object on its own layer in the Illustrator construction file as either an embed object or a linked object, but I tend to link for a number of workflow reasons.
Quite clunky, but it seems to maintain exact registration (although for some reason, whenever I place an object in either Illustrator or Photoshop I need to move (transform) the object corner to 0,0 because it is typically off by a pixel or 2). Not sure if there is a way to also export PDF "Markups", but my objective was to use Acrobat's highlighting tools combined with Illustrator's vector graphic tools for markups, so even if I can only export the Acrobat text highlights and not the "Markups", I can still achieve my objective.
From a work flow perspective, I may optionally choose to use the text highlights only as a reference in the Illustrator construction file and turn them off when saving back to PDF. I would then import the text highlights (FDF file) into the final PDF so they are actual Acrobat highlights rather than raster objects, but I do have the option.
I have also noted that I can print an Acrobat file to PDF to capture the text highlights, but that method introduces problems with registration and transparency (the white paper background). I'll often print my final output to PDF rather than saving to achieve a small flat file that will render consistently on different computers, but in this case registration is important so it is better to save to PDF and live with the larger files size.
Why all the fuss? Acrobat is good at highlighting text and Illustrator is good at drawing stuff like curvy paths with variable strokes. Illustrator also has layers and stacking order control. (Acrobat has clunky wannabe layers that are good for limited stuff like multiple versions, but not much help with graphic composition or stacking order). I need workflows that can merge tools from multiple programs (Acrobat, Photoshop, Illustrator, Autocad, and Solidworks). I could do my vector markups in Illustrator, then save to PDF and do the highlights in the final Acrobat file, but if I need to change the vector graphics later I would lose the highlights. Doing the highlights in a separate PDF file and then exporting to a FDF file lets me make changes in Illustrator without having to recreate the highlights from scratch.
Thank you for your assistance. If you have any additional suggestions I am always striving to improve my workflows. btw, I've experimented with some of the 3rd party PDF editor's, but not the expensive ones (less than a few hundred dollars). Most of them do a few things better than Acrobat, but they all have their shortcomings and I'm leery of investing my time in applications that might be obsolete in few years. Perhaps this discussion is better suited to the Acrobat Forum, but I do a lot of PDF editing with Illustrator despite its limitations.

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